LearnOutLoud.com Audio - Poem Talk Podcast

Passion Shields Its Servants: A discussion of “Souvenir of the Manassah Ball” by Lorenzo Thomas (Mon, Sep 23, 2024)
Don’t Refuse to Breathe: A discussion of Frank O’Hara: “Song (Is it dirty)” & “Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed)” (Wed, Jun 28, 2023)
The Whole World Smiles: A discussion of John Giorno’s “Everyone Is a Complete Disappointment” (Mon, May 22, 2023)
Present Plans Succeed: A discussion of Dodie Bellamy’s “Vomit Journal” (Mon, Apr 17, 2023)
Woot of the Century: A discussion of “Welter” and “Static” by Douglas Kearney (Fri, Mar 17, 2023)
Rhetorical Happenings: A discussion of Hoa Nguyen, “Long Light.” (Fri, Feb 24, 2023)
Nothing Made of Ink: A discussion of seven poems by Lisa Fishman (Wed, Jan 11, 2023)
Untranslatable: A discussion of Armand Schwerner’s “Tablet 25” & “‘daddy, can you staple these two stars together to make an airplane?’” (Thu, Dec 22, 2022)
Downgraded to Scribble: A discussion of four poems from Dead Winter by Matvei Yankelevich (Fri, Nov 25, 2022)
Paw Mouthings: A discussion of Maggie O’Sullivan’s “Hill Figures” and “To Our Own Day” (Mon, Oct 31, 2022)
Touch, Love, Then Explain: A discussion of “Some Trees” by John Ashbery (Wed, Sep 28, 2022)
Composition of Life, as Life: A discussion of Joan Retallack’s The Poethical Wager (a several-page excerpt) (Fri, Aug 26, 2022)
Girls in the Supply Chain: A discussion of Sawako Nakayasu’s book Some Girls Walk into the Country Where They Are From (Mon, Jul 25, 2022)
When a Name Falls from a Face: A discussion of a selection from Divya Victor’s book Curb (Wed, Jun 15, 2022)
Trance of Language: A discussion of “Sleeping with the Dictionary” & “Dim Lady” from Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen (Mon, May 23, 2022)
Teach Us Love: A discussion of “Language” and “The Anatomy of Monotony” by Eugene Ostachevsky (Fri, Apr 22, 2022)
Better To Lose & Win: A discussion of Diane di Prima’s Revolutionary Letters (Mon, Mar 14, 2022)
Far in Toward the Far End: A discussion of George Quasha’s “preverbs.” (Fri, Feb 11, 2022)
Hot and Cold: A discussion of Jayne Cortez’s “She Got He Got” (Fri, Jan 14, 2022)
Must It Ring True: A discussion of Myung Mi Kim’s “And Sing We” (Wed, Dec 22, 2021)
Coup Created by Our Thoughts: A discussion of “Colliding and Not Colliding at the Same Time” by Cecilia Vicuña (Wed, Nov 24, 2021)
Punch Fascists: A discussion of “Yes I Do Want to Punch” by Stephen Collis (Mon, Oct 18, 2021)
As Words Label Space: A discussion of Leslie Scalapino’s “‘Can’t’ is ’Night’” (Mon, Sep 27, 2021)
Perilous Bodies: A discussion of “Steveston, B.C.” by Daphne Marlatt (Fri, Aug 27, 2021)
In My Rotting Place: A discussion of “Morning, Morning” & “No Deposit, No Return" by Tuli Kupferberg (Mon, Jul 26, 2021)
This Unwitting Monument: A discussion of two poems from Sarah Dowling’s book Entering Sappho (Thu, Jun 17, 2021)
Biologically Speaking: A discussion of “Love Is Not All” and “I Shall Forget You Presently” by Edna St. Vincent Millay (Fri, May 14, 2021)
Adore Adore: A discussion of “Dada Lama” and “A Small Song That Is His” by bpNichol (Thu, Apr 22, 2021)
With a Little String & a Sharp Stone: A discussion of “Suicide” by Bob Kaufman (Wed, Mar 10, 2021)
A Way to Haunt Me: A discussion of “It All over My Face?” by Kevin Killian (Wed, Feb 17, 2021)
