Poetry Off the Shelf
Poetry Off the Shelf
Poetry Foundation
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.
Stay in Character
Gregory Pardlo on improv, therapy, and driving around with his father’s ashes.
Feb 13
45 min
Instructions for Divorce
Caitlin Cowan on rejection, tradwives, and poems from our better self.
Jan 30
50 min
Make Art for Me
Blake Butler on complex mourning, the suicide of his wife Molly Brodak, and finding his way back.
Jan 16
1 hr
Poets We Lost in 2023
Remembering the lesbian poet and activist Minnie Bruce Pratt, as well as the Palestinian poet and symbol of the resistance, Refaat Alareer.
Jan 3
44 min
The Utopian Business
Steve Zeitlin and Bob Holman on the healing act of writing, small frogs, and politics at the fiddle festival.
Dec 12, 2023
36 min
Cease and Desist
Laura Mullen on academia, death threats, and doing the next brave thing.
Nov 30, 2023
53 min
Falling Off the Stairs
Daniel Brock Johnson on risk, a T-shirt mantra, and life after the death of his friend James Foley.
Nov 14, 2023
46 min
Ghost Sister
Sebastian Merrill on the voice of his former self, the underworld, and laughing during yoga.
Oct 31, 2023
46 min
Living in And Times
Sahar Muradi on cyclical time, leather butterflies, and saying goodbye to her father.
Oct 17, 2023
53 min
Pen Pals
Sean Cole on loneliness, fear of aging, and what poems can do.
Oct 3, 2023
54 min
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