Poetry Off the Shelf
Poetry
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.
Location:
United States
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
Website:
http://poetryfoundation.org/
Episodes
You Are Beautiful
11/6/2024
Cass Donish on grief rituals, putting on makeup, and letting in joy.
Duration:00:47:07
Misclassified
10/22/2024
Tyler Mills on the truth, how to love a cockroach, and her grandfather's silence about the bomb.
Duration:00:50:42
Where I Live
10/8/2024
A.B. Spellman on Jim Crow, alligator suede shoes, and shaking up the art of the castle.
Duration:01:05:02
Painting From Life
9/24/2024
Garth Greenwell on shame, small acts of love, and the patch of snow inside us.
Duration:01:01:11
Fool’s Errand
9/11/2024
Idra Novey on exile, stereotypes, and making art the center of your life.
Duration:00:46:48
Trial and Error
8/27/2024
Helena and Nicholson Baker on drawing your loved ones, the horrors of the world, and finding your way back to beauty.
Duration:00:55:15
Rise Together
8/13/2024
Perry Janes on Hollywood, ego, and trying not to break his NDA.
Duration:00:57:31
The Magical Element
7/30/2024
E.J. Koh on distance, broken English, and writing poems that forgive.
Duration:00:49:40
Ecology of Love
7/16/2024
Camille Dungy on her garden, writing from the provinces, and the poetry of Anne Spencer.
Duration:00:52:31
Good For the World
7/2/2024
Dorothea Lasky on The Shining, writing what you fear, and the ferocity of color.
Duration:00:46:10
A Stone Worth Addressing
6/18/2024
Merlin Sheldrake on fungi, creativity, and the queerness of nature.
Duration:00:53:09
Habitual Sins
6/7/2024
Elisa Gonzalez on bisexuality, humor, and working in finance.
Duration:00:58:28
Style All the Way Down
5/21/2024
Joyelle McSweeney on sound, style icons, and the Ovidian landscape of her ear canal.
Duration:00:52:40
The Fire in Which We Burn
5/7/2024
Sara Henning on radical truth, obsessive forms, and letting go of grief.
Duration:00:53:27
My Heart and Its Borders
4/23/2024
Philip Metres on middle age, writer's block, and praying for the people of Palestine.
Duration:01:04:46
My Awesome Stoma
4/9/2024
April Gibson on chronic illness, religion, and being a teenage mother.
Duration:00:44:38
Working-Class Superheroes
3/26/2024
Declan Ryan on his father's construction job, tenderness between boxers, and the inevitable tragic end.
Duration:00:46:52
All the Shiny Knives
3/12/2024
Monica Rico on cooking, grunt work, and the heat at General Motors.
Duration:00:54:46
Let Light Form
2/27/2024
Nam Le on commerce, irony vs. sincerity, and being in the Arctic.
Duration:01:09:50
Stay in Character
2/13/2024
Gregory Pardlo on improv, therapy, and driving around with his father’s ashes.
Duration:00:45:53