PoetryNow
PoetryNow is a weekly four-minute radio series featuring some of today’s most accomplished and innovative poets who offer an acoustically rich and reflective look into a single poem.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 3 minutes
- Episodes
- 99
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2023
We Are Saying Yes, But Who Are We to Say
Khaled Mattawa remembers the sense of hope felt during the Arab Spring and at the prospect of having a second child. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
immediately motionless likeness
Kirsten Ihns considers the way a poem can dance the reader’s mind. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Euphorbia
Eric Baus demonstrates how the powerful can learn from something seemingly small and weak. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
At the Vietnam Center and Archive
Hai-Dang Phan examines archival documents concerning the abduction of a young Vietnamese woman by Thai pirates in the 1980s. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Cold Valley
Cedar Sigo pays tribute to the poet Joanne Kyger, who died in March of 2017. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Time Traveler's Haibun: 1989
Maureen Thorson recalls details of her life in 1989 when she was 10 years old. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Sanctuary Stairs
Jared Stanley imagines how climate change will displace populations and what that could mean for one’s family. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
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Goodwill, Buffalo, NY
Kimberly Lyons interrogates the purchase of second-hand clothes and the writing of poetry. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Roadrunners
André Naffis-Sahely visits the desert of Arizona and contemplates the cruelty of the Trump Administration’s policy of family separation at the southern border. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Held in the Arms of St. Francis & the Virgin
Jasmine Gibson writes a love poem to her partner. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
15 Years of Paris
Katy Bohinc leaves Paris and writes a poem of apology after a misunderstanding with someone close to her. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Beulah Peel Me a Grape
Patricia Spears Jones considers the dynamics of race through the lens of a 1930s Mae West film. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Nerve
Geoffrey Hilsabeck imagines a conversation between Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson as they walk through Boston Common.
An Animal Unfit for Living Unmolested
Ginger Ko imagines the near future when humans will possess a fully automated representative. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
The Great San Bernardino Pitch Party
Callie Garnett makes an ad pitch for her poetry. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Black Flowers
Norma Cole meditates on the Syrian refugee crisis. Produced by Colin McNulty.
X Number
Chris Glomski considers the variables that comprise a human life. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
In a Daydream of Being the Big House Missus
Justin Phillip Reed imagines an inverted history of slavery. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Taste
Jessica Laser considers wisdom, poetry, and procrastination. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Hour in which I consider hydrangea
Simone White documents a mother’s life with her infant son. Produced by Katie Klocksin.