New PoemTalk now out

The new episode of PoemTalk is now being released, our eighteenth podcast in a series that has featured twenty-five-minute discussions among three poets, hosted by me, on single short poems by William Carlos Williams, Adrienne Rich, George Oppen, William Blake via Allen Ginsberg, Ted Berrigan, Jaap Blonk, Jerome Rothenberg, Rae Armantrout, John Ashbery, Gertrude Stein, Erica Hunt, Ezra Pound, Kathleen Fraser, Wallace Stevens, Lyn Hejinian, Robert Creeley, Rodrigo Toscano, and now Lydia Davis. Lydia Davis a poet? Well, no, she’s the writer of short-short stories, prose parables, prose-poems — you decide. Here’s your link to the new episode.