Get Lit Minute
121 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago -A weekly podcast focusing on all things poetic, poetry and poets. Each week we will feature a poet and their poem. We will be highlighting classic poets from our In-School Anthology, sharing brief bios on the poet and a spoken word reading of one of their poems. We will also be introducing contemporary poets from the greater poetry community and our own Get Lit poets into the podcast space.
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Fatimah Asghar | “If They Come for Us”
March 21, 2024 17:00 - 12 minutes - 8.58 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, filmmaker, educator and performer, Fatimah Asghar. Their work has appeared in many journals, including POETRY Magazine, Gulf Coast, BuzzFeed Reader, The Margins, The Offing, Academy of American Poets and many others. Their work has been featured on new outlets like PBS, NPR, Time, Teen Vogue, Huffington Post, and others. In 2011, they created a spoken word poetry group in Bosni...
Carolyn Forché | “The Boatman”
March 12, 2024 17:00 - 11 minutes - 8.18 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet and writer, Carolyn Forché. Coiner of the term “poetry of witness,” she is frequently characterized as a political poet; she calls for poetry to invest in the “social.” She published her first book of poetry, Gathering the Tribes, in 1975. Forché received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship after translating the work of Salvadoran-exiled poet Claribel Algería in 1977; the fellowshi...
Joy Harjo | "Perhaps the World Ends Here"
March 05, 2024 18:00 - 11 minutes - 7.91 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet and writer, Joy Harjo. She is the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States and a member of the Mvskoke Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv (Hickory Ground). She is only the second poet to be appointed a third term as U.S. Poet Laureate. Harjo began writing poetry as a member of the University of New Mexico’s Native student organization, the Kiva Club, in response to...
Lateef McLeod | "I Am Too Pretty For Some Ugly Laws"
February 27, 2024 19:00 - 4 minutes - 3.37 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, writer, and scholar, Lateef McLeod. He published his first poetry book entitled A Declaration of A Body Of Love in 2010 chronicling his life as a black man with a disability and tackling various topics on family, dating, religion, spirituality, his national heritage and sexuality. He also published another poetry book entitled Whispers of Krip Love, Shouts of Krip Revolution thi...
W.E.B. Du Bois | "The Song of the Smoke"
February 20, 2024 19:00 - 9 minutes - 6.66 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, W.E.B. Du Bois. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, civil rights activist, and historian. Throughout his career, Du Bois was a founder and editor of many groundbreaking civil rights organizations and literary publications, such as The Niagara Movement and its Moon Illustrated Weekly and The Horizon periodicals, as well as the hugely influential National ...
PaigeLewis - "The Moment I Saw a Pelican Devour"
November 20, 2023 16:00 - 8 minutes - 5.69 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Page Lewis. Their poetry collections include Logically, I Know the Circus (2021), When I Tell My Husband I Miss the Sun, He Knows (2019), and You Can Take Off Your Sweater, I’ve Made Today Warm (2018). Support the show Support the show
Paige Lewis | "The Moment I Saw a Pelican Devour"
November 20, 2023 16:00 - 8 minutes - 5.69 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Page Lewis. Their poetry collections include Logically, I Know the Circus (2021), When I Tell My Husband I Miss the Sun, He Knows (2019), and You Can Take Off Your Sweater, I’ve Made Today Warm (2018). Support the show Support the show
Kimiko Hahn - "The Dream of Shoji"
November 09, 2023 21:00 - 9 minutes - 6.66 MBSupport the show Support the show
Kimiko Hahn | "The Dream of Shoji"
November 09, 2023 21:00 - 9 minutes - 6.66 MBSupport the show Support the show
Elisa Gonzalez | "Failed Essay on Privilege"
October 31, 2023 13:00 - 8 minutes - 6.09 MBSupport the show Support the show
Angélica Maria Aguilera - "The Star Spanglish Banner"
October 07, 2023 08:00 - 12 minutes - 8.38 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of international touring Chicana poet and teaching artist, Angélica María Aguilera. She comes from a mixed family of immigrants and uses spoken word to rewrite the narrative of what it means to be Mexican, woman, and American. Her work has appeared in publications such as Button Poetry, the Breakbeat Poets Anthology LatiNext among others. Aguilera is the author of "Dolorosa" on Pizza Pie ...
