Podcasts

• Episode 52: How to Keep it Down / Throw It off / Defer Until Asleep - Justin Phillip Reed

  12/14/2018

  Content Warning: Suicidality Connor and Jack discuss a poem by this year's National Book Award winner for Poetry: Justin Phillip Reed. The poem, "How…

• Episode 51 REBROADCAST: Ersatz Ignatz - Monica Youn

  11/23/2018

  It has been two years since Connor and Jack launched Close Talking! After 50 episodes, they decided to commemorate the occasion by looking back on an…

• Episode 50: Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley

  11/9/2018

  For the 50th episode of Close Talking, Connor and Jack dive into a classic: Ozymandias. They discuss Percy Bysshe Shelley's many accomplishments, the…

• Episode 49: Mercy - Anna Journey

  10/26/2018

  In this special spooky Halloween episode, we talk about Anna Journey's terrifying and haunting poem "Mercy." We consider serial killers and Brett…

• Episode 48: Emplumada - Lorna Dee Cervantes

  10/12/2018

  In this episode, Connor and Jack explore an the poem “Emplumada,” by Lorna Dee Cervantes. They discuss the poem’s ending, its ambiguity and beauty…