Episode 182 - Lyric Poetry

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re talking about the format of Lyric Poetry! We talk about reading poetry out loud, translation, French Canadian dialects, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Entre Rive and Shore by Dominique Bernier-Cormier
• Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems by Forugh Farrokhzad, translated by Elizabeth T. Gray Jr
• Ledger: Poems by Jane Hirshfield
• Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy
• Goldenrod: Poems by Maggie Smith
• Good Bones: Poems by Maggie Smith
• Alive At The End Of The World by Saeed Jones
• The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes on by Franny Choi
• No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay
• White Pine: Poems and Prose Poems by Mary Oliver
• Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire
• Le premier coup de clairon pour réveiller les femmes immorales by Rachel McCrum
• The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón
• The Arkansas Testament by Derek Walcott
• Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones

Other Media We Mentioned

• The Bronze Horseman by Alexander Pushkin
• 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: With More Ways by Eliot Weinberger
• The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
• “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop
• When We Were Very Young by A. A Milne
• Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
• The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation by Dante Alighieri, translated by Robert Pinsky
• All Def Poetry
• milk and honey by rupi kaur
• One Piece by Eiichiro Oda
  • Trailer for Netflix show
• “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” by Audre Lorde (pdf)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Lyric poetry (Wikipedia)
• The Writer's Block
• The Midnight Library: Episode 001 - Halloween Poetry
• Chiac (Wikipedia)
• Plasco Building (Wikipedia)

30 Recent Poetry Collections by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

This booklist features books from BIPOC poets published in the past three years.

• Chrome Valley by Mahogany L. Browne
• Feast by Ina Cariño
• Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen
• Girls That Never Die: Poems by Safia Elhillo
• Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi
• I Do Everything I'm Told by Megan Fernandes
• Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry edited by Joy Harjo
• Song of my Softening by Omotara James
• Spells, Wishes, and the Talking Dead / Mamaht́wisiwin, Pakos̊yimow, Nikihci-́niskot́ṕn : Poems by Wanda John-Kehewin
• Burning Like Her Own Planet by Vandana Khanna
• Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi
• Bianca by Eugenia Leigh
• Finna by Nate Marshall
• Slam Coalkan Performance Poetry: The Condor and the Eagle Meet edited by Jennifer Murrin
• God Themselves by Jae Nichelle
• You Are Only Just Beginning: Lessons for the Journey Ahead by Morgan Harper Nichols
• I’m Always So Serious by Karisma Price
• Homie by Danez Smith
• Blood Snow by dg nanouk okpik
• Promises of Gold/Promesas de Oro by José Olivarez with translation by David Ruano
• That Was Now, This is Then by Vijay Seshadri
• it was never going to be okay by jaye simpson
• Dark Testament by Crystal Simone Smith
• Unshuttered: Poems by Patricia Smith
• Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom
• Femme in Public by Alok Vaid-Menon
• Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
• Find Her. Keep Her. by Renaada Williams
• Rupture Tense by Jenny Xie
• From From by Monica Youn

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