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• Episode 396: OUR 10th ANNIVERSARY EPISODE❣️ / C.K. Williams - Writers Writing Dying (Mon, Jun 23, 2025)
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• Episode 395: Lydia Davis - Priority (Again) & Answer Corner (Fri, Jan 17, 2025)
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• Episode 394: The Life of Northern Calloway (David from Sesame Street) (Mon, Dec 16, 2)(024 +0000 15:00:00, )
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• Episode 393: Joshua Rivkin - In the Black (on Cy Twombly) (Tue, Dec 03, 2024)
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• Episode 392: Steve Zirnkilton - In the Criminal Justice System (Wed, Nov 20, 2024)
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• Episode 391: Sick Day (Wed, Nov 13, 2024)
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• Episode 390: Leonard Cohen - Book of Mercy (Tue, Nov 05, 2024)
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• Episode 389: Copy & Paste: The Cold Episode (Wed, Oct 30, 2024)
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• Episode 388: Encyclopedia Corner - Lighting & Lightning (Wed, Oct 23, 2024)
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• Episode 387: Letters of Note / E.B. White / My Voiceover (Tue, Oct 15, 2024)
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• Episode 386: Anne Carson - Short Talks (Wed, Oct 09, 2024)
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• Episode 385: Mary Ruefle & John Clare (Tue, Oct 01, 2024)
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• Episode 384: John D'Agata & Studio Update (Tue, Sep 24, 2024)
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• Episode 383: Franz Kafka & Katt Williams (Sat, Sep 07, 2024)
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• Episode 382: Catullus 85 (Sat, Aug 31, 2024)
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• Episode 381: Emily Dickinson, Petrichor & Me (Sat, Aug 24, 2024)
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• Episode 380: "Part 1: Party" featuring words by Charles Simic & Melody Beattie (Sat, Jul 27, 2024)
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• Episode 379: Mike White - Levi's Letter from Rehab on "Enlightened" + RIP Charles Simic (Thu, Jan 12, 2023)
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• Episode 378: Eliot Weinberger - An Elemental Thing (The Rhinoceros) (Sun, Jan 08, 2023)
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• Episode 377: I'll Be Back! (Tue, Jan 03, 2023)
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• Episode 376: Dire Straits - Money For Nothing (Thu, Nov 10, 2022)
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• Episode 375: Anne Carson - The Albertine Workout (Thu, Nov 03, 2022)
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• Episode 374: Daniil Kharms - The Things (Thu, Oct 27, 2022)
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• Episode 373: Patrizia Cavalli - My Poems Won't Change the World (Thu, Oct 20, 2022)
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• Episode 372: Mary Ruefle - On Beginnings (Fri, Oct 14, 2022)
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• Episode 371: Mark Strand - The Mailman (Tue, Oct 04, 2022)
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• Episode 370: C.K. Williams & Alex Soojung-Kim Pang (Wed, Sep 14, 2022)
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• Episode 369: The Workaholics Anonymous Book of Recovery (Sun, Sep 04, 2022)
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• Episode 368: Robinson Jeffers - The World's Wonders (Sat, Aug 27, 2022)
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• Episode 367: Anne Boyer - Garments Against Women (again) (Fri, Jun 17, 2022)
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• Episode 366: Elsa Gidlow - Of a Certain Friendship (Thu, Jun 09, 2022)
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• Episode 365: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang - Rest (Thu, Jun 02, 2022)
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• Episode 364: Patricia Highsmith - Her Diaries and Notebooks (and a conversation with Damien Jurado!) (Fri, May 27, 2022)
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• Episode 363: Chika Sagawa - Composition in Three Primary Colors (Fri, May 20, 2022)
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• Episode 362: Kevin Prufer - Black Woods (and Bill Callahan lyrics) (Mon, May 16, 2022)
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• Episode 361: Yosef Ibn Zabara - My Ex - Look at These People - The Physician (Fri, May 06, 2022)
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• Episode 359: The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, Edited by Eliot Weinberger (Fri, Apr 15, 2022)
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• Episode 358: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "A Starling" (Fri, Feb 04, 2022)
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• Episode 357: Mark Strand & Vladimir Nabokov (Fri, Jan 28, 2022)
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• Episode 356: Choi Seungja - Phone Bells Keep Ringing for Me (Fri, Jan 21, 2022)
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• Episode 355: Robert Creeley - A Day Book (Fri, Jan 14, 2022)
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• Episode 354: Kassia St. Clair - Acid Yellow (Thu, Jan 06, 2022)
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• Episode 353: Jameson O'Hara Laurens - Spell for a Drowning Man (Fri, Dec 31, 2021)
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• Episode 352: Graham Burnam - The Thing That Got My Fun (Fri, Dec 24, 2021)
