On the latest Poetry Spoken Here, Francesca Bell recommends one of the books she is reading: COFFIN HONEY by Todd Davis from MSU Press. Listen to the full episode, here: soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-…

NEW EPISODE! Marty Gervais reads from his new @UFPBooks book MEETING THOREAU AT THE GAS STATION DINER, poems about his experiences hitchhiking across Canada in the late 1960s meeting priests, wrestlers, and more. Listen to the full ep, here: soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-…

I need poems with titles beginning "How To---" In other words, poems that offer up instruction for something either concrete or abstract. Go to it, hive. I'm waiting.

NEW EPISODE! Charlie Rossiter reviews, and reads from, two major new collections of work by Gary Snyder and Jim Harrison. GARY SNYDER: COLLECTED POEMS from Library of America and JIM HARRISON: COMPLETE POEMS from Copper Canyon Press. Listen to the full ep. here: soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-…

You know what they say...like and subscribe! It's YouTube time for good ol' Close Talking: A Poetry Podcast.

Exciting times working on getting all the episodes of Close Talking: A Poetry Podcast up on YouTube! The sound quality in the early days was iffy, but the poems have always been top notch. Thinking of @connormstratton and the battles in Minneapolis while revisiting Urban Renewal for this vid.

In case you missed it the first time around, check out our episode on Sun Yung Shin : meet me on Bluesky & IG's poem Orphanotrophia. We're working on getting all our episodes up on the Cardboard Box Productions, Inc YouTube channel. Be sure to subscribe! #poetry #poetrypodcast #podcast youtube.com/watch?v=zEXoIc…

NEW EPISODE!!! Milestone time! Episode 200. An extra special interview with multi-award-winning musician, poet, and activist @tagaq. She reads from Split tooth (Viking Books 2018), gives insight into throat singing and much more. Check it out: soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-…

@tagaq Viking Books In addition to her writing, check out some of @tagaq's music! Her new albums Tongues and Tongues: North Star Remixes, are out now from Six Shooter Records.

You can bet that this audio snippet is going in the intro montage for NothingButTheBruce! And thank you to all the bootleggers of yore who made so much Springsteen concert audio available to us podcast scavengers.

“People love to make big pronouncements about poetry saving us. And I want to believe that, but for now, what I can say is…poetry can make us feel. And right now, maybe that’s enough.” Today’s poem is “The End of Poetry” by @adalimon bit.ly/3gYm7YI

Has our audio quality improved since then? Heck yeah it has! Want proof? Well listen to our latest ep. on "A Time" by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke who is a finalist for this year's National Book Foundation awards. #poetry #poetrypodcast #nationalbookaward soundcloud.com/close-talking/…

Check out this ep of Close Talking: A Poetry Podcast all about @adalimon's poem "Some Of Your Love With Me." It's a vintage ep from 2018. Since this episode first came out, the audio quality of Close Talking has improved and Ada Limón became US Poet Laureate. Big stuff! #poetry #poetrypodcast

It has been real fun going through the Close Talking: A Poetry Podcast back catalog to prep episodes for YouTube. This poem by @adalimon is one of my all time favorites. Also if you haven't listened to Aretha Franklin's "Share Your Love With Me" lately, remedy that quick! youtube.com/watch?v=h2uLNf…

All eps of Close Talking are headed to YouTube! Check out this one from early 2018 where Connor S and @JackRossiterMun discuss "Poplar Street" by 兔兒神. Humor, heartbreak, glorious use of colloquial voice, and much more. Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=9guLjW…

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Count on @adalimon to find not one, not two, but THREE meanings for the word "speaker." @connormstratton and @JackRossiterMun marvel over the lines: Me, I became the shaking speaker, all my hairs like lung’s thin cilia waving in a whir of song Full ep.: soundcloud.com/close-talking/…

If you like music. If you like poetry. If you like poetry about music, check out @adalimon's poem "Some of your Love with Me." Also listen to Aretha Franklin's "Share Your Love with Me" youtube.com/watch?v=h2uLNf…

In the @NatalieGDiaz poem, "My Brother at 3am" the cyclical aspects of addiction are mirrored in the poem's form - a pantoum full of repeating lines. Listen to the full episode, here: soundcloud.com/close-talking/… x.com/CloseTalking/s…

Quick before it all goes under! Every episode of Close Talking will be going to YouTube - one a day until we're all caught up. Anyway, subscribe to the YouTube today: youtube.com/channel/UCCCSp…