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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
TitlePodcast DescriptionAuthor/ReaderDuration
Warden of Where the River WentNewly-appointed Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin explains how everybody really loves poetry, whether they know it or not.The Poetry Foundation00:17:02
Lots in TranslationEdward Hirsch and Nick Flynn share Israeli and Slovenian poems in translation.The Poetry Foundation00:09:39
Poetry: The AppDownload it, spin the wheel, hit the poetry jackpot.The Poetry Foundation00:08:32
Poems of Pollution and ProtestTurning to poetry in the wake of the BP oil spill.The Poetry Foundation00:08:01
Being's Stony SmirkAllen Edwin Butt discusses his poem 'If Briefly.'The Poetry Foundation00:12:47
How to Raise a Poetry ImpElliott Vanskike teaches his children to become lifelong readers of poetry.The Poetry Foundation00:11:22
The Fun of Speaking EnglishEmily Warn marvels at Dorothea Grossman's charming, irreverent poems.The Poetry Foundation00:12:51
Complete OriginalJean Valentine talks about the 2010 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winner, Eleanor Ross TaylorThe Poetry Foundation00:14:60
Actors vs. PoetsWould you rather hear a poet read her work or an actor?The Poetry Foundation00:15:30
Confessions of a Poetry AddictPerusing one man's poetry pileup.The Poetry Foundation00:15:17
Let Your Mirrored Convexities MultiplyKazim Ali discusses Agha Shahid Ali's ghazal "Tonight."The Poetry Foundation00:12:30
The Fruit was Red, the Juice was SweetThe open secret behind Michael Field's flowery Victorian verse.The Poetry Foundation00:14:32
Done with this DustRemembering Lilly Prize-winning poet Lucille Clifton on the occasion of her death.The Poetry Foundation00:11:27
Black History MonthCelebrating Black History Month with William Waring Cuney, Cornelius Eady, and Thomas Sayers Ellis.The Poetry Foundation00:10:06
Poetry Gone ColdAnnie Finch explores the metaphorical meaning of winter.The Poetry Foundation00:13:05
Poetry Written with an EraserRon Silliman discusses two erasure poems created by eliminating parts of an existing text.The Poetry Foundation00:10:05
Worshipful Company of SnowbirdsJames Tate at the Key West Literary Seminar.The Poetry Foundation00:12:47
From the Washington, DC, Poetry TourHighlights featuring Rueben Jackson, Brian Gilmore, and A.B. Spellman.The Poetry Foundation00:09:35
Good Bad PoetryPoetry so bad it's good, plus other verse tragedies.The Poetry Foundation00:09:35
The Power of Here and NowThe poetic legacy of James Schuyler.The Poetry Foundation00:09:35
The Nature of Political PowerRobert Lowell's "July in Washington" puts America in a vegetable context.The Poetry Foundation00:09:35
The Tomb of LovePhilip Larkin's poem "An Arundel Tomb" shows us what sentimentality looks like the morning after.The Poetry Foundation00:09:35
The Happiness of MonogamyTeaching John Donne's poem "The Sun Rising."The Poetry Foundation00:09:35
Reconcilable DifferencesEleannor Wilner on Whitman; David St. John on Larry Levis.The Poetry Foundation00:09:35
Poetry NoirRobert Polito on the intersection of Hollywood and God.The Poetry Foundation00:09:35
Dan Beachy-Quick and the Poetics of Mass MurderHow can poetry take on tragedy?The Poetry Foundation00:09:35
Midwestern BluesKevin Young on fried cheese, barber shops, and the hip hop aesthetic of a new generation of African-American poets.The Poetry Foundation00:09:35
Fact-Checking John KeatsDid the young poetic genius know his history? Who cares if he didn't?The Poetry Foundation00:09:35
Poet's Choice: Of Love and WarD.A. Powell reads poems from Rupert Brooke and Gwendolyn Brooks.The Poetry Foundation00:09:35
Remembering Craig ArnoldChristian Wiman discusses the work of the poet whose recent disappearance shocked the poetry world.The Poetry Foundation00:09:35
Cover the LettuceA very close reading of one sexy CD Wright poem.The Poetry Foundation00:09:35
The Power of BarbieHow David Trinidad's collection of vintage dolls plays into his poetry.The Poetry Foundation00:09:35
Honor Thy Father's DayRobert Hayden and Terrance Hayes take the Hallmark out of the holiday.The Poetry Foundation00:09:35
Out of the Poetic BubbleHow Mark Nowak's documentary poetics re-humanizes the Sago Mine Disaster.The Poetry Foundation00:09:35
Everything Plus the Kitchen SinkRobert Polito on Kenneth Fearing's media-saturated poetry as vernacular collage.The Poetry Foundation00:09:35
