PoetryNow

Poetry Foundation

PoetryNow is a weekly four-minute radio series featuring some of today’s most accomplished and innovative poets who offer an acoustically rich and reflective look into a single poem.

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99 episodes
Updated Apr 18, 2023

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Aug 19, 2019 · 4 min
We Are Saying Yes, But Who Are We to Say
Khaled Mattawa remembers the sense of hope felt during the Arab Spring and at the prospect of having a second child. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Aug 12, 2019 · 4 min
immediately motionless likeness
Kirsten Ihns considers the way a poem can dance the reader’s mind. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Aug 5, 2019 · 4 min
Euphorbia
Eric Baus demonstrates how the powerful can learn from something seemingly small and weak. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Jul 29, 2019 · 4 min
At the Vietnam Center and Archive
Hai-Dang Phan examines archival documents concerning the abduction of a young Vietnamese woman by Thai pirates in the 1980s. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Jul 22, 2019 · 4 min
Cold Valley
Cedar Sigo pays tribute to the poet Joanne Kyger, who died in March of 2017. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Jul 15, 2019 · 4 min
Time Traveler's Haibun: 1989
Maureen Thorson recalls details of her life in 1989 when she was 10 years old. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Jul 8, 2019 · 4 min
Sanctuary Stairs
Jared Stanley imagines how climate change will displace populations and what that could mean for one’s family. Produced by Katie Klocksin. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
Jul 1, 2019 · 4 min
Goodwill, Buffalo, NY
Kimberly Lyons interrogates the purchase of second-hand clothes and the writing of poetry. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Jun 24, 2019 · 4 min
Roadrunners
André Naffis-Sahely visits the desert of Arizona and contemplates the cruelty of the Trump Administration’s policy of family separation at the southern border. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Jun 17, 2019 · 4 min
Held in the Arms of St. Francis & the Virgin
Jasmine Gibson writes a love poem to her partner. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Jun 10, 2019 · 4 min
15 Years of Paris
Katy Bohinc leaves Paris and writes a poem of apology after a misunderstanding with someone close to her. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Jun 3, 2019 · 4 min
Beulah Peel Me a Grape
Patricia Spears Jones considers the dynamics of race through the lens of a 1930s Mae West film. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
May 27, 2019 · 4 min
Nerve
Geoffrey Hilsabeck imagines a conversation between Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson as they walk through Boston Common.
May 20, 2019 · 4 min
An Animal Unfit for Living Unmolested
Ginger Ko imagines the near future when humans will possess a fully automated representative. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
May 13, 2019 · 4 min
The Great San Bernardino Pitch Party
Callie Garnett makes an ad pitch for her poetry. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
May 6, 2019 · 4 min
Black Flowers
Norma Cole meditates on the Syrian refugee crisis. Produced by Colin McNulty.
Apr 29, 2019 · 4 min
X Number
Chris Glomski considers the variables that comprise a human life. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Apr 22, 2019 · 4 min
In a Daydream of Being the Big House Missus
Justin Phillip Reed imagines an inverted history of slavery. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Apr 15, 2019 · 4 min
Taste
Jessica Laser considers wisdom, poetry, and procrastination. Produced by Katie Klocksin.
Apr 8, 2019 · 4 min
Hour in which I consider hydrangea
Simone White documents a mother’s life with her infant son. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

PoetryNow

We Are Saying Yes, But Who Are We to Say

immediately motionless likeness

Euphorbia

At the Vietnam Center and Archive

Cold Valley

Time Traveler's Haibun: 1989

Sanctuary Stairs

Goodwill, Buffalo, NY

Roadrunners

Held in the Arms of St. Francis & the Virgin

15 Years of Paris

Beulah Peel Me a Grape

Nerve

An Animal Unfit for Living Unmolested

The Great San Bernardino Pitch Party

Black Flowers

X Number

In a Daydream of Being the Big House Missus

Taste

Hour in which I consider hydrangea