The Poetry Gods

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The Poetry Gods are here to show you how to not be wack in 2016 & beyond. Interviews and stories about the people behind the poems. You don't have to love poetry to love the show. Hosted by Aziza Barnes, Jon Sands, and José Olivarez. Artwork by Jess X. Chen. If you dig the show, share the link.

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09.05.2017

On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to Willie Perdomo about how he got started writing poetry, The Crazy Bunch, friendships in poetry, and so much more. As always you can reach us at [email protected] We love to ...

The Poetry Gods episodes:

09.05.2017 Season 2, Episode 12 Featuring Willie Perdomo On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to Willie Perdomo about how he got started writing poetry, The Crazy Bunch, friendships in poetry, and so much more. As always you can reach us at [email protected] We love to ...
08.22.2017 Season 2, Episode 11 Featuring Eboni Hogan On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to Eboni Hogan about courtship: the do's and don'ts, fragile masculinity, poetry, New York City, making the transition from poetry to screenwriting, and so much more. As always you can reach ...
08.08.2017 Season 2, Episode 10 Featuring Lauren Whitehead On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to Lauren Whitehead about courting rejection, writing in multiple disciplines, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, masculinity, & much more. As always you can reach us at [email protected] We love to ...
07.25.2017 Season 2, Episode 9 Featuring Adam Falkner Welcome to Season 2, Episode 9 of The Poetry Gods! “If we commit to telling particular stories, we need to tell the circumference of them, and not just just the wound.” - Adam Falkner On this episode of The Poetry ...
07.11.2017 Season 2, Episode 8 Featuring John Manuel Arias Welcome to Season 2, Episode 8 of The Poetry Gods! We realized many of the poetry podcasts we listened to were wildly dull. Hyper self-serious, self-agrandizing, and totally exclusive to high academic circles. That’s not the way the three of ...
06.27.2017 Season 2, Episode 7 Featuring Nicole Shanté Welcome to Season 2, Episode 7 of The Poetry Gods! We realized many of the poetry podcasts we listened to were wildly dull. Hyper self-serious, self-agrandizing, and totally exclusive to high academic circles. That’s not the way the three of ...
06.13.2017 Season 2, Episode 6 Featuring Desiree C. Bailey Welcome to Season 2, Episode 6 of The Poetry Gods! We realized many of the poetry podcasts we listened to were wildly dull. Hyper self-serious, self-agrandizing, and totally exclusive to high academic circles. That’s not the way the three of ...
05.30.2017 Season 2, Episode 5 Featuring Aracelis Girmay Welcome to Season 2, Episode 5 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to Aracelis Girmay about poetry, wolves, and more. Check out the episode and let us know what you think. As always ...
05.16.2017 Season 2, Episode 4 Featuring Noel Quiñones Welcome to Season 2, Episode 4 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to 2016 Poets House Emerging Fellow and one of the co-founders of Project X, Noel Quiñones! We talk about Ice-T, Soulja ...
05.02.2017 Season 2, Episode 3 Featuring Patricia Smith (Part 2) Welcome to Season 2, Episode 3 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to one of our favorite poets and people, Patricia Smith live from Vassar College about experiencing setbacks on the path forward, ...
04.18.2017 Season 2, Episode 2 Featuring Patricia Smith (Part 1) Welcome to Season 2, Episode 2 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to one of our favorite poets and people, Patricia Smith live from Vassar College about all the books we won't get ...
04.04.2017 Season 2, Episode 1 Featuring Tim Seibles Welcome to Season 2 of The Poetry Gods! We're back! Thank you to everyone who has been politely and not so politely asking us about when Season 2 would drop. It's here. On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we ...
10.07.2016 Episode 16 Featuring Where It All Started-- Season One Finale Welcome to Episode 16 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we take you back to where it all started: the unreleased pilot episode of The Poetry Gods. We recorded this at the Solid Sound Fest ...
09.13.2016 Episode 15 Featuring Your Questions-- Part 1 Welcome to Episode 15 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we answer your questions! We had a raucous time answering your questions about what to do when event organizers misidentify you as a slam poet, ...
09.02.2016 Episode 14 Featuring The BreakBeat Poets LIVE From Berl's Poetry Shop Welcome to Episode 14 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we have a brand new "What's On Your Mind?" along with an archival recording of a poetry reading The Poetry Gods hosted at Berl's Brooklyn ...
08.16.2016 Episode 13 Featuring Camonghne Felix Welcome to Episode 13 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to Camonghne Felix about growing up in The Bronx & how she got started writing poetry. Special Reminder: Episode 15 will be dedicated ...
08.16.2016 Episode 13 Featuring Camonghne Felix Welcome to Episode 13 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to Camonghne Felix about growing up in The Bronx & how she got started writing poetry. Special Reminder: Episode 15 will be dedicated ...
08.02.2016 Episode 12 Featuring Safia Elhillo Welcome to Episode 12 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to Safia Elhillo about her writing journey & much more. As always, you can reach us at [email protected] We are looking to book ...
07.19.2016 Episode 11 Featuring Morgan Parker Welcome to Episode 11 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we skip our usual segment of "What's on Your Mind?" to talk about names, phases, brands, publishing, & so much more with genius poet Morgan ...
07.05.2016 Episode 10 Featuring Mahogany L. Browne PART 2 Welcome to Episode 10 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk about language, whiteness, community, and much much more. This is part two of our conversation with genius poet, educator, organizer Mahogany L. Browne. ...
06.21.2016 Episode 9 Featuring Mahogany L. Browne Welcome to Episode 9 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, José apologizes to Nas, & we talk extensively about community and creating space with genius poet & organizer Mahogany L. Browne. This is Part 1 ...
06.07.2016 Episode 8 Featuring Jive Poetic Welcome to Episode 8 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk about love poems (including of one of our favorite love poems: Matthew Olzmann's "Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised As A Love Poem"), being present, ...
05.24.2016 Episode 7 Featuring Nabila Lovelace Welcome to Episode 7 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, Aziza talks about her trip to Dubai, José is raspy (ask Aziza about what raspy means) & recovering from the flu, Jon talks about waiting ...
05.10.2016 Episode 6 Featuring Paul Tran Welcome to Episode 6 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we introduce a new segment: Unpopular Opinions! What don't we like? Find out & get your Twitter fingers ready! we talk to poet, educator, and ...
04.26.2016 Episode 5 Featuring Joshua Bennett Welcome to Episode 5 of The Poetry Gods! This episode is brought to you by Robitussin & Vaporub. On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to poet, educator, and doctoral candidate, Joshua Bennett! We talk about Robert Kelly, ...
04.12.2016 Episode 4 Featuring Jeanann Verlee Welcome to Episode 4 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to the extraordinary Jeanann Verlee about social media, the struggle of leisure, & we have the return of Aziza's guide to dating 101 ...
03.29.2016 Episode 3 Featuring Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib Welcome to Episode 3 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to poet, essayist, and relentless Ohioan Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib about The Revenant and why one would go on a date to go see The ...
03.15.2016 Episode 2 Featuring Jeremy Michael Clark Welcome to Episode 2 of The Poetry Gods! In this episode we talk to Jeremy Michael Clark about the worst performances we've ever done, tattoo ideas, vulnerability and more. If you like what you hear, please follow us on soundcloud, ...
02.29.2016 Episode 1 featuring Jayson P Smith Welcome to episode 1 of The Poetry Gods. In this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to poet Jayson P Smith about love, how to spit game, growing up the oldest child and more. If you like what you ...

