PoetryNow
Series produced by The Poetry Foundation
If you've ever been curious about why and how a poem gets made, PoetryNow is a weekly 4-minute, modular radio program that offers an audio immersion into the concept of a poem. Listen to and follow the inner workings of a new poem as poets read and talk about their work on PoetryNow, a presentation of The Poetry Foundation.
The series will feature 52 episodes available for stations to broadcast in any quantity or combination, at no cost, starting June.
161 Pieces
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Dora Malech reflects on the way gun violence and school shootings have affected her own life.
- Added: Jul 22, 2019
- Length: 04:00
Sawako Nakayasu imagines eating a bowl of girl soup and the conundrum posed by her own intervention.
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 04:00
Emily Skillings writes a tribute to poet John Ashbery, who died in September of 2017.
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 04:00
Rodney Koeneke considers the mystery and language of riddles.
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 04:00
Khaled Mattawa remembers the sense of hope felt during the Arab Spring and at the prospect of having a second child.
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- Added: Jul 01, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 1
Kirsten Ihns considers the way a poem can dance the reader’s mind.
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- Added: Jun 27, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 1
Eric Baus demonstrates how the powerful can learn from something seemingly small and weak.
- Added: Jun 17, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Cedar Sigo pays tribute to the poet Joanne Kyger, who died in March of 2017.
- Added: Jun 10, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Maureen Thorson recalls details of her life in 1989 when she was 10 years old.
- Added: Jun 03, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Jared Stanley imagines how climate change will displace populations and what that could mean for one’s family.
- Added: May 23, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Kimberly Lyons interrogates the purchase of second-hand clothes and the writing of poetry.
- Added: May 15, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
André Naffis-Sahely visits the desert of Arizona and contemplates the cruelty of the Trump Administration’s policy of family separation at the sout...
- Added: May 15, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
- Added: May 10, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Patricia Spears Jones considers the dynamics of race through the lens of a 1930s Mae West film.
- Added: May 10, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Geoffrey Hilsabeck imagines a conversation between Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson as they walk through Boston Common.
- Added: May 08, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Katy Bohinc leaves Paris and writes a poem of apology after a misunderstanding with someone close to her.
- Added: May 10, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Norma Cole meditates on the Syrian refugee crisis.
- Added: Apr 23, 2019
- Length: 04:01
- Purchases: 2
Ginger Ko imagines the near future when humans will possess a fully automated representative.
- Added: Apr 23, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Apr 23, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Simone White documents a mother’s life with her infant son. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
- Added: Apr 01, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
