The American Poetry Review: Recent Episodes
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Founded in 1972, The American Poetry Review is dedicated to reaching a worldwide audience with a diverse array of the best contemporary poetry and literary criticism. Their bi-weekly podcast features guest interviews and lots of poetry talk from APR editor Elizabeth Scanlon, along with co-hosts Thalia Geiger and Steven Kleinman.
Join us for a new episode in which we discuss what makes a poem a poem! We touch upon poems from Indrani Sengupta (https://aprweb.org/poems/i-throw-a-dinner-party) and Laura Van Prooyen (https://aprweb.org/poems/sadness-in-the-shape-of-a-phone) in the July/August issue (https://the-american-poetry-review.myshopify.com/collections/issues/products/vol-52-no-4-jul-aug-2023). Plus, a reading from Burnside Soleil. For more, visit The American Poetry Review (https://aprweb.org/).
We discuss the new issue (https://the-american-poetry-review.myshopify.com/collections/issues/products/vol-52-no-4-jul-aug-2023), of course, and: * Readings from Justin Rigamonti and Nomi Stone (https://aprweb.org/poems/doing-messages) * A Tyehimba Jess (https://www.tyehimbajess.net/) reading and other memorable readings – what makes a reading memorable? * Some summer poems like: Ada Limón’s “Sundown All The Damage Done” (https://aprweb.org/poems/sundown-and-all-the-damage-done) * “Mock Orange” by Louise Glück (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49601/mock-orange) * “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota” by James Wright (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47734/lying-in-a-hammock-at-william-duffys-farm-in-pine-island-minnesota) * Recommendations including: Big Swiss (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/big-swiss-jen-beagin/1141291765?ean=9781982153083) by Jen Beagin, Janelle Monae’s new one The Age of Pleasure (https://open.spotify.com/album/3440hCSfwYXxJcbQ0j3jAJ), Tender is the Flesh (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tender-is-the-flesh-agustina-bazterrica/1135277372)by Agustina Bazterrica, and translations by Jennifer Grotz (https://www.jennifergrotz.com/)
Today on the show, Elizabeth Scanlon, Hannah Gellman and Steven Kleinman discuss:
- the new issue of APR with Shane McCrae
- An appreciation of Elaine Equi – “The Lonely Parade” in this issue, and “Sometimes I Get Distracted”
- Plus, a chat with Hannah re: recommending poems to those new to poetry. Poems mentioned:
- Elizabeth Bishop “Filling Station,”
- Robert Hayden “Those Winter Sundays,”
- Robert Hass “Meditation at Lagunitas,”
- Angel Nafis “Woo Woo Roll Deep”
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Marie Howe, “What the Living Do”
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Books mentioned: Airea D. Matthews, Bread & Circus
- Marcy Dermansky, Hurricane Girl
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Join us for a special feature on poet Faylita Hicks, who is the author of HoodWitch (Acre Books, 2019), a finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry, the 2019 Julie Suk Award, and the 2019 Balcones Poetry Prize. Currently, they are working on a second poetry collection, A Map of My Want (Haymarket Books, 2024), and a debut memoir about their carceral experience, A Body of Wild Light (Haymarket Books, 2025).
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On this episode: Poet Alina Pleskova, whose new collection, Toska, is set to drop soon. Plus, join us as hosts Elizabeth Scanlon and Hannah Gellman discuss, among many other things:
· APR's Kunitz Prize
· Frank O'Hara
· and new books on the horizon.
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On this episode, we talk about our plans for AWP in Seattle and revisit a spectacular Honickman Book Prize reading by Chessy Normile from AWP 2022 as we gear up for the conference next week.
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Celebrating the official pub date of Chelsea Harlan's Honickman First Book Prize winning Bright Shade! Chosen by Jericho Brown, who says: This beautiful debut seems to ask not just what poetry is but what it can be. And each poem answers, “Every raindrop/a little bell,//every switchback/and holler baptized.” Listen up for this fantastic reading from Chelsea Harlan from our live event earlier this year in Philadelphia. For more, visit aprweb.org.
Join us for a special edition mini-episode celebrating the appointment of Ada Limón as the new Poet Laureate of the United States. APR Editor Elizabeth Scanlon offers up an exclusive recording of Ada's reading at the APR 50th anniversary celebration that took place in Philadelphia earlier this year.
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Join us as hosts Elizabeth Scanlon and Steven Kleinman talk with Natalie Shapero.
Shapero is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection POPULAR LONGING. Her previous collections are HARD CHILD, shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize, and NO OBJECT, winner of the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award. Natalie’s writing has appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere.
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Join us as hosts Elizabeth Scanlon, Steven Kleinman and Thalia Geiger take a deep dive on couplet craft, weird animals, and the pre-elegaic. Plus poets’ readings of:
- Megan Fernandes’ “Love Poem”
- Gabrielle Bates’ “Salmon”
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Join us as hosts Elizabeth Scanlon, Steven Kleinman and Thalia Geiger take a deep dive on the May/June issues highlights, including:
— Shamar Hill’s The Walls Became the World All Around (read by the author)
— Alison C. Rollins’ springtime again (read by the author)
— and Jack Gilbert interviewed by Forrest Gander
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Upon the release of Dearly, her new collection of poems, Margaret Atwood talks with APR’s Elizabeth Scanlon.
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Join us this week on the APR podcast, as we talk with Nicole Sealey, poet and creator of The Sealey Challenge. We also discuss books we’ve been returning to lately, including:
- Sarah Blake's Let's Not Live on Earth
- Hanif Abdurraqib's A Fortune for Your Disaster
- Sharon Olds’ The Father: Poems
- Amaud Johnson’s Imperial Liquor
… and more. All of which, by the way, are available via APR’s new Bookshop page.
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Join us as hosts Elizabeth Scanlon, Steven Kleinman and Thalia Geiger engage in one of the liveliest discussions of current poetry you’ll find on the web.
Today on the show, we talk about first books from favorite poets, and how they’re both magic and revealing. Then, we chat with Chessy Normile, winner of the 2020 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Her first book of poems, Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party, was chosen by our guest judge, Li-Young Lee. The book will be published in September, 2020.
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Join us as hosts Elizabeth Scanlon, Steven Kleinman and Thalia Geiger engage in one of the liveliest discussions of current poetry you’ll find on the web.
Today on the show, we hear from Alex Dimitrov, who reads from his fantastic poem, “Love,” while Philip Metres’ “Mixtape for My Twenties” provides a jumping-off point for a group discussion that includes Eileen Myles, C.K. Williams, and more. Later, Alex and Elizabeth sit down for a one-on-one interview that you’ve got to hear.
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Join us as hosts Elizabeth Scanlon, Steven Kleinman and Thalia Geiger talk about mentorship in poetry. Also, Steven chats with David Baker, editor of The Kenyon Review, about Stanley Plumly. Plus, Maggie Queeney reads her poem, “Glamour.”
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Join us as hosts Elizabeth Scanlon, Steven Kleinman and Thalia Geiger welcome poet Dorothea Lasky. Lasky is the author of the new essay collection Animal, and one half of the Twitter sensation AstroPoets. Also, we talk about audiobooks.
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Our debut episode! Join us as hosts Elizabeth Scanlon, Steven Kleinman and Thalia Geiger welcome poet Devon Walker-Figueroa. Also discussed:
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The National Book Award nominations for poetry
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Wave Books' ten-year anniversary of Maggie Nelson's landmark Bluets
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