Basement Poetry Podcast

By: Wayne Benson
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  • Recorded in my basement, a podcast where we read and discuss poetry and try to uncover the roots of what makes a poem work.
    Wayne Benson
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Episodes
  • "When Someone Dies Young" - Robin Becker

    "When Someone Dies Young" - Robin Becker
    Oct 11 2022

    Robin Becker Bio: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robin-becker
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    14 mins
  • "Hold The Elevator?" by John Kenney

    "Hold The Elevator?" by John Kenney
    Sep 19 2022

    To spice things up with the start of the 4th season of the Basement Poetry Podcast, we will look at John Kenney's poem, "Hold the Elevator?"

    Link to John Kenney's website: Books — John Kenney (byjohnkenney.com)

    Amazon.com: Love Poems for the Office: 9780593190708: Kenney, John: Books


    If you would like a poem read on the podcast, send an email to basementpoetrypod@gmail.com
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    11 mins
  • "The Feeling Sonnets: 15." by Eugene Ostashevsky

    "The Feeling Sonnets: 15." by Eugene Ostashevsky
    Apr 12 2022
    Today we will take a look at the poem, "15" from The Feeling Sonnets published in Volume 51 of The American Poetry Review. American Poetry Review – Home (aprweb.org) Eugene Ostashevsky Eugene Ostashevsky was born in Leningrad in 1968 and immigrated with his family to New York in 1979. He is the author of the poetry collections Iterature and The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza, both of which are published by Ugly Duckling Presse, and a scholar and translator of Russian avant-garde and contemporary poetry, especially by the 1930s underground writers Alexander Vvedensky and Daniil Kharms. He currently lives in Berlin and New York and teaches literature in the Liberal Studies program at New York University. His contributions to New York Review Books include translating Vvedensky's An Invitation for Me to Think and The Fire Horse: Children's Poems by Mayakovsky, Mandelstam, and Kharms.
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    12 mins

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