Close Readings
Find it here on Spotify and Apple Podcasts
Episode 48: Huda Fakhreddine on Hiba Abu Nada (“Pull Yourself Together”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 47: Emily Wilson on Sappho (“Ode to Aphrodite”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 46: Robert Volpicelli on W. H. Auden (“In Memory of W. B. Yeats”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 45: Margaret Ronda on Walt Whitman (“This Compost”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 44: Michelle A. Taylor on Patricia Lockwood (“The Ode on Grecian Urn”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 43: Sylvie Thode on Tim Dlugos (“The Far West”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 42: Marisa Galvez on William IX (“The Song of Nothing”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 41: Stephanie Burt on Allan Peterson (“I thought all life came from the alphabet”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 40: Paul Fry on William Wordsworth (“A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 39: Keegan Cook Finberg on Harryette Mullen (“Dim Lady”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 38: Eric Lindstrom on James Schuyler (“Empathy and New Year”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 37: David B. Hobbs on George Oppen (“Ballad”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 36: Jahan Ramazani on Derek Walcott (“A Far Cry from Africa”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 35: Elisa Gabbert on Sylvia Plath (“Lady Lazarus”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 34: Hanif Abdurraqib on Umang Kalra (“Job Security”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 33: Ellen Bryant Voigt on Louise Glück (“Brooding Likeness”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 32: Langdon Hammer on Louise Glück (“A Foreshortened Journey”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 31: Elisa Gonzalez on Louise Glück (“A Village Life”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 30: Jeff Dolven on Sir Thomas Wyatt (“They Flee from Me”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 29: Matthew Zapruder on James Tate (“Quabbin Reservoir”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 28: Priscilla Gilman on William Cowper (“The Castaway”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 27: Kristin Grogan on Lorine Niedecker (“Poet’s Work”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 26: Gillian White on Elizabeth Bishop (“Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 25: Walt Hunter on Gwendolyn Brooks (“kitchenette building”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 24: Evan Kindley on Kenneth Koch (“One Train May Hide Another”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 23: Johanna Winant on Emily Dickinson (“My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun —”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 22: Dan Chiasson on William Butler Yeats (“Among School Children”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 21: Sarah Osment on David Berman (“Governors on Sominex”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 20: Andrew Epstein on John Ashbery (“Street Musicians”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 19: Harris Feinsod on William Carlos Williams (“To Elsie'“): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 18: Virginia Jackson on Phillis Wheatley (“To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 17: Willard Spiegelman on Amy Clampitt (“Losing Track of Language”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 16: Oren Izenberg on Allen Grossman ("The Life and Death Kisses"): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 15: Maya C. Popa on Gerard Manley Hopkins (“Spring and Fall”): Spotify, Apply Podcasts
Episode 14: Evie Shockley on Ed Roberson (“Open / Back Up (breadth of field)”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 13: Kimberly Quiogue Andrews on Wallace Stevens (“Man Carrying Thing”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 12: Eric Lindstrom on James Schuyler (“February”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 11: Beci Carver on Thomas Hardy (“The Voice”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 10: Christopher Spaide on Terrance Hayes (“The Golden Shovel”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 9: Sarah Dowling on Liz Howard (“True Value”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 8: Stephanie Burt on Randall Jarrell (“The Player Piano”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 7: Katie Kadue on Andrew Marvell (“The Garden”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 6: Anthony Reed on June Jordan (“In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 5: Lindsay Turner on Elizabeth Bishop (“The Shampoo”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 4: Stephen Guy-Bray on George Herbert (“Prayer [I]”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 3: Langdon Hammer on James Merrill (“Christmas Tree”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 2: Anahid Nersessian on John Keats (“Ode to Psyche”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Episode 1: Brian Glavey on Frank O’Hara (“Having a Coke with You”): Spotify, Apple Podcasts