I Want to Talk about This Poem: Recent Episodes
Elizabeth Sylvia
Cindy Veach takes a cold look at Salem, MA, and the Sackler Family in this poem that considers how appearances can disguise horrors. Read "Feeding the Meter in the Witch City" at Poets Reading the News and find more poems by Cindy Veach here.
"To get here, I had to say goodbye to guilt." Martha Silano's wild and beautiful poem tackles the form grief makes in time and space.
"Randomness if the mad king of fear." Julie Danho's poem illuminates how we rationalize our fears at the expense of others. A beautiful and merciless poem. Read "Distance" at Blackbird and find more of Julie Dan's work here.
Meghan Dunn's piece is praise poem for the wrestler Chyna and a reflection on inhabiting the fullness of our bodies.
In the episode, I read and discuss Rota's poem, "Ronald Reagan Was an Idiot," originally published at Entropy. Listen if you think you'll enjoy a poem that talks about climate change and toupees.
The wonder of life is all around, in the tiniest and grossest things. In Wesley Sexton's poem "On Seeing a Bee Drink His Nectar," a moment of observation opens new possibilities for delight. Wesley Sexton's poem can be found online at Verse Daily.
In this episode, I talk about one of my longtime favorite poems, Hayden Carruth's "Regarding Chainsaws,"which is both a great persona poem and a necessarily unsentimental exploration or rural life.
In this episode, I talk about Kevin Prufer's poem "True Crime," a twisted and witty exploration of everyone's desire for more.
Find Emma Bolden’s poem “After Watching An Inconvenient Truth With My Students” at Verse Daily, and read more from Emma at her website.
Read “Waiting for Happiness” here at Tin House, and you can find more from Nomi at her website.
In this episode, I talk about why I love Rebecca Morgan Frank's poem "Self-Operating Machines" from the book Oh You Robot Saints!