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Founded in 1972, The American Poetry Review is dedicated to reaching a worldwide audience with a diverse array of the best contemporary poetry and literary criticism. The podcast features guest interviews and lots of poetry talk from APR editor Elizabeth

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    In The Heart Of Winter

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2025 24:21


    On this episode, we have a reading from Alisha Dietzman (https://www.alishadietzman.com/work/circuit-y2lht), a discussion of some highlights from the January/February 2025 issue (https://the-american-poetry-review.myshopify.com/collections/issues/products/vol-54-no-1-jan-feb-2025), including Nomi Stone and Luke Hankins essay from their forthcoming anthology Breaking Into Blossom: Poems with Extraordinary Endings and a poem by Samuel Amadon. Plus: what role does poetry play now? And reading recommendations.

    Parables, the parasocial, & Whitman's bulge

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2024 47:19


    On this episode, Elizabeth chats one-on-one with Jason Schneiderman (https://newjschneiderman.wordpress.com/) about his new book, Self Portrait of Icarus as a Country on Fire (https://bookshop.org/p/books/self-portrait-of-icarus-as-a-country-on-fire-jason-schneiderman/20915982) (Red Hen Press, 2024).

    It's Time

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2024 23:54


    On this episode, Elizabeth, Steven, and Hannah discuss prompts -- pro or con? -- and The Twenty-First Century by Jacob Eigen (https://the-american-poetry-review.myshopify.com/collections/books), the newly published winner of the 2024 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Also, we dip into the archive for an appreciation of Alicia Jo Rabins' poem "Florida." (https://aprweb.org/poems/florida)

    Hammocks & Figs

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2024 31:11


    The APR team is in a punchy mood on this episode; Elizabeth tries to rein in the conversation as Steven and Hannah riff on topics including Robert Lowell's revision process and the current era of political sloganeering. Also: selections from our July/August 2024 issue, with readings from Leah Umansky and Emily Skaja.

    In Praise of Prose

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2024 30:39


    In this episode, Elizabeth, Hannah, and Steven are thinking about prose poems -- how do they differ from other short forms, like flash fiction or the micro-essay? Poets discussed include Baudelaire, Lydia Davis, Ross Gay, Joe Brainard, Russell Edson, Harryette Mullen, and more. Please take our survey here (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Poetry2024).

    For the Love of Kunitz

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2024 22:19


    The Kunitz Prize deadline (May 15!) is just around the corner and we're thinking about the illustrious list of poets who have won it in the past 15 years. Today we discuss the prize-winning poems by Susan Nguyen (https://aprweb.org/poems/impossible-deer) and Jared Harèl (https://aprweb.org/poems/veterans-day-2014).

    Poets in Springtime

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2024 31:23


    Join us as we revel in the intricate thought processes of some of our March/April 2024 contributors, Catherine Barnett (https://aprweb.org/poems/envoy), Omotara James (https://aprweb.org/poems/sundays-v-bruce-queens-ny-august-2023), and Fritz Ward (https://aprweb.org/poems/what-it-is).

    Ways, Shapes, and Forms

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2024 27:28


    In this episode, we're talking about the January/February 2024 issue (https://the-american-poetry-review.myshopify.com/collections/issues/products/vol-53-no-1-jan-feb-2024) and appreciating some formal choices in poetry. We touch upon the pantoum (https://poets.org/glossary/pantoum), the duplex (https://poets.org/glossary/duplex), and the golden shovel (https://poets.org/glossary/goldenshovel), and have a chat with Dorothy Chan (https://aprweb.org/poems/triple-sonnet-for-nomi-malone) about her deep engagement with the triple sonnet.

    The Soul Of Brevity

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2024 28:35


    It was the end of the year, we were a little punchy and so were the poems. We share some of our favorite super-compressed short poems from Etheridge Knight (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48752/feeling-fucked-up), Kay Ryan (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/08/06/eggs-3), and Jean Valentine (http://www.jeanvalentine.com/poems/34door.html), as well as some fiction recommendations for your wintertime reading pleasure. Also, some readings from our November/December 2023 issue (https://the-american-poetry-review.myshopify.com/collections/issues/products/vol-52-no-6-nov-dec-2023) by Todd Dillard (https://aprweb.org/poems/a-catalog-of-how-are-you-doings5) and Maya C. Popa (https://aprweb.org/authors/maya-c-popa).

