PoetryNow
Series produced by The Poetry Foundation
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.
The series will feature 52 episodes available for stations to broadcast in any quantity or combination, at no cost, starting June.
176 Pieces
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Quraysh Ali Lansana recalls a compromised night on the U.S./Mexico border.
- Added: Mar 20, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Kaveh Akbar describes a nascent sexuality emerging in a life troubled by alcohol.
- Added: Mar 09, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Shane McCrae imagines the life of the adopted son of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Philip Jenks considers the word “dust,” from Biblical language to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
- Added: Feb 24, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Hannah Brooks-Motl reflects on the course of a life and its future
- Added: Feb 17, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Roberto Tejada guides through an underworld of surveillance.
- Added: Feb 13, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Eric Amling remembers the death of a beloved celebrity and considers a world saturated in pharmaceuticals.
- Added: Feb 06, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Monica McClure imagines a prophet in the forest who collects the lives of men.
- Added: Jan 30, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Garrett Caples pays tribute to poet Bill Berkson, a personal friend and a central figure in American poetry since the 1960s.
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
For the 2017 Presidential Inauguration, Joshua Clover offers to read poetry at the White House.
Bought by KENW, KHSU, KRZA, KMUD, New Hampshire Public Radio and more
- Added: Jan 11, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 7
Rachel Galvin contemplates the politics of complicity.
- Added: Dec 21, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Yusef Komunyakaa remembers a swimming hole frequented as a child.
- Added: Dec 30, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
John Yau meditates on mortality and the remembrance of the dead.
- Added: Dec 19, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Andrew Joron mediates on the cycle of the moon in language that shifts and slips in meaning.
- Added: Dec 12, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Yolanda Wisher wonders about the type of heart the Tin Woman might long to have.
- Added: Dec 05, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Idra Novey imagines the thoughts of a man pregnant with a panda bear.
- Added: Nov 28, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Patricia Spears Jones considers the dynamics of race through the lens of a 1930s Mae West film.
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Margaret Noodin sings a poem in Anishinaabemowin and discusses Native American languages and heritage.
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KHNS, KHSU, KALW, and KENW
- Added: Nov 16, 2016
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 5
Dara Wier meditates on the mind’s need for security and sanctuary from a troubled world.
- Added: Nov 07, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Javier Zamora describes his journey as a young migrant crossing the desert into the U.S.
- Added: Oct 26, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
