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.
176 Pieces
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Sandra Doller meditates on aging and motherhood.
- Added: Dec 09, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Stacy Szymaszek writes a poem in gratitude to her students.
- Added: Dec 03, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Will Alexander finds ways of writing poems to revitalize language as a whole.
- Added: Nov 19, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Christine Kanownik examines the place of religion and spirituality in secular life.
- Added: Nov 05, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Evie Shockley expresses frustration over ongoing immigration policies and thinks about ways Americans might better live together.
- Added: Oct 29, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Matei Yankelevich meditates on the nature of poetic language and lingers over events from his past.
- Added: Oct 28, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Jennifer Foerster imagines encountering her younger self on a walk through the streets of Vienna.
- Added: Oct 15, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Alyse Knorr writes about motherhood and loss.
- Added: Oct 07, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
George Abraham invents a new sonnet form to investigate an act of vandalism that occurred in a Palestinian vineyard.
- Added: Sep 23, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Jill Magi explores the intersections between sports culture and corporate job-speak.
- Added: Sep 13, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Divya Victor considers the effects of transnational migration on family life.
- Added: Sep 06, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Wendy Lotterman wonders what home invasion and poetry have in common.
- Added: Aug 28, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Emmalea Russo recalls a Skype healing session and remembers the death of her aunt Vera.
- Added: Aug 16, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Lotte L.S. considers the legacy of British poet and political activist Anna Mendelssohn.
- Added: Aug 07, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Emily Sieu Liebowitz begins a poem by wondering if the Trojan Horse was merely a metaphor for written language.
- Added: Jul 30, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Dora Malech reflects on the way gun violence and school shootings have affected her own life.
- Added: Jul 22, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Sawako Nakayasu imagines eating a bowl of girl soup and the conundrum posed by her own intervention.
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Emily Skillings writes a tribute to poet John Ashbery, who died in September of 2017.
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Rodney Koeneke considers the mystery and language of riddles.
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Khaled Mattawa remembers the sense of hope felt during the Arab Spring and at the prospect of having a second child.
- Added: Jul 01, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2