Texts For Nothing: Conversations with Poets

Antonio Ochoa
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The premise of the show is to have a relaxed and informal conversation with poets about their work and interests. I imagine Texts For Nothing as the opposite of an academic or scholarly pursuit, and by that I mean just two people talking about things they find important and meaningful. Being an expert on something is not a requirement, rather I would like to emphasize in this show that curiosity and imagination are more important than erudition.

Episodes

  1. 04/26/2025

    Forrest Gander: Deep Listening

    A conversation with Forrest Gander

    41 min

  2. 04/26/2025

    Forrest Gander: Deep Listening

    Texts For Nothing: Conversations with Poets

    41 min

  3. 05/08/2024

    Episode 2.5 Kate Colby: The poem as an organ of perception

    Texts For Nothing: Conversations with Poets

    54 min

  4. 02/10/2024

    Episode 2.4 Sara Deniz Akant: Strange Making

    Author of Parades and Babette, her latest book is Hyperphantasia. Her work is of a radical imagination. The reader who enters the space of her poems faces at first a slight sense of disorientation. The way one feels in a building of unfamiliar layout. Because our usual expectations are not immediately met, the reader begins to feel both anxiety and wonder. Sara Denis Akant is able to bring about conflicting emotions and ideas and hold them there in unresolved tension. Like a slow panning shot that seems to take too long until we stop anticipating the next action and we start paying attention to the details of the image, her poems are an invitation.

    50 min

  5. 12/27/2023

    Episode 2.3 Linda Norton: A little attic of my own

    Conversation with poet and visual artist Linda Norton.

    48 min

  6. 04/07/2023

    Episode 2.2 Kristen Case

    In this episode I had the opportunity to speak with Kristen Case. She is the author of two books of poems “Little Arias” and “Principles of Economics” and has a new manuscript “Daphne” looking for a home. An editor and a professor of English at the university of Maine, she wrote a fascinating book on the connections between philosophy and poetry called “American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice”

    1h 3m
  7. Michael Franco

    04/16/2022

    Michael Franco

    This conversation with poet Michael Franco took place in The Press Room in Somerville, MA on April 2nd, 2022.

    1 hr
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The premise of the show is to have a relaxed and informal conversation with poets about their work and interests. I imagine Texts For Nothing as the opposite of an academic or scholarly pursuit, and by that I mean just two people talking about things they find important and meaningful. Being an expert on something is not a requirement, rather I would like to emphasize in this show that curiosity and imagination are more important than erudition.

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