Friday, March 17, 2023

PoemTalk #182: on Two Poems by Douglas Kearney

Today we released the latest episode in the PoemTalk Podcast series — number 182 if you're counting — which focuses on a pair of poems from Douglas Kearney's Sho, winner of the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize. The panel joining host Al Filreis to discuss "Welter" & "Static" are (left to right) co-curator Divya Victor and panelists Whitney Trettien and Dagmawi Woubshet.

As Filreis notes in his Jacket2 blog post announcing the new episode, this session coincided with several other events during a visit by Victor to the Writers House, "including a marvelous reading from her new work and discussion with Julia Bloch." Filreis also includes links to multiple takes of each of the two poems, which were recorded specially for this episode by Kearney.

Listen to this latest program, find links to the text of each poem, and learn more about the show here. PoemTalk is a joint production of PennSound and the Poetry Foundation, aided by the generous support of Nathan and Elizabeth Leight. Browse the full PoemTalk archives, spanning more than a decade, by clicking here.