Tag: Poetry

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    017 – Looking Back at Jazz Poetry

    We’re LOOKING BACK at Jazz Poetry.

    Jazz Poetry has celebrated the fusion of music and language for over 18 years. Musicians and poets are brought together by City of Asylum to experiment, collaborate, connect and to express themselves freely, yielding performances greater than their parts.

    This episode is really special, an opportunity to dig through performances from the City of Asylum archive 2011-2019. Unless you were sitting in the audience at the COA tent, or Alphabet City, at any of these performances, you’ve never heard these before.

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    016 – Eating Fire with Jose Hernandez Diaz

    We’re eating fire with poet Jose Hernandez Diaz

    Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and Antioch University Los Angeles. His work appears in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Green Mountains Review, Huizache, New Orleans Review, North American Review, The Progressive, Witness, among others. He has served as an editor for Floricanto Press and Lunch Ticket. His manuscript was a finalist for the 2018 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.

    We'll be talking astrology, Frida Kahlo, and the different definitions of "pocho." 

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    014 – Turning Tables with Patrick Rosal

    We're turning tables with Patrick Rosal. 

    Patrick Rosal is the award winning author of four books of poetry: Boneshepherds, My American Kundiman, Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive, and Brooklyn Antediluvian. He is a Guggenheim fellow and lives in New Jersey.

    We'll be talking white space in poetry, our sister cultures, and scatological poetics. We'll also talk about my upcoming appearance on Jeopardy!, some pointers for reading poetry aloud, and about words that simply cannot be translated.

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    013 – Peeling Oranges with Ada Limón

    We’re peeling oranges with Ada Limón. Ada Limón is the author of the poetry collections The Carrying, Bright Dead Things, and several other books, poems, and essays.

    We'll be talking about voice, faith, and answering the most impossible question of all: what is poetry? We'll also be talking about comics and revenge monsters.