Poetry Podcasts
You can listen to all these podcasts off their websites or find them in the podcast app on your phone. iPhone has Apple Podcasts by default; Stitcher is free podcast app for all phone types.
- The Slowdown"Every weekday, U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith delivers a different way to see the world – through poetry." A great selection of poems and a model of how to talk about poems, both their structure and meaning.
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"Black cricket in the doorway, on the ceiling, in" - The Poetry Gods"Shares the stories behind the poems and features interviews with contemporary poets." Not currently recording, but past episodes are hilarious and interesting conversations about poetry. Decidedly non-stuffy.
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"Featuring Nicole Shante" - Poetry Foundation PodcastsSeveral different podcasts, from readings of poems to discussions of poems by poets, critics, editors, and other literary people.
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"Things to Do in Hell"
"Dead To Me: A discussion of Claudia Rankine's 'Don't Let Me Be Lonely'"
Discover Poems
- Poets.orgBrowse thousands of biographies of poets and poems, essays about poetry, and some poetry books, anthologies, and textbooks.
- Poetry FoundationBrowse for poems by poet's region, time period, poem's subject and more, or search for specific poem texts. Also contains biographical info.
- From the FishouseAn audio archive of emerging poets, with some great Q&A with poets on where their poems come from, the writing process, etc.