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Season 3

The Poet Salon · Ada Limón reads Wanda Coleman's "Requiem for a Nest"

The Poet Salon · Ada Limón + January Gimlet

Season 2

The Poet Salon · Justin Phillip Reed reads Reginald Shepherd's "Occurrences across the Chromatic Scale"

The Poet Salon · Justin Phillip Reed + Whiskey From The bottle

The Poet Salon · Keetje Kuipers reads Eavan Boland's "Quarantine"

The Poet Salon · Keetje Kuipers + The Small Town Drag Show

The Poet Salon · Aria Aber reads Solmaz Sharif's "The Master's House"

The Poet Salon · Aria Aber + Duino Mojito

The Poet Salon · Michelle Peñalozs reads Douglas Kearney's "Tallahatchie Lullabye, Baby"

The Poet Salon · Michelle Peñaloza + Fire and Chrysanthemums

The Poet Salon is a podcast where poets talks over drinks prepared especially for them. Your hosts are Gabrielle Bates, Luther Hughes, and Dujie Tahat.

The Poet Salon · Paisley Rekdal reads Brigit Pegeen Kelly "Black Swan"

The Poet Salon · Paisley Rekdal + The Dark Sister

The Poet Salon · Taneum Bambrick reads Aria Aber’s “The Only Cab Service of Farmington, Maine”

The Poet Salon · Taneum Bambrick + End of Road Toddy

The Poet Salon · Oliver de la Paz reads Laura Jensen's "Bad Boats"

The Poet Salon · Oliver de la Paz + The Long Line

The Poet Salon · Bettina Judd reads Aracelis Girmay's "The Black Maria"

The Poet Salon · Bettina Judd + JOY! Spritz

The Poet Salon · Bill Carty Reads Jennifer Chang's "Dorothy Wordsworth"

The Poet Salon · Bill Carty + Grecian Laurel 75

The Poet Salon · Jericho Brown Reads Lucille Clifton's "The Lost Baby Poem"

The Poet Salon · Jericho Brown + The Bizzy Izzy

The Poet Salon · Live! with Natalie Scenters-Zapico

Season 1

Oh there you are, lovely. Last week, we chopped it up with worldwide sensation Danez Smith on reading for the National Book Awards, joy, and the violence necessary to achieve utopia. For this week's episode, they brought in Franny Choi's "Introduction to Quantum Theory" for us to discuss, and spoiler alert: it's a banger. DANEZ SMITH is a Black, Queer, Poz writer & performer from St. Paul, MN. Danez is the author of Don’t Call Us Dead (Graywolf Press, 2017), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award, and a finalist for the National Book Award, and [insert] boy (YesYes Books, 2014), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. They are the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Montalvo Arts Center, Cave Canem, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Danez's work has been featured widely including on Buzzfeed, The New York Times, PBS NewsHour, Best American Poetry, Poetry Magazine, and on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Danez is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and is the co-host of VS with Franny Choi, a podcast sponsored by the Poetry Foundation and Postloudness. Danez’s third collection, Homie, will be published by Graywolf in Spring 2020. FRANNY CHOI is a writer, performer, and educator. She is the author of Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody, 2014) and the chapbook Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017). She has been a finalist for multiple national poetry slams, and her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, American Poetry Review, the New England Review, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman Fellow, Senior News Editor for Hyphen, co-host of the podcast VS, and member of the Dark Noise Collective. Her second collection, Soft Science, is forthcoming from Alice James Books