Poem Talk 

Kelly Writers House impresario Al Filreis leads a lively roundtable discussion of a single poem with a series of rotating guests including Tracie Morris, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, erica kaufman, Charles Bernstein, Sawako Nakayasu, Simone White, and others.

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Title	Date published
Don’t Refuse to Breathe: A discussion of Frank O’Hara: “Song (Is it dirty)” & “Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed)”	2023-06-28
The Whole World Smiles: A discussion of John Giorno’s “Everyone Is a Complete Disappointment”	2023-05-22
Present Plans Succeed: A discussion of Dodie Bellamy’s “Vomit Journal”	2023-04-17
Woot of the Century: A discussion of “Welter” and “Static” by Douglas Kearney	2023-03-17
Rhetorical Happenings: A discussion of Hoa Nguyen, “Long Light.”	2023-02-24
Nothing Made of Ink: A discussion of seven poems by Lisa Fishman	2023-01-11
Untranslatable: A discussion of Armand Schwerner’s “Tablet 25” & “‘daddy, can you staple these two stars together to make an airplane?’”	2022-12-22
Downgraded to Scribble: A discussion of four poems from Dead Winter by Matvei Yankelevich	2022-11-25
Paw Mouthings: A discussion of Maggie O’Sullivan’s “Hill Figures” and “To Our Own Day”	2022-10-31
Touch, Love, Then Explain: A discussion of “Some Trees” by John Ashbery	2022-09-28
Composition of Life, as Life: A discussion of Joan Retallack’s The Poethical Wager (a several-page excerpt)	2022-08-26
Girls in the Supply Chain: A discussion of Sawako Nakayasu’s book Some Girls Walk into the Country Where They Are From	2022-07-25
When a Name Falls from a Face: A discussion of a selection from Divya Victor’s book Curb	2022-06-15
Trance of Language: A discussion of “Sleeping with the Dictionary” & “Dim Lady” from Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen	2022-05-23
Teach Us Love: A discussion of “Language” and “The Anatomy of Monotony” by Eugene Ostachevsky	2022-04-22
Better To Lose & Win: A discussion of Diane di Prima’s Revolutionary Letters	2022-03-14
Far in Toward the Far End: A discussion of George Quasha’s “preverbs.”	2022-02-11
Hot and Cold: A discussion of Jayne Cortez’s “She Got He Got”	2022-01-14
Must It Ring True: A discussion of Myung Mi Kim’s “And Sing We”	2021-12-22
Coup Created by Our Thoughts: A discussion of “Colliding and Not Colliding at the Same Time” by Cecilia Vicuña	2021-11-24

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