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Welcome to Good Poetry, the podcast about exactly that. In each episode, we will interview poets, review poetry books, and have discussions to try and understand, "What is good poetry?"
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Heidi Kidd is a poet with a lot to say. About love, about art, about how our own internal dialogues shape who we are. This conversation about her first book, Something Like Gravity, covers all that and more. It's an honest look at what self-worth and self-respect mean, and how poetry helps us make sense of the complexity that is our own hearts. You…
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Quinn Bailey is a poet, naturalist, and wildlife tracker who for the last seven years has been helping people find a deeper connection to the natural world through ancestral skills and cultural mentoring. We talk about his upcoming book, The Currents of the World, his epiphany that he wanted to be a poet, and the importance of the spark of creativi…
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Joey Doherty is a licensed professional counselor, certified wellness counselor, nature lover, and poet. He's on a quest to write a new book every year...and so far he's three for three. We talk about his newest collection of poems, Color the World, and about the importance of poetry and nature in our lives. You can follow Joey on Instagram @joeydo…
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Scott Edward Anderson is the author of FALLING UP: A Memoir of Second Chances, DWELLING: an ecopoem, FALLOW FIELD, and WALKS IN NATURE’S EMPIRE. He has been a Concordia Fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts and received the Nebraska Review Award. His poetry has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Cimarron Review, The…
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Past guest Brendan Lorber rejoins us this week to talk about ghosts and his ghost story novel he's been working. We talk about ghosts and how they relate to relics of the past in city's, lost love ones, and creativity and the subconscious.Joseph
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Katie Anthonyson is an up-and-coming poet from Indianapolis. Her love of poetry has led her to found Youth Speaks, a non-profit organization that brings poetry and spoken word to schools in the Indianapolis area. In this conversation, we talk about her background and her discovery of her writing voice, her dreams for Youth Speaks, and the importanc…
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Heidi Barr is an award winning writer, health coach, and now poet. I visited her beautiful home in northern Minnesota to talk about her new collection of poems, Cold Spring Hallelujah, and how nature poetry is so much more than talking about a flower... You can follow Heidi on Instagram @heidicbarr, or visit her website at heidibarr.com. You can pu…
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No guest this week, so we recount what's been going on with poetry in our world the past couple weeks, talk about Steve Dalachinsky and read a couple of his poems, the intersection between jazz and poetry, music and poetry in general, about bringing the historical into poetry, and we look at a Vice article about someone faking it as an instagram po…
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This week poet and novelist Travis Nichols talks about poets writing auto-fiction, the artifice-sincerity polarity, Ashberyists vs. O'Haraists, how Twitter has changed what makes poets popular, David Berman, and how poetry can gesture towards another world.Joseph
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The day after New Orleans Poetry Fest we sat down with poets Joseph Lease and Mark Statman and had a wonderfully sprawling conversation about poetry. Some topics include: the poetry scene in the '80s, "words you can't use in poems, Creeley. Koch, & Ginsberg, how Joseph "used to be a hard critic but he softened up," reading Beats in teh time of L=A=…
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This week poet Vincent Cellucci joins us to talk about his course on film and poetry, how the two mediums intersect, videopoems, and how to make interactive poetry that makes use of current technology and shares some poems from his new book Absence Like Sun.Joseph
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It's carnival time, and we are thinking about Mardi Gras poems this week. We share some of our favorite poetry about carnival and wonder why there isn't more out there, and we pontificate about how much that one Tuesday a year shapes New Orleans culture.Joseph
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On January 1st, for the first time since 1998, a whole bunch of creative work entered the public domain. This week we talk about how copyrights work and if we think they really work, read some poetry that recently became public domain, and talk about how work from the 20s could be a font of inspiration for today's poets and artists.…
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Poet Jorge Sánchez has been contemplating how poets find the forms that they write in when the majority of poets don't use traditional forms. We talk about constraints born of choice, medium, lifestyle, chance and luck and hopefully find a way to forge some new paths through the thicket of poetic form. And the best part is Jorge shares with us a co…
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This week poet Hank Lazer joins us to talk about docupoetry, his shape writing, keeping open the gateway of poetry, poetry as phonomenolgy of spiritual experience, and how we can make poetry readings less passive and more of an immersive experience.Joseph
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This week poet and musician Matt Hart joined us by Skype from his basement lair, and we had a great conversation about teaching poetry writing to visual arts students, the intersection of punk and poetry, Apollinaire, translating, writing a poem every day for a year and more. Matt shares with us some of his poems and one of his obliterations of Apo…
