You Shouldn't Let Poets Lie to You

Amelia Ada and Alexandria Hall
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You Shouldn't Let Poets Lie to You

An irreverent chat show in which hosts Amelia Ada and Alexandria Hall interview poets and invite them to tell you beautiful lies about a random assortment of subjects.

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    About the Electoral College (w/ T Bambrick)

    In this uniquely timely episode of Poets Lie, Alexandria and Amelia ask poet T Bambrick (author of Intimacies, Received, 2022) to explain everyone's favorite American institution of higher learning: The Electoral College. Who goes there? How do you get in? What's the graduation rate? How does it put the "mid" in Midwest? Listen to find out (maybe).We also get into: "Finland," Florida, skunks, alligators, Elizabeth Bishop and her ghost, ziplines, poetic lines, The UnTrimmed Bush, prose poems a...

    50 min

  2. 1 OCT.

    About Taking a Walk (w/ Callie Siskel)

    BLAMMO! Amelia and Alexandria are back with Season Two! Shaking off the crust of another hot goblin summer. Did you miss us? Don't lie.Our guest for this very special premiere out-and-about episode is Callie Siskel, expert loop-walker and author of Two Minds (Norton 2024).On our journey we discuss the elegiac mode, the meditative silence of art museums, the difficulty of walking and talking, good gait, snacking every quarter mile, horse idioms, secret staircases, the smell of lust, the etymol...

    1 h 8 min

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    About Conference

    Every year, in early spring, thousands of American poets flock to a city in the continental U.S. for a gathering known as Conference. What do they do there? What kind of business do they conduct? What is a “panel”?In this very special episode, Amelia and Alexandria travel to Kansas City, Missouri, to try and answer these questions, and more, in their first foray into investigative podcast fabulism.Babes, it's the season finale.Featuring a brilliant clown car of beautiful poets:Rebecca Bernard...

    1 h 11 min

  4. 19 FÉVR.

    About Bogs (w/ Tracy Fuad)

    Who's ready to get bogged up?!This month on YSLPLTY we're sitting down with Tracy Fuad to discuss her new book PORTAL (U Chicago Press 2024) and her deep and abiding love of land that is wet.We also get bogged up about: The Corn Feed, Renaissance Faires, German buses, noise, permeability, (poetry) business trips, types of doors, "land that's wet," revenue streams, Jason's ladder, getting really bogged up at The Corn Feed, the bog queen, the bogosphere, (de) and (re) composition, and Ye ...

    59 min

  5. 15 JANV.

    About Napoleon (w/ Erin Marie Lynch)

    Would you like it if we told you? If we told you about Napoleon? Would, would you like it?On this episode we invite the poet Erin Marie Lynch, author of Removal Acts (Graywolf 2023), to debunk common misunderstandings about everyone's favorite short king. Or was he really a toxic tall?We also get into the weeds with Amelia's favorite Gertrude Stein recording, Alexandria's inevitable conquering of The Great British Bake Off, ABBA, family hauntings, internet archives, the essential tenets of la...

    48 min

  6. 11/12/2023

    About Symbiosis (w/ Jesse Nathan)

    This month we get symbiotic with Jesse Nathan, author of Eggtooth (Unbound Edition 2023), who tells us sweet lies about interspecies cooperation, dependence, and all kinds of dynamic relation. Biological metaphors abound.Also discussed: Discourse Barbie, making Dogs, cat litter(ature), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, dreaming relevantly, lying rhymes, the singing of the frog, the little shovel, and being used well.Follow us on Instagram @poetsliepodcast, check out poetslie.biz and buy ...

    1 h 4 min

  7. 30/11/2023

    BONUS: Two Truths and a Lie with Elizabeth Metzger

    What do April Fools, alter egos, Sappho, and the cult classic 2001 film Scotland, Pa. have in common? Find out in this special BONUS CONTENT from Alexandria and Amelia's interview with poet Elizabeth Metzger.Don't underestimate her boldness.Be sure to listen to the full interview, follow us on Instagram @poetsliepodcast, and check out poetslie.biz.

    8 min

  8. 20/11/2023

    About the Tarot (w/ Elizabeth Metzger)

    Let’s get mystical! Elizabeth Metzger -- author of Lying In (Milkweed 2023) -- tells it slant, brings us deep into the five-layer dip of consciousness, and reads Amelia and Alexandria (for filth??).Also discussed: perfumery; head, heart, and base notes; the inevitable Emily Dickinson, inventor of tarot; wallpaper glue, bed rest, the unborn and the dead; and Amelia's bearded grandmother.Time to ask the cards. Bug -- Land -- Moon --Credit: The Emily Dickinson Tarot Deck we used is this one from...

    1 h 5 min
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An irreverent chat show in which hosts Amelia Ada and Alexandria Hall interview poets and invite them to tell you beautiful lies about a random assortment of subjects.

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  • Création
    Amelia Ada and Alexandria Hall
  • Années d’activité
    2023 - 2024
  • Épisodes
    14
  • Classification
    Contenu explicite
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    © 2024 You Shouldn't Let Poets Lie to You
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