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• Episode 351: Marlene Dietrich - Daily Rituals (Fri, Dec 17, 2021)
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• Episode 350: David Markson - This is Not a Novel (Fri, Dec 10, 2021)
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• Episode 349: Sebastián de Covarrubias Horozco - Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language (Selected & Translated by Janet Hendrickson) (Fri, Dec 03, 2021)
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• Episode 348: Wislawa Szymborska - Nonreading (Tue, Nov 30, 2021)
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• Episode 347: Charles Simic - Dime-Store Alchemy (Fri, Nov 19, 2021)
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• Episode 346: Anna Akhmatova - Seventh Book (Thu, Nov 11, 2021)
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• Episode 345: Melody Thomas Scott - Always Young and Restless (Fri, Nov 05, 2021)
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• Episode 344: A.L. Snijders - Night Train (translated by Lydia Davis) (Fri, Oct 29, 2021)
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• Episode 343: Werner Herzog - Conquest of the Useless (Thu, Oct 21, 2021)
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• Episode 342: Kool Keith & Fran Lebowitz (Thu, Oct 14, 2021)
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• Episode 341: Anne Boyer - Garments Against Women (Yes, again) (Fri, Oct 08, 2021)
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• Episode 340: The School of Life Dictionary - Ugliness (Thu, Sep 30, 2021)
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• Episode 339: Keaton Patti - I Forced a Bot to Write This Book (Fri, Sep 24, 2021)
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• Episode 338: Etel Adnan - The Arab Apocalypse (Fri, Sep 17, 2021)
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• Episode 337: Marie Howe - What the Living Do (Thu, Sep 09, 2021)
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• Episode 336: Songs from the Quechua - Translated by Mark Strand (Thu, Sep 02, 2021)
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• Episode 335: Reader's Digest & Spike Carlsen (Thu, Aug 26, 2021)
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• Episode 334: Tomas Tranströmer - Below Zero (Fri, Aug 20, 2021)
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• Episode 333: Claudia Rankine - Intermission in Four Acts (Thu, Aug 12, 2021)
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• Episode 332: Samantha Irby - Wow, No Thank You (Fri, Aug 06, 2021)
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• Episode 331: Anne Carson - Short Talk on My Task (Fri, Jun 04, 2021)
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• Episode 330: Lawrence Wright - Going Clear (Thu, May 06, 2021)
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• Episode 329: Arnaldo Gomez & Mercedes Mesen (Thu, Mar 25, 2021)
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• Episode 328: Li Ch'ing-chao (Thu, Mar 18, 2021)
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• Episode 327: Lydia Davis - Priority (Fri, Mar 05, 2021)
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• Episode 326: Aleksandar Ristović - Gingerbread Heart (Fri, Feb 19, 2021)
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• Episode 325: Double Mommy/Seduced and Betrayed - Lifetime Movie Club (Fri, Feb 12, 2021)
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• Episode 324: Eudaimonia - The School of Life Dictionary (Fri, Feb 05, 2021)
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• Episode 323: Antonio Machado - Fourteen Poems Chosen From Moral Proverbs and Folk Songs (Fri, Jan 29, 2021)
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• Episode 322: Toni Morrison - The Paris Review Interview (Fri, Jan 22, 2021)
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• Episode 321: Kassia St. Clair - The Secret Lives of Color (Fri, Jan 15, 2021)(42:22 +0000, )
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• Episode 320: A Scene from "Maps to the Stars", read by Damien Jurado! (Thu, Jan 07, 2021)
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• Episode 319: Rebecca Solnit - A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Fri, Jan 01, 2021)
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• Episode 318: Pavel Šrut - Fog is Fog is Fog (Fri, Dec 25, 2020)
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• Episode 317: Moshe Ibn Ezra - Ivory Palaces (Fri, Dec 18, 2020)
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• Episode 316: The Poetry of Wang An-shih (Fri, Dec 11, 2020)
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• Episode 315: Joy Harjo - Perhaps the World Ends Here (Thu, Dec 03, 2020)
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• Episode 314: Jane Hirshfield - The Lives of the Heart (Fri, Nov 27, 2020)
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• Episode 313: The School of Life Dictionary - Anxiety (Thu, Nov 19, 2020)
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• Mark Strand (Book Recommendation #3) & SHOP ANNOUNCEMENT (Thu, Nov 12, 2020)
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• Truman Capote - In Cold Blood (Book Recommendation #2) (Thu, Nov 05, 2020)
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• Anne Carson - Autobiography of Red (Book Recommendation #1) (Thu, Oct 29, 2020)
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• Florine Stettheimer - Crystal Flowers (Thu, Oct 22, 2020)
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• Pavel Šrut - Worm-Eaten Time (Thu, Oct 15, 2020)
