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Poetry from The Poetry Foundation, distributed by alt.NPR. Poets read and discuss their poems: Kay Ryan, Robert Frost, Kenneth Koch, Dean Young, Poet Laureate Charles Simic, Terrance Hayes, Kenneth Goldsmith, Billy Collins and many others.

**Current Poetry Shelf Podcasts**
Title	Podcast Description	Author/Reader	Duration
Blood in the Grass	The ABCs of Tom Disch, master of comic verse.	The Poetry Foundation	00:15:06
A Wild Solitude Revealed	Lisa Jarnot discusses the poetry of Robert Duncan.	The Poetry Foundation	00:19:43
Drinking in Poetry	Jeff Gordinier and Rosie Schaap share their favorite boozy poems in time for the New Year's holiday.	The Poetry Foundation	00:21:34
Inscribe the poem on yourself	Dan Beachy-Quick on the pleasures of memorization.	The Poetry Foundation	00:12:51
No Place for the Little Lyric	Should Adrienne Rich be the poet laureate of the Occupy movement?	The Poetry Foundation	00:15:32
The Virus Mutant in His Veins	Poet Edgar Bowers on Louis Pasteur.	The Poetry Foundation	00:18:11
Naming It	Selections from the Wake Forest Book of Irish Women's Poetry.	The Poetry Foundation	00:08:47
The Waste Land: The App	T.S. Eliot's Modernist masterpiece meets modern technology.	The Poetry Foundation	00:14:20
All That Poetry	Kenneth Patchen's poems have been set to music by The Claudia Quintet.	The Poetry Foundation	00:18:14
Much Casual Death	Christopher Ricks discusses Anthony Hecht's harrowing and unforgettable poem "More Light! More Light!"	The Poetry Foundation	00:16:21
The Mutilated World	Poems that captured the mood of the moment in the wake of 9/11.	The Poetry Foundation	00:15:09
About a Boy	The shape things take to Atsuro Riley.	The Poetry Foundation	00:15:13
Lines for Hard Times	Philip Levine reads his defiantly hopeful "They Feed They Lion" and "What Work Is" with commentary by Edward Hirsch.	The Poetry Foundation	00:15:06
Sex, Drugs, and Poetry	Cedar Sigo's expensive magic.	The Poetry Foundation	00:11:26
What You Come Here For	Fred Moten's poem "The Salve Trade" swims in the waters of literary theory.	The Poetry Foundation	00:12:20
Poetry Garage	A thing of wonder and of beauty	The Poetry Foundation	00:10:28
Shadow of a Doubt	Thomas Hardy refuses to see a ghost that's not there.	The Poetry Foundation	00:14:04
Three Ways of Looking at a Rose	H.D., Jean Valentine, and Galway Kinnell on the queen of all poetic cliches.	The Poetry Foundation	00:09:06
The New Johnny Appleseed of Children's Poetry	Children's literature scholar Sylvia Vardell discusses J. Patrick Lewis.	The Poetry Foundation	00:07:43
Something Like Meter	An introduction to 2011 Ruth Lilly Prize winner David Ferry.	The Poetry Foundation	00:12:44
Adventures in Babysitting	Bernadette Mayer razes literary giants with love.	The Poetry Foundation	00:15:22
The Alternative Press	Detroit was burning and poetry was on fire.	The Poetry Foundation	00:13:16
Blank Verse	Danish conceptualist poet Magnus Pavlovski has the last laugh.	The Poetry Foundation	00:08:24
How to Pick up a Poetry Habit	Emily Gould takes a crash course in the poetry habit.	The Poetry Foundation	00:15:27
The Idea of Wallace Stevens	Jennifer Michael Hecht explains the philosophy behind "The Idea of Order at Key West.	The Poetry Foundation	00:23:33
Eat the One You're With	Enough Valentine's Day mush - Carolyn Kizer hungers after sex.	The Poetry Foundation	00:09:11
Fire in the Bed-Sit	Lisa Catherine Harper finds half a self in John Hennessy's poems.	The Poetry Foundation	00:11:00
Coming Back to the Future	Poet Norma Cole discusses her poem Sarabande - about recovering from a stroke.	The Poetry Foundation	00:08:56
