The Host Dispatch: A Literary Podcast

How the Hell Do You End a Poem?


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This episode dives head first into the age old question: how the hell do you end a poem? Investigating the endings of three poems by poets we admire, we discuss the various strategies poets use to make a grand (or subtle, or repetitive, or mysterious) exit. 


In this episode, we use this amazing list of 50 ways to end a poem, curated by the poet Emily Skaja, as a kind of map to guide us along the way. 

 

The poems we discuss in this episode are:


"Romanticism 101" by Dean Young

"Person" and "Listening to Billie Holiday" by Blanca Varela

"Upon Practicing a Second Language" by Ae Hee Lee

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