Katie Manning — What to Expect
This poem stretches the word ‘expect’ into dozens of formulations. Proceeding alphabetically through the index of the book, “What to Expect When You’re Expecting,” Katie Manning creates an exhausting...
18 Jun 202119min
Ilya Kaminsky — We Lived Happily during the War
The opening poem to Ilya Kaminsky’s masterpiece, “Deaf Republic,” is written in the voice of someone who is confessing their complacency during a time of trial. There’s a war going on, but it doesn’t ...
14 Jun 202116min
BONUS: A Conversation with Margaret Noodin
After Margaret Noodin recited her poem, “Gimaazinibii'amoon” / “A Message to You,” for this week’s Poetry Unbound episode, she spoke with host, Pádraig Ó Tuama, about the story behind that poem as wel...
11 Jun 202124min
Margaret Noodin — Gimaazinibii’amoon (A Message to You)
A special bilingual poem in Anishinaabemowin and English by Margaret Noodin, a linguist who writes primarily in Anishinaabemowin. This poem of eight lines is filled with location — the sweet sea, the...
11 Jun 202116min
Martín Espada — After the Goose that Rose Like the God of Geese
Bereavement brings all kinds of pressures. This poem by Martín Espada starts off with a grief-to-do-list: a phone call, a flight, a blizzard, cremations, shipments of ashes, memorial services. After a...
7 Jun 202116min
Roshni Goyate — Coconut Oil
In many ways this poem can be analyzed by how it ends: by examining the contents of organic shops. Roshni Goyate looks at one such item — coconut oil for hair — and considers its long line of history...
4 Jun 202116min
b: william bearhart — When I Was in Las Vegas and Saw a Warhol Painting of Geronimo
When looking at Andy Warhol’s painting of Geronimo — a leader and medicine man of the Bedonkohe band of the Apache tribe — b: william bearheart wonders who the Geronimo of the painting is looking ba...
31 Mai 202114min
Esteban Rodríguez — 22 La Bota
A poet considers his father, and, particularly, his father’s boots. These boots could be a hammer, a prop, a weapon. But Esteban Rodríguez also remembers how his father — a sleepwalker — would walk ou...
28 Mai 202116min
