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 Please consider supporting the poets we mention in today's show! If you need a good indie bookstore, we recommend Loyalty Bookstores, a DC-area Black-owned bookshop.

Writing for the Ploughshares blog, Robert Anthony Siegel calls Sei Shōnagon's The Pillow Book “a progenitor of the fragmentary, nonlinear, hybrid-genre work....” Read the whole, short essay here.

You can watch Elaine Equi read four poems from Big Other here (~4.5 mins). And read more about this fabulous poet’s bio here. 

Hear Plath read “November Graveyard” here (~1 min)

Hear Plath read “Poppies in October” here (~1 min)

Plath reads the Rabbit Catcher here (~1.5 min)

Plath reads “The Applicant” here (~2 min)

Watch a beautifully-read, dramatic rendering of “Crossing the Water” here (~1 min)

Audio of Plath reading Lady Lazarus can be heard here (~3 min)

Watch Clara Sismondo perform “Blackberrying” (National Poetry in Voice) here (~3 min)

Hear “Tulips” in Plath’s voice here (~4.5 min)

Watch this arresting short film of “Death & Co” produced by Troublemakers TV here (~1.5 min)

You can read “The Couriers” here.

Read “The Colossus” here.

Hear Plath read “Daddy” here (~4 min)

Read “Electra on Azalea Path” here

Read “The Babysitters” here

Read “The Beekeeper’s Daughter” here

Read “Winter Trees” here

You can read this fascinating essay about acquiring Plath’s table by David Trinidad here.

Listen to David talk with scholar Heather Clark, author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, about the light and dark sequences in Plath’s life.

Watch Dorianne Laux read a very recent poem “What's Broken” here (~2 min)

You can attend virtually this fabulous Terrance Hayes reading at the University of Chicago (~1 hour)