Podcasts

• Episode 125 The Birth of an Enduring Form - Sonnet Week Ep. 1

  4/24/2021

  Connor and Jack close out National Poetry Month 2021 with a series of episodes exploring the history and enduring popularity of one of poetry's iconic…

• Episode 124 REPOST Could We Please Give the Police Departments to the Grandmothers - Junauda Petrus

  4/23/2021

  Revisit our conversation about the poem "Could We Please Give the Police Departments to the Grandmothers?" by Junauda Petrus. This episode originally…

• Episode 123 By the Road to the Contagious Hospital - William Carlos Williams

  4/9/2021

  Connor and Jack discuss the newly resonant poem "By the road to the contagious hospital" by the great William Carlos Williams, which is the first poem…

• Episode 122 Blues On Yellow - Marilyn Chin

  3/26/2021

  Connor and Jack are joined by special guest (and Close Talking social media manager) Corey China for this discussion of Marilyn Chin's devastating…

• Episode 121 The Word - Zaffar Kunial

  3/12/2021

  Connor and Jack discuss Zaffar Kunial's elegant sonnet, "The Word." They marvel at the poem's seemingly effortless meditation on being between two…