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• Eliot Weinberger - Angels & Saints (Fri, Oct 09, 2020)
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• The School of Life Dictionary Part 2 (Fri, Oct 02, 2020)
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• The School of Life Dictionary (Thu, Sep 24, 2020)
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• Mostafa Nissabouri - Approach to the Desert Space (Thu, Sep 17, 2020)
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• Juan Gregorio Regino - Cantares (Fri, Sep 11, 2020)
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• Dawn Lundy Martin - From "Perspective is Supposed to Yield Clarity" (Sat, Aug 15, 2020)
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• Robby's Chicken & Dumplings (Fri, Jul 31, 2020)
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• Kenneth Koch - Wishes, Lies, & Dreams (Tue, May 26, 2020)
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• Texas Part 2! Mary Karr - County Fair (Fri, May 15, 2020)
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• A Texas Podcast! Featuring a poem by Anselm Berrigan! (Mon, Apr 13, 2020)
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• A Conversation with Damien Jurado! Part 2 (Fri, Apr 10, 2020)
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• A Conversation with Damien Jurado! Pt. 1 (Thu, Apr 09, 2020)
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• Laura (Riding) Jackson - Earth, Great Eyeball (Sun, Apr 05, 2020)
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• Stephanie Goehring - From The Water [Inaudible] (Fri, Apr 03, 2020)
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• The Proust Questionnaire (Thu, Mar 19, 2020)
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• Emily Dickinson - Fascicle Thirty-Five (Fri, Mar 13, 2020)
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• (Before a Hiatus) Raymond Carver - Some Prose on Poetry (Fri, Feb 14, 2020)
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• Laurie Anderson - NYTimes Book Review Interview (Fri, Feb 07, 2020)
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• Mary Ruefle - Super Bowl (Fri, Jan 31, 2020)
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• Blaga Dimitrova - Old Song in a New Voice (Fri, Jan 24, 2020)
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• Yehuda Amichai - In the Middle of This Century (Fri, Jan 17, 2020)
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• C.D. Wright - In a Word, a World (Fri, Jan 10, 2020)
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• Shirley Jackson - Got a Letter From Jimmy (Fri, Jan 03, 2020)
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• W.S. Merwin - Houses and Travellers (Thu, Dec 26, 2019)
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• Contemporary Kazakh Literature (Fri, Dec 13, 2019)
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• Mary Ruefle - Provenance & W.S. Merwin - Thanks (Thu, Nov 28, 2019)
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• Charles Ramsey - Dead Givaway (Fri, Nov 22, 2019)
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• Rolf Jacobsen - The Silence Afterwards (Fri, Nov 15, 2019)
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• An After Dark Special! Hazel Hall - Habit (Tue, Nov 05, 2019)
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• Mary Ruefle - Halloween & Igor Barreto The Blind Plain (Fri, Nov 01, 2019)
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• Pablo de Rokha - Architecture of Dispersed Life (Sat, Oct 26, 2019)
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• Interview with my Dad and poems from Mike Tyson & Herschel Walker (Fri, Oct 11, 2019)
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• Mary Ruefle - Dunce (Long White Cloud) (Sun, Sep 29, 2019)
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• Briceida Cuevas Cob - Sun with Spines (Fri, Sep 20, 2019)
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• Mark Strand - Dark Harbor (Fri, Sep 13, 2019)
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• Aristophanes - The Clouds (Fri, Sep 06, 2019)
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• Anne Waldman - Stereo (Fri, Aug 30, 2019)
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• Lydia Davis - Varieties of Disturbance (Thu, Aug 22, 2019)
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• The White Pony - An Anthology of Chinese Poetry (Fri, Aug 16, 2019)
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• Wislawa Szymborska - Here (Fri, Jun 07, 2019)
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• Philip Guston & The Poets (Wed, Jun 05, 2019)
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• Cole Swensen - Noon (Mon, Apr 01, 2019)
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• William Carlos Williams - Paterson (Sat, Mar 09, 2019)
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• Anna Akhmatova & A. R. Ammons (Fri, Feb 15, 2019)
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• Mary Ruefle, David Drury, Tomas Transtromer & Nell Carter (Fri, Jan 25, 2019)
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• David Foster Wallace - INFINITE JEST (Fri, Jan 18, 2019)
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• T.S. Eliot - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Fri, Jan 11, 2019)
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• Daily Rituals from Ann Beattie & Flannery O'Connor (BONUS! A short Anne Carson piece!) (Fri, Jan 04, 2019)
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• Special Edition! (Tue, Dec 11, 2018)