Light in the Service of LonelinessFanny Howe, winner of the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, reads from her work.The Poetry Foundation00:09:35
Bees and Monstrous BabiesEleanor Wilner on species pity and political power run amok.The Poetry Foundation00:09:35
Stop Making SenseChristian Bök performs the Dada sound-poetry behind the Talking Heads.The Poetry Foundation00:11:55
An Essential American PoetFanny Howe talks to us about the range of Jean Valentine's poems.The Poetry Foundation00:11:55
What If It Doesn't Make Sense?Matthew Zapruder parses a John Ashbery poem.The Poetry Foundation00:11:55
Telephony Is So Retro It's CoolAl Filreis brings Dial-a-Poem back to life at Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia.The Poetry Foundation00:11:55
Hatless in Heavy Economic WeatherJohn Surowiecki talks about why his 2004 poem "The Hat City After Men Stopped Wearing Hats" sounds like it was written yesterday.The Poetry Foundation00:11:55
The Hebrew Bible Has No SoulRobert Alter on his radical reworking of the book of PsalmsThe Poetry Foundation00:11:55
Manifesto YouMary 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 Foundation00:11:55
More Than Meets the IRae Armantrout gets personal without the pronoun.The Poetry Foundation00:11:55
When the Weary Blues Met JazzLangston Hughes's collaboration with Charles Mingus and Leonard Feather.The Poetry Foundation00:11:55
The Poet and the SaintThe untold story of Czeslaw Milosz's rancor toward a Holocaust hero.The Poetry Foundation00:12:21
Romantic or Plain EroticTalking Valentine's Day poems with Ange Mlinko.The Poetry Foundation00:13:12
People Don't Read This Way AnymoreErnest Hilbert and Curtis Fox discuss the late, great W.D. Snodgrass's formalism, dark humor, and passionate reading style.The Poetry Foundation00:12:21
Remembering Denmark's Greatest PoetOn the occasion of Danish poet Inger Christensen's death, a few of her fans gather together to read and discuss her work.The Poetry Foundation00:14:29
Inaugural PoeticsHear who Elizabeth Alexander would have picked and her thoughts on Frost and other past inaugural poets.The Poetry Foundation00:11:43
Poetry Books for the HolidaysThe editors of Poetry magazine recommend their favorite books from this year.The Poetry Foundation00:14:29
The Mama and the PapaHear Gwendolyn Brooks read "the mother" and Theodore Roethke read "My Papa's Waltz," with insights by ex-US Poet Laureate Donald Hall.The Poetry Foundation00:16:36
ObamapoeticsElizabeth Alexander on how the Derek Walcott-toting, June Jordan-quoting president will affect poets and poetry.The Poetry Foundation00:09:05
DIY Poetry MovementsHow Zukofsky and the language poets got started, and the rules for starting a movement of your own.The Poetry Foundation00:08:23
Poems for President ObamaCharles Bernstein, Patricia Smith and Forrest Gander offer presidential advice.The Poetry Foundation00:12:40
What's So Funny About Sex and Death?Albert Goldbarth shows why he won the Mark Twain Award for Humor in Poetry.The Poetry Foundation00:10:06
Lines for Hard TimesPhilip Levine reads his defiantly hopeful "They Feed They Lion" and "What Work Is" with commentary by Edward Hirsch.The Poetry Foundation00:15:07
The Child is Mother to the PoetHear Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman on her trade secret: total recall of childhood.The Poetry Foundation00:11:45
The Mama and the PapaHear Gwendolyn Brooks read "the mother" and Theodore Roethke read "My Papa's Waltz," with insights by ex-US Poet Laureate Donald Hall.The Poetry Foundation00:17:23
Poem Before the EventA pair of poems about September 11th, written before the planes were even in the air.The Poetry Foundation00:07:50
Battle of the BardsHear 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 Foundation00:10:47
Bloody Sunday & the Fisherman's GhostHow Seamus Heaney defines Ireland's 1972 troubles with a portrait of a drunken seaman blown up in a pub.The Poetry Foundation00:15:20
Mao the Magnificent?Was he really the best Chinese poet of his time?The Poetry Foundation00:09:31
Seven Essential Dreams RevisitedSteve Almond recalls his beret-wearing days as a poet, and why it's a good thing he turned to prose.The Poetry Foundation00:15:13
Was Whitman Really Gay?A bar fight in the East Village settles it.The Poetry Foundation00:11:00
Just a Bunch of Consciousnesses, and a Bunch of StuffThe late A.R. Ammons and the immutable laws of nature, featuring a recording from the 92nd St. Y.The Poetry Foundation00:15:23

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