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.

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Update frequency: every 7 days
Average duration: 3 minutes
Episodes: 99
Years Active: 2018 - 2023

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Things to Do in Hell

Chris Martin composes a list of things one might do in hell. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

00:04:00 | Mon 01 Apr 2019

The Great Deceiver

Brian Lucas takes a speculative look at figures of deception. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

00:04:00 | Mon 25 Mar 2019

Who’s That

Ana Božičević explores the feelings and emotions of spring. Produced by Sarah Geis.

00:04:00 | Mon 18 Mar 2019

the name before the name before mine

Jay Besemer considers heredity and the uncertainty of one’s past. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

00:04:00 | Mon 11 Mar 2019

About Suffering

Elisa Gabbert meditates on the nature of suffering and the language we use to describe it. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

00:04:00 | Mon 04 Mar 2019

encasement (storage e)

Rusty Morrison recalls an encounter in an airport and considers how touch can be a source of knowledge. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

00:04:00 | Mon 25 Feb 2019

pronoun circle-jerk and the dog charlie

Julian Talamantez Brolaski considers the way we use pronouns to signal gender. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

00:04:00 | Mon 18 Feb 2019

Seventeen Funerals

Richard Blanco remembers the 17 students killed in a mass-shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14th, 2018. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

00:04:00 | Mon 11 Feb 2019

The Ambassador of the Interior Has a Talking to With the Minister of the Cabinet of Vengeance

Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer imagines the prospect of a God who may have created humanity in order to battle evil. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

00:04:00 | Mon 04 Feb 2019

Phantom Twin

Katy Lederer recalls her experience with in vitro fertilization and finds poetry in the language of science. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

00:04:00 | Mon 28 Jan 2019

Sanctuary

Donika Kelly recalls a class field trip to a sea lion sanctuary in the sixth grade and questions why certain lives are valued above others. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

00:04:00 | Mon 21 Jan 2019

Bitch Is a Word I Hear A Lot

Kim Parko considers the politics of the word “bitch.” Produced by Katie Klocksin.

00:04:00 | Mon 14 Jan 2019

Vow

Diana Khoi Nguyen meditates on the importance of exchanging marital vows. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

00:04:00 | Mon 07 Jan 2019

Nothing Happened in 1999

Hayan Charara considers how the world would be different today if certain historically significant events had not taken place in the late 1990s. Produced by Sarah Geis.

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00:04:00 | Mon 31 Dec 2018

gravity furnace

francine j. harris revisits her childhood home in Detroit and imagines the ways destruction can be an empowering act. Produced by Colin McNulty.

00:04:00 | Mon 24 Dec 2018

Chase Scene

Gabriel Ojeda-Sague describes a strange dream and considers the domestic space he has built with his partner.

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00:04:00 | Mon 17 Dec 2018

I Make Promises Before I Dream

Tongo Eisen-Martin examines the institutions artists and artworks occupy and uses writing as a challenge to power. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

00:04:00 | Mon 10 Dec 2018

For Charlie

Ruben Quesada remembers a friend who died under mysterious circumstances and meditates on his own friends, loved ones, and mortality. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

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00:04:00 | Mon 03 Dec 2018

Fault Whispers

Mark Tardi begins a poem with a line from the journal of the artist Francesca Woodman, a photographer known for her haunting self-portraits. Produced by Katie Klocksin.