poetry in your ears
August 2, 2022
If you enjoy listening to poets read and talk about their work, here are a few more poetry podcast options to enjoy while you’re lounging poolside:
Dear Poetry is a brand-new poetry podcast series by Luisa Beck that is an advice column that turns to poems for answers to callers’ questions. More on Dear Poetry on NPR.
Close Readings is a podcast series from the London Review of Books in which “Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the lives and works of 20th-century poets through the lens of pieces written about them in the LRB, and Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Wellesley consider the lives and voices of women in medieval literature.”
“The New Books Network is a consortium of author-interview podcast channels dedicated to raising the level of public discourse by introducing scholars and other serious writers to a wide public via new media.” Available through all the usual podcast sources, NBnPOETRY offers a series of interviews with poets and scholars of poetry talking about their new books.
With 24 episodes and counting, of poetry is a podcast series of “kitchen table conversations with poets” hosted by Han VanderHart.
The Poetry Department . . . aka The Boynton Blog 