The Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry Podcast

Featuring recordings from the BWLS archive, in which contemporary poets explore their thinking on poetry & poetics, & give a series of lectures resulting from these investigations. Season 9 features lectures by Lisa Jarnot. Seasons 1-8 include lectures by Joshua Beckman, Dorothea Lasky, Terrance Hayes, Cedar Sigo, Douglas Kearney, and Rachel Zucker, as well as recordings from the 2018 BWLS conference, "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention & Audience," and The Seattle Series, which ran from 2016-2018 and includes recordings of Don Mee Choi, Tyehimba Jess, Ange Mlinko, and more.

Recent Episodes
  • 10.3 Srikanth Reddy: "The 'O' of Wonder: A Syzygy"
    Sep 11, 2024 – 00:52:24
  • 10.2 Srikanth Reddy: "Like a Very Strange Likeness and Pink"
    Sep 4, 2024 – 00:57:44
  • 10.1 Srikanth Reddy: "The Unsignificant"
    Aug 28, 2024 – 00:43:56
  • 9.4 Lisa Jarnot: "Is That A Real Poem Or Did You Just Make It Up?"
    May 1, 2024 – 00:30:20
  • 9.3 Lisa Jarnot: "Epistle to the Summer Writing Program (On the Metaphysics of Deep Gossip)"
    Apr 24, 2024 – 00:42:44
  • 9.2 Lisa Jarnot: "Abandon the Creeping Meatball: an Anarcho-Spiritual Treatise"
    Apr 17, 2024 – 00:54:53
  • 9.1 Lisa Jarnot: "White Whales, White Males, Whitehead"
    Apr 10, 2024 – 00:57:27
  • 8.5 Rachel Zucker: "Poetry and Photography"
    Feb 28, 2023 – 01:07:53
  • 8.4: Rachel Zucker: "The Poetics of Motherhood"
    Feb 21, 2023 – 01:00:36
  • 8.3 Rachel Zucker: "A Very Large Charge: The Ethics of 'Say Everything' Poetry"
    Feb 14, 2023 – 00:52:54
  • 8.2 Rachel Zucker: "What We Talk About When We Talk About the Confessional, and What We SHOULD Be Talking About"
    Feb 7, 2023 – 00:55:22
  • 8.1 Rachel Zucker: "The Poetics of Wrongness: an Unapologia"
    Jan 31, 2023 – 00:55:24
  • 7.5 Douglas Kearney with Val-Inc: "Read Red / Red Read: Putting Violence Down in Poetry"
    Nov 8, 2022 – 00:49:16
  • 7.4 Douglas Kearney: "You Better Hush: Blacktracking A Visual Poetics"
    Oct 25, 2022 – 01:01:48
  • 7.3 Douglas Kearney: "Red Read / Read Red: Depictions of Violence in Poetry"
    Oct 10, 2022 – 00:58:26
  • 7.2 Douglas Kearney: "#WEREWOLFGOALS"
    Oct 3, 2022 – 00:55:39
  • 7.1 Douglas Kearney: "I Killed, I Died: Banter, Self-Destruction, and the Poetry Reading"
    Sep 27, 2022 – 00:58:12
  • 6.5 Matthew Dickman: "Making the Black Dog Sit: A Look at Suicide Through Poetry"
    Jul 25, 2022 – 00:43:10
  • 6.4 Judy Halebsky: "From Haiku to Collage"
    Jul 5, 2022 – 00:50:37
  • 6.3 Tyehimba Jess: "on OLIO"
    Jun 14, 2022 – 01:24:52
  • 6.2 Matthew Rohrer: "Poetry is Not a Symbol"
    May 23, 2022 – 00:23:12
  • 6.1 Ange Mlinko: "Poetry at Sea"
    May 3, 2022 – 00:48:39
  • 5.4 Poetry & Non-Literary Influence: "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention & Audience"
    Dec 6, 2021 – 01:07:49
  • 5.3 Poetry & Autobiography: "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention, & Audience"
    Nov 15, 2021 – 01:07:32
  • 5.2 Poetry & Practice: "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention, & Audience"
    Oct 12, 2021 – 01:28:44
  • 5.1 Poetry & Social Engagement: "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention, & Audience"
    Sep 20, 2021 – 01:10:14
  • Geoffrey Nutter: from Cities at Dawn
    Aug 8, 2021 – 00:22:19
  • Srikanth Reddy: from Underworld Lit
    Jul 12, 2021 – 00:18:12
  • Hoa Nguyen: "Living Room"
    Jun 16, 2021 – 00:52:18
  • 4.5 Cedar Sigo: "Shadows Crossing: Tones of Voice Continued"
    May 24, 2021 – 00:48:51
  • 4.4 Cedar Sigo: "A Necessary Darkness: Barbara Guest and the Open Chamber"
    May 17, 2021 – 00:38:19
  • 4.3 Cedar Sigo: "Not Free From the Memory of Others: A Lecture on Joanne Elizabeth Kyger"
    May 10, 2021 – 00:42:06
  • 4.2 Cedar Sigo: "Becoming Visible"
    May 3, 2021 – 00:39:53
  • 4.1 Cedar Sigo: "Reality Is No Obstacle: A Poetics of Participation"
    Apr 26, 2021 – 00:46:23
  • 3.6 Terrance Hayes: "DIY For Langston Hughes"
    Apr 12, 2021 – 00:49:07
  • 3.5 Terrance Hayes: "Poetics of Liquid"
    Apr 5, 2021 – 00:54:04
  • 3.4 Terrance Hayes: "Poems From Prison"
    Mar 29, 2021 – 00:51:26
  • 3.3 Terrance Hayes: "Three Acts of Love"
    Mar 22, 2021 – 00:55:21
  • 3.2 Terrance Hayes: "Ideas of Influence"
    Mar 15, 2021 – 01:02:42
  • 3.1 Terrance Hayes: "Turning Into Dwelling: The Space Between the Poet and the Poem"
    Mar 8, 2021 – 00:45:22
  • 2.5 Dorothea Lasky: "The Bees"
    Feb 22, 2021 – 01:18:00
  • 2.4 Dorothea Lasky: "The Beast: How Poetry Makes Us Human"
    Feb 15, 2021 – 01:07:03
  • 2.3 Dorothea Lasky: "On The Materiality of the Imagination"
    Feb 8, 2021 – 01:20:21
  • 2.2 Dorothea Lasky: "What is Color in Poetry, or Is It the Wild Wind in the Space of the Word?"
    Feb 1, 2021 – 01:13:16
  • 2.1 Dorothea Lasky: "Poetry and the Metaphysical 'I'"
    Jan 25, 2021 – 01:21:51
  • 1.3 Joshua Beckman: "Friendship, Porousness, and the Intimate Experience of Poetry"
    Nov 23, 2020 – 00:43:53
  • Don Mee Choi: "Translation is a mode=Translation is an anti-neocolonial mode"
    Nov 20, 2020 – 00:40:35
  • 1.2 Joshua Beckman: "A Talk About Books"
    Nov 16, 2020 – 00:55:41
  • 1.1 Joshua Beckman: "The Lives of the Poems"
    Nov 9, 2020 – 01:11:46
Recent Reviews
  • Daveiii
    Really Wonderful Lectures
    From really wonderful poets!
  • p.shaw
    mind blowing. Still. And More.
    Having attended one of Joshua’s lectures in person, it’s so fantastic to have this recording to bring me back to that big evening of words. Thank you, BWLS
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