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    Poetry Off the Shelf

    Poetry Off the Shelf

    Poetry Off the Shelf

    ratings:
    Length:
    99 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    Producer Helena de Groot talks to poets about language, dreams, love and loss, identity, connection, anger, discomfort, the creative process, the state of the world and the world of the soul. Hard conversations are welcomed—laughter is, too.
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 99 episodes

    Title

    My Heart and Its Borders

    Philip Metres on middle age, writer's block, and praying for the people of Palestine.

    64 minutes
    		Apr 23, 2024

    My Awesome Stoma

    April Gibson on chronic illness, religion, and being a teenage mother.

    44 minutes
    		Apr 09, 2024

    Working-Class Superheroes

    Declan Ryan on his father's construction job, tenderness between boxers, and the inevit...

    46 minutes
    		Mar 26, 2024

    All the Shiny Knives

    Monica Rico on cooking, grunt work, and the heat at General Motors.

    54 minutes
    		Mar 12, 2024

    Let Light Form

    Nam Le on commerce, irony vs. sincerity, and being in the Arctic. 

    69 minutes
    		Feb 27, 2024

    Stay in Character

    Gregory Pardlo on improv, therapy, and driving around with his father’s ashes.

    45 minutes
    		Feb 13, 2024

    Instructions for Divorce

    Caitlin Cowan on rejection, tradwives, and poems from our better self.

    50 minutes
    		Jan 30, 2024

    Make Art for Me

    Blake Butler on complex mourning, the suicide of his wife Molly Brodak, and finding his...

    60 minutes
    		Jan 16, 2024

    Poets We Lost in 2023

    Remembering the lesbian poet and activist Minnie Bruce Pratt, as well as the Palestinia...

    44 minutes
    		Jan 03, 2024

    The Utopian Business

    Steve Zeitlin and Bob Holman on the healing act of writing, small frogs, and politics a...

    36 minutes
    		Dec 12, 2023