Angélica Maria Aguilera | "The Star Spanglish Banner"
October 07, 2023 08:00 - 12 minutes - 8.38 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of international touring Chicana poet and teaching artist, Angélica María Aguilera. She comes from a mixed family of immigrants and uses spoken word to rewrite the narrative of what it means to be Mexican, woman, and American. Her work has appeared in publications such as Button Poetry, the Breakbeat Poets Anthology LatiNext among others. Aguilera is the author of "Dolorosa" on Pizza Pie ...
José Olivarez | "(Citizen)(Illegal)" and "Ars Poetica"
September 25, 2023 14:00 - 12 minutes - 8.46 MBIn this episode of Get Lit Minute, we spotlight the accomplished author, poet and educator, José Olivarez. José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. His debut book of poems, Citizen Illegal, was a finalist for the PEN/ Jean Stein Award and a winner of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize. It was named a top book of 2018 by The Adroit Journal, NPR, and the New York Public Library. Along with Felicia Chavez and Willie Perdomo, he co-edited the poetry anthology, The BreakBeat Po...
Rigoberto Gonzalez | "Birthright"
September 18, 2023 23:00 - 9 minutes - 6.6 MBIn this episode of Get Lit Minute, we spotlight the accomplished writer and poet, Rigoberto González. Rigoberto González was born in Bakersfield, California and raised in Michoacán, Mexico. He earned a BA from the University of California, Riverside and graduate degrees from University of California, Davis and Arizona State University. He is the author of several poetry books, including The Book of Ruin (2019); Unpeopled Eden (2013), winner of a Lambda Literary Award; and So Often the Pitc...
Angélica María Aguilera | "The Star Spanglish Banner"
May 12, 2023 21:00 - 12 minutes - 8.33 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of international touring Chicana poet and teaching artist, Angélica María Aguilera. She comes from a mixed family of immigrants and uses spoken word to rewrite the narrative of what it means to be Mexican, woman, and American. Her work has appeared in publications such as Button Poetry, the Breakbeat Poets Anthology LatiNext among others. Aguilera is the author of "Dolorosa" on Pizza Pie ...
Li-Young Lee | "A Story"
April 17, 2023 17:00 - 12 minutes - 8.81 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Li-Young Lee. He is the author of The Undressing (W. W. Norton, 2018); Behind My Eyes (W. W. Norton, 2008); Book of My Nights (BOA Editions, 2001), which won the 2002 William Carlos Williams Award; The City in Which I Love You (BOA Editions, 1990); and Rose (BOA Editions, 1986). Source This episode includes a reading of his poem, “A Story” featured in our 2023 Get Lit Antholog...
Alma Flor Ada | "Bilingual"
April 10, 2023 17:00 - 9 minutes - 6.27 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Alma Flor Ada. She has devoted her life to advocacy for peace by promoting a pedagogy oriented to personal realization and social justice. Alma Flor’s numerous children’s books of poetry, narrative, folklore, and non-fiction have received prestigious awards. Her professional books for educators, include: A Magical Encounter: Latino Children’s Literature in the Classroom and, co...
Agha Shahid Ali | "Stationery"
April 03, 2023 17:00 - 7 minutes - 4.95 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Agha Shahid Ali. His poetry collections include Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals (W. W. Norton, 2003), Rooms Are Never Finished (2001), and Bone Sculpture (1972). He is also the author of T. S. Eliot as Editor (1986), translator of The Rebel's Silhouette: Selected Poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1992), and editor of Ravishing Disunities: Real Ghazals in English (2000). Sourc...
Marty McConnell | “Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell”
March 27, 2023 20:00 - 12 minutes - 8.8 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Marty McConnell. Her second poetry collection, "when they say you can't go home again, what they mean is you were never there," won the 2017 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and is forthcoming in 2018 on Southern Indiana University Press. Her first nonfiction book, “Gathering Voices: Creating a Community-Based Poetry Workshop,” was recently published by YesYes Books. She is the co-cre...
Naomi Shihab Nye | "How Do I Know When a Poem is Finished?"
March 20, 2023 17:00 - 7 minutes - 4.97 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Naomi Shihab Nye. She is the author of numerous books of poems, most recently Cast Away: Poems for Our Time (Greenwillow Books, 2020). Her other books of poetry include The Tiny Journalist (BOA Editions, 2019); You and Yours (BOA Editions, 2005); and 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East (Greenwillow Books, 2002), a collection of new and selected poems about the Middl...
