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PoetryNow is a weekly four-minute radio series featuring some of today’s most accomplished and innovative poets who offer an acoustically rich and reflective look into a single poem.
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The Editor's Ex
Caitlin Doyle thinks about romance novels at the end of a relationship. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
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I Thought a Tree Dying
Sandra Doller meditates on aging and motherhood. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
I Saw This Day Coming
Stacy Szymaszek writes a poem in gratitude to her students. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Hypersensitive Emanation
Will Alexander finds ways of writing poems to revitalize language as a whole. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
There Is No Meaning Here
Christine Kanownik examines the place of religion and spirituality in secular life. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
anti-immigration
Evie Shockley expresses frustration over ongoing immigration policies and thinks about ways Americans might better live together. Produced by Katie Kl...
A poem from From A Winter Notebook
Matei Yankelevich meditates on the nature of poetic language and lingers over events from his past. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Ekphrasis with Toothing Chainsaw in Unnamed Halhul Vineyard
George Abraham invents a new sonnet form to investigate an act of vandalism that occurred in a Palestinian vineyard. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
I’m an Avid Skier
Jill Magi explores the intersections between sports culture and corporate job-speak. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Beds
Divya Victor considers the effects of transnational migration on family life. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
The Other Side
Jennifer Foerster imagines encountering her younger self on a walk through the streets of Vienna. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Pearl
Wendy Lotterman wonders what home invasion and poetry have in common. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Skype Healer
Emmalea Russo recalls a Skype healing session and remembers the death of her aunt Vera. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
As If to Misread Song
Lotte L.S. considers the legacy of British poet and political activist Anna Mendelssohn. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Goodbye 14
Emily Sieu Liebowitz begins a poem by wondering if the Trojan Horse was merely a metaphor for written language. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Standards-Based Assessment
Dora Malech reflects on the way gun violence and school shootings have affected her own life. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Girl Soup
Sawako Nakayasu imagines eating a bowl of girl soup and the conundrum posed by her own intervention. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
No People in It
Emily Skillings writes a tribute to poet John Ashbery who died in September of 2017. Produced by Sarah Geis.
poem for bruce
Rodney Koeneke considers the mystery and language of riddles. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
We Are Saying Yes, But Who Are We to Say
Khaled Mattawa remembers the sense of hope felt during the Arab Spring and at the prospect of having a second child. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
immediately motionless likeness
Kirsten Ihns considers the way a poem can dance the reader’s mind. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Euphorbia
Eric Baus demonstrates how the powerful can learn from something seemingly small and weak. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
At the Vietnam Center and Archive
Hai-Dang Phan examines archival documents concerning the abduction of a young Vietnamese woman by Thai pirates in the 1980s. Produced by Katie Klocksi...
Cold Valley
Cedar Sigo pays tribute to the poet Joanne Kyger, who died in March of 2017. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Time Traveler's Haibun: 1989
Maureen Thorson recalls details of her life in 1989 when she was 10 years old. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Sanctuary Stairs
Jared Stanley imagines how climate change will displace populations and what that could mean for one’s family. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
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Goodwill, Buffalo, NY
Kimberly Lyons interrogates the purchase of second-hand clothes and the writing of poetry. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Roadrunners
André Naffis-Sahely visits the desert of Arizona and contemplates the cruelty of the Trump Administration’s policy of family separation at the souther...
Held in the Arms of St. Francis & the Virgin
Jasmine Gibson writes a love poem to her partner. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
15 Years of Paris
Katy Bohinc leaves Paris and writes a poem of apology after a misunderstanding with someone close to her. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Beulah Peel Me a Grape
Patricia Spears Jones considers the dynamics of race through the lens of a 1930s Mae West film. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Nerve
Geoffrey Hilsabeck imagines a conversation between Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson as they walk through Boston Common.
An Animal Unfit for Living Unmolested
Ginger Ko imagines the near future when humans will possess a fully automated representative. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
The Great San Bernardino Pitch Party
Callie Garnett makes an ad pitch for her poetry. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
X Number
Chris Glomski considers the variables that comprise a human life. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
In a Daydream of Being the Big House Missus
Justin Phillip Reed imagines an inverted history of slavery. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Taste
Jessica Laser considers wisdom, poetry, and procrastination. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Hour in which I consider hydrangea
Simone White documents a mother’s life with her infant son. Produced by Katie Klocksin.