Poetry Centered
Linger in the space between a poem being spoken and being heard.
Poetry Centered features curated selections from Voca, the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s online audiovisual archive of more than 1,000 recordings of poets reading their work during visits to the Center between 1963 and today. In each episode, a guest poet introduces three poems from Voca, sharing their insights about the remarkable performances recorded in our archive. Each episode concludes with the guest poet reading a poem of their own.
Podcasting since 2020 • 59 episodes
Poetry Centered
Latest Episodes
Bonus: Radical Reversal in Birmingham II
Radical Reversal is a program that installs performance and recording spaces in detention centers and correctional facilities where they conduct poetry workshops, seminars in music and music produ...
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Episode 56
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27:50
Samyak Shertok: Conjure What Was Never There Before
Samyak Shertok curates poems that shift between image and narrative, between sound, silence, and simile as they create something wholly new. He introduces Joy Harjo testing the line between being an eyew...
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Episode 55
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50:00
Dawn Lundy Martin: Our Present, Long Moment
Dawn Lundy Martin selects poems of urgency, tension, and devotion. She shares Daniel Borzutzky responding to massacres with a poem that must be written (“Written after a Massacre in the Year 2018”),...
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Episode 54
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31:37
