The Poems We Made Along The Way Podcast
1) Episode 40: Martin Kratz - "I don't have to write this"
On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Martin Kratz the poetics of touch, his interesting relationship with the German and English languages, and the importance...Show More
2) Episode 39: Natalie Shapero - "The domain of the page"
On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Natalie Shapero about line breaks, stand up comedy and only writing in iambic pentameter for the first 7 years of being a...Show More
3) Episode 38: Catherine-Esther Cowie - "Writing close to the bone"
On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Catherine-Esther Cowie about persona poetry as a type of mask work, how we are thoughtful about not perpetuating violence...Show More
4) Episode 37: Isabelle Baafi - "Remember who you are"
On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Isabelle Baafi about Dungeons and Dragons, how being a poetry critic effects the writing of poetry, and exploring poetic ...Show More
5) Episode 36: Gillian Allnutt - "An exercise in truthfulness"
On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Gillian Allnutt about reading poems out loud during the drafting stage, writing persona poetry, and hating punctuation.Gi...Show More
6) Episode 35: Vona Groarke - "Languages dress differently"
On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Vona Groarke about being selected for the Ireland Professor of Poetry, how government investment in the arts has a positi...Show More
7) Episode 34: Sarah Howe - "We ourselves are callbacks"
On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Sarah Howe about flow states, the pedagogical difficulties of the writers’ workshop, and the changing landscapes of poetr...Show More
8) Episode 33: Nick Makoha - "Masters of Time"
On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Nick Makoha about the Obsidian Foundation, the layering of many gazes, and self-discovery through art. Nick Makoha is a p...Show More
9) Episode 32: Clare Pollard - "The poem itself is a haunted house"
On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to Clare Pollard about breaking your own rules, poems being like haunted houses, and the word poetess.Clare Pollard is a poe...Show More
10) Episode 31: George Szirtes - "Rhymes are accidents waiting to happen"
On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along the Way Gregory Kearns speaks to George Szirtes about form, translation, and the exact moment that he decided that he wanted to become a poet.George Szirt...Show More