Podcasts

• Episode 37: 'Tis a Fearful Thing

  4/27/2018

  Connor and Jack talk about a poem that was likely written hundreds of years ago (more on this in the podcast) by Jewish poet and philosopher Yehuda…

• Episode 36: I Have Got To Stop Loving You So I Have Killed My Pet Goat

  4/13/2018

  Connor and Jack explore the fantastic poem "I Have Got To Stop Loving You So I Have Killed My Black Goat" by Ai. Connor and Jack talk about grotesque…

• Episode 35: Waiting for the Twelfth Reimagined

  4/6/2018

  While preparing for episode 26 of Close Talking on Kaveh Akbar's "Waiting for the Twelfth", Jack stumbled onto a musical interpretation of the poem…

• Episode 34: An American Sunrise

  3/23/2018

  Connor and Jack discuss Joy Harjo's "An American Sunrise. Along the way Jack recommends a documentary, Connor gives his current hot take on form in…

• Episode 33: First Quarantine with Abdelhalim Hafez

  3/9/2018

  Connor and Jack explore the fantastic poem "First Quarantine With Abdelhalim Hafez" by Safia Elhillo. Connor fixates on the tensions between the…