The Poetry Magazine Podcast

No Me, No You, No Opinions

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0600

Poems from Dorothea Grossman, Gisela Kraft, Carlo Betocchi, and Dan Gerber. Plus Adam Kirsch explains what gets lost in translation.

Why Live Without Writing?

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600

New poems from Robert Hass, Sam Willetts, and Martha Zweig, plus Michael Hofmann on German poet Durs Grünbein.

Are Poets Lazy Bastards?

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0600

New poems from Timothy Murphy, Andrea Cohen, Ezra Pound's daughter Mary de Rachewiltz, plus Carmine Starnino on the fiction of the "ordinary reader."

Poems Can Stop Bulldozers

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0600

The editors discuss how poems are good for true love, break ups, and the environment.

Poetry Takes a Walk

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

New poems from James Schuyler, new translations of Gottfried Benn, plus Peter Cole on walking in Jerusalem.

We Live in a Time Full of Love

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Poems from A.V. Christie, Kevin Young, W.S. di Piero, plus Richard Zenith on the notebooks of Fernando Pessoa.

We Don't Have Cold Feet

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0600

The editors discuss poems from Katia Kapovich, Lucia Perillo, Don Paterson and more. Plus, Ange Mlinko on poetry and motherhood.

"There's No Creativity, There's Just Decisions"

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Kenneth Goldsmith talks flarf, conceptual writing, and poetry in the age of the internet. Plus, poems by Hailey Leithauser, Sandra Beasley, Tim Dlugos, and Amy Beeder.

The Dark Has No Teeth

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Poems by D. Nurkse, Rae Armantrout, Averill Curdy, and Michael Hofmann, plus Tom Sleigh's take on Thom Gunn.

Rhapsodies and Rude Epics

Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 -0600

The editors of the magazine discuss Ilya Kaminsky's "Deaf Republic", Inger Christensen's musical poetry, and Hanoch Levin's "Lives of the Dead."

Bringing a Different Music Into English

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0600

Poetry magazine goes meta with a translation of a fictitious translation, the Greek version of a poetry slam, and more from the April issue.

You're Always Moving Toward Silence

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600

The editors discuss a new John Ashbery poem from the March issue. Plus, Seth Abramson, Katy Didden, and Fanny Howe on her memoir The Winter Sun.

I Love Originality So Much I Keep Copying It

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600

The editors talk about another manifesto moment, love poems and war poems, and new translations from the Aeneid.

Of All the Poems in the World, Why Would You Pick This One?

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Previously unpublished poems by Langston Hughes, a preview of Michael Hofmann's essay on Lowell and Bishop, and a phone call to readers in Texas who don't like the poems in this month's issue!

Her Victorian Roots are Showing

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600

The editors pick highlights from an interview with Seamus Heaney and Fanny Howe's notebooks; and listen and comment on poems by Joan Houlihan, Roddy Lumsden, and Fred D'Aguiar.

The Savage Detective Turns to Poetry

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Hear some of the first poetry by the Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño to be translated into English, plus a discussion of Visual Poetry, left-leaning political poetry, and poems read by Mary Szybist and Jorge Sánchez.

"Accident Plays a Part in Art"

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0600

The editors talk with Kasischke on Ken Burns, Lindsay on Krakatau, Sheffield on fishing, and Logan on Hart Crane (and David Foster Wallace).

Requiem, Vindication, and a Gas Station Restroom

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Poems from the September issue and a phone call from Clive James.

Killing Him

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0600

An excerpt from the satirical radio play by Yehuda Amichai.

Feeling Like a Worm in Tequila?

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Poets chasing poets, Dean Young vs. Tony Hoagland, a theory of hats, and more.

Our Birds, Our Selves

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Donald Revell, Marianne Boruch—and your feisty letters.

Wild Bard—or Professional?

Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0600

What kinds of skills are poets supposed to have? Plus Jane Hirshfield, Chris Dombrowski, and more.

Found in Translation

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Poems from the Russian, Welsh, and other tongues.

Something Has Come Between Us!

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Is simile a species of metaphor? And other catchy concepts.

When Guns Talk the Muses Fall Silent

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Dispatches from Alexei Tsvetkov and George Szirtes. Plus: Samuel Beckett, Lynn Emanuel, Jeffrey Schultz, and Jorie Graham.