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 13 Episodes
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...
Christian J. Collier
Today's show features poet Christian J. Collier, author of the new book of poems, Greater Ghost, hot off the press from Four Way Books. This is a book full of smart, t...
Dan O'Brien
Today on the show is Dan O'Brien, discussing his new book, Flying on Easter and Other Poems. This pamphlet was published by Poetry London Editions in the UK, and is dr...
Callie Siskel
Today on the show is poet Callie Siskel, discussing her new book, Two Minds. It's a terrific book, one that is, in part, about her father, the late, wonderful film cri...
Kevin Prufer
On the show this week is Kevin Prufer, author of the new book of poems, The Fears, which just won the Rilke Prize, as well as the new novel, Sleepaway. Prufer is the a...
Philip Metres
Today's show features poet Philip Metres discussing his new book, Fugitive/Refuge, published in April by Copper Canyon Press. Philip Metres is the author of twelve boo...
J.L. Conrad
Today on the show is poet J.L. Conrad, whose new book, A World in Which, was released in April by Terrapin Books. J.L. Conrad’s first full-length book is A Cartography...
Sidebar: Anthony Hecht
This week the show takes a twist: this is Drunk as a Poet on Payday: Sidebar Edition. Here I read and discuss Anthony Hecht's poem, "A Hill," from his Pulitzer Prize-w...
Lisa Ampleman
Episode 3 is an auspicious meeting of astronomical event and poetry book, as today we feature Lisa Ampleman and her book Mom in Space on the day of the total solar ecl...
Jesse Nathan
Episode 2 features Jesse Nathan, whose first book, Eggtooth, was released last fall from Unbound Edition Press. One poem in the book, “Dame's Rocket,” was selected for...
Cynthia Marie Hoffman
In this premier episode, Jason Gray speaks with Cynthia Marie Hoffman, whose new book, Exploding Head, is a memoir-in-prose poems about her life as a young child and a...
