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Trumix.com listings available of PoetryFoundation.org Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Who's Gonna Read This Stuff? Chase Twichell on why poetry has to evolve. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Abusing Animals in the Name of Poetry Kay Ryan asks, "Who would be a turtle?" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is That a Chicken in the Background? From the Fishouse captures poets in their natural environments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's a Man Doing in a Feminist Poem? Listening to the work of Alicia Ostriker. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Concrete Poetry Hear Yusef Komunyakaa read and reflect on the history of war, from the Roman era to Vietnam. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Philip Whalen, Totally Listening to the Zen poetry of an American master. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Cold Day Listen to Mary Jo Bang read from and discuss her award-winning Elegy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Activist Poetry That Won't Make You Run the Other Way Rigoberto Gonz?lez on Juan Felipe Herrera. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From Charles Reznikoff to Chuck D What is documentary poetry? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Valentine's with a Straight Face Li-Young Lee on the difficulties of love and childhood: "This whole poem makes me nervous!" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Follow the Drinking Gourd Quraysh Ali Lansana channels the voice of Harriet Tubman. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website alt.NPR: Poetry Off the Shelf #86: The Poetry Reader A new series featuring poetry critics and the books they love. First up: Peter Campion on David Wojahn's Interrogation Palace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gimme Fever Burning at a hundred and three with Sylvia Plath. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christmas Memories Poems by Ed Skoog and Wyatt Prunty. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website History vs. the Past Eavan Boland on Poetry Day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dance, Dance Revolution Cathy Park Hong Samples From Her New Book Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Excuse Me While I Offend You All about flarf. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Hass The 2007 National Book Award winner reads three poems (some explicit language). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website alt.NPR: Poetry Off the Shelf #89: More Than Meets the Eye Ange Mlinko on Rae Armantrout for The Poetry Reader Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website alt.NPR: Poetry Off the Shelf #88: The Editors Speak Ladybugs, war, and the consolation of poetry: The debut of the Poetry Magazine Podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website alt.NPR: Poetry Off the Shelf #87: Love in the Age of Global Warming Two poems by D.A. Powell. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alt.NPR: Poetry Off the Shelf #85: ?To Wear Words in the Plainest Light? Anne Stevenson on Welsh prosody, Elizabeth Bishop, and winning the Neglected Masters Award. 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Call the Poet Dean Young talks about writing toward the invisible reader. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website alt.NPR: Poetry Off the Shelf #79: A Partial History of Our Stupidity Two poems (and some commentary) by Edward Hirsch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Poetryfoundation.org #78: Breaking Down the Fourth Wall Nick Flynn gets confrontational. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Poetryfoundation.org #77: Charles Simic Talking with the new poet laureate. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Poetryfoundation.org #76: Just Beyond the Fare Boxes What New Yorkers really think about poems on the subway. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Poetryfoundation.org #75: Enough with the Poetry Already! A reading by Naeem Murr from his essay "My Poet." From the July / August issue of Poetry. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10,000 Brutal Years Two satirical poems by Thomas Lux. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alexander Pope as Home Boy Stephen Burt on the qualities shared by hip-hop and 18th century verse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Read These on Your Death Bed Helen Vendler on last poems by Stevens and Merrill. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When the Heckling and Finger-Snapping Stop Jeremy Richards samples slam poets whose poems work in silence or aloud. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hello Darkness, My Old Friend Author David Browne looks at "poetic" popular music from the '70s to the present. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Build Your Poetry Career Online! A conversation with blogger and poet Shanna Compton. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "hope bleeds slowly from my mouth" An interview with Lilly winner Lucille Clifton. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website God Is Annoyed Charles Simic reads and discusses Polish poet Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website God Is Annoyed Charles Simic reads and discusses Polish poet Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website History's Lost and Found Pulitzer prizewinner Natasha Trethewey reads from and discusses her work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website She's Awake!?! Poems about parenthood and sleep deprivation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Joy of Sax Jazzing up Billy Collins. 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McClatchy on Auden during wartime, and a reading by Auden of "The Shield of Achilles." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I've Known Rivers The poetry of Langston Hughes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Romantic or Plain Erotic Joel Brouwer picks poems to woo your sweetie--including Tony Hoagland's"Windchime." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website So Much Depends On Richard Swigg samples from the recordings of Williams, recently added toPennSound's audio library. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Romantic or Plain Erotic Talking Valentine's Day poems with Ange Mlinko. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When You Are Old and Gray Poet laureate Donald Hall reflects on the discontents of old age. 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Di Piero from magazine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Two Poems and Some Talking Heads Chatting about Dada with Robert Polito. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tough Poem? Call the Poet Dean Young talks about writing toward the invisible reader. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "What I Wanted Was Your Love, Not Pity" A documentary on the life and work of June Jordan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A trip to the mall with Tony Hoagland The American way of life makes for an unpromising ecosystem for the poet. Or does it? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website All Too Human Jane Hirshfield reads two short poems: "Of: An Assay" and "The Envoy." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Looking for God with A.R. Ammons Paul Giamatti reads "A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman and Charlotte Maier reads "Hymn" by A.R. Ammons. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Silent Fathers, Noisy Sons: Poems for Father's Day Donald Hall reads his poem "Christmas Eve in Whitneyville," and Alfred Molina reads David Ignatow's "For My Daughter in Reply to a Question." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lost but Unforgotten Gerald Stern and Alice Friman Remember Old Loves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Cold War to Global Warming What Richard Wilbur saw when he saw it coming Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ronald Wallace and Dan Howell What do sex, weddings, and professional wrestling have in common? 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gabriel Preil A reading of "The Power of a Question," by Gabriel Preil, and an interview with the translator, Leon Wesieltier. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tom Sleigh Tom Sleigh reads his poems "Fable" and "Space Station." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website C.K. Williams A reading of C.K. Williams's poem "On the Metro." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Browning W.S. Di Piero discusses Browning's "Fra Lippo Lippi," with a reading of the poem by Paul Giamatti. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Linda Bierds Producer Marcie Sillman profiles poet Linda Bierds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Wilbur Richard Wilbur talks about his translation of Mallarme's "The Tomb of Edgar Poe." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marilyn Nelson Marilyn Nelson reads two of her poems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geoffrey Brock and Tony Hoagland Readings of "And Day Brought Back My Night," by Geoffrey Brock, and "Hostess," by Tony Hoagland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Ashbery Live readings of two John Ashbery poems by Billy Collins and David Shapiro, from a celebration of Ashbery's poetry put on by The New School in New York City. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June Jordan Producer Wesley Weissberg interviews poets and critics about June Jordan's legacy and rap's place in poetry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bertolt Brecht Translator Michael Hofmann in conversation about Bertolt Brecht's poem, "Of Poor B.B.," read here by Tony Award nominee Michael Stuhlbarg. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jane Hirshfield Jane Hirshfield reads her poems "Heat" and "Autumn Heat." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joanie Mackowski A reading of "One Afternoon," by Joanie Mackowski. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Three Short Poems Three very short poems, by John Updike, Emperor Hadrian and an anonymous erotic Sanskrit poem. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Samuel Menashe A portrait of poet Samuel Menashe, produced by Emily Botein. 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