This is a podcast in which Professor Deulen introduces poetry to her irreverent husband, Max. Each show is a close reading of a single poem. They discuss it for a bit, allowing the conversation to take on a life of its own.
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Show 052 KMUZ Interview as Our Last Episode for a While
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With the boys old enough for school, Max went and got himself a job, and now we just do not have enough time to do the show proper. We hope to drop the occasional show in the future, but are uncertain if it will be back with the release frequency from before. This interview was conducted at KMUZ (who have been awesome and broadcasting our show acro…
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Show 051 "To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian" by Ross Gay
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We are back from our sickness hiatus with “To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian” by Ross Gay. Topics include: gratitude, single-scene poem, short line breaks, and figs in myth.Door Lit from the Basement
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Show 050 "Autobiographical: Another Draft" by Jacqueline Osherow
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For their 50th show, Danielle goes big with a long, long, powerful poem by Jacqueline Osherow. Topics include: terza rima, formalism, Willa Cather, interruptive syntax, and your present self admonishing your past self.Door Lit from the Basement
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Show 049 "Yours" by Mary Robison
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Owing to a house-wide plague, we are forced to pull a show from our reject pile. Please join us as we deviate from poetry to flash fiction with Mary Robison's "Yours" and as we go on way too long about personal ghost stories. Topics include: Halloween, fall, mortality, May/December romances, and failing to keep your atheist cred while discussing th…
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Show 048 "Photo of a Girl, 1988: Cyborg" by Faylita Hicks
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We discuss the poem "Photo of a Girl, 1988: Cyborg" from Faylita Hicks's debut collection Hoodwitch. Topics include: the mother figure in literature, enjambment, end-stopped lines, Afrofuturism, and the ampersand.Door Lit from the Basement
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Show 047 "A Wonderful Bird is the Pelican" by Dixon Lanier Merritt
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We tackle the limerick form with poetry scholar Mike Chasar as he leads a deep dive into two versions of "A Wonderful Bird is the Pelican" by Dixon Lanier Merritt. Topics include: humorous poetry, "children's" literature, the pleasures of rhyme, and the 1913 Armory Show.Door Lit from the Basement
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Show 046 "Things that Leave an Aching Feeling Inside" by Lee Ann Roripaugh
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Danielle introduces Max to the list poem form with Lee Ann Roripaugh's "Things that Leave an Aching Feeling Inside." Topics include: list form, The Pillow Book, the importance of poetry during the Heian period, and breaking your own heart.Door Lit from the Basement
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Show 045 "Sensual Vocabulary" by Karyna McGlynn
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Danielle introduces Max to the concept of Ars Poetica with Karyna McGlynn's poem "Sensual Vocabulary." Topics include: Ars Poetica, Marianne Moore, September Women Poets, modernists, and George Washington as a school marm.Door Lit from the Basement
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044 "Who Would I Show It To?" by Sally Ball
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Addressing a recent loss in her own life, Danielle shares with Max an elegy by Sally Ball that helped with her grieving. Topics include: elegies, suicide, stages of grief, Virginia Woolf, W.S. Merwin, and Dancer pose.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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043 "The Immigrants (Winter Wear)" by Rane Arroyo
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We have another guest in our creepy basement; the author Scott Nadelson! He shares Rane Arroyo's poem "The Immigrants (Winter Wear)" with us. Topics include: tercets, Wallace Stevens, and Santa tempting Jesus in the desert.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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042 "Unmailed Letter" by Joy Harjo
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In celebration of her appointment as the United States Poet Laureate, Danielle shares Joy Harjo's poem "Unmailed Letter" with Max. Topics include: irrational numbers, dialectical argument structure, and frustrating relationships.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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041 "Map" by Bruce Snider
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We open season three (and celebrate 4th of July) with a fistful of Americana as Danielle introduces Max to Bruce Snider through his poem "Map." Talking points include the ghazal structure, Indiana, the color yellow, homoerotic Americana, and Walt Whitman.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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040 "A Citizen" and "Immediate Song" by Don Bogen
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For our last show of season two, we have a twofer! Danielle shares Don Bogen's "A Citizen" and "Immediate Song" with Max. Talking points include lyric sequences, persona poems, an empire's twilight, and phrenology.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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039 "Something New" by Carmen Giménez Smith
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Danielle shares Carmen Giménez Smith's "Something New" with Max. Talking points include love as work, marriage as labor, plushy chambers, and the etymology of mortgage.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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038 "Ambition" by Gary Soto
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Danielle shares Gary Soto's "Ambition" with Max. Talking points include friendship, Seneca, Cicero, zoomorphism, pleasure, and Max’s time as a disgruntled shoe salesman.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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037 "Lightening" by A. Molotkov
