Poem Talk

Don’t Refuse to Breathe: A discussion of Frank O’Hara: “Song (Is it dirty)” & “Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed)”

The Whole World Smiles: A discussion of John Giorno’s “Everyone Is a Complete Disappointment”

Present Plans Succeed: A discussion of Dodie Bellamy’s “Vomit Journal”

Woot of the Century: A discussion of “Welter” and “Static” by Douglas Kearney

Rhetorical Happenings: A discussion of Hoa Nguyen, “Long Light.”

Nothing Made of Ink: A discussion of seven poems by Lisa Fishman

Untranslatable: A discussion of Armand Schwerner’s “Tablet 25” & “‘daddy, can you staple these two stars together to make an airplane?’”

Downgraded to Scribble: A discussion of four poems from Dead Winter by Matvei Yankelevich

Paw Mouthings: A discussion of Maggie O’Sullivan’s “Hill Figures” and “To Our Own Day”

Touch, Love, Then Explain: A discussion of “Some Trees” by John Ashbery

Composition of Life, as Life: A discussion of Joan Retallack’s The Poethical Wager (a several-page excerpt)

Girls in the Supply Chain: A discussion of Sawako Nakayasu’s book Some Girls Walk into the Country Where They Are From

When a Name Falls from a Face: A discussion of a selection from Divya Victor’s book Curb

Trance of Language: A discussion of “Sleeping with the Dictionary” & “Dim Lady” from Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen

Teach Us Love: A discussion of “Language” and “The Anatomy of Monotony” by Eugene Ostachevsky

Better To Lose & Win: A discussion of Diane di Prima’s Revolutionary Letters

Far in Toward the Far End: A discussion of George Quasha’s “preverbs.”

Hot and Cold: A discussion of Jayne Cortez’s “She Got He Got”

Must It Ring True: A discussion of Myung Mi Kim’s “And Sing We”

Coup Created by Our Thoughts: A discussion of “Colliding and Not Colliding at the Same Time” by Cecilia Vicuña