Poetry Off the Shelf

By Poetry FoundationEducation Arts Books

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Poetry Off the Shelf episodes

October 20, 2020 A Practice of Care
EJ Koh on distance, broken English, and writing poems that forgive.
49 min
October 06, 2020 Better Broken Than Whole
Will Harris on mixedness, intimacy, and the music of difficult poems.
1 hr 3 min
September 22, 2020 No Place Like Home
Camille Dungy on words, home, and motherhood in times of climate collapse.
55 min
September 08, 2020 Words in the Attic
Joy Ladin on the failures of language, courage, and the trans parable of Jonah and the Whale.
54 min
August 25, 2020 Heroes History Forgets
Remembering Irish poet Eavan Boland, with her friends Jody Allen Randolph and Paula Meehan.
39 min
August 11, 2020 I Love You, Wanda
Terrance Hayes on Wanda Coleman.

Note from Terrance Hayes: “I cancelled this interview about Wanda Coleman’s work after signing the Poetry Foundation Petition. When the Foundation President and Board chair resigned, I decided to resume the interview believing the actions an indication of the PF’s willingness to change. Though I’m not yet quite convinced I should resume submitting my own poems to the magazine, I hope this interview represents a willingness to remain in dialogue as PF rises to meet the other demands and challenges. Do check out the work of Wanda Coleman."
To learn more: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/LetterOfCommitment
55 min
July 21, 2020 The Bureau Under Your Bed
Interrogating the government’s half century of surveillance of Black writers.
54 min
July 07, 2020 Empire State of Mind
Take a walk through post-WWI Paris in this recently reissued Modernist epic.
41 min
June 03, 2020 The Fire This Time
Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Alexander, and Haki Madhubuti on America’s perennial struggle to recognize that Black Lives Matter.
20 min
May 26, 2020 I Come From Love
Nikky Finney on her father, her childhood, and the memories that made her.
44 min

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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…