Best Joseph Paul Wright Podcasts (2025)

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Rebecca Watts, Brian Bilston, Cristina Rivera Garza, Deryn Rees-Jones 41:27

2M ago41:27

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Rebecca Watts has just published her third poetry collection - The Face In The Well. She discusses writing poems that engage with the work of an earlier generation of poets, turning a cherished childhood memory into poetry, and Emily Brontë's love of ironing. Poet and writer Brian Bilston is as much a fan of the American writer, artist, and designe…

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Reeta Chakrabarti, Fred D'Aguiar, Ella Frears, Edward Wilson-Lee 41:57

3M ago41:57

41:57

Flames and poetry - what poetry tell us about the Los Angeles fires, the pleasure the poet John Keats took in reading - a poem-letter to an imaginary estate agent, and magical language. To explore all this McMillan is joined by poetry writers and poetry lovers. Ian's guests: BBC newsreader and journalist Reeta Chakrabarti is a trustee of the Keats-…

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Joelle Taylor, Anthony Joseph, Luke Wright, Accents 41:57

3M ago41:57

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How does it feel to be adopted? How does naming things affect experience? Why does a mysterious sound make Ian want to get out of the studio in Salford? Is it ever a good idea to pretend to have a particular accent? Poems, questions and much more - on this week's Verb. Ian McMillan is joined by poets Joelle Taylor, Anthony Joseph, Luke Wright, and …

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TS Eliot Prize Readings - highlights of a year in poetry 41:23

3M ago41:23

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Ian McMillan presents highlights from the TS Eliot Prize Readings - extraordinary poetry from 2024. Poetry books featured : Raymond Antrobus 'Signs, Music' (Picador Poetry)Hannah Copley 'Lapwing' (Pavilion Poetry)Helen Farish 'The Penny Dropping' (Bloodaxe Books)Peter Gizzi 'Fierce Elegy' (Penguin Poetry)Gustav Parker Hibbett 'High Jump as Icarus S…

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Richard Dawkins, Gwyneth Lewis, Kate Fox, Eartoon 41:59

4M ago41:59

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Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins tells Ian McMillan about the influence of poetry on his writing, and shares poems written by his own mother. Ian also explores the influence of a very competitive mother on the life and poetry of former National Poet of Wales Gwyneth Lewis. And as it's the first Verb of the year, stand-up poet Kate Fox suggest…

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Poetry is Bread Podcast Episode 26 with Poet Aja Monet 48:37

4M ago48:37

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Poetry is Bread Podcast Episode 26 with Poet Aja Monet. Host Bob Holman. Get more episodes at Bowery Poetry. Producer Ram Devineni.By Bowery Poetry

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The Morecambe Poetry Festival 57:00

4M ago57:00

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The Morecambe Poetry festival hosts Ian McMillan and the Verb at the Morecambe Winter Gardens, for a special recording with poets Pam Ayres, Raymond Antrobus and Henry Normal, three performers much- loved by audiences. Pam Ayres takes us back to the beginning of her career with the first poem she ever performed live whilst working for the Royal Air…

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A special recording of The AdVerb at The Hackney Empire 1:02:00

4M ago1:02:00

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A special recording of The AdVerb at The Hackney Empire . Ian McMillan introduces six unique collaborations - new commissions between poets composers and musicians in collaboration with BBC Contains Strong Language and the BBC Symphony Orchestra Poets from the East End of London team up with composers to make new pieces that tell stories of this pa…

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Poetry is Bread Podcast Episode 25 with Poet Ursula Rucker 32:21

4M ago32:21

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Poetry is Bread Podcast Episode 25 with Poet Ursula Rucker on poetry, performance and truth. Host Bob Holman. Get more episodes at Bowery Poetry. Producer Ram Devineni.By Bowery Poetry

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Isy Suttie, Pascale Petit, Deryn Rees Jones, Alan Connor 42:07

6M ago42:07

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Ian McMillan is joined by four guests for more poetry and performance . After a year characterised by wet weather, Alan Connor constructs a poem from 188 Words for Rain collected on travels around the country for his new book with that title. Comedian and writer Isy Suttie treats us to a new song written with the approaching Bonfire Night in mind, …

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Wendy Cope, Theresa Lola , Susie Dent, Ira Lightman 42:08

6M ago42:08

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On this week's edition of The Verb, Ian McMillan gathers together - Wendy Cope - the poet whose 1986 debut collection "Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis" became that rare thing - a poetry best seller. As her first collected poems are published she reflects on poetry forms and why some of her old poems are making their first public appearance in her ne…

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Paul Farley, Malika Booker, Rob Drummond, Kate Fox 42:02

6M ago42:02

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This week on The Verb Ian McMillan is joined by Paul Farley, author of the bird-centred 2019 poetry collection 'The Mizzy'. Especially for The Verb he's written us a brand new poem that considers birds on our workplace, inspired by new 'Nature Postive' building regulations. Malika Booker is tackling this week's 'Neon Line' poem. Booker won the Forw…

