Poetry Off the Shelf Podcast
1) The Character in the Corner
Sony Ton-Aimé on radical joy, pig blood, and the ancestors we forgot.
2) Those Bodies We Borrowed
Monica Ferrell on robot apples, Playboy bunnies, and botox vs. crow's feet.
3) What It Takes to Be a Man
James Ciano on sports, masculinity, and the desperation to belong.
4) How to Survive on an Island
Stephanie Niu on being lost at sea, crab bridges, and finding the heart of the world.
5) The Multiverse of Me
Diamond Forde on poison, fan fiction, and writing the Great American Vampire Novel.
6) Poets We Lost in 2025
Remembering Ellen Bryant Voigt, plus a few words on mortality by Andrea Gibson.
7) An Old Face
Amanda Quaid on cancer, being bad in New York, and erotic hands.
8) An Impossible Wish
Tracy K. Smith on her Hello Kitty notebook, automatic writing, and the afterlife.
9) Body of Water
Chet'la Sebree on fertility, the ocean, and sonnets about menstruation.
10) What Heaven Looks Like
Brittny Ray Crowell on grief, the scent of burning leaves, and finding her way back.