Poetry Off the Shelf
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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.
Poetry Off the Shelf
2w ago
April Gibson on chronic illness, religion, and being a teenage mother ..read more
Poetry Off the Shelf
1M ago
Declan Ryan on his father's construction job, tenderness between boxers, and the inevitable tragic end ..read more
Poetry Off the Shelf
1M ago
Monica Rico on cooking, grunt work, and the heat at General Motors ..read more
Poetry Off the Shelf
2M ago
Nam Le on commerce, irony vs. sincerity, and being in the Arctic. ..read more
Poetry Off the Shelf
2M ago
Gregory Pardlo on improv, therapy, and driving around with his father's ashes ..read more
Poetry Off the Shelf
3M ago
Caitlin Cowan on rejection, tradwives, and poems from our better self ..read more
Poetry Off the Shelf
3M ago
Blake Butler on complex mourning, the suicide of his wife Molly Brodak, and finding his way back ..read more
Poetry Off the Shelf
4M ago
Remembering the lesbian poet and activist Minnie Bruce Pratt, as well as the Palestinian poet and symbol of the resistance, Refaat Alareer ..read more
Poetry Off the Shelf
4M ago
Steve Zeitlin and Bob Holman on the healing act of writing, small frogs, and politics at the fiddle festival ..read more
Poetry Off the Shelf
5M ago
Laura Mullen on academia, death threats, and doing the next brave thing ..read more