A Way to Haunt Me: A discussion of “It All over My Face?” by Kevin Killian (Wed, Feb 17, 2021)
Damned Fruitflies: A discussion of “With Shelter Gone” by Steve Dalachinsky (Mon, Jan 25, 2021)
Promise To Go On: A discussion of “The Similitude of This Great Flower” by Elizabeth Willis (Wed, Nov 25, 2020)
Rousing Earth to Excel: A discussion of “Arriving” by Daphne Marlatt (Fri, Oct 23, 2020)
Word for Word: A discussion of “The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain” by Wallace Stevens. (Fri, Sep 25, 2020)
That’s Right: A discussion of Eileen Myles’s “Writing” and “Mount St. Helens” (Wed, Aug 26, 2020)
Ominous Pre-tingling: A discussion of “MJ Fan Letter” and “RSVP” by Terrance Hayes (Fri, Jul 24, 2020)
Find Me the Rage: A discussion of “Negus” by Kamau Brathwaite (Wed, Jun 24, 2020)
A Word For Me: A discussion of “Should You Find Me” by Erica Hunt (Wed, May 27, 2020)
Begin to Awaken: A discussion of “By the road to the contagious hospital” by William Carlos Williams (Fri, Apr 24, 2020)
The Gaps I Mean: A discussion of “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost (Fri, Mar 27, 2020)
Knots of a Woman: A discussion of A Swarm of Bees in High Court by Tonya Foster (Thu, Feb 20, 2020)
Mammal Patriot: A discussion of Ghost Tantras by Michael McClure (Wed, Jan 22, 2020)
Beside the Mind: A discussion of Clairvoyant Journal by Hannah Weiner (Fri, Dec 20, 2019)
These Squiggles: A discussion of “As if the Trees by Their Very Roots Had Hold of Us” by Charles Bernstein (Fri, Nov 22, 2019)
September 1941: A discussion of “Memory Tree” by Rosmarie Waldrop (Mon, Oct 28, 2019)
The Republic of Space: A discussion of “The Blue Stairs” by Barbara Guest (Fri, Sep 27, 2019)
Worker’s Tanka: A discussion of six tankas (2 each) by three worker poets, Christine Yvette Lewis, Lorraine Garnett and Davidson Garrett (Tue, Aug 27, 2019)
Written in Water: A discussion of Bluets by Maggie Nelson (Fri, Jul 19, 2019)
Laying Poems Away: A discussion of “The Ambition Bird” by Anne Sexton (Fri, Jun 21, 2019)
Saw the Lie: A discussion of three short poems in “SKY WRI TEI NGS” by Nasser Hussain (Fri, May 17, 2019)
Hadbeen Variety: A discussion of “Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake” by John Cage (Wed, Apr 24, 2019)
Slowing the Rate of Perception: A discussion of “Hello, the Roses” by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (Wed, Mar 20, 2019)
Flesh Ekes Ink: A discussion of Divya Victor’s “W Is for Walt Whitman’s Soul” from her book Kith. (Wed, Feb 20, 2019)
Light filtering through: A discussion of G. Maria Hindmarch's “Kitsilano”. (Wed, Jan 16, 2019)
Filter, Impose, Trespass: A discussion of Rachel Zolf’s Human Resources. (Wed, Dec 19, 2018)
Not Detainable: A discussion of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Riot” (Fri, Nov 16, 2018)
The After-Hell: A discussion of Sylvia Plath's poem “The Stones” (Wed, Oct 17, 2018)
Of Beautiful Tangents: A discussion of two poems from Perfect Villagers by Sueyeun Juliette Lee (Thu, Sep 20, 2018)
Boring in a Different Way: A discussion of John Ashbery's “The Short Answer” (Tue, Aug 21, 2018)
Something in the Way: A discussion of Amiri Baraka’s “Something in the Way of Things (In Town)” (Wed, Jul 25, 2018)
Fallout from Cooling: A discussion of three poems from Erica Baum (Wed, Jun 13, 2018)
Our Endless Ear: A discussion of Jack Kerouac’s “Old Angel Midnight” (Wed, May 16, 2018)
