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Podcasts
- Episode #179 [It's a Hiatus!] Tune - Kay Ryan
7/7/2023
Close Talking is on a hiatus! We've had some big life and career changes that have unexpectedly cut into our capacity for the podcast, but it's not a…
- Episode 178 - Remembering Charles Simic
1/13/2023
A slight departure from our regular format. On today's show, Connor and Jack remember the recently departed poet Charles Simic. They read some of his…
- Episode 177 [Flicking off the light switch.] - Sherwin Bitsui
12/23/2022
Connor and Jack bid farewell to the year they've taken to calling "Twenty Twenty Poo" and contemplate the complexities of language in a wide-ranging…
- Episode 176 Topsoil, In Repentance - Sherry Shenoda
12/9/2022
Connor and Jack discuss the sonically and thematically dense poem "Topsoil, in Repentance" by Sherry Shenoda. Shenoda's book MUMMY EATERS was…
- Episode 175 - Poetry Spoken Here Ep. 132: Black Lives Matter
11/25/2022
After a busy couple weeks at Close Talking headquarters, a slightly different show. This episode is from our sister-podcast, Poetry Spoken Here. The…