Poetry Off the Shelf

By Poetry FoundationEducation Arts Books

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Poetry Off the Shelf episodes

March 26, 2024 Working-Class Superheroes
Declan Ryan on his father's construction job, tenderness between boxers, and the inevitable tragic end.

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47 min
March 12, 2024 All the Shiny Knives
Monica Rico on cooking, grunt work, and the heat at General Motors.

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55 min
February 27, 2024 Let Light Form
Nam Le on commerce, irony vs. sincerity, and being in the Arctic.

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1 hr 10 min
February 13, 2024 Stay in Character
Gregory Pardlo on improv, therapy, and driving around with his father’s ashes.

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46 min
January 30, 2024 Instructions for Divorce
Caitlin Cowan on rejection, tradwives, and poems from our better self.

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51 min
January 16, 2024 Make Art for Me
Blake Butler on complex mourning, the suicide of his wife Molly Brodak, and finding his way back.

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1 hr 1 min
January 03, 2024 Poets We Lost in 2023
Remembering the lesbian poet and activist Minnie Bruce Pratt, as well as the Palestinian poet and symbol of the resistance, Refaat Alareer.

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45 min
December 12, 2023 The Utopian Business
Steve Zeitlin and Bob Holman on the healing act of writing, small frogs, and politics at the fiddle festival.

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37 min
November 30, 2023 Cease and Desist
Laura Mullen on academia, death threats, and doing the next brave thing.

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54 min
November 14, 2023 Falling Off the Stairs
Daniel Brock Johnson on risk, a T-shirt mantra, and life after the death of his friend James Foley.

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47 min

About Poetry Off the Shelf

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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…