Poetry Off the Shelf Poetry Foundation
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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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Style All the Way Down
Joyelle McSweeney on sound, style icons, and the Ovidian landscape of her ear canal.
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The Fire in Which We Burn
Sara Henning on radical truth, obsessive forms, and letting go of grief.
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My Heart and Its Borders
Philip Metres on middle age, writer's block, and praying for the people of Palestine.
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My Awesome Stoma
April Gibson on chronic illness, religion, and being a teenage mother.
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Working-Class Superheroes
Declan Ryan on his father's construction job, tenderness between boxers, and the inevitable tragic end.
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All the Shiny Knives
Monica Rico on cooking, grunt work, and the heat at General Motors.