Poetry Off the Shelf
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.Podcasts
The Utopian Business
Published: Dec. 12, 2023, 9:28 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 44 seconds
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Cease and Desist
Published: Nov. 30, 2023, 3:58 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 45 seconds
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Falling Off the Stairs
Published: Nov. 14, 2023, 4:27 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 14 seconds
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Living in And Times
Published: Oct. 17, 2023, 4:34 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 4 seconds
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Notes From the Bathhouse
Published: Sept. 19, 2023, 2:49 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 19 seconds
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The Magic Section
Published: Sept. 5, 2023, 9:11 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 20 seconds
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My Totally Normal Crisis
Published: Aug. 22, 2023, 2:01 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 2 seconds
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The Eldest Daughter
Published: Aug. 8, 2023, 2:22 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 47 seconds
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The Fact of a Suitcase
Published: June 27, 2023, 2:22 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 24 seconds
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Add Me to the Forest Floor
Published: May 30, 2023, 2:48 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 16 seconds
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Let the Record Hide
Published: May 16, 2023, 2:43 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 32 seconds
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As Best I Could
Published: May 2, 2023, 6:42 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 44 seconds
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My Alleged Accident
Published: March 11, 2023, 4:04 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 48 seconds
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The Book of Possibilities
Published: Feb. 21, 2023, 4:06 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 31 seconds
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New Parents
Published: Feb. 8, 2023, 4:32 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 12 seconds
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Intimate Distance
Published: Jan. 24, 2023, 4:51 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 49 seconds
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Sonic Trust Fund
Published: Jan. 10, 2023, 5:15 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 18 seconds
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Poets We Lost in 2022
Published: Dec. 27, 2022, 7:03 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 2 seconds
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Hiding Between the Loaves
Published: Nov. 29, 2022, 4:13 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 20 seconds
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Give Me a Sign
Published: Nov. 1, 2022, 2:12 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 26 seconds
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The Land Is the Center
Published: Sept. 20, 2022, 6:05 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 45 seconds
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Remember Every Ginseng Seed
Published: Sept. 6, 2022, 6:21 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 30 seconds
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Before We Return to Dust
Published: Aug. 23, 2022, 1:58 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 3 seconds
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The Future Trembles
Published: Aug. 9, 2022, 2:37 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 24 seconds
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Trickster God
Published: July 26, 2022, 5:05 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 3 seconds
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The Healing Brush
Published: July 14, 2022, 5:07 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 45 seconds
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Yelling Down the Phone
Published: June 28, 2022, 7:20 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 2 seconds
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All There Is
Published: May 17, 2022, 2:54 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 19 seconds
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The Neverending Quest
Published: May 3, 2022, 6:02 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 52 seconds
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The Body You Control
Published: April 19, 2022, 6:03 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 8 seconds
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Blossoms in Ukraine
Published: March 22, 2022, 6:03 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 5 seconds
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Listen for My Name
Published: March 8, 2022, 7:03 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 36 seconds
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My Body, My Stones
Published: Feb. 8, 2022, 7:03 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 41 seconds
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Poets We Lost in 2021
Published: Dec. 21, 2021, 3:25 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 43 seconds
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How to Be a Family of One
Published: Nov. 23, 2021, 7:03 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 16 seconds
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Heart of a Reporter
Published: Nov. 9, 2021, 10:06 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 44 seconds
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A History with Holes
Published: Oct. 26, 2021, 9:14 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 51 seconds
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My Drowning Home
Published: Oct. 13, 2021, 3:18 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 54 seconds
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When Time is Kind
Published: Sept. 28, 2021, 6:03 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 52 seconds
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Technically Roommates
Published: Sept. 14, 2021, 6:03 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 33 seconds
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Leaving and Loving Afghanistan
Published: Aug. 31, 2021, 10:35 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 11 seconds
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My Imagined Incoherence
Published: July 27, 2021, 9:10 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 11 seconds
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Parents in a Poem
Published: June 29, 2021, 6:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 7 seconds
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Not My Face in the Mirror
Published: June 1, 2021, 7:52 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 46 seconds
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Salvation in the Dark
Published: May 18, 2021, 6:52 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 15 seconds
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Wild at the Root
Published: April 20, 2021, 8:13 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 48 seconds
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The Light is Going Out
Published: April 6, 2021, 7:02 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 26 seconds
