One poem. One guest. Each episode, Kamran Javadizadeh, a poetry critic and professor of English, talks to a different leading scholar of poetry about a ...

Elisa Gabbert [http://www.elisagabbert.com/] joins the podcast to talk about a poem she and I have both long loved, Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus [https://www.

What kind of work is the work of poetry, and how does it compare with other kinds of labor? We have the perfect pairing of poem and critic to think through ...

I've been waiting for a chance to talk about an Emily Dickinson poem on the podcast, and no one better to do it with than my friend Johanna Winant ...

One poem. One guest. Each episode, Kamran Javadizadeh, a poetry critic and professor of English, talks to a different leading scholar of poetry about a ...

After a little hiatus, the podcast returns with a cluster of new episodes on the great, late poet Louise Glück, recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in ...

We talk about the nature of erotic desire, what it's like to have a crush, and how a poem can be like a spell. Emily Wilson is Professor of Classical Studies at ...