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• Lydia Davis & Vasko Popa (Sat, Dec 01, 2018)
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• Pablo Neruda - Melancholy Inside Families (Mon, Nov 19, 2018)
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• Eileen Myles - Harmonica (Fri, Nov 09, 2018)
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• Georgia O'Keeffe - A Letter to Alfred Stieglitz (Wed, Nov 07, 2018)
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• Reading Collage Night! (Rankine, Ruefle, Carson, Beattie, Ristovic) (Fri, Oct 12, 2018)
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• Christopher Knowles - "Man Calculating (Crazy Eddie)" from "Einstein on the Beach" by Philip Glass (Fri, Oct 05, 2018)
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• Marosa di Giorgio - I Remember Nightfall (Fri, Sep 28, 2018)
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• Juan Gregorio Regino - I Know the World's Tongue (Thu, Sep 20, 2018)
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• Vaslav Nijinsky - The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky (Sun, Sep 09, 2018)
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• Nan Shepherd - The Living Mountain (Fri, Aug 31, 2018)
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• Tom O'Bedlam - Anonymous Mad Song ≈1620 (from Harold Bloom's How To Read & Why) (Sun, Aug 26, 2018)
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• Pablo Neruda - Reject the Lightning (Mon, Aug 13, 2018)
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• Joanne Kyger - The Art of Living Slowly (Fri, Jul 27, 2018)
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• Donald Hall & Charles Schulz (Fri, Jul 13, 2018)
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• Anne Boyer - No (Fri, Jul 06, 2018)
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• Koko the Gorilla - I am Flowers (Mon, Jun 25, 2018)
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• Mark Strand - Hermetic Melancholy (Sat, Jun 16, 2018)
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• Anne Carson - Each Day Unexpected Salvation (John Cage) (Fri, Jun 08, 2018)
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• Dubravka Ugresic - Pavlik Morozov (Fri, Jun 01, 2018)
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• Jamaica Kincaid - The Letter From Home (Fri, May 25, 2018)
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• Dusty Rhodes - Hard Time Blues (Thu, May 17, 2018)
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• A Diary Entry from when I was in 6th Grade. (Wed, May 02, 2018)
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• Vasco Popa - Before Play (Unrest-Field) (Thu, Apr 26, 2018)
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• Ted Kooser - Pearl (Fri, Apr 06, 2018)
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• Dubravka Ugrešić - Unknown Title (Fri, Mar 23, 2018)
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• Andrew Weatherhead - The Origin of the World (Fri, Mar 09, 2018)
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• Clarice Lispector - Near to the Wild Heart (Fri, Mar 02, 2018)
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• Kevin Corrigan - Robyn O'Neil - W.S. Merwin (Fri, Feb 23, 2018)
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• Charles Baudelaire - Spleen (Fri, Feb 16, 2018)
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• Eliot Weinberger - An Elemental Thing (An After Dark Podcast!) (Tue, Feb 13, 2018)
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• Vera Sola - Instrument of War (Virago) (Fri, Jan 26, 2018)
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• Mark Borchardt - American Movie (Fri, Jan 19, 2018)
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• Mary Ruefle - On Imagination (Fri, Jan 12, 2018)
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• Martha Ronk - Baked Potato (Fri, Jan 05, 2018)
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• Claudia Rankine - Citizen: An American Lyric (Fri, Dec 29, 2017)
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• After Dark Special! Gary Snyder & Anne Carson (Wed, Dec 27, 2017)
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• Danica Vukićević (translated by Charles Simic) - Ave (Thu, Dec 21, 2017)
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• Anonymous (Alsea Tribe) - Moon Eclipse Exorcism (Fri, Dec 15, 2017)
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• W.H. Auden - Musee des Beaux Arts (Thu, Dec 07, 2017)
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• Wim Wenders - Paris, Texas - Sam Shepard/Harry Dean Stanton "I Knew These People" (Fri, Dec 01, 2017)
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• Benjamin Horne of Twin Peaks - "I Loved That Bike" (An After Dark! Podcast) (Tue, Nov 28, 2017)
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• Tomas Tranströmer - Below Zero (Thu, Nov 23, 2017)
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• AFTER DARK! Elena Passarello - Animals Strike Curious Poses (Thu, Nov 16, 2017)
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• Kaveh Akbar - Some Boys Aren't Born They Bubble (Thu, Nov 02, 2017)
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• Marina Tsvetaeva - Letter to the Amazon (Thu, Oct 26, 2017)
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• Mark Strand - From a Litany (Fri, Oct 20, 2017)
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• Etel Adnan - An Etel Adnan Reader (Thu, Oct 12, 2017)
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• Dulce María Loynaz - Selected Poems (Thu, Oct 05, 2017)
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• A Short Talk w/ My Dad & Anne Carson - Short Talks (Thu, Sep 28, 2017)