Going Long	What do the Superbowl, pigs in a blanket, and Middle Earth have to do with Matthew Rohrer's poems?	The Poetry Foundation	00:11:51
Nobody Else is Listening	Kathleen Rooney on the Poetry Brothel, where you can buy a private poetry reading for five bucks a pop.	The Poetry Foundation	00:12:14
Christmas Memories	Poems by Ed Skoog and Wyatt Prunty.	The Poetry Foundation	00:11:25
Not Coming in from the Cold	Vijay Sheshadri warms to Mark Strand's wintry poem "The Idea"	The Poetry Foundation	00:14:27
Re-branding Robert Lowell	The poet's forty-year friendship with illustrator Frank Parker reveals his gentler side.	The Poetry Foundation	00:15:13
Pass the Mashed Potatoes	W.S. Merwin and Dara Wier on gratitude and food.	The Poetry Foundation	00:06:20
Major Poets, Minor Work	Ed Park discusses John Ashbery and James Schuyler's collaborative novel, A Nest of Ninnies.	The Poetry Foundation	00:10:49
The Windhover	A close reading of the Gerard Manley Hopkins's classic poem.	The Poetry Foundation	00:12:45
Delight after Delight	Kenneth Koch and his verbal circus.	The Poetry Foundation	00:46:22
Marvelous and Tough Ted Berrigan	The poet (and poems) behind the legend.	The Poetry Foundation	00:16:36
Eileen Myles for President	The politics and poetry of a groundbreaking author.	The Poetry Foundation	00:11:18
Facing a Sheer Sky	Mary Kinzie takes on Louise Bogan's poem Medusa.	The Poetry Foundation	00:16:58
Confessional Poetry Off the Shelf	CA Conrad talks about Anne Sexton's landscapes of grief.	The Poetry Foundation	00:12:39
Poetry Became a Weapon	Labor poems of Chicago - an excerpt from the Chicago Poetry Tour.	The Poetry Foundation	00:10:12
Cruel, Cruel Summer	Poems that don't exactly celebrate the season from Weldon Kees, Howard Nemerov, and Jane Kenyon.	The Poetry Foundation	00:10:18
A Much-Mended Thing	Poet Amy Clampitt brings a birder's attention to the natural world.	The Poetry Foundation	00:16:57
Warden of Where the River Went	Newly-appointed Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin explains how everybody really loves poetry, whether they know it or not.	The Poetry Foundation	00:17:02
Lots in Translation	Edward Hirsch and Nick Flynn share Israeli and Slovenian poems in translation.	The Poetry Foundation	00:09:39
Poetry: The App	Download it, spin the wheel, hit the poetry jackpot.	The Poetry Foundation	00:08:32
Poems of Pollution and Protest	Turning to poetry in the wake of the BP oil spill.	The Poetry Foundation	00:08:01
Being's Stony Smirk	Allen Edwin Butt discusses his poem 'If Briefly.'	The Poetry Foundation	00:12:47
How to Raise a Poetry Imp	Elliott Vanskike teaches his children to become lifelong readers of poetry.	The Poetry Foundation	00:11:22
The Fun of Speaking English	Emily Warn marvels at Dorothea Grossman's charming, irreverent poems.	The Poetry Foundation	00:12:51
Complete Original	Jean Valentine talks about the 2010 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winner, Eleanor Ross Taylor	The Poetry Foundation	00:14:60
Actors vs. Poets	Would you rather hear a poet read her work or an actor?	The Poetry Foundation	00:15:30
Confessions of a Poetry Addict	Perusing one man's poetry pileup.	The Poetry Foundation	00:15:17
Let Your Mirrored Convexities Multiply	Kazim Ali discusses Agha Shahid Ali's ghazal "Tonight."	The Poetry Foundation	00:12:30
The Fruit was Red, the Juice was Sweet	The open secret behind Michael Field's flowery Victorian verse.	The Poetry Foundation	00:14:32
Done with this Dust	Remembering Lilly Prize-winning poet Lucille Clifton on the occasion of her death.	The Poetry Foundation	00:11:27