Sally Wen Mao | "The Belladonna of Sadness"
March 13, 2023 17:00 - 12 minutes - 8.29 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of Asian American poet, Sally Wen Mao. She is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection The Kingdom of Surfaces (Graywolf Press, 2023), and the debut fiction collection Ninetails (Penguin Books). She is also the author of two previous poetry collections, Oculus (Graywolf Press, 2019), and Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books, 2014). Source This episode includes a reading of her...
Melissa Lozada-Oliva | "The Women in My Family Are Bitches"
March 06, 2023 20:00 - 10 minutes - 6.92 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of Guatelombian (Guatemalan-Colombian) American poet and screenwriter, Melissa Lozada-Oliva. Her book peluda (Button Poetry 2017) explores the intersections of Latina identity, feminism, hair removal & what it means to belong. Her novel-in-verse Dreaming of You is about bringing Selena back to life through a seance & the disastrous consequences that follow & it’s coming out October 2021 o...
Danusha Laméris | "Small Kindnesses"
February 27, 2023 18:00 - 10 minutes - 7.43 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Danusha Laméris. She is the author of The Moons of August (Autumn House Press, 2014), selected by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the 2013 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize. Source This episode includes a reading of her poem, "Small Kindnesses," featured in our 2022/23 Get Lit Anthology. "Small Kindnesses" I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle,...
Camonghe Felix | "Thank God I Can't Drive"
February 21, 2023 20:00 - 9 minutes - 6.52 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Camonghe Felix. She is the author of Build Yourself a Boat (Haymarket Books, 2019), which was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry. The 2013 winner of the Cora Craig Award for Young Women, Felix has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, and Poets House. Source This episode includes a reading of her poem, "Thank God I Can't Drive," featured in our 2021...
Anis Mojgani | "Hon or We have both traveled from the other side of some hill, one side of which we may wish we could forget."
February 13, 2023 18:00 - 6 minutes - 4.21 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Anis Mojgani. He is the author of five books of poetry. His work has appeared on HBO, NPR, and in journals Bat City Review, Rattle, Buzzfeed Reader, Thrush, and Forklift Ohio, amongst others. His latest book is In the Pockets of Small Gods. Source This episode includes a reading of his poem, "Hon or We have both traveled from the other side of some hill, one side of which we may...
Tato Laviera | "my graduation speech"
February 06, 2023 20:00 - 11 minutes - 7.67 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of Nuyorican poet, Tato Laviera. Shifting between English and Spanish in his poetry, Laviera addresses themes of immigration, history, and transcultural identity. Laviera was the author of several collections of poetry, including La Carreta Made a U-Turn (1979), AmeRícan (1985), Mainstream Ethics (Etica corriente) (1988), and Mixturao and Other Poems (2008). He also wrote more than a doze...
Nate Marshall | "Out South"
January 30, 2023 18:00 - 9 minutes - 6.36 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Nate Marshall. He is an award-winning writer, editor, educator, and MC. His most recent book, Finna, was recognized as one of the best books of 2020 by NPR and The New York Public Library. He was also an editor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. Marshall co-wrote the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks with Eve Ewing. He also wrote ...
Wang Ping | "Things We Carry On The Sea"
January 23, 2023 18:00 - 13 minutes - 9.49 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Wang Ping. She is poet, writer, photographer, performance and multimedia artist. Her publications have been translated into multiple languages and include poetry, short stories, novels, cultural studies, and children's stories. Her multimedia exhibitions address global themes of industrialization, the environment, interdependency, and the people. Source This episode includes a r...
Tarfia Faizullah | "Self-Portrait as Slinky"
October 17, 2022 22:00 - 10 minutes - 7.14 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Tarfia Faizullah. She is the author of two poetry collections, REGISTERS OF ILLUMINATED VILLAGES (Graywolf, 2018) and SEAM (SIU, 2014). Tarfia’s writing appears widely in the U.S. and abroad in the Daily Star, Hindu Business Line, BuzzFeed, PBS News Hour, Huffington Post, Poetry Magazine, Ms. Magazine, the Academy of American Poets, Oxford American, the New Republic, the Nation, ...
Daphne Gottlieb | "Sexy Balaclava"
October 17, 2022 22:00 - 10 minutes - 6.95 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Daphne Gottlieb, who stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just using her tongue. She is the award-winning author of ten other books including the new collection of short stories, Pretty Much Dead. Previous works include Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in her Own Words, a collection of letters from Death Row by the “first female serial killer” to her childhood best friend. S...