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• Herschel Walker - Multiple Herschels from Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion by Pasha Malla & Jeff Parker (Fri, Sep 15, 2017)
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• Jessie Redmon Fauset - Oblivion (Thu, Sep 07, 2017)
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• John Ashbery - They Knew What They Wanted (Sun, Sep 03, 2017)
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• Mary Ruefle - Middle School (Thu, Jul 27, 2017)
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• Rainer Maria Rilke - The Poet Speaks of Praising (Thu, Jul 20, 2017)
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• 2nd Anniversary Special & Contest Announcement! (Thu, Jun 22, 2017)
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• Blaga Dimitrova - Ars Poetica (Fri, Jun 16, 2017)
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• Sam Shepard - Promising Two-Year Old & Mark Strand - Exhaustion at Sunset (Thu, May 18, 2017)
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• I'm Back! May Sarton - The House by the Sea (Fri, May 12, 2017)
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• Back Issue Exclusive! Catullus, Anna Akhmatova, Joe Brainard (Fri, Apr 28, 2017)
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• Back Issue Exclusive! Mark Strand-Some Last Words (Thu, Apr 20, 2017)
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• Back Issue Exclusive! Anne Carson - Autobiography of Red (Thu, Apr 13, 2017)
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• Back Issue Exclusive! Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion - The Poetry of Sportstalk by Pasha Malla & Jeff Parker (Thu, Apr 06, 2017)
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• Jared Stanley - EARS (Thu, Mar 30, 2017)
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• Cole Swensen - SHOULD SOMETHING HAPPEN TO THE HEART (Thu, Mar 23, 2017)
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• Wallace Stevens - The Plot Against the Giant (Thu, Mar 16, 2017)
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• Catullus - Odi et Amo & What For? (Thu, Mar 09, 2017)
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• David Markson - This Is Not A Novel (Thu, Mar 02, 2017)
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• Eileen Myles - San Diego Poem (Thu, Feb 23, 2017)
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• Denise Levertov - Goodbye to Tolerance (An After Dark episode!) (Thu, Feb 23, 2017)
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• Patricia Highsmith - The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder (Thu, Feb 16, 2017)
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• Paavo Haavikko - Fifteen Epigrams in Praise of the Tyrant (Thu, Feb 09, 2017)
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• John Wieners - Selected Journals (Thu, Feb 02, 2017)
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• Kenneth Koch - To You (Thu, Jan 26, 2017)
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• Mary Ruefle - The Woman Who Couldn't Describe a Thing If She Could (Thu, Jan 19, 2017)
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• Werner Herzog - Of Walking in Ice (Thu, Jan 12, 2017)
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• Mary Ruefle - My Private Property (Like a Scarf) (An After Dark Episode!) (Wed, Jan 11, 2017)
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• Back Issue Exclusive! Anne Boyer (Thu, Jan 05, 2017)
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• Back Issue Exclusive! Anna Kamieńska (Thu, Dec 29, 2016)
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• Back Issue Exclusive! Uncle Bill Borchardt from American Movie (Thu, Dec 22, 2016)
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• Robert Yarber's Artist Statement (Thu, Dec 15, 2016)
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• Mirabai - His Hair & All I Was Doing Was Breathing (Thu, Dec 08, 2016)
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• Donald Revell - Muse (Thu, Dec 01, 2016)
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• W.S. Merwin - Thanks (Thu, Nov 24, 2016)
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• C.K. Williams - Apes (Thu, Nov 17, 2016)
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• Claudia Rankine - Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (Thu, Nov 10, 2016)
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• Tao Lin - promise i'll vote for you (Thu, Nov 03, 2016)
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• Jean Henri Fabre's BOOK OF INSECTS (Thu, Oct 27, 2016)
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• Anne Carson - Autobiography of Red (Thu, Oct 20, 2016)
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• Gabriela Mistral & Alfonsina Storni (Thu, Oct 13, 2016)
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• Rolf Jacobsen - Some People (Thu, Oct 06, 2016)
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• Daniil Kharms - A Sonnet (Thu, Sep 29, 2016)
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• Ted Kooser - Praying Hands (Thu, Sep 22, 2016)
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• An excerpt from Shijing & Gwendolyn Brooks - "We Real Cool" (An After Dark episode!) (Wed, Sep 21, 2016)
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• Alida Young - Megan the Klutz (Thu, Sep 15, 2016)
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• Mark Strand - Two Horses (Thu, Sep 08, 2016)
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• Novica Tadić - NIGHT MAIL (An After Dark Podcast!) (Wed, Sep 07, 2016)
