4770 readersListen: Daniel Khalastchi – “Dead Winter (Summer Ode)”
Today’s podcast features Daniel Khalastchi reading a poem called “Dead Winter (Summer Ode).” This poem illustrates why it’s good to get poetry out loud as well as written down. Khalastchi reads this poem in a manner befitting it’s punctuation-laden style, but neither how he reads it or how
4882 readersListen: Matthew Savoca – “i wrote a poem about our e-mails lately”
Today’s poem is another that was originally published in issue #20 of InDigest. Matthew Savoca was born in 1982 in Pennsylvania. He is the author of the poetry book long love poem with descriptive title [Scrambler Books, 2010] and Morocco (co-authored with Kendra Grant
8621 readersListen: Matthew Daddona’s “Poem for Leaving
Friday’s Poem of the Day Podcast features Matthew Daddona’s poem “Poem for Leaving,” which originally appeared in InDigest issue #19. Matthew Daddona has written for various publications in Philadelphia and Long Island. He currently works at Donadio and Olson, a literary representative, in Manhattan.
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6750 readersListen: Scott Abels’ “Anxiety”
Today, we’re bringing you a poem from the newest issue of InDigest. Scott Abels’ poem “Anxiety” is in Issue #22 of InDigest. Scott Abels currently lives and teaches in Honolulu, where he edits the online journal of poetry Country Music. More of his poems can be found (or are forthcoming) in Forklift,
6756 readersListen: Scott Abels’ “Anxiety”
Today, we’re bringing you a poem from the newest issue of InDigest. Scott Abels’ poem “Anxiety” is in Issue #22 of InDigest. Scott Abels currently lives and teaches in Honolulu, where he edits the online journal of poetry Country Music. More of his poems can be found (or are forthcoming) in Forklift,
3923 readersListen: Paul Legault reads a translation of Stephen Mallarme’s “Flowers”
Paul Legault is the co-founder of Telephone Books and the author of two books of poetry: The Madeleine Poems (Omnidawn, 2010) and The Other Poems (Fence, 2011). Author photo by Lawrence Schwartzwald.
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5182 readersListen: J. Bradley – from “The Bones of You”
J.Bradley reads from a series of poems titled “The Bones of You” for today’s podcast. J. Bradley is the author of the upcoming novella, Bodies Made of Smoke [HOUSEFIRE Publishing, 2012], as well as the poetry collection Dodging Traffic, among others. He lives at iheartfailure.net.
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7218 readersListen: Sommer Browning – “The Beers”
Today’s poem is by Sommer Browning and is titled “The Beers.” You can read the full text of the poem after the jump. Sommer Browning is the author of Either Way I’m Celebrating (Birds, LLC; 2011), a collection of poems and comics. She lives in Denver.
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4287 readersListen: Ellen Welcker – “Mama, Mama, fly through my window”
Here’s a poem for today from the current issue of InDigest by Ellen Welcker. Ellen Welcker’s first book, The Botanical Garden [Astrophil Press, 2010], won the 2009 Astrophil Poetry Prize. She has poems and critical writing in Leveler, H_NGM_N, The Quarterly Conversation, Capitalism Nature Socialism, and
3672 readersListen: Natalie Eilbert – “Machine Machine”
Today’s featured poem is “Machine Machine” by Natalie Eilbert. This poem was originally published in issue 20 of InDigest. Eilbert received her MFA in poetry from Columbia University, where she won the 2010 Linda Corrente Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Colorado Review, Copper Nickel, DIAGRAM, Boxcar Poetry Review,