Poetry! What is it good for?

Alan Winson
  • 0.0 (0)
  • ARTS
  • UPDATED TWICE WEEKLY
Poetry! What is it good for?

"Poetry! What is it good for?" podcast is different. In other poetry podcasts -- a poet reads and talks about her poetry. "PWIIGF" brings together two poets who appreciate each others work to engage in a lively conversation and poetry reading on a topic that fascinates them. Along the way we find that poetry is good for a lot -- mostly to keep us human. Moderators Rebecca McKean and Alan Winson -- lovers of poetry -- and Chris Brandt -- a writer of poetry -- keep the conversation informal, critical and emotionally connected. If you enjoy poetry and want to meet some amazing poets and people -- give PWIIGF a try. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. Nancy Kangas & Karl M. Iglesias on Editing Poems

    2 DAYS AGO

    Nancy Kangas & Karl M. Iglesias on Editing Poems

    I had a wonderful conversation with poet and creative Nancy Kangas at her "Emergency Poetry Clinic in Red Hook Brooklyn -- See PGF #17 -- and wanted more. And so -- Nancy invited her poet-friend Karl Michael Iglesias and we sat down in the pinball loft of Gebhard's Beer Culture Bar with PGF co-host Chris Brandt to talk about the work of editing a poem. A fun adventure through the creative minds of two poets who enjoy each other's work. Poetry Good For is a podcast produced by BCR Podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    55 min
  2. Nancy's Emergency Poetry Clinic

    17 FEB

    Nancy's Emergency Poetry Clinic

    Our producer – Alina Larson – told us about Nancy Kangas’s Emergency Poetry Clinic in Red Hook, Brooklyn. It seemed clear to me that America needs an emergency poetry clinic; I wanted to see what that was about. and so on a recent Tuesday morning I took a subway and a bus and a walk to 166 Van Dyke Street, Brooklyn. Earlier that morning I looked up “Nancy Kangas” and discovered a creative who defies categorization – Nancy K rides the wind of her whims. I arrived at 10:17am -- Ms. K was ensconced on the other side of a store front window in a tiny, colorful -- Thru the Looking Glass -- office. Nancy Kangas and her poet friend Karl Michael Iglesias will be on Poetry Good For podcast in the very near future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    30 min
  3. Bicycles & Book Stores: Amy Barone & Ron Kolm

    21/09/2024

    Bicycles & Book Stores: Amy Barone & Ron Kolm

    Back at our usual poetry-reading haunt -- Gebhard's Beer Culture Bar -- Chris Brandt, Rebecca McKean and Alan Winson talk with poets Amy Barone and Ron Kolm -- about: Extinction / Gambling with God / Men's love of their penes / COVID / Bison comeback / Book thieves and Ceiling stompers / Suicide and Attempted suicide / and -- of course -- A child's bicycle. Can you resist? CONTACT: barcrawlradio@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    52 min
  4. Poetry as Play with Phillis Levin & Heather Dubrow

    06/05/2024

    Poetry as Play with Phillis Levin & Heather Dubrow

    Phillis Levin’s poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Poetry magazine, Kenyon Review, among others, she has also published 5 collections of poems, and edited the sonnet anthology. She has taught at The University of Maryland, the Unterberg Poetry Center, the New School, and New York University, and currently is professor of English and poet-in-residence at Hofstra University. Among her honors are the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship and a residency at the American Academy in Rome   Heather Dubrow holds the John D. Boyd Chair in the Poetic Imagination at Fordham; she specializes in early modern lyric poetry and Shakespeare. She also taught at the University of Wisconsin. Faced with the academic profession’s stigma that scholars should not be creative writers, Dubrow had given up writing poetry for twenty years, but returned to poetry in the 1990s. She has published two chapbooks and two collections. Among the journals where her poetry has appeared are Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Yale Review. She was co-director of Fordham's Poets Out Loud public reading series from Fall 2009 to Summer 2020. CORRECTION: Chris gave the wrong date for the publication of Phillis Levin's newest poetry book. An Anthology of Rain will be available after April 15, 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    55 min
  5. Poetry Readings Abide!

    22/07/2022

    Poetry Readings Abide!

