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Podcasts
- Episode 117 Fuck Your Lecture On Craft, My People Are Dying - Noor Hindi
1/8/2021
Recorded before the attempted coup at the US Capitol, Jack and Connor discuss the poem "Fuck Your Lecture On Craft, My People Are Dying" by Noor Hindi…
- Episode 116 Those Winter Sundays - Robert Hayden
12/25/2020
The first ever Close Talking episode to drop on Christmas day is a fittingly wintery pick - Connor and Jack contemplate the many layers of meaning in…
- Episode 115 The Problem Of Describing Trees - Robert Hass
12/11/2020
Connor and Jack get meta and lose both the forest and the trees while dancing with Robert Hass' poem, "The Problem of Describing Trees." They discuss…
- Episode 114 Landscape With a Blur of Conquerors - Richard Siken
11/27/2020
Connor and Jack amble through the enchantingly twisting Richard Siken poem "Landscape with a Blur of Conquerors." They discuss the responsibility of…
- Episode 113 After the Election 2.0 - Close Talking Turns 4!
11/13/2020
Connor and Jack go back to the roots of Close Talking for a literary reflection on a consequential election. The first episode of Close Talking, which…