Poetry Gay Bar

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Please remember to shop indie and support poetry! We recommend Loyalty Bookstores, a great Black-owned bookstore if you are in need. Poets we talk about this episode include:

See Prof. Harryette Mullen read some of her tanka diary poems from Urban Tumbleweed here (~15 minute video).

You can see the fabulous Laura Kasischke read her poem "A is for Almost" here.  (~2 min)

Miguel Murphy was interviewed on Breaking Form back in February. Check out Miguel reading with Sandra Lim and Randall Mann here.  (~58 min)

C. Dale Young reads at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in this 5-minute clip here.

Lucie Brock-Broido reads her poem “You Have Harnessed Yourself Ridiculously to This World” here. The poem is from Stay, Illusion , which was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award.

You can see Randall Mann read his poem "Stalking Points" here. (~2 min)

Frank O'Hara's book is Lunch Poems. You can see cutie patootie Frank read "Having a Coke with You" here. (~2 min.)

Tim Liu presents 4 poems here (~10 min)

Elizabeth Bishop, A Cold Spring. You can read "Crusoe in England" here. 

Paul Monette, Love Alone: 18 Elegies for Rog. The text of one of those elegies, "No Goodbyes," can be found here. 

Watch Mary Oliver read "Wild Geese" here.

 Aaron references a cover of Robyn's hit "Dancing On My Own" by Kings of Leon. You can watch that here. Also, if you haven't seen one of the most iconic performances on Ru Paul's Drag Race -- when Raven and Jujubee's lip synced for their lives against each other to this song -- it's worth finding (here's a clip that's good for now).

Say Yes to the Dress returned in 2019 to help us through the pandemic.

Elizabeth Bishop poems we mention the titles of can be found in her Complete Poems. You can read various Bishop poems as well as other writers' critical essays on her work on the Modern American Poetry website here.