Black History Month	Celebrating Black History Month with William Waring Cuney, Cornelius Eady, and Thomas Sayers Ellis.	The Poetry Foundation	00:10:06
Poetry Gone Cold	Annie Finch explores the metaphorical meaning of winter.	The Poetry Foundation	00:13:05
Poetry Written with an Eraser	Ron Silliman discusses two erasure poems created by eliminating parts of an existing text.	The Poetry Foundation	00:10:05
Worshipful Company of Snowbirds	James Tate at the Key West Literary Seminar.	The Poetry Foundation	00:12:47
From the Washington, DC, Poetry Tour	Highlights featuring Rueben Jackson, Brian Gilmore, and A.B. Spellman.	The Poetry Foundation	00:09:35
Good Bad Poetry	Poetry so bad it's good, plus other verse tragedies.	The Poetry Foundation	00:09:35
The Power of Here and Now	The poetic legacy of James Schuyler.	The Poetry Foundation	00:09:35
The Nature of Political Power	Robert Lowell's "July in Washington" puts America in a vegetable context.	The Poetry Foundation	00:09:35
The Tomb of Love	Philip Larkin's poem "An Arundel Tomb" shows us what sentimentality looks like the morning after.	The Poetry Foundation	00:09:35
The Happiness of Monogamy	Teaching John Donne's poem "The Sun Rising."	The Poetry Foundation	00:09:35
Reconcilable Differences	Eleannor Wilner on Whitman; David St. John on Larry Levis.	The Poetry Foundation	00:09:35
Poetry Noir	Robert Polito on the intersection of Hollywood and God.	The Poetry Foundation	00:09:35
Dan Beachy-Quick and the Poetics of Mass Murder	How can poetry take on tragedy?	The Poetry Foundation	00:09:35
Midwestern Blues	Kevin Young on fried cheese, barber shops, and the hip hop aesthetic of a new generation of African-American poets.	The Poetry Foundation	00:09:35
Fact-Checking John Keats	Did the young poetic genius know his history? Who cares if he didn't?	The Poetry Foundation	00:09:35
Poet's Choice: Of Love and War	D.A. Powell reads poems from Rupert Brooke and Gwendolyn Brooks.	The Poetry Foundation	00:09:35
Remembering Craig Arnold	Christian Wiman discusses the work of the poet whose recent disappearance shocked the poetry world.	The Poetry Foundation	00:09:35
Cover the Lettuce	A very close reading of one sexy CD Wright poem.	The Poetry Foundation	00:09:35
The Power of Barbie	How David Trinidad's collection of vintage dolls plays into his poetry.	The Poetry Foundation	00:09:35
Honor Thy Father's Day	Robert Hayden and Terrance Hayes take the Hallmark out of the holiday.	The Poetry Foundation	00:09:35
Out of the Poetic Bubble	How Mark Nowak's documentary poetics re-humanizes the Sago Mine Disaster.	The Poetry Foundation	00:09:35
Everything Plus the Kitchen Sink	Robert Polito on Kenneth Fearing's media-saturated poetry as vernacular collage.	The Poetry Foundation	00:09:35
Light in the Service of Loneliness	Fanny Howe, winner of the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, reads from her work.	The Poetry Foundation	00:09:35
Bees and Monstrous Babies	Eleanor Wilner on species pity and political power run amok.	The Poetry Foundation	00:09:35
Stop Making Sense	Christian Bök performs the Dada sound-poetry behind the Talking Heads.	The Poetry Foundation	00:11:55
An Essential American Poet	Fanny Howe talks to us about the range of Jean Valentine's poems.	The Poetry Foundation	00:11:55
What If It Doesn't Make Sense?	Matthew Zapruder parses a John Ashbery poem.	The Poetry Foundation	00:11:55
Telephony Is So Retro It's Cool	Al Filreis brings Dial-a-Poem back to life at Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia.	The Poetry Foundation	00:11:55
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 Poetry Foundation	00:11:55
