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Spoken poetry lovers! Recent DV debut poet Caylin Capra-Thomas was featured this week on Poetry Spoken Here, reading some poems from IGUANA IGUANA and discussing important advice for writing and life with host Charlie Rossiter. Check it out: soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-…

Such great poem! And one that was covered on Close Talking: A Poetry Podcast a little while ago: soundcloud.com/close-talking/…

melissa lozada-oliva Shameless plug, but Connor S and I discussed this incredible poem on Close Talking: A Poetry Podcast. I think about it *all the time* ever since that convo. soundcloud.com/close-talking/…

Francesca Bell reads poems, talks about writing through the brain fog of long COVID, and her forthcoming book WHAT SMALL SOUND which will be published by Red Hen Press in the spring of 2023. Listen to the full episode, here: soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-…

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-…

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-…

Close Talking is on YouTube! We're starting uploads with our oldest episodes and bringing things right up to today. Maybe you missed some of our first eps? Since then we've improved our sound quality and our analysis but the poems have always been bangers. youtube.com/watch?v=dshoh1…

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…

We're working on getting all eps of Close Talking up on YouTube. Same great analysis, now with visuals! Yesterday we we put up an ep. from 2018 where we talked about the exceptional poem "Some of Your Love With Me" by joa 𓏲ּ𝄢. #poetry #poetlaureate youtube.com/watch?v=132ccv…

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/…

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…

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/…

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…