Welcome to the fourth and final episode of Season Nine of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.Season Nine is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Lisa Jarnot during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.Lisa Jarnot’s

9.3 Lisa Jarnot: "Epistle to the Summer Writing Program (On the Metaphysics of Deep Gossip)"

Apr 24th, 2024 42m 44s

Welcome to the third episode of Season Nine of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.Season Nine is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Lisa Jarnot during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.Lisa Jarnot’s autobiogra

9.2 Lisa Jarnot: "Abandon the Creeping Meatball: an Anarcho-Spiritual Treatise"

Apr 17th, 2024 54m 53s

Welcome to the second episode of Season Nine of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.Season Nine is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Lisa Jarnot during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.Lisa Jarnot’s autobiogr

9.1 Lisa Jarnot: "White Whales, White Males, Whitehead"

Apr 10th, 2024 57m 27s

Welcome to the first episode of Season Nine of the BagleyWright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Nine is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Lisa Jarnot during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Lisa Jarnot’s autobiog

8.5 Rachel Zucker: "Poetry and Photography"

Feb 28th, 2023 1h 7m

Welcome to the fifth episode of Season Eight of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.Season Eight is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Rachel Zucker during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.Rachel Zucker’s lect

8.4: Rachel Zucker: "The Poetics of Motherhood"

Feb 21st, 2023 1h

Welcome to the fourth episode of Season Eight of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.Season Eight is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Rachel Zucker during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.Rachel Zucker’s lec

8.3 Rachel Zucker: "A Very Large Charge: The Ethics of 'Say Everything' Poetry"

Feb 14th, 2023 52m 54s

Welcome to the third episode of Season Eight of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.Season Eight is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Rachel Zucker during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.Rachel Zucker’s lect

8.2 Rachel Zucker: "What We Talk About When We Talk About the Confessional, and What We SHOULD Be Talking About"

Feb 7th, 2023 55m 22s

Welcome to the second episode of Season Eight of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.Season Eight is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Rachel Zucker during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.Rachel Zucker’s lec

8.1 Rachel Zucker: "The Poetics of Wrongness: an Unapologia"

Jan 31st, 2023 55m 24s

Welcome to the first episode of Season Eight of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.Season Eight is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Rachel Zucker during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Rachel Zucker’s lec

7.5 Douglas Kearney with Val-Inc: "Read Red / Red Read: Putting Violence Down in Poetry"

Nov 8th, 2022 49m 16s

Welcome to the fifth & final episode of Season Seven of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.Season Seven is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Douglas Kearney during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Today we'l

7.4 Douglas Kearney: "You Better Hush: Blacktracking A Visual Poetics"

Oct 25th, 2022 1h 1m

Welcome to the fourth episode of Season Seven of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.Season Seven of the podcast includes lectures written and delivered by Douglas Kearney during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Today we'

7.3 Douglas Kearney: "Red Read / Read Red: Depictions of Violence in Poetry"

Oct 10th, 2022 58m 26s

Welcome to the third episode of Season Seven of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.Season Seven is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Douglas Kearney during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Today we'll hear "

7.2 Douglas Kearney: "#WEREWOLFGOALS"

Oct 3rd, 2022 55m 39s

Welcome to the second episode of Season Seven of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.Season Seven is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Douglas Kearney during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Today we'll hear

7.1 Douglas Kearney: "I Killed, I Died: Banter, Self-Destruction, and the Poetry Reading"

Sep 27th, 2022 58m 12s

Welcome to the first episode of Season Seven of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.Season Seven is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Douglas Kearney during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. We begin with Kear

6.5 Matthew Dickman: "Making the Black Dog Sit: A Look at Suicide Through Poetry"

Jul 25th, 2022 43m 10s

Matthew Dickman’s lecture “Making The Black Dog Sit: A Look at Suicide Through Poetry” is a personal talk about Dickman’s experience with suicide and turning to poetry to better understand the act of suicide. This talk was originally given Jun

6.4 Judy Halebsky: "From Haiku to Collage"

Jul 5th, 2022 50m 37s

Judy Halebsky's "From Haiku to Collage" engages the teachings of Basho and how the aesthetic practice of haiku has shaped her work in lyric and free-verse poetry. You can read Halebsky’s accompanying notes for this talk here. This talk was ori

6.3 Tyehimba Jess: "on OLIO"

Jun 14th, 2022 1h 24m

Tyehimba Jess discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Olio (Wave Books, 2016). This talk was given March 4, 2018 in conjunction with Seattle Arts Lectures. Jess talks about the genesis and stories behind the poems in Olio, which revisits the

6.2 Matthew Rohrer: "Poetry is Not a Symbol"

May 23rd, 2022 23m 12s

Matthew Rohrer's short lecture, “Poetry is Not a Symbol,” was co-presented by the Hugo House on May 17, 2017 in Seattle, WA.Read Rohrer's essay, "Instead of Trying So Much, Why Don't You Just Try a Little?" here.

6.1 Ange Mlinko: "Poetry at Sea"

May 3rd, 2022 48m 39s

Ange Mlinko’s “Poetry at Sea” is a discussion of the paradox that for a certain strand of the poetic tradition, language is a complete conflation of the cerebral and the erotic: that it uses the bewilderment of meaning as a seduction strategy;

5.4 Poetry & Non-Literary Influence: "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention & Audience"

Dec 6th, 2021 1h 7m

In February of 2018, the Bagley Wright Lecture Series and the University of Arizona Poetry Center co-hosted a three-day conference called, "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention, & Audience," featuring reading, talks, and conversations

5.3 Poetry & Autobiography: "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention, & Audience"

Nov 15th, 2021 1h 7m

5.2 Poetry & Practice: "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention, & Audience"

Oct 12th, 2021 1h 28m

5.1 Poetry & Social Engagement: "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention, & Audience"

Sep 20th, 2021 1h 10m

Bonus

Geoffrey Nutter: from Cities at Dawn

Aug 8th, 2021 22m 19s

In 2017, Geoffrey Nutter gave a workshop & reading from his then-new collection, Cities at Dawn, (Wave Books, 2016) in Seattle at Hotel Sorrento, in partnership with The Hugo House. Please enjoy this short reading by the author, in celebration

Bonus

Srikanth Reddy: from Underworld Lit

Jul 12th, 2021 18m 12s

In 2016, BWLS lecturer Srikanth Reddy gave a brief reading from his work-in-progress, Underworld Lit (Wave Books, 2020) in Seattle at Elliott Bay Books. Please enjoy this short reading by the author.