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• Seamus Heaney - The Birthplace (Thu, Sep 01, 2016)
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• César Vallejo - XXVIII (from Trilce) (Thu, Aug 25, 2016)
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• Kanye West - The McDonald's Man, Calabasas, California (An After Dark Podcast!) (Sun, Aug 21, 2016)
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• Virginia Woolf - The Waves (Thu, Aug 18, 2016)
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• Joe Brainard - I Remember (Thu, Aug 11, 2016)
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• Alejandra Pizarnik - PRIMITIVE EYES (Thu, Aug 04, 2016)
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• After Dark! Oliverio Girondo - At the gravitating turning (Mon, Aug 01, 2016)
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• Vasko Popa - Respect for the Axle (Thu, Jul 28, 2016)
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• Rebecca Solnit - A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Thu, Jul 21, 2016)
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• Steve Edwards - Fatherhood: Ruining the Writing Career, Saving the Writing (Thu, Jul 14, 2016)
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• After Dark! John D'Agata - The Making of the American Essay (Mon, Jul 11, 2016)
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• Kay Ryan - Things Shouldn't Be So Hard & Force (Thu, Jul 07, 2016)
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• Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion - The Poetry of Sportstalk (Mon, Jul 04, 2016)
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• Tomas Tranströmer - The Scattered Congregation & The Recent Tweets of Oprah Winfrey (Thu, Jun 30, 2016)
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• Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita (Mon, Jun 27, 2016)
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• Heidi Montag - Superficial (Thu, Jun 23, 2016)
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• The One Year Anniversary of ME READING STUFF! (Mon, Jun 20, 2016)
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• Lucille Clifton - blessing the boats (Thu, Jun 16, 2016)
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• Stephen Crane - God Lay Dead in Heaven (Mon, Jun 13, 2016)
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• Emily Dickinson - To Recipient Unknown (Thu, Jun 09, 2016)
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• William Carlos Williams - The crowd at the ball game (Mon, Jun 06, 2016)
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• Oliver Sacks from Daily Rituals (Thu, Jun 02, 2016)
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• Daphne Gottlieb - Why Things Burn (Mon, May 30, 2016)
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• Juan Ramón Jiménez - Who Knows What Is Going On (Thu, May 26, 2016)
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• Ghalib - My Head and My Knees (Mon, May 23, 2016)
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• AFTER DARK! César Vallejo - The Anger That Breaks a Man Down into Boys (Sun, May 22, 2016)
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• Mark Strand - From a Litany (Thu, May 19, 2016)
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• Wisława Szymborska - Identification (Mon, May 16, 2016)
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• Uncle Bill Borchardt - Be a Comedian (Thu, May 12, 2016)
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• Rebecca Lindenberg - Letter to a Friend, Unsent (Mon, May 09, 2016)
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• Marianne Moore - Observations (Thu, May 05, 2016)
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• Popul Vuh - The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life (Mon, May 02, 2016)
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• C.K. Williams - Writers Writing Dying (Fri, Apr 29, 2016)
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• Andrew James Weatherhead - THINGS THE PHOTOSHOP INSTRUCTOR SAID AND DID (Mon, Apr 25, 2016)
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• Emily Dickinson & Philip Larkin (Thu, Apr 21, 2016)
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• Gertrude Stein - Tender Buttons (Mon, Apr 18, 2016)
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• AFTER DARK! (a bonus episode) Juliana Spahr - Thrashing Seems Crazy (Sun, Apr 17, 2016)
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• Theodor Storm & Heinrich Heine (Thu, Apr 14, 2016)
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• Vasko Popa - The Wolf Bastard & Give Me Back My Rags (Mon, Apr 11, 2016)
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• Pablo Neruda - Walking Around (Thu, Apr 07, 2016)
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• Miroslav Holub - Dreams (Mon, Apr 04, 2016)
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• Carl Sandburg - Wilderness (Thu, Mar 31, 2016)
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• Charles Simic - The World Doesn't End (Mon, Mar 28, 2016)
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• Ramblin' Robby on the Road Reading about Samuel Beckett & Richard Strauss from "Daily Rituals" (Thu, Mar 24, 2016)
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• Kathryn Maris - The House with Only an Attic and a Basement (Mon, Mar 21, 2016)
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• Gwendolyn Brooks - a song in the front yard (Thu, Mar 17, 2016)
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• Anne Carson - The Life of Towns (Mon, Mar 14, 2016)
