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"Message To a Former Friend" - Tony Hoagland

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"Mother Talks Back to the Monster" - Carrie Shipers

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"What I Didn't Know Before" - Ada Limón

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"Young Poets" - Nicanor Parra

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"the name before the name before mine" - Jay Besemer

Read by Rayann HijaziPhoto from pxhere.com

"Letter to the Person Who Carved Their Initials..." - Matthew Olzmann

Read by Wayne WalshPhoto from scopio artist Juan Pablo Bezaury

"Good Dog" - Tony Hoagland

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"Special Problems in Vocabulary" - Tony Hoagland

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"The Bats" - Mark Wunderlich

Read by Traci TolbertPhoto from scop.io Sudha Surendran

"Whisk" - Anna Scotti

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"Boy" - Annelyse Gelman

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"The birthday of the world" - Margie Piercy

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"Letter" - Tadeusz Dąbrowski

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"The Good Life" - Tracy K. Smith

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"Before" - Ada Limón

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"Transformation" - Adam Zagajewski

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"Continue" - Maya Angelou

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"This Morning I Pray for My Enemies" - Joy Harjo (Read by Zoe Malia Luz)

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"Mercy" - Rudy Francisco (Read by Steven Potts)

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Episode 058 - How to Write a Poem

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Episode 057 - When Big Trees Fall

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Episode 056 - How To Triumph Like A Girl

Episode 055 - Allowables

Episode 054 - You Get Proud By Practicing

Bonus Episode - A Q&A with José Olivarez

Episode 053 - My Therapist / Ars Poetica Analysis, with José Olivarez!

My Therapist Says Make Friends with Your Monsters José Olivarezwe are gathered in truce because my therapist said it was time to stop running, & i pay my therapist too much to be wrong, so i am here. my monsters look almost humanin the sterile office...

Episode 052 - José Olivarez Double Feature (My Therapist / Ars Poetica)

My Therapist Says Make Friends with Your Monsters José Olivarezwe are gathered in truce because my therapist said it was time to stop running, & i pay my therapist too much to be wrong, so i am here. my monsters look almost humanin the sterile office...

Episode 051 - The Facebook Sonnet

The Facebook Sonnet By Sherman Alexie Welcome to the endless high-school Reunion. Welcome to past friends And lovers, however kind or cruel. Let’s undervalue and unmendThe present. Why can’t we pretend Every stage of life is the same? Let’s exhume, resume, and extend Childhood. Let’s all play the...

Bonus Episode - Extended Conversation with Michael DuBon

01:32 - Michael DuBon reads his poem, “In the Wash”03:30 - Extended conversation with Michael on student analysis17:28 - Michael answers student questions

Episode 050 - Instructions on Not Giving Up

“Instructions on Not Giving Up” Ada LimónMore than the fuchsia funnels breaking out of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate sky of Spring rains, it’s the greening of the trees that...

Episode 049 - In the Wash

Michael DuBon “In the Wash”Arms deep, filth-clad, toilet toil: working at The Ski Tahoe Resort. Scrubbing this mess of spiders, disposing the cast off suppositories. the tracks of geriatric indulgence.Work, where people don’t know how to talk to you. Where the other housekeepers won’t...

Episode 048 - The Victory

Anne Stevenson “The Victory” I thought you were my victory though you cut me like a knife when I brought you out of my body into your life.Tiny antagonist, gory, blue as a bruise. The stains of your cloud of glory bled from my veins.How can you dare,...

Episode 047 - Asparagus

Marilyn Nelson “Asparagus” He taught me how to slurp asparagus: You hold it in your fingers, eat the stem by inches to the tender terminus, then close your eyes and suck in the sweet gem. First, cook it in its own delicious steam, sauté breadcrumbs in butter...

Episode 046 - Frosting

Episode 045 - The Hearth

Episode 044 - A Drifting Petal

Episode 043 - The Poem Where I Lie About Everything

Episode 042 - The Hill We Climb

Video: https://youtu.be/z90PMOedR3Y

Episode 041 - The Land of Story-Books

Episode 040 - Not Waving But Drowning

Episode 039 - Please

Episode 038 - say it with your whole black mouth

Episode 037 - Harlem

Episode 036 - The Promise

I did it! I kept this under 20 minutes!

Episode 035 - despecho hour at the casa azul restaurante y cantina

I sound like a supervillain! Oh no!

Episode 034 - Did I Miss Anything? (Again)

Did I Miss Anything?Tom Wayman Nothing. When we realized you weren’t herewe sat with our hands folded on our desksin silence, for the full two hours Everything. I gave an exam worth40 percent of the grade for this termand assigned some reading...

Episode 033 - The End

The End A.A. MilneWhen I was One, I had just begun.When I was Two, I was nearly new.When I was Three, I was hardly me.When I was Four, I was not much more.When I was Five, I was just alive.But now I am six, I'm as clever...

Episode 032 - Ode to my Suit

Ode to my Suit Pablo NerudaEvery morning, suit, you are waiting on a chair to be filled by my vanity, my love, my hope, my body. Still only half awake I leave the shower to shrug into your sleeves, my legs seek the hollow of your legs, and thus embraced by your unfailing...

Episode 031 - defining the magic

defining the magic Charles Bukowskia good poem is like a cold beer when you need it, a good poem is a hot turkey sandwich when you’re hungry, a good poem is a gun when the mob corners you, a good poem is something that allows you to walk...

Episode 030 - Not Bad, Dad, Not Bad

Not Bad, Dad, Not Bad Jan Heller LeviI think you are most yourself when you are swimming; slicing the water with each stroke, the funny way you breathe, your mouth cocked as though you're yawning. You're neither fantastic nor miserable at getting from here to there. You...