Kelly Writers House impresario Al Filreis leads a lively roundtable discussion of a single poem with a series of rotating guests including Tracie Morris, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, erica kaufman, Charles Bernstein, Sawako Nakayasu, Simone White, and others.
127 Available Episodes (127 Total)Average duration: 00:45:43
Apr 17, 2023
Present Plans Succeed: A discussion of Dodie Bellamy’s “Vomit Journal”
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Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Chantine Akiyama Poh, Henry Steinberg, and Murat Nemet-Nejat.
Mar 17, 2023
Woot of the Century: A discussion of “Welter” and “Static” by Douglas Kearney
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Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Divya Victor, Whitney Trettien, and Dagmawi Woubshet.
Feb 24, 2023
Rhetorical Happenings: A discussion of Hoa Nguyen, “Long Light.”
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Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Bethany Swann, Jonathan Dick, and Kate Colby.
Jan 11, 2023
Nothing Made of Ink: A discussion of seven poems by Lisa Fishman
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Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Lisa Fishman, Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, and Laynie Browne.
Dec 22, 2022
Untranslatable: A discussion of Armand Schwerner’s “Tablet 25” & “‘daddy, can you staple these two stars together to make an airplane?’”
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Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Jerome Rothenberg, Pierre Joris, and Charles Bernstein.
Dec 22, 2022
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Dec 22, 2022
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Dec 22, 2022
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Related to acrostic, a poem in which the first letter of each line or stanza follows sequentially through the alphabet. See Jessica Greenbaum, “A Poem for S.” Tom Disch’s “Abecedary” adapts the principles of an abecedarian poem, while Matthea Harvey’s “The Future of Terror/The Terror of Future” sequence also uses the alphabet as an organizing principle. Poets who have used the abecedarian across whole collections include Mary Jo Bang, in The Bride of E, and Harryette Mullen, in Sleeping with the Dictionary.
Nov 25, 2022
Downgraded to Scribble: A discussion of four poems from Dead Winter by Matvei Yankelevich
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Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Ahmad Almallah, Huda Fakhreddine, and Kevin Platt.
Oct 31, 2022
Paw Mouthings: A discussion of Maggie O’Sullivan’s “Hill Figures” and “To Our Own Day”
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Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Julia Bloch, Charles Bernstein, and Eric Falci.