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• Katherine Anne Porter, an interview from Writers at Work, The Paris Review 1963 (Thu, Mar 10, 2016)
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• Bonus Round! James Galvin - Blue or Green (Wed, Mar 09, 2016)
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• Wislawa Szymborska - Here (Mon, Mar 07, 2016)
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• Edna St. Vincent Millay - Dirge Without Music (Thu, Mar 03, 2016)
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• AFTER DARK! (a bonus episode) Yehuda Amichai - Poems for a Woman (Thu, Mar 03, 2016)
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• Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis) - Ted's Studio Burnt Down & How To Do It (Mon, Feb 29, 2016)
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• Sohrab Sepehri - Friend (Thu, Feb 25, 2016)
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• Theodore Roethke - The Surly One & The Swan (Mon, Feb 22, 2016)
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• Allen Ginsberg - Wichita Vortex Sutra (Thu, Feb 18, 2016)
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• Mark Halliday - Self-Importance (Mon, Feb 15, 2016)
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• Derrick Austin - Taking My Father and Brother to The Frick (Thu, Feb 11, 2016)
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• AFTER DARK! (a bonus episode) Anonymous 12th century poetry & so much more. (Thu, Feb 11, 2016)
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• Hadewijch - LOVE HAS SEVEN NAMES (Mon, Feb 08, 2016)
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• Chögyam Trungpa - SHAMBHALA (sorry friends, this one went a little long) (Thu, Feb 04, 2016)
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• Jack Spicer - Any fool can get into an ocean . . . (Mon, Feb 01, 2016)
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• Catullus, Anna Akhmatova, Joe Brainard (Thu, Jan 28, 2016)
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• Charles Simic - The Magic Study of Happiness (Mon, Jan 25, 2016)
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• Mark Strand - The President's Resignation (Thu, Jan 21, 2016)
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• Anna Kamieńska - Funny (Mon, Jan 18, 2016)
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• Mary Karr - Suicide's Note: An Annual (Thu, Jan 14, 2016)
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• Rainer Maria Rilke - You Who Never Arrived (Mon, Jan 11, 2016)
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• Rafael Alberti - To Miss X, Buried in the West Wind (Thu, Jan 07, 2016)
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• After Dark! (a bonus episode) Jorie Graham - Soul Says (Thu, Jan 07, 2016)
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• Robert Hass - Our Lady of the Snows (Mon, Jan 04, 2016)
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• Jean Valentine - The Knife (Thu, Dec 31, 2015)
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• Mary Oliver - Wild Geese (Mon, Dec 28, 2015)
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• Saturday Night Recorded! Czeslaw Milosz "Song On The End Of The World" (Sun, Dec 27, 2015)
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• Albert Goldbarth - Human Beauty (Thu, Dec 24, 2015)
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• Tomas Tranströmer - Answers to Letters (Mon, Dec 21, 2015)
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• William Stafford - The Way It Is (Fri, Dec 18, 2015)
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• Kobayashi Issa - Death Poem (haiku) (Tue, Dec 15, 2015)
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• Paramahansa Yogananda - Scientific Healing Affirmations (Thu, Dec 10, 2015)
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• Ted Kooser - They Had Torn Off My Face at the Office (Mon, Dec 07, 2015)
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• Anne Boyer - AT LEAST TWO TYPES OF PEOPLE (Thu, Dec 03, 2015)
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• Kenneth Fearing - Invitation (Mon, Nov 30, 2015)
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• Dylan Thomas - Do not go gentle into that good night (Thu, Nov 26, 2015)
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• Leonard Cohen - How To Speak Poetry (Mon, Nov 23, 2015)
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• Mark Strand - Some Last Words (Thu, Nov 19, 2015)
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• Anne Carson - Autobiography of Red (Mon, Nov 16, 2015)
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• Kenneth Fearing - Andy and Jerry and Joe (Thu, Nov 12, 2015)
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• Luke Davies - Interferon Psalms (Mon, Nov 09, 2015)
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• Anne Boyer - Garments Against Women (Thu, Nov 05, 2015)
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• H.D. - The Wind Sleepers (Mon, Nov 02, 2015)
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• Halloween Bonus Round! Edgar Allan Poe - Annabel Lee (Sat, Oct 31, 2015)
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• Sylvia Plath - Daddy (Thu, Oct 29, 2015)
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• Russell Edson - Ape and Coffee & Antimatter (Mon, Oct 26, 2015)
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• AFTER DARK! (a bonus episode) William Stafford & William Meredith (Sun, Oct 25, 2015)
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• Jorge Luis Borges - The Palace & Yehuda Amichai - A Man in His Life (Thu, Oct 22, 2015)