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Danielle shares A. Molotkov's "Lightening" with Max. Talking points include the prose poem, Aloysius Bertrand, fig trees, eye surgery, and Duncan MacDougall's dead-weighing experiments.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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036 "[but the rain is full of ghosts tonight]" by dawn lonsinger
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Danielle shares "[but the rain is full of ghosts tonight]" by dawn lonsinger with Max. Talking points include Danielle's coining of the term "maximalism," Edna St. Vincent Millay, ghosts of lovers past, and rain, rain, rain.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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035 "Animals" by Frank O'Hara
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Guest host dawn lonsinger shares Frank O'Hara's "Animals" with Danielle and Max. Talking points include: idioms, the New York School, personism, dune buggies, time, and square things vs. round things.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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034 "The Romantic Lead" by Ian Williams
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Danielle shares "The Romantic Lead" by Ian Williams with Max. Talking points include contemporary sonnets, sextets and octaves, Swan Lake vs. Ladyhawk, reaction shots, and finding displeasure with Aquaman.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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033 "The Soils I Have Eaten" by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
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Danielle shares "The Soils I Have Eaten" by Aimee Nezhukumatathil with Max. Talking points include strophes, memories of place, prospecting by taste, and the 1980s arcade game Dig Dug.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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032 "Dangerous for Girls" by Connie Voisine
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Danielle shares "Dangerous for Girls" by Connie Voisine with Max. Talking points include dead girls, associative leaps, capitalist consumption, and watching infomercials while depressed.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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031 "Cities in Dust" by Siouxsie and the Banshees
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Danielle and Max discuss "Cities in Dust" by Siouxsie and the Banshees. Talking points include March Vladness, Pompeii, verse-chorus form, Pliny the Younger, and Goth! Goth! Goth!Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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030 "The Same City" by Terrance Hayes
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In this episode, Danielle shares "The Same City" by Terrance Hayes. Talking points include revision poems, cold and flu season, crappy weather, and mixing up biblical stepfathers.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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029 "The Cinnamon Peeler" by Michael Ondaatje
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In this episode, Danielle shares Michael Ondaatje’s “The Cinnamon Peeler.” Talking points include encounters with wild bears, how specifics make life interesting, persona poems, and Dune spice.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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028 "Litany" by Rebecca Lindenberg
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In this episode, Danielle shares Rebecca Lindenberg’s “Litany.” Talking points include Gal-entine’s Day, the classical formula of god summoning, lethologica vs. aphasia, and sabotaging people’s efforts to break up with you.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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027 "What Myth Is" by Carl Phillips
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In this episode, Danielle shares Carl Phillips’s “What Myth Is.” Talking points include what myths we identify with, Sonnet 130, the blazon, objective correlatives, and languid fingering.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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026 "Letter from New York" by Erika L. Sánchez
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In this episode, Danielle shares Erika L. Sánchez’s “Letter from New York.” Talking points include, well, New York, obviously, the epistolary form, our flooding basement, and poet Richard Hugo literally dropping bombs on five-year-old poet Charles Simic in Belgrade.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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025 "Report from the Daughter of a Blue Planet" by Yona Harvey
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In this episode, Danielle shares with Max Yona Harvey’s "Report from the Daughter of a Blue Planet." Talking points include Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Audre Lorde, and perfect line breaks.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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024 "[ode]" by D.A. Powell
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In this episode, Danielle overcomes Max's resistance to D.A. Powell's "[ode]." Talking points include Pindar vs. Horace, odes, hyacinths, trochees, and blue movies.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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023 "Meditation at Lagunitas" by Robert Hass
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For her 40th birthday, Danielle has selected Robert Hass’s “Meditation at Lagunitas.” Talking points include Platonic ideals, blackberries, the linguist Saussure, and mastodon steaks.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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022 "Kindness" and "Burning the Old Year" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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Danielle and Max slam the door on 2018 by reading Naomi Shihab Nye's poems "Kindness" and "Burning the Old Year." Talking points include the new year, empathy, cruelty, and metaphorical landscapes.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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021 "Visitation" by Mark Doty
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For this Christmas week, Danielle introduces Max to Mark Doty's Visitation. Talking points include the holidays, the Christmas Whale, and complicated joy.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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020 "Nightingale" by Paisley Rekdal
