Three Poetry Podcasts

There are innumerable podcasts about poetry. 

I find these three, one American, one French, and one from Montreal, particularly rich and interesting, especially if approached ethnographically: the settings, the hierarchies, the voices, the choices, the cultural landscape of reference, the institutional dimension, the exclusions and the inclusions. 

They are all -centric in their own way each reflecting a specific postcolonial/imperial situation. They are also models of how to practice close and “far away” readings of poetry and thus offer many clues. 

 

Poem Talk

Out of Philadelphia, A poetry house that runs a journal and many other initiatives. A real hub with links to PennSound and U of Philadelphia. The podcast presents four readers around a table discussing one poem each show. Engaging discussions

Al Filreis, also teaches an online course on contemporary American poetry

La compagnie de poètes

Poetry Show on France Culture, the cultural channel of French state radio. High culture at its best, with all its pleasures and pitfalls. Interviews with poets, translators, editors. Contemporary and classical poetry.

The Sleeping King

Well known poet and editor Benoît Chaput presents poetry and music in French and English on CKUT. situationistisms, rock, poetry as counterculture?

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