Unabridged: Poetry Therapy 2.0
Happy National Poetry Month! We’re celebrating by bringing back another installment of Poetry Therapy, which is a bonus episode we did back in 2024. If you've ever felt like you didn’t “get it” when it comes to poetry, we've got five incredible poets who can help: José Olivarez, Cortney Charleston, Camonghne Felix, Nate Marshall, and Yesika Zamora. Each poet has selected a poem to break down with me—they'll read it, discuss what they notice and how it works, and talk about why it excites them. Whether you love poetry, don’t understand it, or are somewhere in between, this episode is for you.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find what we talked about on Amazon.
José Olivarez
“For Estefani Lora, Third Grade, Who Made Me a Card” by Aracelis Girmay
Promises of Gold by José Olivarez
Citizen Illegal by José Olivarez
Por Siempre by José Olivarez
“Ep. 258 Long-Suffering Basketball Fans with José Olivarez” (The Stacks)
“The Thing Is” by Ellen Bass
“Ep. 418 I Write and Speak Unlawfully with Mahogany L. Browne” (The Stacks)
“Besaydoo” by Yalie Kamara
Cortney Charleston
“job prescription” by Evie Shockley
Doppelgangbanger by Cortney Lamar Charleston
“Ep. 212 Doppelgangbanger by Cortney Lamar Charleston -- The Stacks Book Club (Nate Marshall)”
It's Important I Remember by Cortney Lamar Charleston
Telepathologies by Cortney Lamar Charleston
Camonghne Felix
“If We Must Die” by Claude McKay
Build Yourself a Poet by Camonghne Felix
Dyscalculia by Camonghne Felix
“Ep. 254 Heartbreak is Pivotal to Romance with Camonghne Felix” (The Stacks)
Let the Poets Govern by Camonghne Felix
Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
“If I Must Die” by Refaat Alareer
Nate Marshall
“Ric Flair Doesn't Love Richard Fliehr" by P. Scott Cunningham
Finna by Nate Marshall
Blood Percussion by Nate Marshall
Wild Hundreds by Nate Marshall
No Blue Memories by Nate Marshall and Eve Ewing
“Ep. 209 A Poem is About Wonder with Nate Marshall” (The Stacks)
Self-Portrait as the I in Florida by P. Scott Cunningham
“Someday I’ll Love Frank O’Hara” by Frank O’Hara
“Someday I’ll Love Roger Reeves” by Roger Reeves
“Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong” by Ocean Vuong
Yesika Salgado
“Midnight in the Foreign Food Aisle” by Warsan Shire
Corazón by Yesika Salgado
Tesoro by Yesika Salgado
Hermosa by Yesika Salgado
“Ep. 420 We Read One Poem at a Time with Ada Limón” (The Stacks)
Lemonade Visual Album (Beyonce)
“Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver
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