Podcasts

• Episode 072 Private Property - Jenny Xie

  6/28/2019

  Connor and Jack explore Jenny Xie's poem "Private Property" from her National Book Award finalist collection, Eye Level. They cram into the poem's…

• Episode 071 My Grandmother's House - Kamala Surayya

  6/14/2019

  Connor and Jack discuss Kamala Surayya's haunting poem, My Grandmother's House. Memory and nostalgia, the use of houses in poetry and song, and even a…

• Episode 070 Child Holding Potato - Rick Barot

  5/24/2019

  Connor and Jack discuss the poignant, quiet poem "Child Holding Potato" by Rick Barot. They consider, in Barot's own words, the "limits of art to…

• Episode 069 Alone I stare Into the frost's white face - Osip Mandelstam

  5/10/2019

  Connor and Jack reach back to 1937 and discuss this unsettling, icy gem from Russian poet and essayist Osip Mandelstam. They talk embedded metaphors…

• Episode 068 Beyond Nature and Beyond Haiku - Haiku Week Ep. 7

  5/1/2019

  In this thrilling conclusion to haiku week Connor and Jack explore haiku that deal with more than nature and the natural world. They also look at…