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Shelf MotivatedEpisode 26Come for the second-ever GUEST on Shelf Motivated and stay for the poetry! In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Shelf Motivated crew invited local poet and force behind Mt Lebanon Public Library’s own poetry writing group, The Nebby Poetry Society, Angela Petsis to sit down and chat about poetry with us. We share some of our favorites, read a few poems, and share some notable to-be-reads. Happy National Poetry Month! Books discussed: Mary Olver - Devotions Maja Haderlap – Distant Transit Katrina Porteous – Rhizodont Peter Gizzi – In Defense of Nothi...2025-04-211h 09
Mornings in the Lab with Keith & FriendsMy Biggest Regret About Starting a BusinessThe Truth About Starting a Business: My Biggest Regret | Mornings in the Lab Ever thought about starting a business and immediately regretting it? This episode dives deep into the challenges and regrets of entrepreneurship. Keith shares his personal story of growing and selling a company, highlighting the importance of enjoying the journey rather than just focusing on the destination. Special guest Graham Crawford discusses his journey of sobriety and the lessons learned from corporate to entrepreneurship. We also cover the pros and cons of intermittent fasting with nutrition expert Jorie Jamzem, plus great...2025-04-141h 52
Poetry plain and simplePoem by Jorie GrahamPoem by Jorie Graham2025-03-1301 min
Audio Poem of the DayThe Mask NowBy Jorie Graham
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Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & PoetryOmar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against ThisIn late October 2023, weeks into Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan man. This video showed a lifeless moonscape with endless empty streets of rubble, every building, one to the next, a hollow blown-out shell of itself. No people, no animals, the only sound the strained breath of this man stumbling through this indiscriminately obliterated city that was once a home. El Akkad captioned his tweet with the words: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’...2025-02-212h 12
Between the Covers Podcast - Tin HouseOmar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against ThisIn late October 2023, weeks into Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza, the novelist Omar El Akkad retweeted a video taken by a Gazan man. This video showed a lifeless moonscape with endless empty streets of rubble, every building, one to the next, a hollow blown-out shell of itself. No people, no animals, the only sound the strained breath of this man stumbling through this indiscriminately obliterated city that was once a home. El Akkad captioned his tweet with the words: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’...2025-02-212h 12
Enterrados no JardimLuigi Mangione, um juiz selvagem em tempos de injustiça. Outra conversa com Luhuna CarvalhoNão seria mau se, em vez de João e Maria, na lista dos nomes mais populares dados aos recém-nascidos surgissem nos próximos anos Greta e Luigi, em honra a essas figuras capazes de nos despertar para o escândalo do nosso modo de vida. Antes que nos seja possível reconhecer a necessidade do regresso da vingança como parte activa e meio de restituição do “princípio de coesão íntima do mundo” (Goethe), devemos começar por reconhecer como fomos expropriados dos elementos mediais, como não somos hoje capazes de produzir nem ecos nem refle...2024-12-273h 21
Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture PodcastCherapy: Poet Casting CallSnap INTO it, girlarina! The queens re-cast Cher movies with poets.Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Buy our books: Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.SHOW NOTES:Read Patricia Smith's "Incendiary Art."Here's Cher's cover of “Shoop Shoop (It's in His Kiss)." And here's Merry Clayton's version.Cher starred in the movie Mask, which was released in 1985. Mask won the Academy A...2024-10-2131 minBetween The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & PoetryTin House Live : Frank BidartToday’s episode is an archival recording of poet Frank Bidart from the 2008 Tin House Writers Workshop. It begins with an introduction by the poet Brenda Shaughnessy, followed by an extended poetry reading by Frank Bidart. After the reading is a not-to-be-missed substantive and remarkable craft interview of Frank by Brenda. They look at how he approaches revision, the ways teaching students influences his own writing, and about his early years as a student of, and ultimately friend and early reader for, Robert Lowell.