    It has been awhile since we have posted a "Poetry! What Is It Good For" episode. And this one was not done on Zoom but with the living poets before us at Gebhard's Beer Culture Bar on Manhattan's Upper West Side. For this conversation we talked about running live poetry readings with three poets and organizers: Anton Yakovlev is a well-published poet born in Moscow, Russia; he co-hosts the Carmine Street Metrics poetry reading series. We first heard about Lola Koundakjian when she hosted the World Poetry Movement's "For a World Without Walls" global poetry reading event. Lola heads up the Dead Armenian Poetry Society. And, Rachel Aydt has moved from writing poetry to short stories; she formerly co-hosted the Crystal Radio Sessions poetry reading series at a local UWS bar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    56 min
  6. 9/11: 2001 - 2021

    12/06/2022

    9/11: 2001 - 2021

    The Poetry Foundation editors write: “When major parts of our lives seem to change in a flash, we are reminded that poetry can help us to cope with new realities and to assess the unknowns ahead. When we are stepping out into uncharted terrain, alone or together, poetry can capture our emotions. It can share our vulnerabilities and scars, along with our strengths.” Today. we are sharing the first program of our new podcast co-produced with Chris Brandt -- “Poetry. What is it good for?” For this first episode, we explored the 20-year social and emotional after-tremors of the attack by Saudi Arabian terrorists on the United States through the powerful tool of poetry with J. Chester Johnson and Cornelius Eady.  J. Chester Johnson is a poet, playwright, essayist, translator, speaker and teacher. He visited Bar Crawl Radio a couple of months ago to talk about his book – “Damaged Heritage” -- on the history and his family’s connection with the 1919 Elaine, Arkansas Massacre, one of many human crimes against humanity in which U. S. White citizens killed over 100 U.S. Black citizens and then prosecuted the survivors for their act of murder.  Though Cornelius Eady, an American poet, focuses on issues of race and society, his verse accomplishes a lot more as indicated in his deeply felt reactions to the 9/11 attack on this country. Cornelius is also a musician whose verse is performed as song by The Cornelius Eady Trio. His poetry is simple and accessible, centering on jazz and blues, family life, violence, and society from a racial and class-based POV. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 4m
  7. Bergmann & Mullin: 2 Poets :: 1 Sculptor / 1 Painter

    12/06/2022

    Bergmann & Mullin: 2 Poets :: 1 Sculptor / 1 Painter

    PWIIGF podcast brings together two poets who have something in common read and talk about their work. For this episode we consider how word, image and mass interact within the creative artist.  Rick Mullin’s poetry has been published in many journals and anthologies, including The Dark Horse, American Arts Quarterly, The New Criterion, and Rabbit Ears: TV Poems. His collection “Lullaby and Wheel,” was published in 2019 by Kelsay Books. When he was in his mid-30s Rick visited the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and encountered paintings by Matisse, Braque and other Fauve artists that changed his life and he began to paint. Later, he became fascinated with the painter Chaim Soutine and wrote a biography of Soutine in poetry form. Thank you, Rick for joining us. Sculptor Meredith Bergmann creates public monuments exploring issues of history, social justice, race, human rights, disabilities, and the power of poetry and music. Bergmann’s work is well known in New York City for the FDR Hope Memorial on Roosevelt Island unveiled in 2019 – the September 11th Memorial in Cathedral of St. John the Divine in 2012 – and most recently the “Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument” in Central Park. Meredith Bergmann is also an accomplished poet and poetry critic -- her writing has appeared in Contemporary Poetry, Hudson Review and The New Criterion and she was poetry editor of The American Arts Quarterly from 2006 - 2017  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 2m
  8. Black Arts Movement 2021: Eugene Redmond & Darlene Roy

    12/06/2022

    Black Arts Movement 2021: Eugene Redmond & Darlene Roy

    Coming out of the call for “Black Power” in the 1960s by Malcolm X and others, historian and playwright Larry Neal describes a new breed of Black artist taking on the contradictions of the Black person’s experience in the racist West and developing a “black aesthetic.” For this "Poetry--What Is It Good For?" episode, we talked with one of the lead architects of Black Arts Movement [BAM] poetry, Eugene B. Redmond -- the longtime poet laureate of East St. Louis -- and with poet and Redmond colleague Darlene Roy who has run the Eugene B. Redmond Writer's Club of E. St. Louis for several decades. The conversation ranged from the beginnings of BAM within the Black Power era of the 1960s -- to the important poets of the period -- to the changes that were happening in this country as "negro / colored" turned to "Black." Ms. Roy read from her book "Afrosynthesis: A feast of Poetry and Folklore." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 16m
See All (19)

Trailer

About

"Poetry! What is it good for?" podcast is different. In other poetry podcasts -- a poet reads and talks about her poetry. "PWIIGF" brings together two poets who appreciate each others work to engage in a lively conversation and poetry reading on a topic that fascinates them. Along the way we find that poetry is good for a lot -- mostly to keep us human. Moderators Rebecca McKean and Alan Winson -- lovers of poetry -- and Chris Brandt -- a writer of poetry -- keep the conversation informal, critical and emotionally connected. If you enjoy poetry and want to meet some amazing poets and people -- give PWIIGF a try. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Information

Content Restricted

This episode can’t be played on the web in your country or region.

To listen to explicit episodes, sign in.

Stay up to date with this show

Sign-in or sign-up to follow shows, save episodes and get the latest updates.
Select a country or region

Africa, Middle East, and India

Asia Pacific

Europe

Latin America and the Caribbean

The United States and Canada