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Danielle and Max celebrate the 2018 winter solstice by reading Paisley Rekdal's “Nightingale." Talking points include handling a rude guest lecturer, John Keats, Odysseus/Ulysses, dwelling in doubt, and autolysis.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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019 "Portrait of the Alcoholic Floating in Space with Severed Umbilicus" by Kaveh Akbar
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Danielle introduces Max to the poet Kaveh Akbar with the poem “Portrait of the Alcoholic Floating in Space with Severed Umbilicus.” Topics include addiction, the sublime, and why we love people in recovery.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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018 “Visions and Interpretations” by Li-Young Lee
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Danielle shares the poem “Visions and Interpretations” by Li-Young Lee with Max. Topics touched upon include elegies, miscommunications, and Mercury in retrograde.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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017 "What is the Body" by Hannah Dow
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Danielle shares Hannah Dow's poem "What is the Body" from her debut collection Rosarium with Max. Topics touched upon include René Descartes, nesting instincts. and tape worms.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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016 "I Watch Her Eat the Apple" by Natalie Diaz
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Danielle shares Natalie Diaz’s poem “I Watch Her Eat the Apple” with Max... who gets the poem very, very, very wrong. Topics include Thanksgiving, Oedipus, and some ugly facts about the Pilgrims.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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015 "Drift" by Brenda Shaughnessy
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Danielle shares Brenda Shaughnessy’s brutally clever poem “Drift” with Max. Topics touched upon include metaphysical poets, paradox, and staying in bad relationships.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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014 "Door" by Dana Levin
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Danielle explains her personal connection to Dana Levin's "Door," working for a mean art dealer, and the dream that lead her to teaching. Max laments too many choices and, once again, brings up Watership Down.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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013 "Ghazal of Dark Death" by Federico García Lorca
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By sheer coincidence, our 13th show falls on Halloween week! Danielle sets the Halloween mood with Lorca's Ghazal of Dark Death. Max is a little disappointed to find it has nothing to do with the Ghostbusters antagonist.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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012 "Departure" by Ocean Vuong
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Danielle explains what an aubade is to Max by sharing Ocean Vuong's wonderfully dark poem "Departure" with him. Max is thrilled. Maybe too thrilled.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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011 "Wishbone" & "Planet of Love" by Richard Siken
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In this extended episode, Shaun and Danielle discuss two poems from Richard Siken's Crush (Wishbone and Planet of Love) and how they work together in that crazy, sexy thrill ride of a book.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Shaun Daniels
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011 "Wishbone" by Richard Siken
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Danielle is in Washington, DC with friend Shaun Daniels to discuss Wishbone from Richard Siken's crazy, sexy thrill ride of a book Crush.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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010 "Rodin's Fallen Caryatid" by Lindsay Bernal
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This week we look at Lindsay Bernal's poem Rodin's Fallen Caryatid from her book What It Doesn't Have to Do With, which won the 2017 National Poetry Series. We discuss Danielle's history with the poet, Godzilla studies, and Danielle tries to explain "ekphrasis" to Max.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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009 "Be Ahead of All Parting" by Rainer Maria Rilke
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We have our first guests! Portland-based Doula Olivia Murphy brings Rilke's poem to the show and tells us why she loves it. Topics touched upon include the 2008 financial crisis, translation, winter in Vermont, Greek myth, and enduring hardship with grace. Max pays Danielle the best compliment she has ever received.…
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008 "Manistee Light" by Samiya Bashir
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September Women Poets month wraps up with Samiya Bashir's poem. We discuss the pastoral tradition and how this poem can be an anti-pastoral work, our poor gardening, and Danielle explains some math terms to Max.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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007 "Obedience, or the Lying Tale" by Jennifer Chang
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Jennifer Chang's poem leads to a discussion of the "flatness" of fairy tale characters, and how her poem defies it with the complexity of her speaker.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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006 "The Explosive Expert's Wife" by Shara Lessley
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Lessley's poem prompts D&M to contemplate the geopolitical complexities of love and where to meet in the afterlife.Door Danielle Cadena Deulen & Max Stinson
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005 "White, White Collars" by Denis Johnson
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To celebrate Labor Day, we share a Denis Johnson poem sure to make you further hate your office job.Door Danielle Deulen & Max Stinson
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004 "Researchers Find Mice Pass On Trauma to Subsequent Generations" by Lisa Fay Coutley
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Danielle and Max try to have a glib, upbeat conversation about Lisa Fay Coutley’s poem on inherited trauma…and fail.Door Danielle Deulen & Max Stinson
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