Reading BAP (a poetguru podcast)

Thom Ingram
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Every year for my birthday, I buy myself a copy of the best American poetry. Some years I read it all the way through, some years I don’t. This year we’re gonna read it together. - Thom

Episodes

  1. 12/07/2025

    Episode 5: Tell Me Something Good

    In Episode 5 we read a poem from one of the elders of the movement, Margaret Atwood.

    11 min

  2. 12/07/2025

    Episode 4: At The Gate

    In Episode 4 we visit one of my favorite poetic forms, the Villanelle.

    10 min

  3. 11/22/2025

    Episode 3: Incantation for a Lake

    In Episode 3 we are met with a poem that navigates the ways in which we collect and count the bodies.

    9 min

  4. 11/12/2025

    Episode 2 - Forwards

    In this second episode we discuss the two forwards of BAP 2025, the Series Editor and Guest Editor, and the condition of poetry in 2025.

    11 min
  5. Episode 1 - The People’s History of 1998

    11/09/2025

    Episode 1 - The People’s History of 1998

    In this episode I skip over the two forwards and go right to the first poem, “The People’s History of 1998” by Gbenga Adesina

    13 min
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Every year for my birthday, I buy myself a copy of the best American poetry. Some years I read it all the way through, some years I don’t. This year we’re gonna read it together. - Thom

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