Podcasts

• Episode 081 - [at last we killed the roaches] - Lucille Clifton

  11/8/2019

  Connor and Jack look at a poem by the great, late Lucille Clifton. They discuss the human capacity for violence, roaches in the big apple, dual…

• Episode 080 Letter to the Person Who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America - Matthew Olzmann

  10/26/2019

  Connor and Jack look at a poem with a long title (too long to fit in the title of this podcast!). They discuss climate change, neoliberalism, the dark…

• Episode 079 Gesture with Both Hands Tied - Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

  10/11/2019

  Connor and Jack scour the gently unsettling poem "Gesture with Both Hands Tied" by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. They discuss the poem's challenging…

• Episode 078 Ontology and the Platypus - Kathy Fagan

  9/28/2019

  Connor and Jack dive into a funny poem with serious depths, Kathy Fagan's Ontology and the Platypus. They discuss the evolutionary wonder that is the…

• Episode 077 Clear Night - Charles Wright

  9/13/2019

  Connor and Jack delve into the poem "Clear Night" by the titan Charles Wright. They discuss the poem's intensity of emotion, the English Renaissance…