    Beginnings

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2024 28:29


    We've been thinking about some great first lines of poems. What makes them great and how do we get there? In this discussion, we touch upon poems by Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Eduardo C. Corral, Brenda Shaughnessy, and Elizabeth Bishop. We also have readings from the magazine by Kayleb Rae Candrilli (https://www.krcandrilli.com/), Katie Condon (https://www.katiecondonpoetry.com/), and Dana Isokawa (https://aprweb.org/poems/essay-on-speaking).

    Dear Mary

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2023 22:10


    This episode is a love letter to Mary Ruefle, as we reflect on a great reading of hers (available on YouTube) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=227__gQc8s4), from her book Madness, Rack, and Honey (https://www.wavepoetry.com/products/madness-rack-and-honey).

    Major Jackson live at The Philadelphia Ethical Society

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2023 23:41


    Tune in for the second half of our special two-part podcast featuring Major Jackson, who shared selections from his new book Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems (https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324064909) (W.W. Norton & Co, 2023) at a recent event at APR's home base, the Philadelphia Ethical Society. Major Jackson is the author of six books of poetry, including_ The Absurd Man_ (2020),_ Roll Deep_ (2015), Holding Company (2010), Hoops (2006) and Leaving Saturn _(2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. His edited volumes include: _Best American Poetry 2019, Renga for Obama, and Library of America's Countee Cullen: Collected Poems. He is also the author of A Beat Beyond: The Selected Prose of Major Jackson _edited by Amor Kohli. A recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, John S. Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Major Jackson has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Writers' Award, and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. He has published poems and essays in _American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, Orion Magazine, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry London, and World Literature Today. Major Jackson lives in Nashville, Tennessee where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review.

    Kazim Ali live at The Philadelphia Ethical Society

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2023 25:26


    Join us for the first half of a special two-part podcast featuring Kazim Ali, who recently visited us in Philadelphia to read from his new book Sukun: New and Selected Poems (https://bookshop.org/p/books/sukun-new-and-selected-poems-kazim-ali/19644670?ean=9780819500700) (Wesleyan University Press, 2023). KAZIM ALI was born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States, Canada, India, France, and the Middle East. His books encompass multiple genres, including the volumes of poetry Inquisition, Sky Ward, winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry; The Far Mosque, winner of Alice James Books' New England/New York Award; The Fortieth Day; All One's Blue; and the cross-genre texts Bright Felon and Wind Instrument. His novels include the recently published The Secret Room: A String Quartet and among his books of essays are the hybrid memoir Silver Road: Essays, Maps & Calligraphies and Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice. He is also an accomplished translator (of Marguerite Duras, Sohrab Sepehri, Ananda Devi, Mahmoud Chokrollahi and others) and an editor of several anthologies and books of criticism. After a career in public policy and organizing, Ali taught at various colleges and universities, including Oberlin College, Davidson College, St. Mary's College of California, and Naropa University. He is currently a Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. His newest books are a volume of three long poems entitled The Voice of Sheila Chandra and a memoir of his Canadian childhood, Northern Light.

    Ekphrastic Fantastic

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2023 33:15


    Join us as we chat about Robyn Schiff's new book Information Desk: An Epic (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676185/information-desk-by-robyn-schiff/) and other fine examples of ekphrastic poetry! Other topics include: the September/October issue (https://the-american-poetry-review.myshopify.com/collections/issues/products/vol-52-no-5-sept-oct-2023), including the new Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize winner, Karisma Price (https://aprweb.org/poems/the-art-of-london-firearms), and Kimiko Hahn's book Foreign Bodies (https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324005216), which refers to Philadelphia's own Mütter Museum (https://muttermuseum.org/).

    What makes it tick?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2023 31:41


    Join us for a new episode in which we discuss what makes a poem a poem! We touch upon poems from Indrani Sengupta (https://aprweb.org/poems/i-throw-a-dinner-party) and Laura Van Prooyen (https://aprweb.org/poems/sadness-in-the-shape-of-a-phone) in the July/August issue (https://the-american-poetry-review.myshopify.com/collections/issues/products/vol-52-no-4-jul-aug-2023). Plus, a reading from Burnside Soleil. For more, visit The American Poetry Review (https://aprweb.org/).

