Audio Podcast
“Cover the Lettuce”
A very close reading of one sexy CD Wright poem.
The Power of Barbie
How David Trinidad's collection of vintage dolls plays into his poetry.
Honor Thy Father's Day
Robert Hayden and Terrance Hayes take the Hallmark out of the holiday.
Out of the Poetic Bubble
How Mark Nowak's documentary poetics re-humanizes the Sago Mine Disaster.
Everything Plus the Kitchen Sink
Robert Polito on Kenneth Fearing's media-saturated poetry as vernacular collage.
Light in the Service of Loneliness
Fanny Howe, winner of the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, reads from her work.
Bees and Monstrous Babies
Eleanor Wilner on species pity and political power run amok.
Stop Making Sense
Christian Bök performs the Dada sound-poetry behind the Talking Heads.
An Essential American Poet
Fanny Howe talks to us about the range of Jean Valentine's poems.
What If It Doesn't Make Sense?
Matthew Zapruder parses a John Ashbery poem.
Telephony Is So Retro It's Cool
Al Filreis brings Dial-a-Poem back to life at Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia.
Hatless in Heavy Economic Weather
John Surowiecki talks about why his 2004 poem "The Hat City After Men Stopped Wearing Hats" sounds like it was written yesterday.
The Hebrew Bible Has No Soul
Robert Alter on his radical reworking of the book of Psalms
Manifesto You
Mary Anne Caws talks the whys and wherefores of manifestos by Charles Bernstein, A.E.Stallings, and Thomas Sayers Ellis that first appeared in Poetry magazine.
More Than Meets the I
Rae Armantrout gets personal without the pronoun.
When the Weary Blues Met Jazz
Langston Hughes's collaboration with Charles Mingus and Leonard Feather.
The Poet and the Saint
The untold story of Czeslaw Milosz's rancor toward a Holocaust hero.
Romantic or Plain Erotic
Talking Valentine's Day poems with Ange Mlinko.
People Don't Read This Way Anymore
Ernest Hilbert and Curtis Fox discuss the late, great W.D. Snodgrass's formalism, dark humor, and passionate reading style.