Olivia Gatwood | “Ode to the Women on Long Island”
September 07, 2022 00:00 - 16 minutes - 11.6 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Olivia Gatwood. She has received international recognition for her poetry, writing workshops, and work as a Title IX Compliant educator in sexual assault prevention and recovery. Olivia's performances have been featured on HBO, Huffington Post, MTV, VH1, and BBC among others. Her poems have appeared in The Poetry Foundation, Sundance Film Festival, Lambda Literary, and The Missou...
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza | “A Guide to Reading Trans Literature”
August 22, 2022 21:00 - 9 minutes - 6.37 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza. Her work has been featured in Poetry, Denver Quarterly, American Poetry Review, Poem-a-Day, Lambda Literary, PEN America, The Offing, and elsewhere. Her full-length collection THERE SHOULD BE FLOWERS was published by Civil Coping Mechanisms in 2016. Source This episode includes a reading of her poem, “A Guide to Reading Trans Literature”. See more of h...
Shira Erlichman | “Mind Over Matter”
August 15, 2022 05:00 - 9 minutes - 6.88 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, author, visual artist, and musician, Shira Erlichman. Her poems explore recovery – of language, of home, of mind. Her poetry book Odes to Lithium centers around her experiences with mental illness. Her picture book Be/Hold: A Friendship Book uses compound words to illuminate what is possible when we come together. Her work has been featured in Buzzfeed Reader, The Rumpus, PBS New...
Stephen Dunn | "Sweetness"
August 08, 2022 17:00 - 10 minutes - 7.45 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Stephen Dunn. He has worked as a professional basketball player, an advertising copywriter, and an editor, as well as a professor of creative writing. Dunn's books of poetry include Lines of Defense (W. W. Norton, 2014); Different Hours (2000); Local Time (1986); and Looking For Holes In the Ceiling (1974). Source This episode includes a reading of his poem, "Sweetness". See mo...
Matthew Dickman | "Slow Dance"
August 02, 2022 00:00 - 12 minutes - 8.98 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Matthew Dickman. Dickman is the author of three full length collections, All American Poem, Mayakovsky's Revolver (W.W. Norton & Co, 2012), and Wonderland (W.W. Norton & Co, 2017); and co-author, with Michael Dickman, of 50 American Plays (Copper Canyon, 2012), and Brother (Faber & Faber, 2016). He is also the author of four chapbooks: 24 Hours (Poor Claudia, Portland & onestar p...
Natalie Diaz | "Manhattan is a Lenape Word"
April 25, 2022 18:00 - 14 minutes - 10.3 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of Mojave American poet, Natalie Diaz. She is an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2012. Source This episode includes a reading of her poem, "Manhattan is a Lenape Word". See more of her work in our Get Lit Anthology. "Manhattan is a Lenape Word" It is December and we must ...
Diana Der-Hovanessian | "Shifting the Sun"
April 19, 2022 03:00 - 11 minutes - 7.81 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of Armenian American poet, Diana Der-Hovanessian. She is the author of more than 25 books of poetry and translations. Her poems have appeared in Agni, American Poetry Review, Ararat, CSM, Poetry, Partisan, Prairie Schooner, Nation, etc., and in anthologies such as Against Forgetting, Women on War, On Prejudice, Finding Home, Leading Contemporary Poets, Orpheus and Company, Identity Lesson...
Chen Chen | "Self-Portrait as a Wild Extrovert"
April 12, 2022 04:00 - 17 minutes - 11.8 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, 陳琛 / Chen Chen. How work includes Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency andWhen I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities. Chen is also the author of four chapbooks and the forthcoming book of essays, In Cahoots with the Rabbit God. His work appears/is forthcoming in many publications, including Poem-a-Day and three editions of The Best American Poetry....
Leila Chatti | "Tea"
March 18, 2022 21:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Leila Chatti. She is the author of the debut full-length collection Deluge (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), on the longlist for the 2021 PEN Open Book Award, and the chapbooks Ebb (New-Generation African Poets) and Tunsiya/Amrikiya, the 2017 Editors’ Selection from Bull City Press. Source This episode includes a reading of her poem, "Tea", featured in our 2022 Get Lit Anthology. "...
Victoria Chang | excerpt from “Obit” [Blame]
March 18, 2022 18:00 - 13 minutes - 9.66 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Victoria Chang. Her collections of poetry include Circle (2005); Salvinia Molesta (2008); The Boss (2013); and Barbie Chang (2017). Her poems have been published in the Kenyon Review, Poetry, the Threepenny Review, and Best American Poetry 2005. Chang is the editor of the anthology Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation (2004). Source This episode includes a reading of an ...