The Hebrew Bible Has No Soul	Robert Alter on his radical reworking of the book of Psalms	The Poetry Foundation	00:11:55
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.	The Poetry Foundation	00:11:55
More Than Meets the I	Rae Armantrout gets personal without the pronoun.	The Poetry Foundation	00:11:55
When the Weary Blues Met Jazz	Langston Hughes's collaboration with Charles Mingus and Leonard Feather.	The Poetry Foundation	00:11:55
The Poet and the Saint	The untold story of Czeslaw Milosz's rancor toward a Holocaust hero.	The Poetry Foundation	00:12:21
Romantic or Plain Erotic	Talking Valentine's Day poems with Ange Mlinko.	The Poetry Foundation	00:13:12
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.	The Poetry Foundation	00:12:21
Remembering Denmark's Greatest Poet	On the occasion of Danish poet Inger Christensen's death, a few of her fans gather together to read and discuss her work.	The Poetry Foundation	00:14:29
Inaugural Poetics	Hear who Elizabeth Alexander would have picked and her thoughts on Frost and other past inaugural poets.	The Poetry Foundation	00:11:43
Poetry Books for the Holidays	The editors of Poetry magazine recommend their favorite books from this year.	The Poetry Foundation	00:14:29
The Mama and the Papa	Hear Gwendolyn Brooks read "the mother" and Theodore Roethke read "My Papa's Waltz," with insights by ex-US Poet Laureate Donald Hall.	The Poetry Foundation	00:16:36
Obamapoetics	Elizabeth Alexander on how the Derek Walcott-toting, June Jordan-quoting president will affect poets and poetry.	The Poetry Foundation	00:09:05
DIY Poetry Movements	How Zukofsky and the language poets got started, and the rules for starting a movement of your own.	The Poetry Foundation	00:08:23
Poems for President Obama	Charles Bernstein, Patricia Smith and Forrest Gander offer presidential advice.	The Poetry Foundation	00:12:40
What's So Funny About Sex and Death?	Albert Goldbarth shows why he won the Mark Twain Award for Humor in Poetry.	The Poetry Foundation	00:10:06
Lines for Hard Times	Philip Levine reads his defiantly hopeful "They Feed They Lion" and "What Work Is" with commentary by Edward Hirsch.	The Poetry Foundation	00:15:07
The Child is Mother to the Poet	Hear Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman on her trade secret: total recall of childhood.	The Poetry Foundation	00:11:45
The Mama and the Papa	Hear Gwendolyn Brooks read "the mother" and Theodore Roethke read "My Papa's Waltz," with insights by ex-US Poet Laureate Donald Hall.	The Poetry Foundation	00:17:23
Poem Before the Event	A pair of poems about September 11th, written before the planes were even in the air.	The Poetry Foundation	00:07:50
Battle of the Bards	Hear Denise Levertov's scathing Vietnam poem "Life at War," and find out why it made her friend Robert Duncan declare war on her.	The Poetry Foundation	00:10:47
Bloody Sunday & the Fisherman's Ghost	How Seamus Heaney defines Ireland's 1972 troubles with a portrait of a drunken seaman blown up in a pub.	The Poetry Foundation	00:15:20
Mao the Magnificent?	Was he really the best Chinese poet of his time?	The Poetry Foundation	00:09:31
Seven Essential Dreams Revisited	Steve Almond recalls his beret-wearing days as a poet, and why it's a good thing he turned to prose.	The Poetry Foundation	00:15:13
Was Whitman Really Gay?	A bar fight in the East Village settles it.	The Poetry Foundation	00:11:00
Just a Bunch of Consciousnesses, and a Bunch of Stuff	The late A.R. Ammons and the immutable laws of nature, featuring a recording from the 92nd St. Y.	The Poetry Foundation	00:15:23

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