If you enjoyed today’s conversation, consider joining the Between the Covers community as a...2024-09-061h 10
Of Poetry PodcastMolly Spencer (Of Invitation, Bridges and Water, and How Should We Live?)Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).--Read: "Invitatory" at Poetry DailyPurchase: Invitatory (Parlor Press, 2024)Molly Spencer is a poet, critic, editor, and writing instructor. Her debut collection, If the House (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019) won the 2019 Brittingham Prize judged by Carl Phillips. A second collection, Hinge (SIU Press, 2020), a finalist for the National Poetry Series, won the 2019 Crab Orchard Open Competition judged by Allison Joseph. Invitatory, her forthcoming third collection, won the 2022 New Measure Poetry Prize and will be published in 2024 by Free Ve...2024-07-2359 min
The Hive Poetry CollectiveS6:E16 Chopsy Gutowski & Roxi Power in ConversationChopsy Gutowski talks with Roxi Power about her powerful poems freshly submitted for her MFA thesis. As friends who have been writing together in Santa Cruz for years, Chopsy and Roxi laugh and dig in, plumbing the lyrical depths of Gutowski's eco-poetry, elegies, and political poetry. Mining the difficult moves in Jorie Graham's book,To 2040, Gutowski invites us to inhabit the present moment, however painful, to find healing and joy. She believes poems have a life of their own with a potential to honor and change the course of our lives as they conjure what is possible for our...2024-05-2859 minBetween The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & PoetryJoyelle McSweeney : Death StylesToday’s guest, poet, playwright, novelist, translator, publisher, editor and critic, Joyelle McSweeney discusses her latest poetry collection Death Styles. She talks about the juxtaposing of “death” and “style” and the seam to the underworld that opens when you do, about style as survival, about writing after and into death, about eyes that spill Art, and ears that make sound, about poetry, performance, prophecy and more. We also do a deep dive into McSweeney’s aesthetics and poetics as exemplified by her landmark book of eco-criticism The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults.
For the bonus audio archive, McSweeney contributes a...2024-05-181h 59
Commonplace PodcastEpisode 125: The Poetics of MotherhoodBooks by Rachel ZuckerThe Poetics of Wrongness (Wave Poetry, 2023) SoundMachine (Wave Poetry, 2019) The Pedestrians (Wave Poetry, 2014) MOTHERs (2014) Museum of Accidents (Wave Poetry, 2009) The Bad Wife Handbook (Wesleyan University Press, 2007)The Last Clear Narrative (2004) Eating in the Underworld (2003) Books by Rachel Zucker and Arielle GreenbergHome/birth: A Poemic (2011) Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days (University of Iowa Press, 2010)Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections (University of Iowa Press, 2008) Also Referenced2024-05-111h 11
The Talking Poem PodcastLisa Ampleman on Jorie Graham's "The Way Things Work"In this space and Taylor Swift-centric episode, I talk with Lisa Ampleman (Mom in Space) about Jorie Graham's poem "The Way Things Work" (The Dream of the Unified Field). Lisa has to sway me on this poem a bit. We chat about faith, infertility, and Rube Goldberg machines. Then Lisa shares her fantastic poem "Tenuous Blueprint" and I gush. Afterward, we play a game I call "My Very Elegant Mother Just Sat Upon Nine Porcupines" (Justice for Plato!). This episode is brought to you by Taylor Swift. Also mentioned:Andrew Chaiken's A Man on the MoonSpace...2024-04-2935 min
Culturally DeterminedA Journey Through the Deep State, with Kerry HowleyKerry Howley talks about her book "Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State," named one of the 10 Best Books of 2023 by the New York Times.Recorded November 14, 2023.Follow Culturally Determined @CulturallyDetLINKSKerry's book, "Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State"https://www.amazon.com/Bottoms-Up-Devil-Laughs-Journey/dp/0525655492/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Kerry's 2017 profile of Reality Winnerhttps://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/12/who-is-reality-winner.html2024-04-0847 minBetween The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & PoetryAnne de Marcken : It Lasts Forever and Then It’s OverWriter, interdisciplinary artist, editor and publisher Anne de Marcken discusses her new book It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over. Winner of the Novel Prize, and thus published simultaneously in the U.S., U.K., and Australia, by New Directions, Fitzcarraldo Editions and Giramondo respectively, de Marcken’s new book is a deeply philosophical and metaphysical, heartbreakingly funny book about life and death, love and loss. Join our undead protagonist, in search of herself, as she loses one body part after another, yet fills herself with one thing after another. How much can we lose and still be ours...2024-03-042h 11
Stadtfilter SendungenIn der Tinte: Unsere Winterbücher (14.02.2024)Mit Wurm! Aleks Sekanić und Julia Toggenburger haben sich auf die Wiese gesetzt und einige der Bücher besprochen, mit denen sie es durch den Winter geschafft haben.