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This week poet, teacher, and editor Ralph Adamo joins us to chat about teaching poetry, the editing process and how poems are language trying to tell the truth. He shares some of his own poems and poems by Frank Stanford and Everette Maddox.Joseph
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This week poet Shafer Hall joins us to talk about his long time collaboration with poet John Cotter and their new project: writing poetry about pieces of visual art. We talk about how it creates depth to add collaborators into your writing process, how running a bar intersects with poetry, avocado plants, and Shafer reads 2 of their ekphrastic poem…
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This week poet Laura Goldstein joins us to tell us about the workshop she held this week at The Dragonfly: "Collective Experiment in Audience," and she reads us a solstice poem that she wrote. We also chat about coaching poets, the difference between writing poetry for self-exploration and writing for an external audience, and how the current polit…
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This week we start off talking about how we taught a visual poetry workshop at NOCCA and how that went, but as we talk about teaching, what we learned, and how best to present poetry, we spiral off into some interesting linguistic features of speech and how that relates to poetry and visual poetry.Joseph
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This week we talk about our trip to Uruguay, our great time at the Mundial Poético de Montevideo, and the visual workshop we put on there. We also discuss how impressed we were by the wide range of poetry going on in South America and how there seems to be a greater embrace of exploring sound and visual techniques. we also go through a brief survey…
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While we were in Montevideo, we sat down and had a chat with 3 great Brazilian poets, Amora Pêra, Pedro Lago, & Pedro Rocha. We talk about typewriters, poetry in Brazil, listening to poems in different languages, printing, and they share some poems with us.Joseph
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Poet Rodrigo Toscano joins us this week, and though we don't have much of a plan in mind, we have a pretty nice chat about how the New Orleans poetry scene is different from the scene in other places, writing poetry for a non-poet audience, monetizing poetry, poets looking for fame, hapenings, neo-happenings, interactive readings, poetry schools an…
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Anaphora for days! Poet Raina Zelinski joins me this week to talk about list poems. How can a poem create repetition? Is there a difference, between litany, catalogues, and list poems? We look at list poems by John Ashbery, Bernadette Mayer, Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, Ted Berrigan, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.…
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This week poet and editor Brendan Lorber joins us to talk about the poetic space of train travel and torturing a neighbor by reading Rimbaud's Drunken Boat, but the conversation really gets going when we discuss what white space can add to poetry, exploring different ways of using the page, and why more poets don't make use of it.…
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There's no guest this week as we explore the concept of abstraction in poetry. Writers often make a distinction between abstract and concrete language, and imply that concrete is best, but we look at how the distinction between concrete and abstract is actually much more complex and interesting than we usually think about. We talk about Dame Edith …
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Dr. Jeffery U. Darensbourg joins us to talk about the new zine Bulbancha is Still A Place: Indigenous Culture from New Orleans, share with us some poems by Native writers from the first issue, and talk about the too often forgotten and ignored contributions of indigenous culture to Louisiana culture.…
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This week is all about sonnets, both traditional and modern. We read and talk about sonnets by John Keats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Butler Yeats, John Berryman, e.e. cummings, Ted Berrigan, Bernadette Mayer, Ron Padgett, and Terrance Hayes.Joseph
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Rapper #FFFFFF of Sex Party joins us this week to talk about how performing rap and poetry intersect, we read a couple poems from the used copy Of Jim Tate's Viper Jazz that I just got in the mail, and Makkos shares a collaborative poem that he and Xena Smith wrote.Joseph
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In this episode we are joined by special guests Sidney Manuel and David Moss of the Parking Lot Movie Podcast to review another poetry flick: Alejandro Jodorowsky's Endless Poetry. Spoilers abound, so if you plan on watching the movie, watch it before you listen.Joseph
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Caroline Zimmer, poet and bartender, joins us to talk about 6 poets that are lesser known, and we read some of their poetry: Hannah Weiner, Paul Klee, Henri Michaux, Richard Hugo, Bernard Heidsieck, and Albert Goldbarth.Joseph
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This week Todd Cirillo joins us to talk about his belief that poetry should be fun and accessible and that poets should be at home in barrooms, bowling alleys and truck stops. We discuss what accessibility in poetry might mean, what could be different about poetry readings, and how to expand poetry's audience, and Todd shares some of his own poems …
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