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