The Poetry Gods

What's The Poetry Gods about?

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The Poetry Gods episodes:

Season 2, Episode 12 Featuring Willie Perdomo

Season 2, Episode 11 Featuring Eboni Hogan

Season 2, Episode 10 Featuring Lauren Whitehead

Season 2, Episode 9 Featuring Adam Falkner

Season 2, Episode 8 Featuring John Manuel Arias

Season 2, Episode 7 Featuring Nicole Shanté

Season 2, Episode 6 Featuring Desiree C. Bailey

Season 2, Episode 5 Featuring Aracelis Girmay

Season 2, Episode 4 Featuring Noel Quiñones

Season 2, Episode 3 Featuring Patricia Smith (Part 2)

Season 2, Episode 2 Featuring Patricia Smith (Part 1)

Season 2, Episode 1 Featuring Tim Seibles

Episode 16 Featuring Where It All Started-- Season One Finale

Episode 15 Featuring Your Questions-- Part 1

Episode 14 Featuring The BreakBeat Poets LIVE From Berl's Poetry Shop

Episode 13 Featuring Camonghne Felix

Episode 13 Featuring Camonghne Felix

Episode 12 Featuring Safia Elhillo

Episode 11 Featuring Morgan Parker

Episode 10 Featuring Mahogany L. Browne PART 2

Episode 9 Featuring Mahogany L. Browne

Episode 8 Featuring Jive Poetic

Episode 7 Featuring Nabila Lovelace

Episode 6 Featuring Paul Tran

Episode 5 Featuring Joshua Bennett

Episode 4 Featuring Jeanann Verlee

Episode 3 Featuring Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

Episode 2 Featuring Jeremy Michael Clark

Episode 1 featuring Jayson P Smith

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