Lisa Robertson, Jeff Derksen, Bob Perelman, Al Filreis, and Fred Wah himself, discuss Wah's poem "Race, to go" from the series "Discount Me In" which was published in the book "Is a Door."

Episode 44 - Fred Wah on race in Canada

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The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss Hart Crane's "The Harbor Dawn," as performed by Tennessee Williams.

Episode 196 - A tide of voices

The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss "The Austrian Maiden" and "Joe Brainard's Painting Bingo" by Richard Padgett.

Episode 195 - Also I don't suffer

The PoemTalk team travels to Scotland for a discussion at the Fruitmarket Arts Center in Edinburgh on two poems by Veronica Forrest-Thomson.

Episode 194 - Hack my name

The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss Ariana Raines's "To the Reader," from A Sand Book (Tin House, 2019).

Episode 193 - The colors of death

The group gathers at the Writers House's Wexler Studio to discuss two poems by Owen Dodson: "For Billie Holiday" and "Sorrow Is The Only Faithful One."

Episode 44 - Fred Wah on race in Canada

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