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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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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.

    My Heart and Its Borders

    My Heart and Its Borders

     Philip Metres on middle age, writer's block, and praying for the people of Palestine.

    • 1 hr 4 min
    My Awesome Stoma

    My Awesome Stoma

    April Gibson on chronic illness, religion, and being a teenage mother.

    • 44 min
    Working-Class Superheroes

    Working-Class Superheroes

    Declan Ryan on his father's construction job, tenderness between boxers, and the inevitable tragic end.

    • 46 min
    All the Shiny Knives

    All the Shiny Knives

    Monica Rico on cooking, grunt work, and the heat at General Motors.

    • 54 min
    Let Light Form

    Let Light Form

    Nam Le on commerce, irony vs. sincerity, and being in the Arctic. 

    • 1 hr 9 min
    Stay in Character

    Stay in Character

    Gregory Pardlo on improv, therapy, and driving around with his father’s ashes.

    • 45 min

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