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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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  • Dec 30, 2019 LATEST EPISODE
  • infrequent NEW EPISODES
  • 4m AVG DURATION
  • 99 EPISODES


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Latest episodes from PoetryNow

I Thought a Tree Dying

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2019 4:00


Sandra Doller meditates on aging and motherhood. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

I Saw This Day Coming

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2019 4:00


Stacy Szymaszek writes a poem in gratitude to her students. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Hypersensitive Emanation

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2019 4:00


Will Alexander finds ways of writing poems to revitalize language as a whole. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

There Is No Meaning Here

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2019 4:00


Christine Kanownik examines the place of religion and spirituality in secular life. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

anti-immigration

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2019 4:00


Evie Shockley expresses frustration over ongoing immigration policies and thinks about ways Americans might better live together. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

A poem from From A Winter Notebook

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2019 4:00


Matei Yankelevich meditates on the nature of poetic language and lingers over events from his past. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Quiescence

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2019 4:00


Alyse Knorr writes about motherhood and loss. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Ekphrasis with Toothing Chainsaw in Unnamed Halhul Vineyard

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2019 4:00


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

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2019 4:00


Jill Magi explores the intersections between sports culture and corporate job-speak. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Beds

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2019 4:00


Divya Victor considers the effects of transnational migration on family life. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

The Other Side

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2019 4:01


Jennifer Foerster imagines encountering her younger self on a walk through the streets of Vienna. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Pearl

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2019 4:00


Wendy Lotterman wonders what home invasion and poetry have in common. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Skype Healer

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2019 4:00


Emmalea Russo recalls a Skype healing session and remembers the death of her aunt Vera. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

As If to Misread Song

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2019 4:00


Lotte L.S. considers the legacy of British poet and political activist Anna Mendelssohn. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Goodbye 14

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2019 4:00


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

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2019 4:00


Dora Malech reflects on the way gun violence and school shootings have affected her own life. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Girl Soup

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2019 4:00


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

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2019 4:00


Emily Skillings writes a tribute to poet John Ashbery who died in September of 2017. Produced by Sarah Geis.

poem for bruce

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2019 4:01


Rodney Koeneke considers the mystery and language of riddles. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

We Are Saying Yes, But Who Are We to Say

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2019 4:00


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

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2019 4:00


Kirsten Ihns considers the way a poem can dance the reader’s mind. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Euphorbia

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2019 4:00


Eric Baus demonstrates how the powerful can learn from something seemingly small and weak. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

At the Vietnam Center and Archive

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2019 4:01


Hai-Dang Phan examines archival documents concerning the abduction of a young Vietnamese woman by Thai pirates in the 1980s. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Cold Valley

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2019 4:00


Cedar Sigo pays tribute to the poet Joanne Kyger, who died in March of 2017. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Time Traveler's Haibun: 1989

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2019 4:00


Maureen Thorson recalls details of her life in 1989 when she was 10 years old. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Sanctuary Stairs

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2019 4:00


Jared Stanley imagines how climate change will displace populations and what that could mean for one’s family. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Goodwill, Buffalo, NY

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2019 4:01


Kimberly Lyons interrogates the purchase of second-hand clothes and the writing of poetry. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Roadrunners

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2019 4:00


André Naffis-Sahely visits the desert of Arizona and contemplates the cruelty of the Trump Administration’s policy of family separation at the southern border. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Held in the Arms of St. Francis & the Virgin

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2019 4:00


Jasmine Gibson writes a love poem to her partner. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

15 Years of Paris

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2019 4:00


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

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2019 4:00


Patricia Spears Jones considers the dynamics of race through the lens of a 1930s Mae West film. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Nerve

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2019 4:00


Geoffrey Hilsabeck imagines a conversation between Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson as they walk through Boston Common.

An Animal Unfit for Living Unmolested

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2019 4:00


Ginger Ko imagines the near future when humans will possess a fully automated representative. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

The Great San Bernardino Pitch Party

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2019 4:01


Callie Garnett makes an ad pitch for her poetry. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Black Flowers

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2019 4:01


Norma Cole meditates on the Syrian refugee crisis. Produced by Colin McNulty.

X Number

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2019 4:00


Chris Glomski considers the variables that comprise a human life. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

In a Daydream of Being the Big House Missus

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2019 4:00


Justin Phillip Reed imagines an inverted history of slavery. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Taste

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2019 4:01


Jessica Laser considers wisdom, poetry, and procrastination. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Hour in which I consider hydrangea

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2019 4:01


Simone White documents a mother’s life with her infant son. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Things to Do in Hell

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2019 4:01


Chris Martin composes a list of things one might do in hell. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

The Great Deceiver

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2019 4:00


Brian Lucas takes a speculative look at figures of deception. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Who’s That

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2019 4:00


Ana Božičević explores the feelings and emotions of spring. Produced by Sarah Geis.

the name before the name before mine

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2019 4:00


Jay Besemer considers heredity and the uncertainty of one’s past. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

About Suffering

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2019 4:00


Elisa Gabbert meditates on the nature of suffering and the language we use to describe it. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

encasement (storage e)

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2019 4:00


Rusty Morrison recalls an encounter in an airport and considers how touch can be a source of knowledge. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

pronoun circle-jerk and the dog charlie

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2019 4:00


Julian Talamantez Brolaski considers the way we use pronouns to signal gender. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Seventeen Funerals

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2019 4:00


Richard Blanco remembers the 17 students killed in a mass-shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14th, 2018. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

The Ambassador of the Interior Has a Talking to With the Minister of the Cabinet of Vengeance

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2019 4:00


Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer imagines the prospect of a God who may have created humanity in order to battle evil. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Phantom Twin

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2019 4:00


Katy Lederer recalls her experience with in vitro fertilization and finds poetry in the language of science. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Sanctuary

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2019 4:00


Donika Kelly recalls a class field trip to a sea lion sanctuary in the sixth grade and questions why certain lives are valued above others. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Bitch Is a Word I Hear A Lot

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2019 4:00


Kim Parko considers the politics of the word “bitch.” Produced by Katie Klocksin.

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