201
James Hadley and Nell Regan, "A Gap in the Clou...
An interview with James Hadley and Nell Regan
37 min
202
Anna Veprinska, "Empathy in Contemporary Poetry...
An interview with Anna Veprinska
67 min
203
Juliane Okot Bitek, "100 Days" (U Alberta Press...
An interview with Juliane Okot Bitek
28 min
204
Sharon Olds, "Arias" (Knopf, 2019)
An interview with Sharon Olds
32 min
205
Lauren Russell, "Descent" (Tarpaulin Sky Press,...
An interview with Lauren Russell
52 min
206
Tara Skurtu, "Offering," The Common magazine (S...
Skurtu speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about “Offering,” her poem from Issue 19 of The Common magazine....
43 min
207
Roy G. Guzmán, "Catrachos" (Graywolf Press, 2020)
Part immigration narrative, part elegy, and part queer coming-of-age story..
50 min
208
Shakira Croce, "Leave It Raw" (Finishing Line P...
Like a storm waiting to break over a plain, Shakira Croce pulls at tensions and heartstrings in a debut collection filled with longing, wit, and intelligence...
30 min
209
Kelly Harris-DeBerry, "Freedom Knows My Name" (...
Kelly Harris-DeBerry creates the world anew from scraps of memories and rhythm...
46 min
210
Matty Weingast, "The First Free Women: Poems of...
A radical and vivid rendering of poetry from the first Buddhist nuns that brings a new immediacy to their voices...
49 min
211
Yehoshua November, "Two Worlds Exist" (Orison B...
Yehoshua November's second poetry collection, Two Worlds Exist (Orison Books), movingly examines the harmonies and dissonances involved in practicing an ancient religious tradition in contemporary America...
53 min
212
Pamila Gupta, "Portuguese Decolonization in the...
Gupta takes a unique approach to examining decolonization processes across Lusophone India and Southern Africa, focusing on Goa, Mozambique, Angola and South Africa, weaving together case studies using five interconnected themes....
64 min
213
Chelsea Wagenaar, "The Spinning Place" (Souther...
Wagenaar explores the power of language—in terms of its possibilities and what it fails to express...
35 min
214
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "The Age of Phillis" (...
Jeffers draws on fifteen years of research in archives and locations across America, Europe and Africa to envision the world of Phillis Wheatley Peters...
51 min
215
Sarah M. Sala, "Devil's Lake" (Tolsun Books, 2020)
Sala's poems move deftly within a world that is equal parts dangerous, celebratory, subdued, modern, and rural....
38 min
216
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
217
Kathryn H. Ross, "Black Was Not a Label" (Pront...
Ross is a writer of humanness, one who finds more interest in what we feel than theme...
33 min
218
Steve Zeitlin, "The Poetry of Everyday Life: St...
Zeitlin taps into the artistic side of what we often take for granted: the stories we tell, the people we love,,,
66 min
219
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
220
Archana Venkatesan, "Endless Song: Tiruvaymoli"...
In this interview we discuss the sophisticated structure and profound content of the Tiruvaymoli, along with the translator’s own transformative journey rending into English the meaning, emotion, cadence and kaleidoscopic brilliance proper to this Tamil masterpiece...
61 min
221
Sarah Adleman, "The Lampblack Blue of Memory: M...
Adleman’s collection, a gorgeous hybrid of poetry and memoir, is a journey through grief and forgiveness...
36 min
222
Great Books: Maureen McLane on Wordsworth's Poetry
The British romantic poet William Wordsworth is best known for his moving evocations of nature,..
66 min
223
Octavia Cade, "Mary Shelley Makes a Monster" (A...
In these poems, the famous author of Frankenstein crafts a creature out of ink, mirrors, and the remnants of her own heartbreak and sorrow...
60 min
224
Great Books: Amir Eshel on Paul Celan's Poetry
Paul Celan's poetry marks the end of European modernism..
55 min
225
Carl W. Ernst, “Hallaj: Poems of a Sufi Martyr”...
“I am the Real,” is the ecstatic statement often associated with the early Sufi poet Mansur al-Hallaj...
57 min