Podcasts

• Episode 27: Homeless Heart

  12/22/2017

  Connor and Jack discuss John Ashbery's "Homeless Heart." To read the poem, see below or go here. For more on Ashbery, go here. Follow this link to…

• Episode 26: Waiting for the Twelfth

  12/8/2017

  Connor and Jack discuss Kaveh Akbar's "Waiting for the Twelfth." To listen to the Close Talking mini-ep where Jack gives a musical rendition of this…

• Episode 25: Rebroadcast: The Weather in Space And Close Talking Turns One

  11/11/2017

  It has been one year since Connor and Jack launched Close Talking!. After 24 episodes, they decided to commemorate the occasion by looking back on an…

• Episode 24: Sentence

  10/27/2017

  Connor and Jack discuss Eduardo C. Corral's poem Sentence. Connor provides several excellent readings, Jack discusses why the poem has him remembering…

• Episode 23: United

  9/23/2017

  Connor and Jack dig into a fun, funny poem with deep undercurrents: "United" by Naomi Shihab Nye. Connor asks all the right questions, and Jack goes…