Podcasts

• Episode 178 - Remembering Charles Simic

  1/13/2023

  A slight departure from our regular format. On today's show, Connor and Jack remember the recently departed poet Charles Simic. They read some of his…

• Episode 177 [Flicking off the light switch.] - Sherwin Bitsui

  12/23/2022

  Connor and Jack bid farewell to the year they've taken to calling "Twenty Twenty Poo" and contemplate the complexities of language in a wide-ranging…

• Episode 176 Topsoil, In Repentance - Sherry Shenoda

  12/9/2022

  Connor and Jack discuss the sonically and thematically dense poem "Topsoil, in Repentance" by Sherry Shenoda. Shenoda's book MUMMY EATERS was…

• Episode 175 - Poetry Spoken Here Ep. 132: Black Lives Matter

  11/25/2022

  After a busy couple weeks at Close Talking headquarters, a slightly different show. This episode is from our sister-podcast, Poetry Spoken Here. The…

• Episode 174 National Book Award 2022 - SPECIAL EPISODE

  11/18/2022

  In this special episode, Connor and Jack discuss the 2022 National Book Awards — the long list, the finalists, and the winner "Punks: New and Selected…