The Poetry Gods
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Season 2, Episode 12 Featuring Willie Perdomo
05 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to Willie Perdomo about how he got started writing poetry, The Crazy Bunch, friendships in poetry, and so ...
Season 2, Episode 11 Featuring Eboni Hogan
22 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to Eboni Hogan about courtship: the do's and don'ts, fragile masculinity, poetry, New York City, making th...
Season 2, Episode 10 Featuring Lauren Whitehead
08 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to Lauren Whitehead about courting rejection, writing in multiple disciplines, The Handmaid's Tale by Marg...
Season 2, Episode 9 Featuring Adam Falkner
25 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 9 of The Poetry Gods! “If we commit to telling particular stories, we need to tell the circumference of them, and not...
Season 2, Episode 8 Featuring John Manuel Arias
11 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 8 of The Poetry Gods! We realized many of the poetry podcasts we listened to were wildly dull. Hyper self-serious, self-a...
Season 2, Episode 7 Featuring Nicole Shanté
27 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 7 of The Poetry Gods! We realized many of the poetry podcasts we listened to were wildly dull. Hyper self-serious, self-a...
Season 2, Episode 6 Featuring Desiree C. Bailey
13 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 6 of The Poetry Gods! We realized many of the poetry podcasts we listened to were wildly dull. Hyper self-serious, self-a...
Season 2, Episode 5 Featuring Aracelis Girmay
30 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 5 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to Aracelis Girmay about poetry, wolves, and more. Chec...
Season 2, Episode 4 Featuring Noel Quiñones
16 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 4 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to 2016 Poets House Emerging Fellow and one of the co-f...
Season 2, Episode 3 Featuring Patricia Smith (Part 2)
02 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 3 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to one of our favorite poets and people, Patricia Smith...
Season 2, Episode 2 Featuring Patricia Smith (Part 1)
18 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Season 2, Episode 2 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to one of our favorite poets and people, Patricia Smith...
Season 2, Episode 1 Featuring Tim Seibles
04 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Season 2 of The Poetry Gods! We're back! Thank you to everyone who has been politely and not so politely asking us about when Season 2 woul...
Episode 16 Featuring Where It All Started-- Season One Finale
07 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Episode 16 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we take you back to where it all started: the unreleased pilot episode o...
Episode 15 Featuring Your Questions-- Part 1
13 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Episode 15 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we answer your questions! We had a raucous time answering your questions...
Episode 14 Featuring The BreakBeat Poets LIVE From Berl's Poetry Shop
02 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Episode 14 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we have a brand new "What's On Your Mind?" along with an archival record...
Episode 13 Featuring Camonghne Felix
16 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Episode 13 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to Camonghne Felix about growing up in The Bronx & how she got s...
Episode 12 Featuring Safia Elhillo
02 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Episode 12 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to Safia Elhillo about her writing journey & much more. As alway...
Episode 11 Featuring Morgan Parker
19 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Episode 11 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we skip our usual segment of "What's on Your Mind?" to talk about names,...
Episode 10 Featuring Mahogany L. Browne PART 2
05 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Episode 10 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk about language, whiteness, community, and much much more. This i...
Episode 9 Featuring Mahogany L. Browne
21 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Episode 9 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, José apologizes to Nas, & we talk extensively about community and creati...
Episode 8 Featuring Jive Poetic
07 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Episode 8 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk about love poems (including of one of our favorite love poems: Ma...
Episode 7 Featuring Nabila Lovelace
24 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Episode 7 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, Aziza talks about her trip to Dubai, José is raspy (ask Aziza about what...
Episode 6 Featuring Paul Tran
10 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Episode 6 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we introduce a new segment: Unpopular Opinions! What don't we like? Find ...
Episode 5 Featuring Joshua Bennett
26 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Episode 5 of The Poetry Gods! This episode is brought to you by Robitussin & Vaporub. On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to poet, ...
Episode 4 Featuring Jeanann Verlee
12 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Episode 4 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to the extraordinary Jeanann Verlee about social media, the strug...
Episode 3 Featuring Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
29 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Episode 3 of The Poetry Gods! On this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to poet, essayist, and relentless Ohioan Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib ...
Episode 2 Featuring Jeremy Michael Clark
15 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Episode 2 of The Poetry Gods! In this episode we talk to Jeremy Michael Clark about the worst performances we've ever done, tattoo ideas, v...
Episode 1 featuring Jayson P Smith
29 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to episode 1 of The Poetry Gods. In this episode of The Poetry Gods, we talk to poet Jayson P Smith about love, how to spit game, growing up t...