• I Am a Receptical (A Poetry Salon)
    Jan 12 2026

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    Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
    James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.


    Show Notes:

    We read poems by Amy Lowell and Jubi Arriola-Headley

    Check out Jubi Arriola-Headley's website here, and an obituary here.

    Learn more about Amy Lowell here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/amy-lowell

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    7 mins
  • François Sagat (A Poetry Salon)
    Jan 5 2026

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    Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
    James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.


    Show Notes:

    We read poems by Giada Scodellaro and Natalie Louise Tombasco.

    Check out Giada Scodellaro's website here: https://giadascodellaro.com/

    Check out Natalie Louise Tombasco's website: https://natalielouisetombasco.com/

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    9 mins
  • Vitamin D (A Poetry Salon)
    Dec 29 2025

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    Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
    James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.


    Show Notes:

    We read poems by Kelli Russell Agodon and Afaa Michael Weaver.

    Learn more about Afaa Michael Weaver here: https://www.theshipmanagency.com/afaa-michael-weaver

    Check out Kelli Russell Agodon's website: https://www.agodon.com/index.html

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    7 mins
  • Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (A Poetry Salon)
    Dec 22 2025

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    Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
    James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.


    Show Notes:

    We read poems by Jonterri Gadson & Patrica Traxler

    Check out Jonterri Gadson's website: https://www.jonterrigadson.com/

    You can read more about Patricia Traxler on this Wikipedia page.


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    5 mins
  • Knight Him (A Poetry Salon)
    Dec 15 2025

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    Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
    James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.


    Show Notes:

    We read poems by Mary Helen Callier & Virginia Chase Sutton

    Check out Mary Helen Callier's website: https://maryhelencallier.com/

    Check out Virginia Chase Sutton's website: https://www.virginiachasesutton.com/


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    7 mins
  • That Moon Will Kill Me (A Poetry Salon)
    Dec 8 2025

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    Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
    James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.


    Show Notes:

    We read poems by David Hernandez and Dorian Elizabeth Knapp.

    Check out Dorian Elizabeth Knapp's website: https://dorianelizabethknapp.com/

    Check out David Hernandez's website: http://www.davidahernandez.com/


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    10 mins
  • All Tops
    Dec 1 2025

    Nerd tops, dom tops, soft tops: the queens go gaga over a discussion of their top poems by favorite poets.

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    Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
    James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.


    SHOW NOTES:

    Poems and poets discussed in this episode include:

    Sharon Olds: "The Race"; "Topography"; "First"

    Louise Glück: "Widows"; "Celestial Music"; "The Mirror" (text); "The Mirror" (audio only); "Parable of the Dove"

    Jorie Graham: "Masaccio's Expulsion"; "At Luca Signorelli's Resurrection of the Dead"; "Salmon"

    Mark Doty: "Visitation"; "Lament-Heaven"

    Vijay Seshadri: "The Disappearances" & an essay about the poem here.

    Linda Gregg: "Summer in a Small Town"; "Sigismundo"; "Let Birds"; "We Manage Most When We Manage Small"

    Etheridge Knight: "Feeling Fucked Up"

    C. Dale Young: "Torn"; check out this review of the book by Dilruba Ahmed in Kenyon Review here.

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    41 mins
  • OnlyForms
    Nov 24 2025

    Let's get trioleted, girls! The queens delve into some fun poetic forms.


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    Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.
    James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.

    Watch TLC's music video for "No Scrubs"

    Discover more about Jehanne Dubrow's The Arranged Marriage, about which Claudia Rankine writes,"The poet here is positioned to observe, to picture, and to record in order to communicate coherence in the face of incoherence."

    Aaron reads: Sonia Sanchez "Haiku and Tanka for Harriet Tubman." Learn more about Tubman here.

    Read Agha Shahid Ali's ghazal, "Tonight". Shahid died in 2001.

    Here's more about the triolet. For a few examples of the form, here's Gabriel Fried's "Parenting Triolet" and Rachel Hadas's "Fortress"

    Read more about the Golden Shovel here, and read Terrance Hayes's "Golden Shovel."

    Read more about the Duplex, or watch Jericho Brown explain it here. Read Jericho Brown's "Duplex" or watch him read the poem here.

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    30 mins
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