Bugging the Circles: A discussion of David Antin’s “War” (Fri, Apr 13, 2018)
Insurrection Is Value: A discussion of Sean Bonney’s “Happiness” (Fri, Mar 9, 2018)
This Corner of the Diaspora: A discussion of Jerome Rothenberg’s “Galician Nights” (a section of Poland/1931) (Fri, Feb 16, 2018)
World Without Sequence: A discussion of Ann Lauterbach's poem “Under the Sign” (Thu, Jan 18, 2018)
Nothing To Say: A discussion of three poems by Fatemeh Shams (Thu, Dec 14, 2017)
Question Therefore the Age: A discussion of M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! (Fri, Nov 17, 2017)
The Dark Containers: A discussion of Larissa Lai’s “Nascent Fashion” (Fri, Oct 13, 2017)
Images, Mon Ami: A discussion of Anne Tardos’s “Uxudo” (Wed, Sep 13, 2017)
The Hand's Reach: A discussion of Lorenzo Thomas’s “An Arc Still Open” (Wed, Aug 16, 2017)
Dead To Me: A discussion of Claudia Rankine's “Don't Let Me Be Lonely” (Wed, Jul 12, 2017)
Truth Flies: A discussion of Robin Blaser’s “A Bird in the House.” (Tue, Jun 6, 2017)
Listen to Everything You Love Disappear: A discussion of Patrick Rosal’s “Instance of an Island." (Tue, May 16, 2017)
Rise and Live: A discussion of Naomi Replansky's “In Syrup, in Syrup” and “Ring Song." (Wed, Apr 12, 2017)
To Rearrange the World: A discussion of Philip Whalen’s “Life at Bolinas. The Last of California.” (Tue, Mar 7, 2017)
I Mean Only Means: A discussion of Kate Colby's I Mean. (Thu, Feb 9, 2017)
But Too Beautiful: A discussion of Tracie Morris' “Slave Sho to Video aka Black but Beautiful” (Wed, Jan 11, 2017)
It Is Time: A discussion of Paul Celan's "Corona" (Tue, Dec 6, 2016)
Dear Conflicted Reader: A discussion of C.D. Wright's One Big Self (Tue, Nov 15, 2016)
No Truths Self-Evident: A Discussion of Michael Magee’s “Morning Constitutional” (Wed, Oct 19, 2016)
Explode for Small Change: A Discussion of Akilah Oliver's “Is You Is or Is You Ain’t” (Wed, Sep 14, 2016)
Swear It Closed: A Discussion of Simone White’s book Of Being Dispersed (Tue, Aug 9, 2016)
Mind’s Not Right: A Discussion of Robert Lowell's "Skunk Hour" (Tue, Jul 12, 2016)
With What Geometry: A Discussion of Edward Dorn’s “The Sundering U.P. Tracks” (Tue, Jun 14, 2016)
A Retrospective: A Discussion of Previous Episodes with Seven Poets (Tue, May 10, 2016)
The Unabettable Bleak: A Discussion of Four Poems by William Bronk (Tue, Apr 12, 2016)
Weakness Stalks in Pride: A Discussion of James Weldon Johnson's “O Southland!” (Tue, Mar 15, 2016)
Articulate beyond Walls: A Discussion of Three Poems by Larry Eigner (Wed, Feb 17, 2016)
The Laurel Crown: A Discussion of Allen Grossman's "My Radiant Eye" (Tue, Jan 19, 2016)
I too received identity: A Discussion of Rob Fitterman’s Sprawl (Tue, Dec 8, 2015)
No Spell Broken: A Discussion of CAConrad's (Soma)tic Midge (Tue, Nov 17, 2015)
Dreams Not Spoiled by Roaches: A Discussion of Helen Adam’s “Cheerless Junkie’s Song" (Tue, Oct 20, 2015)
An Abductee, in Theory: A discussion of Bob Perelman’s “Confession” (Tue, Sep 22, 2015)
The Body in Pain: A discussion of Gill Ott's "The Forgotten" (Tue, Aug 18, 2015)
The F*ck-You Bow: A discussion of Gertrude Stein's "How She Bowed to Her Brother" (Tue, Jul 14, 2015)
Requiem So Sweet We Forgot What It Lamented: A Discussion of Nathaniel Mackey's "Day after Day of the Dead" (Thu, Jun 18, 2015)
Me No One Will Take: A Discussion of Kathy Acker's "The Diseased" and "The Slave Trader" (Tue, May 19, 2015)