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• Stephanie Goehring - Self-portrait as Craig's List Ad for a Fun Afternoon (Mon, Oct 19, 2015)
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• Margaret Atwood - Mute (Thu, Oct 15, 2015)
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• Patrizia Cavalli & Rafael Alberti (Mon, Oct 12, 2015)
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• Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties & Valéry Larbaud "The Gift of Oneself" (Thu, Oct 08, 2015)
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• Naomi Shihab Nye - One Boy Told Me (Mon, Oct 05, 2015)
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• AFTER DARK! (a bonus episode) William Gass - On Being Blue, A Philosophical Inquiry (Sun, Oct 04, 2015)
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• C.K. Williams "Shame" & Vasko Popa "Before the Game" (Thu, Oct 01, 2015)
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• Etheridge Knight - Feeling Fucked Up (Mon, Sep 28, 2015)
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• Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion - The Poetry of Sportstalk by Pasha Malla & Jeff Parker (Thu, Sep 24, 2015)
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• C.K. Williams - Wait (Mon, Sep 21, 2015)
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• AFTER DARK! (a bonus episode) Osip Mandelstam & Don Paterson (Sun, Sep 20, 2015)
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• Evan Dalton Smith - Self-Portrait as My Name & Self-Portrait at Conception (Thu, Sep 17, 2015)
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• Ingeborg Bachmann, poems. (Mon, Sep 14, 2015)
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• Jessica Hagedorn - Sorcery (Thu, Sep 10, 2015)
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• LIVE FROM VEGAS! Carson McCullers - The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (Mon, Sep 07, 2015)
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• The Winners of the "Channing Tatum Attempts To Write Erotic Poetry" Contest Are Announced! (Thu, Sep 03, 2015)
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• Walt Whitman - Song of Myself (1892) (Mon, Aug 31, 2015)
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• Margaret Atwood-Variation On The Word Sleep & The Moment (Thu, Aug 27, 2015)
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• CHANNING TATUM EROTIC POETRY CONTEST! A description of the contest & an entry. (Wed, Aug 26, 2015)
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• Margaret Atwood - Happy Endings (Mon, Aug 24, 2015)
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• Theodore Roethke - Elegy for Jane (My Student, Thrown by a Horse) (Thu, Aug 20, 2015)
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• Gertrude Stein-Advertisements & Evian Water from "Geography and Plays", 1922 (Mon, Aug 17, 2015)
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• AFTER DARK! (a bonus episode) Frank O'Hara - As Planned & a surprise entry to the erotic poetry contest! (Sun, Aug 16, 2015)
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• Hafez - At This Party, An Astronomical Question, Find a Better Job, All the Hemispheres - Hafiz (Thu, Aug 13, 2015)
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• Donald Hall - Affirmation (Mon, Aug 10, 2015)
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• Sarah Manguso - Siste Viator - Ancient Gods Walk the Earth (Thu, Aug 06, 2015)
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• Leonard Cohen-A Note To The Reader & Rainer Maria Rilke - Put Our My Eyes & The Poet Speaks of Praising (Mon, Aug 03, 2015)
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• Emily Moore-Auld Lang Syne (Thu, Jul 30, 2015)
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• e.e. cummings - my father moved through dooms of love (Mon, Jul 27, 2015)
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• Heather Christle - I Can't Swim & Reading Is Basically Impossible (Thu, Jul 23, 2015)
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• Tennessee Williams - Blue Song (Mon, Jul 20, 2015)
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• Jason Preu - Billy Jean King (Sun, Jul 19, 2015)
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• Heinrich Heine & Frank Stanford & Robinson Jeffers (Thu, Jul 16, 2015)
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• Vasko Popa - Give Me Back My Rags IV & A Forgetful Number (Mon, Jul 13, 2015)
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• Lydia Davis - I'm Pretty Comfortable But I Could Be a Little More Comfortable (Mon, Jul 06, 2015)
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• John Berryman - Dream Song 22 - Of 1826 (Thu, Jul 02, 2015)
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• Charles Bukowski - The Genius of the Crowd (Mon, Jun 29, 2015)
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• Anne Carson - Glass, Irony & God (Thu, Jun 25, 2015)
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• Mark Strand - The Continuous Life & Rafael Alberti - Song (Mon, Jun 22, 2015)
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• Yehuda Amichai - Try To Remember Some Details (Mon, Jun 22, 2015)
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• Carson McCullers - Stone Is Not Stone (Mon, Jun 22, 2015)
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• Vladimir Nabokov - Bend Sinister (Mon, Jun 22, 2015)
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• Wallace Stevens - The Man On The Dump (Mon, Jun 22, 2015)
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