    Big (orange) summer vibes with Justin Rigamonti, Nomi Stone and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2023 31:39


    We discuss the new issue (https://the-american-poetry-review.myshopify.com/collections/issues/products/vol-52-no-4-jul-aug-2023), of course, and: * Readings from Justin Rigamonti and Nomi Stone (https://aprweb.org/poems/doing-messages) * A Tyehimba Jess (https://www.tyehimbajess.net/) reading and other memorable readings – what makes a reading memorable? * Some summer poems like: Ada Limón's “Sundown All The Damage Done” (https://aprweb.org/poems/sundown-and-all-the-damage-done) * “Mock Orange” by Louise Glück (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49601/mock-orange) * “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota” by James Wright (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47734/lying-in-a-hammock-at-william-duffys-farm-in-pine-island-minnesota) * Recommendations including: Big Swiss (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/big-swiss-jen-beagin/1141291765?ean=9781982153083) by Jen Beagin, Janelle Monae's new one The Age of Pleasure (https://open.spotify.com/album/3440hCSfwYXxJcbQ0j3jAJ), Tender is the Flesh (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tender-is-the-flesh-agustina-bazterrica/1135277372)by Agustina Bazterrica, and translations by Jennifer Grotz (https://www.jennifergrotz.com/)

    Poems for people who aren't in the habit of reading poems

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2023 24:55


    Today on the show, Elizabeth Scanlon, Hannah Gellman and Steven Kleinman discuss:   the new issue of APR with Shane McCrae An appreciation of Elaine Equi – “The Lonely Parade” in this issue, and “Sometimes I Get Distracted”  Plus, a chat with Hannah re: recommending poems to those new to poetry. Poems mentioned: Elizabeth Bishop “Filling Station,”  Robert Hayden “Those Winter Sundays,”  Robert Hass “Meditation at Lagunitas,”  Angel Nafis “Woo Woo Roll Deep”   Marie Howe, “What the Living Do”  Books mentioned: Airea D. Matthews, Bread & Circus  Marcy Dermansky, Hurricane Girl    The American Poetry Review is a RADIOKISMET podcast. For more: aprweb.org

    Faylita Hicks

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2023 33:45


    Join us for a special feature on poet Faylita Hicks, who is the author of HoodWitch (Acre Books, 2019),  a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry, the 2019 Julie Suk Award, and the 2019 Balcones Poetry Prize. Currently, they are working on a second poetry collection, A Map of My Want (Haymarket Books, 2024), and a debut memoir about their carceral experience, A Body of Wild Light (Haymarket Books, 2025).   The American Poetry Review is a RADIOKISMET podcast. For more: aprweb.org

    Alina Pleskova, Kunitz Prize, and more!

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2023 36:48


    On this episode: Poet Alina Pleskova, whose new collection, Toska, is set to drop soon. Plus, join us as hosts Elizabeth Scanlon and Hannah Gellman discuss, among many other things: · APR's Kunitz Prize · Frank O'Hara · and new books on the horizon. The American Poetry Review is a RADIOKISMET podcast.   

    Gearing Up For #AWP23 w/ Chessy Normile, Live At The Philadelphia Ethical Society

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2023 17:02


    On this episode, we talk about our plans for AWP in Seattle and revisit a spectacular Honickman Book Prize reading by Chessy Normile from AWP 2022 as we gear up for the conference next week.  For more, visit aprweb.org.

    Chelsea Harlan, Live at The Philadelphia Ethical Society

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2022 22:24


    Celebrating the official pub date of Chelsea Harlan's Honickman First Book Prize winning Bright Shade! Chosen by Jericho Brown, who says: This beautiful debut seems to ask not just what poetry is but what it can be. And each poem answers, “Every raindrop/a little bell,//every switchback/and holler baptized.”     Listen up for this fantastic reading from Chelsea Harlan from our live event earlier this year in Philadelphia.    For more, visit aprweb.org.

    Ada Limón, Live at APR's 50th Anniversary Reading

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2022 12:07


    Join us for a special edition mini-episode celebrating the appointment of Ada Limón as the new Poet Laureate of the United States. APR Editor Elizabeth Scanlon offers up an exclusive recording of Ada's reading at the APR 50th anniversary celebration that took place in Philadelphia earlier this year.  The American Poetry Review is a RADIOKISMET podcast. For more: aprweb.org

    Natalie Shapero

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2022 30:14


    Join us as hosts Elizabeth Scanlon and Steven Kleinman talk with Natalie Shapero.  Shapero is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection POPULAR LONGING. Her previous collections are HARD CHILD, shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize, and NO OBJECT, winner of the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award. Natalie's writing has appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. The American Poetry Review is a RADIOKISMET podcast. For more: aprweb.org    

