9 Best Poetry Foundation Podcasts
A list of the most popular Poetry Foundation podcasts on Podyssey Podcasts.
9 Best Poetry Foundation Podcasts
1. Poem of the Day
Audio recordings of classic and contemporary poems read by poets and actors, delivered every day.
2. Poetry Off the Shelf
Producer Helena de Groot talks to poets about language, dreams, love and loss, identity, connection, anger, discomfort, the creative process, the state of the world and the world of the soul. Hard conversations are welcomed—laughter is, too.
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46:02 | Nov 4th
Brittny Ray Crowell on grief, the scent of burning leaves, and finding her way back.
3. The Poetry Magazine Podcast
The Poetry Magazine Podcast features poets and artists in their natural form—reading poems and speaking freely.
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Wake, Butterfly: Meditation (Arrival) with Saretta Morgan & Bo Hwang
12:06 | Jul 21st
In the sixth and final episode of this season, Saretta Morgan and Bo Hwang invite listeners to create a guided meditation that allows for arrival.
4. Poem Talk
Kelly Writers House impresario Al Filreis leads a lively roundtable discussion of a single poem with a series of rotating guests including Tracie Morris, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, erica kaufman, Charles Bernstein, Sawako Nakayasu, Simone White, and othe...Show More
Latest Episode
52:23 | Jun 28th, 2023
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Robert von Hallberg, Charles Altieri, and Marjorie Perloff.
5. Essential American Poets
Listen to Donald Hall's selection of classic American poets reading from their work. These recordings are being made available as the result of a collaboration between US and UK poet laureates Donald Hall and Andrew Motion.
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Lorine Niedecker: Essential American Poets
15:46 | Mar 14th, 2012
Recordings of poet Lorine Niedecker with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded at home in 1970. Recording courtesy of PennSound.
6. PoetryNow
PoetryNow is a weekly four-minute radio series featuring some of today’s most accomplished and innovative poets who offer an acoustically rich and reflective look into a single poem.
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7. Avant-Garde All the Time
Poet Kenneth Goldsmith presents selections from UbuWeb, the learned and varietous online repository concerning concrete and sound poetry, experimental film, outsider art, and all things avant-garde.
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29:46 | Jan 11th, 2011
An audio tour of films featuring Vito Acconci, Erik Satie, Vicki Bennett, Karl Holmquist, and more from the UbuWeb archive. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
8. Poetry Lectures
Talks given by notable scholars and critics on poets, poetry, and their intersections with other art forms. Features recordings from historic archives and live events.
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Malena Mörling and Jonas Ellström: International Poets in Conversation
39:27 | Nov 23rd, 2015
Malena Mörling and Jonas Ellerström discuss Swedish poetry and the challenges of translation, and they read some poems in both Swedish and English from their anthology, The Star By My Head.
9. Chicago Poetry Tour Podcast
From the neighborhood library of Gwendolyn Brooks, to the Union Stock Yards, where Chicago became Carl Sandburg’s “Hog Butcher for the World,” to the birthplace of slam poetry, the Chicago Poetry Tour explores the city’s history through its dynamic p...Show More
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