- Anna Seghers: Das siebte Kreuz (1942), 2015 im Aufbau-Verlag
- Mirjam Wittig: An der Grasnarbe, 2022 bei Suhrkamp
- Jorie Graham: From the New World, 2015 bei HarperCollins
- Yevgeniy Breyger: Frieden ohne Krieg, 2023 bei Kookbooks
- Annie Dillard: Pilger am Tinker Creek (1974), 2016 bei Matthes & Seitz Berlin
- Nan Shepherd: Der lebende Berg (1977), 2017 bei Matthes & Seitz Berlin
- Natassja Martin: An das Wilde glauben (2019), 2021 bei Matthes & Seitz Berlin
- Jenny George: The Dream of Reason, 2018 Copp...2024-02-1459 min
NeoTalkThe ecopoetics of lichen | prof. Forrest Gander and prof. Anne PringleWhat happens when a poet, photographer, artist, and mycologist come together to work in Wisconsin at a research center in a very pristine forest? In short: magic. And a collection of (eco)poetry – a type of poetry that, according to one of our guests, investigates formally and thematically the relation between nature and culture, language and perception.
Today’s guests are Forrest Gander (Professor Emeritus at Brown University), a Pulitzer award-winning poet, and Anne Pringle (University of Wisconsin-Madison), a prominent mycologist. Even though their career paths seem completely different on the surface, they are both concerned with the c...2024-01-0550 min
Harvard Divinity SchoolPeripheries Launch Event 2023Peripheries Journal: A Journal of Word, Image, and Sound is celebrating the release of Issue 6.
This 2024 edition includes work from Victoria Chang, Angie Estes, Aracelis Girmay, Joanna Klink, Sam Messer, Geoffrey Nutter, Sharon Olds, Alice Oswald, Rowan Ricardo Philips, Tracy K. Smith and many more. General pages are joined by a folio, “Anti-Letters,” that comprises the “personal” writings (ephemera, letters, lists, notes, recordings, photographs etc.) of poets such as Cody-Rose Clevidence, David Grubbs, Susan Howe, Jill Magi, and Jane Miller, among others.
This year’s publication featured readings from Victoria Chang, Jorie Graham, and Alice Oswald.
This event took place November 3...2023-12-291h 27Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture PodcastJames Does a PromptWrite with the Breaking Form queens before we play a game of poetry homonyms.Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Buy our books: Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. You can read more about and poems by Thomas Centolella here. The poems we mention in "Homonyms" are:"Yellowjackets" by Kimiko Hahn"Nothing Gentle Will Remain" by CA Conrad "Disillusion" by Langston Hughes"Peach" b...2023-12-1830 min
You're BookedNaomi Klein - You're BookedOur season of writing legends continues with a true giant of literature: Naomi Klein! Naomi is an activist, filmmaker, journalist and author. She is the bestselling and multi-award-winning author of How To Change Everything, On Fire, No Is Not Enough, This Changes Everything, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo. Her latest is Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World. We talked to her about her family's Philip Roth connections, early illicit reads, the genius of James Baldwin and using poetry to add some delight to your life. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HER...2023-11-0654 minBreaking Form: a Poetry and Culture PodcastEnjambmentThe queens leave you breathless in antici....pation with this crafty episode focused on enjambed lines.Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Buy our books: Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.Please consider buying your books from Bluestockings Cooperative, a feminist and queer indie bookselling cooperative.Read Susan Mitchell's poem "The Dead" which is indeed in her first book, The Water Inside the Water (Wesleyan, 1983 and reprinted by Harper Perennial, 1994).2023-10-1630 min
The Poetry Magazine PodcastKimiko Hahn and Cindy Juyoung Ok on Mentoring Your Younger Poet-Self and MoreThis week, Cindy Juyoung Ok speaks with Kimiko Hahn, who won the 2023 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and who is featured in the October 2023 issue of Poetry. Hahn talks about how her work has changed over the years, including her current love of form, and how she’s been mentoring her younger self while putting together her forthcoming new and selected, The Ghost Forest (W.W. Norton). She also discusses being wrong about Elizabeth Bishop, not getting an MFA, and what it was like studying at the University of Iowa as an undergraduate while the graduate pr...2023-10-1056 minBreaking Form: a Poetry and Culture PodcastPoppersGet vasodilated with the queens in this episode filled with heady poetry games.Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Buy our books: Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate." James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Writing in Lit Hub, Rebecca Morgan Frank says the poems have "a gift for telling stories . . . in acts of queer survival." Please consider buying your books from Bluestockings Cooperative, a feminist and queer indie bookselling cooperat...2023-09-2531 min