    Megan Fernandes, Gabrielle Bates, couplet craft, weird animals and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2021 35:17


    Join us as hosts Elizabeth Scanlon, Steven Kleinman and Thalia Geiger take a deep dive on couplet craft, weird animals, and the pre-elegaic. Plus poets' readings of: Megan Fernandes' “Love Poem” Gabrielle Bates' “Salmon” The American Poetry Review is a RADIOKISMET podcast. For more: aprweb.org  

    “Springtime Again”

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2021 32:23


    Join us as hosts Elizabeth Scanlon, Steven Kleinman and Thalia Geiger take a deep dive on the May/June issues highlights, including:  — Shamar Hill's The Walls Became the World All Around (read by the author) — Alison C. Rollins' springtime again (read by the author) — and Jack Gilbert interviewed by Forrest Gander The American Poetry Review is a RADIOKISMET podcast. For more: aprweb.org

    Margaret Atwood

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2020 16:34


    Upon the release of Dearly, her new collection of poems, Margaret Atwood talks with APR's Elizabeth Scanlon. The American Poetry Review is a RADIOKISMET podcast. For more: aprweb.org

    Nicole Sealey, Plus: Return Reads

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2020 28:35


    Join us this week on the APR podcast, as we talk with Nicole Sealey, poet and creator of The Sealey Challenge. We also discuss books we've been returning to lately, including: - Sarah Blake's Let's Not Live on Earth - Hanif Abdurraqib's A Fortune for Your Disaster - Sharon Olds' The Father: Poems - Amaud Johnson's Imperial Liquor … and more. All of which, by the way, are available via APR's new Bookshop page. The American Poetry Review is a RADIOKISMET podcast. Vist APR online at: aprweb.org

    Ep. 5: Chessy Normile & Great First Books

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2020 40:34


    Join us as hosts Elizabeth Scanlon, Steven Kleinman and Thalia Geiger engage in one of the liveliest discussions of current poetry you'll find on the web. Today on the show, we talk about first books from favorite poets, and how they're both magic and revealing. Then, we chat with Chessy Normile, winner of the 2020 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Her first book of poems, Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party, was chosen by our guest judge, Li-Young Lee. The book will be published in September, 2020. The American Poetry Review is a RADIOKISMET podcast. For more great shows, visit RADIOKISMET.com.

    Ep. 4: Alex Dimitrov's "Love" & Our Mixtapes For Our 20s

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2020 41:28


    Join us as hosts Elizabeth Scanlon, Steven Kleinman and Thalia Geiger engage in one of the liveliest discussions of current poetry you'll find on the web. Today on the show, we hear from Alex Dimitrov, who reads from his fantastic poem, “Love,” while Philip Metres' “Mixtape for My Twenties” provides a jumping-off point for a group discussion that includes Eileen Myles, C.K. Williams, and more. Later, Alex and Elizabeth sit down for a one-on-one interview that you've got to hear. The American Poetry Review is a RADIOKISMET podcast.

    Ep. 3: Mentorship, David Baker, Stanley Plumly & Maggie Queeney

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2020 28:10


    Join us as hosts Elizabeth Scanlon, Steven Kleinman and Thalia Geiger talk about mentorship in poetry. Also, Steven chats with David Baker, editor of The Kenyon Review, about  Stanley Plumly. Plus, Maggie Queeney reads her poem, “Glamour.” The American Poetry Review is a RADIOKISMET podcast.  

    Dorothea Lasky, Audiobooks and more!

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2019 36:53


    Join us as hosts Elizabeth Scanlon, Steven Kleinman and Thalia Geiger welcome poet Dorothea Lasky. Lasky is the author of the new essay collection Animal, and one half of the Twitter sensation AstroPoets. Also, we talk about audiobooks. The American Poetry Review is a RADIOKISMET podcast. For more: aprweb.org

    Devon Walker-Figueroa, National Book Awards & Bluets at 10

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2019 30:42


    Our debut episode! Join us as hosts Elizabeth Scanlon, Steven Kleinman and Thalia Geiger welcome poet Devon Walker-Figueroa. Also discussed: - The National Book Award nominations for poetry - Wave Books' ten-year anniversary of Maggie Nelson's landmark Bluets The American Poetry Review is a RADIOKISMET podcast. For more: aprweb.org

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