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 273 episodes available.

Poetry Off the Shelf episodes:

April 14, 2026 A Handful of Dust
Iain McGilchrist on Rip Van Winkle, the poet's brain, and the real word for sunshine.

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50min
March 31, 2026 The Wrong Details
D.S. Waldman on the left hand, losing his brother, and introducing the most wounded part.

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58min
March 17, 2026 The Character in the Corner
Sony Ton-Aimé on radical joy, pig blood, and the ancestors we forgot.

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54min
March 03, 2026 Those Bodies We Borrowed
Monica Ferrell on robot apples, Playboy bunnies, and botox vs. crow's feet.

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59min
February 17, 2026 What It Takes to Be a Man
James Ciano on sports, masculinity, and the desperation to belong.

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57min
February 03, 2026 How to Survive on an Island
Stephanie Niu on being lost at sea, crab bridges, and finding the heart of the world.

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49min
January 20, 2026 The Multiverse of Me
Diamond Forde on poison, fan fiction, and writing the Great American Vampire Novel.

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44min
December 30, 2025 Poets We Lost in 2025
Remembering Ellen Bryant Voigt, plus a few words on mortality by Andrea Gibson.

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37min
December 16, 2025 An Old Face
Amanda Quaid on cancer, being bad in New York, and erotic hands.

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57min
December 02, 2025 An Impossible Wish
Tracy K. Smith on her Hello Kitty notebook, automatic writing, and the afterlife.

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46min

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