The Poetry Foundation

- Location: Chicago, Illinois
Audio poems, poetry docs and poetry podcasts from The Poetry Foundation in Chicago.
Series

176 Pieces
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.
- From: The Poetry Foundation
- Updated: Jun 20, 2018
Pieces
Brian Lucas takes a speculative look at figures of deception.
- Added: Mar 01, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Ana Božičević explores the feelings and emotions of spring.
- Added: Feb 25, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Jay Besemer considers heredity and the uncertainty of one’s past.
- Added: Feb 18, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Elisa Gabbert meditates on the nature of suffering and the language we use to describe it.
- Added: Feb 11, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Rusty Morrison recalls an encounter in an airport and considers how touch can be a source of knowledge.
- Added: Feb 04, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Julian Talamantez Brolaski considers the way we use pronouns to signal gender.
- Added: Jan 31, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Richard Blanco remembers the 17 students killed in a mass-shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14th, 2...
- Added: Jan 18, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer imagines the prospect of a God who may have created humanity in order to battle evil.
- Added: Jan 14, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Katy Lederer recalls her experience with in vitro fertilization and finds poetry in the language of science.
- Added: Jan 04, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Kim Parko considers the politics of the word “bitch.”
- Added: Jan 02, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2