Poetry Off the Shelf

By Poetry Foundation

Producer Helena de Groot talks to poets about language, dreams, love and loss, identity, connection, anger, discomfort, the creative process, the state of the world and the world of the soul. Hard con... more

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The podcast currently has 251 episodes available.

Poetry Off the Shelf episodes:

April 05, 2022 Pushing the Ear
Tommye Blount on transformation, Kids Incorporate, and the joy of drowning in diction.

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52min
March 22, 2022 Blossoms in Ukraine
Oksana Maksymchuk and Oksana Lutsyshyna on life as a refugee, the God of comfort, and the deep roots of the war.

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1h 3min
March 08, 2022 Listen for My Name
Julie Enszer and Elena Gross on community care, the AIDS epidemic, and OutWrite, the conference that shaped queer literary history.

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53min
February 22, 2022 Ghost Diplomat
Hoa Nguyen on photographs, her mother's past with the motorcycle circus, and the quiet ways to talk to ghosts.

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46min
February 08, 2022 My Body, My Stones
Poet and playwright Malcolm Tariq on listening, field trips with his brother, and the perils of dating while Black.

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53min
January 25, 2022 The Big Hollow
Kaveh Akbar on human wondering, fat squirrels, and the best spouse in the world.

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57min
January 10, 2022 A Little Wrong
Bianca Stone on family trauma, wrinkled towels, and the case against self-improvement.

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58min
December 21, 2021 Poets We Lost in 2021
Remembering the life, poetry, and activism of Janice Mirikitani, plus a few words on love by bell hooks.

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31min
December 07, 2021 Bird in a Drawer
Keats Conley on smelly ducks, spiders, and the limits of the human perspective.

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50min
November 23, 2021 How to Be a Family of One
Steven Espada Dawson on possibility, toothpaste, and the grief of cosmic aloneness.
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1h 3min

FAQs about Poetry Off the Shelf:

How many episodes does Poetry Off the Shelf have?

The podcast currently has 251 episodes available.