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A Room of Our Own
Published: March 23, 2021, 2:06 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 7 seconds
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The Landscape Within
Published: Feb. 23, 2021, 7:37 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 23 seconds
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Mad at the Right People
Published: Jan. 26, 2021, 11:39 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 24 seconds
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You Get Proud by Practicing
Published: Jan. 12, 2021, 1:53 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 21 seconds
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Povertys History, Episode 2: Let the People Speak
Published: Dec. 15, 2020, 7:03 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 58 seconds
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Elegies for the Future
Published: Dec. 1, 2020, 8:18 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 4 seconds
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Creatures of Giving
Published: Nov. 17, 2020, 7:01 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 57 seconds
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Start with One Thread
Published: Nov. 3, 2020, 7:01 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 54 seconds
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A Practice of Care
Published: Oct. 20, 2020, 1:48 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 41 seconds
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Better Broken Than Whole
Published: Oct. 6, 2020, 6:01 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 30 seconds
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No Place Like Home
Published: Sept. 22, 2020, 2:34 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 11 seconds
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Words in the Attic
Published: Sept. 8, 2020, 6:15 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 57 seconds
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Heroes History Forgets
Published: Aug. 25, 2020, 1:38 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 9 seconds
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I Love You, Wanda
Published: Aug. 11, 2020, 9:22 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 6 seconds
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The Bureau Under Your Bed
Published: July 21, 2020, 6:02 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 29 seconds
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The Fire This Time
Published: June 3, 2020, 2:05 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 44 seconds
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Povertys History, Episode 1: In the Beginning Was the Word
Published: April 29, 2020, 2:34 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 52 seconds
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The Invention of the Self
Published: April 14, 2020, 6:01 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 26 seconds
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Poems You Can Touch
Published: March 17, 2020, 1:51 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 29 seconds
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The Eternal Present
Published: March 3, 2020, 7:01 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 59 seconds
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The Truth Sometimes Rhymes
Published: Feb. 4, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 43 seconds
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Fragments from the Future
Published: Jan. 21, 2020, 7 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 27 seconds
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Poets We Lost This Year
Published: Dec. 18, 2019, 6 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 43 seconds
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The Point of Poetry
Published: Dec. 3, 2019, 4:55 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 12 seconds
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How to Triumph Like a Girl
Published: Nov. 19, 2019, 6 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 32 seconds
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A Presence in the Sky
Published: Nov. 5, 2019, 4:36 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 39 seconds
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The Garden We Share
Published: Oct. 22, 2019, 2:18 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 11 seconds
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After Fear and Raging
Published: Oct. 1, 2019, 5 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 4 seconds
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Hope in Odd Places
Published: Sept. 10, 2019, 5 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 22 seconds
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What Happened to House Calls?
Published: Aug. 13, 2019, 5 a.m.Duration: 29 minutes 46 seconds
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The Young People's Poet Laureate
Published: July 2, 2019, 5 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 44 seconds
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Speaking for the Country
Published: June 18, 2019, 5 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 41 seconds
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Whitman and our Warming World
Published: June 4, 2019, 5 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 36 seconds
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The Language of Ramadan
Published: May 7, 2019, 5 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 2 seconds
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What You Have Heard is True
Published: April 23, 2019, 5 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 51 seconds
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The Populist Soviet Poet
Published: April 2, 2019, 9:44 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 12 seconds
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The Poetry of Jean Valentine
Published: March 19, 2019, 5:29 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 51 seconds
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A Change of World documentary: Poetry and the Women's Movement
Published: March 1, 2019, 6 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes
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Some Love Poems for Your Sweetie
Published: Feb. 5, 2019, 6:32 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 21 seconds
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100 Years of Robert Duncan
Published: Jan. 22, 2019, 6 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 15 seconds
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Poets We Lost in 2018
Published: Dec. 25, 2018, 6:08 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 13 seconds
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A Break from it All
Published: Nov. 20, 2018, 6 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 42 seconds
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The Poetry of Politics
Published: Nov. 13, 2018, 6 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 37 seconds
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Poetry and/or Advertising
Published: Oct. 30, 2018, 5 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 47 seconds
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Poems from the Inside
Published: Sept. 11, 2018, 5 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 10 seconds
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This Poet Never Gets Old
Published: Aug. 28, 2018, 5 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 7 seconds
