Today on the show, Elizabeth Scanlon, Hannah Gellman and Steven Kleinman discuss:

• the new issue of APR with Shane McCrae

• An appreciation of Elaine Equi – “The Lonely Parade” in this issue, and “Sometimes I Get Distracted” 

• Plus, a chat with Hannah re: recommending poems to those new to poetry. Poems mentioned:

• Elizabeth Bishop “Filling Station,” 

• Robert Hayden “Those Winter Sundays,” 

• Robert Hass “Meditation at Lagunitas,” 

• Angel Nafis “Woo Woo Roll Deep”  

• Marie Howe, “What the Living Do” 

• Books mentioned: Airea D. Matthews, Bread & Circus 

• Marcy Dermansky, Hurricane Girl 

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Join us for a special feature on poet Faylita Hicks, who is the author of HoodWitch (Acre Books, 2019),  a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry, the 2019 Julie Suk Award, and the 2019 Balcones Poetry Prize. Currently, they are working on a second poetry collection, A Map of My Want (Haymarket Books, 2024), and a debut memoir about their carceral experience, A Body of Wild Light (Haymarket Books, 2025).

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On this episode: Poet Alina Pleskova, whose new collection, Toska, is set to drop soon. Plus, join us as hosts Elizabeth Scanlon and Hannah Gellman discuss, among many other things:

· APR's Kunitz Prize

· Frank O'Hara

· and new books on the horizon.

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On this episode, we talk about our plans for AWP in Seattle and revisit a spectacular Honickman Book Prize reading by Chessy Normile from AWP 2022 as we gear up for the conference next week. 

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Celebrating the official pub date of Chelsea Harlan's Honickman First Book Prize winning Bright Shade! Chosen by Jericho Brown, who says: This beautiful debut seems to ask not just what poetry is but what it can be. And each poem answers, “Every raindrop/a little bell,//every switchback/and holler baptized.”     Listen up for this fantastic reading from Chelsea Harlan from our live event earlier this year in Philadelphia.    For more, visit aprweb.org.

Join us for a special edition mini-episode celebrating the appointment of Ada Limón as the new Poet Laureate of the United States. APR Editor Elizabeth Scanlon offers up an exclusive recording of Ada's reading at the APR 50th anniversary celebration that took place in Philadelphia earlier this year. 

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Join us as hosts Elizabeth Scanlon and Steven Kleinman talk with Natalie Shapero. 

Shapero is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection POPULAR LONGING. Her previous collections are HARD CHILD, shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize, and NO OBJECT, winner of the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award. Natalie’s writing has appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere.

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Join us as hosts Elizabeth Scanlon, Steven Kleinman and Thalia Geiger take a deep dive on couplet craft, weird animals, and the pre-elegaic. Plus poets’ readings of:

• Megan Fernandes’ “Love Poem”
• Gabrielle Bates’ “Salmon”

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Join us as hosts Elizabeth Scanlon, Steven Kleinman and Thalia Geiger take a deep dive on the May/June issues highlights, including: 

— Shamar Hill’s The Walls Became the World All Around (read by the author)

— Alison C. Rollins’ springtime again (read by the author)

— and Jack Gilbert interviewed by Forrest Gander

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Upon the release of Dearly, her new collection of poems, Margaret Atwood talks with APR’s Elizabeth Scanlon.

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