Episode #143 REBROADCAST: Additional Notes On Tea - Fady Joudah
A return to when Connor and Jack explored Fady Joudah's poem "Additional Notes on Tea." They discuss how the poem moves around the globe, how it inter...
Close Talking: A Poetry Podcast
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Close Talking is a podcast hosted by good friends Connor Stratton and Jack Rossiter-Munley. In each episode the two read a poem and discuss at length. The pop culture references fly as freely as the literary theories. Close Talking is a poetry podcast anyone can enjoy.
Episode #142 The Nightmare Touched Its Forehead to My Lips - Andrés Cerpa
Connor and Jack discuss a poem by Andrés Cerpa whose book "The Vault" was recently long-listed for the 2021 National Book Award in Poetry. They dive i...
EXTRA: Foreign Policy Follies and Congressional Subcommittees - More on Shitty Kitty by Don Mee Choi
In this bonus episode Connor and Jack continue their discussion of Don Mee Choi's poem, Shitty KItty. This time they focus on (rant about?) the histor...
Episode #141 Shitty Kitty - Don Mee Choi
Connor and Jack discuss Don Mee Choi's "Shitty Kitty" from her 2016 book "Hardly War." They enmesh themselves in the tangled histories the poem explor...
Episode #140 First Snow - Aria Aber
Connor and Jack discuss the poem "First Snow" by Aria Aber. They explore the poem's subtle and marvelous use of perspective, the representation of sno...
Episode #139 Excerpt from John Brown's Body - Stephen Vincent Benét
Connor and Jack dig into an excerpt from the epic, book-length poem "John Brown's Body" by Stephen Vincent Benet. In the late 1920s the book was a meg...
Episode #138 Why I Am Silent About The Lament - Abdullah Al-Baradouni
Connor and Jack discuss the poem "Why I Am Silent About The Lament" by Abdullah Al-Baradouni, translated by Threa Almontaser. Despite being one of the...
Episode #137 Time Traveler - Patrick Cotter
Time travel stories are everywhere - Avengers: Endgame, Loki, Back to the Future, Outlander, the list is endless - but what happens when a poem takes ...
Episode #136 Coping - Audre Lorde
Connor and Jack discuss the Audre Lorde poem "Coping." They discuss Lorde's legacy as a writer and theorist, how poems and other pieces of culture can...
Episode #135 Pulitzer Prize Winner Natalie Diaz and Postcolonial Love Poem - SPECIAL EPISODE
The Pulitzer Prizes just announced the 2021 winners and in poetry, Natalie Diaz won for her collection "Postcolonial Love Poem." In this special episo...