Ms. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 48: Jorie Graham’s Self Portrait at Three DegreesFrom her 2017 book Fast. With a rain-sound humidifier in the background and it is recited haltingly at the dashes, chanted for the arrows and flowed through once the text assembles. Enjoy!2023-09-1204 minBreaking Form: a Poetry and Culture PodcastNational Book Award PredictionsThe gays gaze into their crystal balls and predict the National Book Awards.Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here. Buy our books:Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. Publisher's Weekly calls the book "visceral, tender, and compassionate."James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Writing in Lit Hub, Rebecca Morgan Frank says the poems have "a gift for telling stories . . . in acts of queer survival." Please consider buying your books from Bluestockings Cooperative, a feminist and queer indie bo...2023-08-1427 minBetween The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & PoetryJorie Graham : To 2040Jorie Graham’s first appearance on the show in 2021, to discuss her collection Runaway, is one of the most relistened to episodes in the show’s history, a conversation that, with each revisitation, seems to reveal something new about how to will oneself into presence as an artist and as a human. And it is a conversation that many other guests on the show since have told me is now part of their syllabi at the universities where they teach. And yet as rich and deep as it was, even after those many substantive hours spent together, there was stil...2023-08-093h 00
The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily912: PoemToday’s poem is Poem by Jorie Graham. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “As readers of poetry, we get to engage with and listen to the mind of a poet who, in the normal course of a day, we might not casually encounter. For this reason, I treasure the anonymity of the page. We meet the speaker in the poem on their own terms without any preconceived notions.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp2023-07-0305 min
Stories From Women Who Walk60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday: Shout Out for The Carbon Almanac!Hello to you listening in Columbia, South Carolina!Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga.I want to give a shout out to Tania Marien of TalaTerra and all the many global folks behind The Carbon Almanac effort on their 1 year anniversary. You can easily access all the goodness, the book, the resources and more with a link in the Episode Notes.]Meanwhile, here are the opening lines of a poem by Jorie Graham reminding u...2023-06-2002 minBreaking Form: a Poetry and Culture PodcastSummer FunThe queens get beachy, play f*ck marry kill with a Pulitzer winner, and fabricate some fab poets' drag names.Support Breaking Form, the spirit so moves you:Review Breaking Form on Apple Podcasts here. Buy our books:Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.Watch Carl Phillips read from Then the War: and Selected Poems, 2007-2020, winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, here (~1 hour).Poets we mention in this extravaganza include:Denise Duhamel, Queen f...2023-06-0526 min
The VerbFutures VerbIan McMillan presents the first in a series of Verb visits to the future, asking whether we need new words, new plots and new genres to help us think about it creatively.The BBC has signed up to a climate pledge which presents an exciting opportunity for new writing (it is pledging to make sure its visions of the future aren’t simply dystopian ones, to recognise other visions, fair and balanced ones, sustainable and informed by the science ). To explore this opportunity we are first joined by the ecological philosopher and green activist Rupert Read to di...2023-06-0244 min
Ultra Crew HubCanyons 100k w/ Graham and Corinne ShalvoyIn this episode we dive into the Canyons 100k where Graham was supported by his wife Corinne. We cover everything from where did they stay to post race dining. Corinne also talks about her experience as the lead crew for Graham. We hear about the logistics from getting to crew access aid stations to things to do in between each access point. We also get into the expereince of running the race from Grahams's perspective. It is a great first episode and we could not have been more excited to launch this with Graham and Corinne.2023-05-301h 17Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & PoetryTin House Live: Richard Powers on The OverstoryBack in 2019, when Richard Powers was a guest on Between the Covers for The Overstory, we also appeared together that very same night, in conversation again. This time, an onstage ticketed event at Revolution Hall before a live audience. I’ve wanted to share this second conversation ever since. Not only because I prepared two distinctly different interviews, but also because this was Powers’ first visit to Oregon for The Overstory, a book not merely set in the Pacific Northwest but one that deeply engages with the longstanding history of forest defense in the region on behalf of the last...2023-05-191h 34Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture PodcastIn BriefThe queens get quick (and dirty), summarizing a poet's oeuvre in one sentence.If you'd like to support Breaking Form, please consider buying Aaron's and James's books (both 2023):Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.When James says that Aaron makes a "Stuck the Landing" flourish, he means the kind of gesture made over and over in this montage of gymnasts sticking the landing!Watch an Elizabeth Bishop documentary here (including interviews with Bidart, Strand, Howard Moss, Mary McCarthy, and...2023-04-2429 min
Scottish Poetry Library PodcastNothing But The Poem - Jorie GrahamJorie Graham is the subject of the new Nothing But The Poem podcast. The SPL’s regular podcast host, Sam Tongue, takes a deep dive into two of Jorie Graham’s poems which were discussed at the online monthly meet-up of the Nothing But The Poem group.