CAConrad | "Glitter in my Wounds"
March 02, 2022 17:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, CA Conrad. They write poems in which stark images of sex, violence, and defiance build a bridge between fable and confession. They are the author of nine books of poetry and essays, including their latest book JUPITER ALIGNMENT: (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals (Ignota Books, 2020) and While Standing in Line for Death (Wave Books). A documentary about their work, The Book of Conrad (Deli...
Elizabeth Bishop | "One Art"
February 16, 2022 19:00 - 15 minutes - 10.9 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Elizabeth Bishop. Bishop was a perfectionist who did not write prolifically, preferring instead to spend long periods of time polishing her work. She published only 101 poems during her lifetime. Source This episode includes a reading of her poem, "One Art", featured in our 2022 Get Lit Anthology. "One Art" The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled w...
"Lies I Tell" – Sara Borjas
February 01, 2022 05:00 - 12 minutes - 8.94 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Sara Borjas. Her debut collection of poetry, Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff was published by Noemi Press in 2019. Her work can be found in Ploughshares, The Rumpus, Poem-a-Day by The Academy of American Poets, Alta and The Offing, amongst others. She digs oldiez, outer space, aromatics, and tiny prints is about decentering whiteness in literature, creative writing, and d...
Sara Borjas | "Lies I Tell"
February 01, 2022 05:00 - 12 minutes - 8.94 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Sara Borjas. Her debut collection of poetry, Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff was published by Noemi Press in 2019. Her work can be found in Ploughshares, The Rumpus, Poem-a-Day by The Academy of American Poets, Alta and The Offing, amongst others. She digs oldiez, outer space, aromatics, and tiny prints is about decentering whiteness in literature, creative writing, and d...
Ada Limón | "A New National Anthem"
January 25, 2022 06:00 - 11 minutes - 8.3 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Ada Limón. She is the author of five poetry collections, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Her fourth book Bright Dead Things was named a finalist for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Source This episode includes a reading of an e...
Tyree Daye | "Learning Whitney"
January 18, 2022 22:00 - 9 minutes - 6.85 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Tyree Daye. He is the author of two poetry collections River Hymns and Cardinal. Source This episode includes a reading of his poem, "Learning Whitney", featured in our 2021 Get Lit Anthology. "Learning Whitney" My father loved my mama quiet. She never was. Sang as she dusted, Whitney was her back-up singer. He’d disappear, stumble in, bright blues still in his mou...
Traci Brimhall | "Oh Wonder"
January 11, 2022 23:00 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MBIn this episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Traci Brimhall. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, and New England Review, among others. Some of her work has also been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Best of the Net, PBS Newshour, and Best American Poetry 2013 & 2014. Source This episode includes a reading of her poem, "Oh Wonder", featured in our 2021 Get Lit Anthology. "Oh Wonder" It’s the garden spider ...
Tommye Blount | "The Pedestrian"
January 11, 2022 23:00 - 10 minutes - 7.65 MBIn this episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet and writer, Tommye Blount. He is the author of Fantasia for the Man in Blue (Four Way Books, March 2020) and the chapbook What Are We Not For (Bull City Press, 2016). Source This episode includes a reading of his poem, "The Pedestrian", featured in our 2021 Get Lit Anthology. "The Pedestrian" When the pickup truck, with its side mirror, almost took out my arm, the driver’s grin ...
Tommye Blount | "The Pedestrian
January 11, 2022 23:00 - 10 minutes - 7.62 MBIn this episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet and writer, Tommye Blount. He is the author of Fantasia for the Man in Blue (Four Way Books, March 2020) and the chapbook What Are We Not For (Bull City Press, 2016). Source This episode includes a reading of an excerpt from his poem, "The Pedestrian", featured in our 2021 Get Lit Anthology. "The Pedestrian" When the pickup truck, with its side mirror, almost took out my arm, the d...
Sekou Sundiata | "Shout Out"
January 11, 2022 22:00 - 12 minutes - 8.65 MBIn this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of a highly esteemed performing poet, Sekou Sundiata. He wrote for print, performance, music and theater. Source This episode includes a reading of his poem, "Shout Out", featured in our 2021 Get Lit Anthology. "Shout Out" Here’s to the best words In the right place At the perfect time to the human mind Blown-up and refined. To long conversations and the Philosophical ramificat...