Poem Talk

By Poetry FoundationEducation Arts Books

Poem Talk episodes

November 16, 2018 Not Detainable: A discussion of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Riot”
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Amber Rose Johnson, Tonya Foster, and Davy Knittle.

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44 min
October 17, 2018 The After-Hell: A discussion of Sylvia Plath's poem “The Stones”
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Susan Schultz, Sally Van Doren, and Huda Fakhreddine.

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48 min
September 20, 2018 Of Beautiful Tangents: A discussion of two poems from Perfect Villagers by Sueyeun Juliette Lee
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Sawako Nakayasu, Gabriel Ojeda-Sague, and Donato Mancini.
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52 min
August 21, 2018 Boring in a Different Way: A discussion of John Ashbery's “The Short Answer”
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Marjorie Perloff, Susan McCabe, and Robert von Hallberg.

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48 min
July 25, 2018 Something in the Way: A discussion of Amiri Baraka’s “Something in the Way of Things (In Town)”
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring William J. Harris, Tyrone Williams, and Aldon Nielsen.

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54 min
June 13, 2018 Fallout from Cooling: A discussion of three poems from Erica Baum
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Christine Nelson, Davy Knittle, and Erica Baum
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41 min
May 16, 2018 Our Endless Ear: A discussion of Jack Kerouac’s “Old Angel Midnight”
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring J. C. Cloutier, Michelle Taransky, and Clark Coolidge.

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44 min
April 13, 2018 Bugging the Circles: A discussion of David Antin’s “War”
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Jerome Rothenberg, Diane Rothenberg, and Ariel Resnikoff.

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58 min
March 09, 2018 Insurrection Is Value: A discussion of Sean Bonney’s “Happiness”
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Stephen Willey, Anna Strong Safford, and Luke Roberts.
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1 hr 3 min
February 16, 2018 This Corner of the Diaspora: A discussion of Jerome Rothenberg’s “Galician Nights” (a section of Poland/1931)
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Frank London, Maria Damon, and Jake Marmer.

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1 hr 1 min

About Poem Talk

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Kelly Writers House impresario Al Filreis leads a lively roundtable discussion of a single poem with a series of rotating guests including Tracie Morris, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, erica kaufman, Charles…