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This week in the pharmacy we have the poet SANDRA SIMONDS!Sandra Simonds is the author of six books of poetry: Orlando, (Wave Books, 2018), Further Problems with Pleasure, winner of the 2015 Akron Poetry Prize from the University of Akron Pres
This week in the pharmacy we have the poet RONNA BLOOM prescribing poems for my ONLINE DATING BLUES!Ronna is a poet, speaker, psychotherapist, and author of six books. Her poems have been broadcast on the CBC, displayed in public spaces, reco
This week in the pharmacy we have the poet ED DOEGAR!Ed’s poem “Anon” as well as the Karen Solie poem he prescribes can be found here.Edward Doegar’s poems, reviews and translations have appeared in various magazines, including Poetry London
This week in the pharmacy we have the poet CAConrad!The poems we prescribe and talk about in this episode can be found here: Sophie Robinson’s “biggest loser”: https://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/poetry-spotlight/10/16/a-poem-by-sophie-
This week in the pharmacy we have the poet NATALIE EILBERT!All the poems we prescribe and talk about in this episode can be found here: http://bit.ly/2n9lxHZNATALIE EILBERT is the author of Indictus, winner of Noemi Press’s 2016 Poetry Prize
This week in the pharmacy we have the poet DONIKA KELLY!All the poems we prescribe and talk about in this episode can be found here: http://bit.ly/2zO7zUmDonika is the author of BESTIARY (Graywolf 2016), winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry
This week in the pharmacy we have the poet KEEGAN LESTER!All the poems we prescribe and talk about in this episode can be found here: http://bit.ly/2gJQDDXKeegan splits his time between New York City and Morgantown, West Virginia. Mary Ruefle
So pleased to have Finn Menzies in the Poetry Pharmacy this week! Finn prescribes Max Ritvo‘s AFTERNOON which can be found here, and I reciprocate with Jim Ferris‘s FACTS OF LIFE (read Jim’s poem here). We also read and talk about … Continue re
Today in the Poetry Pharmacy, we’re hanging out with Chen Chen. Chen prescribes a Keegan Lester poem which can be found here, and I reciprocate with jayy dodd‘s incredible ars poetica. We also read and talk about Chen’s poem Poplar Street. …
Today in the Poetry Pharmacy, we had a visit from Mary Jean Chan, Mary Jean’s work has appeared in The Poetry Review, Ambit, The Rialto, The London Magazine, Callaloo and elsewhere. She is also a Co-Editor at Oxford Poetry. Her poem … Continue
Welcome to a new season of the show, now rebranded and slightly reformatted as POETRY PHARMACY! You might notice that we have a slightly different way of doing things: two readers, three poems, and even more POETRY LOVE than ever before. We’re
“”What the hell the tooth is doing there, I don’t know, but I love it.” Ryan Van Winkle Ryan Van Winkle is currently Poet in Residence at Edinburgh City Libraries following a similar stint as the Scottish Poetry Library’s … Continue reading →
In the last few days, two events have played themselves out. To be more precise: an almost infinite number of events have occured if you’re willing to squish down to the atomic and subatomic (which I am). Yesterday, for example, a … Continue re
You don’t need another self-help book (apart from this one, perhaps?). It’s good to know though that you, me, Sarah Salway and David Foster Wallace still buy them. (I only include DFW as a sanctioning-device. If DFW digs something, doesn’t … C
Here’s a jug of story water to put into your morning kettle. When I was living in Milan in the early 90s, with all the potential and fear that being a young adult entails, the floorboards of our flat would … Continue reading →
Whilst preparing this podcast for your tympanic membranes, I’ve found myself again and again drawn to YouTube in order to get an eyeful of pants. And because these pants are American, I of course mean trousers. You might know … Continue read
“Although this is specifically a poem that speaks about poetry and the powers of poetry, it also speaks to me about the powers of the imagination. And that’s something I prize in life enormously. What books bring to me is … Continue reading →
“Something I find really moving is the timelessness of our struggles. Herbert probably wouldn’t have been diagnosed with a depressive illness, but we now know that he had terrible battles and internal struggles. To me this poem describes that p
“Then I began to speak of style, of the army of words, an army in which all kinds of weapons are on the move. No iron can enter the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the … Continue reading →
Imagine a small tribe living on the edge of the savannah. A tribe with it’s requisite, antler festooned Poet-Philosopher-Shaman doing her shape shifting, neologising, bewilderment making best to entertain us. What he or she presents to the trib
My parents were probably not hip enough to read me Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree. You can’t really get more hip, as a writer of children’s books (and “A Boy Named Sue”), than have Johnny Cash introduce you thus: “Sometimes … Continue readi
I sometimes wonder what it must have been like during The Depression trundling around with the Lomaxes, father and son, through Memphis and the deep South, making field recordings out of their car window of those bards of the barrelhouse … Cont
“BECAUSE of New Year’s I get the big room, eight-dollar room. But it seems smaller than before; and sitting by the window, looking out on the rain and town, I know the waiting eats at me again.“
In a recent self-google through the trillion images that float around us in the ether, I noticed that I have a doppelgänger and his name is Han Dong . Spot the difference: Now the logicians … Continue reading →
“Try and imagine what this great pond, quite unglamorous and muddy, this dirty-watered pond looks like when you don’t impose yourself, your whole history, or the history of a culture on it; when you just let yourself see it.” Josh … Continue r
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