Jason Gray
Jason Gray is the author of the poetry collections Radiation King and Photographing Eden. His poems and reviews have appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Image, and elsewhere.
Appears in 30 Episodes
Heather Lanier
Today, I’m so pleased to present my conversation with my friend, the essayist and poet, Heather Lanier, about her newest chapbook, Erasing the Book of Pregnancy. She i...
Patricia Smith
Today's show features Patricia Smith, whose The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems, won the National Book Award for Poetry last fall. It’s a tremendous book...
Matthew Francis
The show's first overseas guest! I'm delighted to present my conversation with poet Matthew Francis, who joins me from his home in Wales to talk about his new book, Th...
Elizabeth Bradfield
Today our guest is Elizabeth Bradfield, author of the new book of poems, SOFAR. Bradfield is also the author of the books Toward Antarctica; Once Removed; Approaching ...
Eric Pankey
Today on the show is poet Eric Pankey, whose recent collection, Vanishments, is out from Slant Books. Eric is the author of many books of poems, including For the New ...
Stanley Plumly / David Baker
Today on the show we have the poet David Baker—but he joins us to talk about another poet, the late Stanley Plumly, his good friend, and whose new Collected Poems he h...
Natalie Shapero
Today on the show it's Natalie Shapero, and her new book, Stay Dead, her fourth full-length collection. Stay Dead was nominated for the longlist of the National Book A...
Ross White
It’s episode 20! And a special one in many ways. It’s my first live in-person podcast recording, and it’s with my great friend Ross White! White is the author of Charm...
Matt Donovan & Jenny George
Something special today everyone! Double poet day! My guests are Matt Donovan and Jenny George, coauthors of the new chapbook, We Are Not Where We Are, published this ...
Felicia Zamora
Today on the show we have Felicia Zamora with her new book Interstitial Archaeology, an Editor’s Pick for the Wisconsin Poetry Series. Like the title says, it’s a book...
Sandra Marchetti
Today on the show is Sandra Marchetti, author of the new poetry collection, Diorama. In addition to Diorama, Marchetti is the author of Aisle 228, the 2023 Winner of T...
Traci Brimhall
On the show today is Kansas State Poet Laureate Traci Brimhall. Her new book of poems, Love Prodigal, is recently out from Copper Canyon. Brimhall's previous books of...
Lesley Wheeler
Today's show features poet Lesley Wheeler, and her wonderful new book of poems, Mycocosmic. It’s a fascinating book both in its individual poems and in its overall ass...
Christian Teresi
Today on the show we have poet Christian Teresi, talking about his new book, What Monsters You Make of Them, recently published by Red Hen Press. Teresi has published ...
Ava Nathaniel Winter
On the show is poet Ava Nathaniel Winter, whose new book, her first full-length collection, is the National Poetry Series–winning Transgenesis. Winter has also publish...
Sidebar: Richard Wilbur
I’ve always loved the poem "Year's End" by Richard Wilbur, and it is of course a great choice for the last day of the year, so here’s a short episode on this amazing p...
Abbie Kiefer
In time for your holiday travels, here is a new episode to cue up! Today, Abbie Kiefer talks about her new book, Certain Shelter, which focuses on the loss of her moth...
Carl Phillips
Today on the show is Carl Phillips, whose new book, Scattered Snows, to the North, has recently been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the US and Carcanet in t...
Matthew Buckley Smith
Today's guest is Matthew Buckley Smith, whose new book, Midlife, won the 2021 Richard Wilbur Poetry Award, and is out from Measure Press. He is also the author of Dirg...
Sidebar: Barbara Jordan
A new sidebar edition! This week I read and discuss Barbara Jordan's poem "The Discovery Room," from her book, Channel. Jordan only published two books of poems, and t...