Jorie Graham and her poetry are difficult to classify. To get some idea of her thinking and poetic process this illuminating interview should help: Jorie Graham Takes The Long View
Among many things she’s an eco-poet of tremendous power. She’s the author of 15 poetry collections, four of which...2023-04-0322 min
Humanitou: Exploring Humanness + CreativityThinking on a Quote by Poet Jorie GrahamIn this short solo episode (ep 141), Adam Williams reflects on a line poet Jorie Graham gave in a recent interview in The New Yorker and digs into his own mission of self-expression. Read and listen to more at humanitou.com.2023-02-2803 minBreaking Form: a Poetry and Culture PodcastPoetry PyramidThe queens play The Poetry Pyramid!Pyramid is the collective name of a series of American television game shows that has aired several versions domestically and internationally. The original series was The $10,000 Pyramid, and it debuted on March 26, 1973. You can read Jorie Graham’s poem “San Sepolcro” (the first poem in her second book, Erosion) here. Read more about Flesh-plastique by Denis Hinrichsen and published by Green Linden Press.For more about Sally Mann's Body Farm project here. The Body Farm refers to the Forensic Anthropology Center at the University of Tennessee--Kn...2023-02-0625 minBetween The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & PoetryGabrielle Bates : Judas GoatToday’s conversation is with poet, visual artist, editor, and podcast host Gabrielle Bates. The poems in Bates’ debut poetry collection Judas Goat feel both personal and mythic, violent and tender, human and much more than human, with an effect that haunts the reader long after closing the book. They also have a fascinating relationship to story, and by extension to time, and to the image and the mysterious relationship between words on the page and images in our minds. In her own words Bates describes Judas Goat as follows: “Within the book I see a woman wrestling her variou...2023-01-202h 00Ms. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 15: Jorie Graham’s EvolutionFrom the Ecopoetry anthology. Her long lines, jagged breaths, parenthetical pairings all bespeaking questions of the world’s energies.2023-01-1306 minBreaking Form: a Poetry and Culture PodcastFrank Other FrankFrankly, our dears, all we want is boundless love for Frank O'Hara. We also discuss radical poetic embodiment, and ponder whether or not Dickinson's "Wild Nights" (269) is a fisting poem.Please consider supporting the poets we mention in today's show! If you need a good indie bookstore, we recommend Loyalty Bookstores, a DC-area Black-owned bookshop.Frank O’Hara was born Francis Russell O'Hara in Baltimore, MD, but grew up near Worcester, MA. As a kid, he studied music in hopes of being a concert pianist. After a stint in the navy (shocking!) he went to Ha...2022-11-0728 minBetween The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & PoetryRae Armantrout : FinalistsThe first time Rae Armantrout came on the show, in 2017, we looked at her poetry through the lens of her interest in quantum physics. Now, five years later, with the release of this double collection of poems, we look at her career-long desire to cultivate a poetics that encourages life to interrupt and interject within her poems, to disrupt what her constructing mind desires to write and change the poem’s trajectory. We look at this approach, and the resulting poems, through another of Rae’s longstanding interests: cognitive science, not only how we perceive or think, but how we c...2022-06-191h 53Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture PodcastTIM THOM JESUS JORIEPoetry, promiscuity, philosophy: maybe you should ask your next question!Thom Gunn was born on August 29, 1929 and died on April 25, 2004. He was born in Gravesend, England to parents who were both journalists. Jorie Graham (born May 9, 1950—Taurus) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1996 for The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994. Since 1999, she has been Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric at Harvard—and she is the first woman to hold the Boylston professorship. She has received many honors and awards for her work. Her newest book is Runaway (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2020). Watch Graha...2022-05-0927 min