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The Robots are Coming to Class
Published: Aug. 14, 2018, 5 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 43 seconds
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Retelling the American Story
Published: July 31, 2018, 5 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 6 seconds
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The Man is There ... in the Tape
Published: July 18, 2018, 5 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 4 seconds
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Poems Don't Need Their Papers
Published: July 3, 2018, 5 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 41 seconds
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A Change of World, Episode 6: New Waves
Published: April 25, 2018, 5 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 29 seconds
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A Change of World, Episode 5: Poetry Gives Birth
Published: April 10, 2018, 5 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 30 seconds
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A Change of World, Episode 4 : A Place of Permission
Published: April 3, 2018, 5 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 20 seconds
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A Change of World, Episode 3: Shattering the Blue Velvet Chair
Published: March 20, 2018, 5 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 39 seconds
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A Change of World, Episode 2: Books that Broke Down Barriers
Published: March 13, 2018, 5 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 30 seconds
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A Change of World, Episode 1: The Wilderness
Published: March 6, 2018, 6 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 48 seconds
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The Poetics of Mass Murder
Published: Feb. 20, 2018, 6 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 20 seconds
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Three Ways of Looking at a Rose
Published: Feb. 13, 2018, 6 a.m.Duration: 8 minutes 29 seconds
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The Poet and the Riot
Published: Feb. 6, 2018, 6 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 27 seconds
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Some Poems of Transcendent Surrender
Published: Dec. 26, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 12 seconds
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The New Woman of Her Day
Published: Dec. 12, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 37 seconds
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The Poet is Distracted
Published: Nov. 28, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 9 seconds
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Poems that Knock it out of the Park
Published: Nov. 1, 2017, 5 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 32 seconds
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From Sickness into Poetry
Published: Oct. 10, 2017, 5 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 59 seconds
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The Late Great John Ashbery
Published: Sept. 12, 2017, 5 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 4 seconds
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Teaching Poetry in Times Like These
Published: Aug. 29, 2017, 5 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 18 seconds
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“It's the Language, Stupid.”
Published: Aug. 15, 2017, 5 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 50 seconds
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If They Should Come for Us
Published: Aug. 1, 2017, 5 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 56 seconds
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50 Years of The Lice
Published: July 5, 2017, 5 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 55 seconds
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The New Young People's Poet Laureate
Published: June 20, 2017, 5 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 39 seconds
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The Poetry and Music of Joy Harjo
Published: June 6, 2017, 5 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 44 seconds
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The Radical Perception of Larry Eigner
Published: May 16, 2017, 5 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 35 seconds
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The Pulse of American Poetry
Published: May 2, 2017, 5 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 52 seconds
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The Poetry of Everyday Life
Published: April 18, 2017, 5 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 26 seconds
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The Achievements of Derek Walcott
Published: March 22, 2017, 5 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 57 seconds
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Lowell as Teacher
Published: March 7, 2017, 10:01 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 24 seconds
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Walt Whitman's Divided America
Published: Feb. 21, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 40 seconds
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Is your sweetheart edible?
Published: Feb. 8, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 8 minutes 50 seconds
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Poetry Stars in a Movie
Published: Jan. 24, 2017, 6 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 59 seconds
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The Poets We Lost in 2016
Published: Dec. 20, 2016, 6 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 54 seconds
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More Poetry in the Aftermath
Published: Dec. 7, 2016, 6 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 7 seconds
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Poetry in the Aftermath
Published: Nov. 15, 2016, 6 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 15 seconds
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Death and Donald Revell
Published: Oct. 18, 2016, 5 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 22 seconds
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A Misunderstood Chestnut
Published: Oct. 4, 2016, 5 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 36 seconds
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11 Years of Poetry Out Loud
Published: Sept. 20, 2016, 5 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 21 seconds
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A First Book 50 Years Later
Published: Aug. 9, 2016, 5 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 9 seconds
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The Achievement of Geoffrey Hill
Published: July 12, 2016, 5 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 17 seconds
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Everyone Always Gets Lost
Published: June 28, 2016, 5 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 48 seconds
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The Inner Life in the Age of Social Media
Published: June 1, 2016, 5 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 25 seconds
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The New Motherhood Poem
Published: May 3, 2016, 5 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 18 seconds
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Who Are They Anyway?
Published: April 18, 2016, 5 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 35 seconds
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