Poetry Off the Shelf

Apr 09 2024 3.1k

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Producer Helena de Groot talks to poets about language, dreams, love and loss, identity, connection, anger, discomfort, the creative process, the state of the world and the world of the soul. Hard conversations are welcomed—laughter is, too.

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My Awesome Stoma

Apr 09 2024 44 mins

April Gibson on chronic illness, religion, and being a teenage mother.

Working-Class Superheroes

Mar 26 2024 46 mins

Declan Ryan on his father's construction job, tenderness between boxers, and the inevitable tragic end.

All the Shiny Knives

Mar 12 2024 54 mins

Monica Rico on cooking, grunt work, and the heat at General Motors.

Let Light Form

Feb 27 2024 69 mins

Nam Le on commerce, irony vs. sincerity, and being in the Arctic.

Stay in Character

Feb 13 2024 45 mins

Gregory Pardlo on improv, therapy, and driving around with his father’s ashes.

Instructions for Divorce

Jan 30 2024 50 mins

Caitlin Cowan on rejection, tradwives, and poems from our better self.

Make Art for Me

Jan 16 2024 60 mins

Blake Butler on complex mourning, the suicide of his wife Molly Brodak, and finding his way back.

Poets We Lost in 2023

Jan 03 2024 44 mins

Remembering the lesbian poet and activist Minnie Bruce Pratt, as well as the Palestinian poet and symbol of the resistance, Refaat Alareer.

The Utopian Business

Dec 12 2023 36 mins

Steve Zeitlin and Bob Holman on the healing act of writing, small frogs, and politics at the fiddle festival.

Cease and Desist

Nov 30 2023 53 mins

Laura Mullen on academia, death threats, and doing the next brave thing.