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Margaret Atwood and Alice Oswald 42:13

7M ago42:13

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Ian McMillan talks to Margaret Atwood and Alice Oswald about how we write poetry, and their own process, the natural world, time, and the possibilities of myth.By BBC Radio 4

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The Verb in Australia 51:36

7M ago51:36

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BBC Contains Strong Language 2024 took place in Sydney Australia in partnership with Red Room Poetry and ABC Australia . This special edition of The Verb was recorded in State Library of New South Wales n front of a audience as part of the festival. With guests Eileen Chong the first Asian Australian poet to be on the school syllabus, who came to A…

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29/09/2024 42:20

7M ago42:20

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Gardens, balloons, parties and whales feature in this week's cabaret of the word. Ian's guests include Toby Litt, Roger Robinson, Hannah Silva and Caleb Femi. Novelist, poet and librettist Toby Litt has wrestled Ian, written stories backwards, and been limited to a single verb, in previous Verb commissions. This week he has to write something surre…

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22/09/2024 42:01

7M ago42:01

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Ian McMillan presents a cabaret of the word - the best poetry and performance - with guests Daljit Nagra, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Brian Bilston and the voice of Stagedoor Johnny. Brian Bilston, internet poetry sensation - and the poet behind 'Days like there' and 'Alexa, what is there to know about love?' shares poems in both human and animal languag…

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The Adverb in Australia 57:12

8M ago57:12

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Bringing you the best in Australian spoken word poetry . A special edition of Adverb, recorded at the Riverside Theatres in Parramatta the creative edgy hub of West Sydney. Featuring the founder of the exciting Bankstown series of poetry slams Sara Mansour along with many of the poets who have performed there in slams that attract huge audiences to…

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The Adverb at Outspoken 56:34

8M ago56:34

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Inspiring words that connect us in difficult times; three outstanding poets take to the stage at Outspoken, one of the most exciting and innovative poetry nights in the world. Imtiaz Dharker, poet, film-maker and national treasure is on first. She is a recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal and reads new poems from her collection 'Shadow Reader' - som…

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The Adverb at Hay 56:22

8M ago56:22

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Ian McMillan presents poets in performance from the Hay Festival for The Verb's performance wing - The Adverb. This week's guests include the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, the National Poet of Wales Hanan Issa, former Children’s Poet Laureate Joseph Coelho, Professor of Creativity Owen Sheers - and Jazz Money, an Australian poet of Wiradjuri herita…

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The Adverb at Latitude 56:24

9M ago56:24

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Recorded live at the sunny Latitude Festival Ian McMillan has gathered three top poets for The Adverb - The Verb's showcase of the best live poetry and readings. Dr John Cooper Clarke is a legend of the punk poetry scene and gets us into gear with a poem about the thrilling allure of the hire car. The best art can come out of limitations and Luke W…

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28/07/2024 41:54

9M ago41:54

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Why does 'mean' have so many meanings? Why do poets take metaphor so seriously? Why do objects like pink ghetto blasters make poems live? And why are the filaments of our eyes in the edges of the snow? To answer these surreal, and not so surreal questions - Ian McMillan is joined by Alistair McGowan, Caroline Bird, and Toria Garbutt, and presents a…

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21/07/2024 41:49

9M ago41:49

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Crocodile-like men, fireflies, a soul hitching a ride on a bee, the coolness of Switzerland, anagrams, and a mysterious rhyming poem - all this and more fromIan McMillan's guests this week - as they explore the way a poetic image can change the way we see things, Arji Manuelpillai is a poet and creative facilitator. His poetry collection 'Improvise…

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14/07/2024 42:05

10M ago42:05

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Frogs who love rain, the poem that came from a magpie, the poetry of the peleton, and the everyday language of dating apps. Ian McMillan's guests this week (Hollie McNish, Testament, Ira Lightman and Liz Berry) bring all of this to the studio table and much, much more. Hollie McNish's latest book is 'Lobster and other things I'm learning to love' -…

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07/07/2024 42:02

10M ago42:02

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Ian McMillan is joined by poets and poetry lovers for this celebration of language recorded at this year's Hay Festival. The actor, Harry Potter star, Dickens virtuoso and national treasure Miriam Margolyes shares one of her favourite poems, the 19th century poet Robert Browning's 'My Last Duchess'. Miriam invites listeners to imagine the Duke, who…

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30/06/2024 41:26

10M ago41:26

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The appeal of 'the road less travelled by', Emily Brontë as self-help guru, a new way to look at Little Red Riding Hood and the 'little miracles' we might notice when we care for the elderly; Ian McMillan celebrates poems that explore all of these ideas with his guests, the poets Len Pennie, Malika Booker, Kate Fox, and Michael Symmons Roberts. Mic…

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23/06/2024 40:06

10M ago40:06

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What's it like being awake at 4am? How do we feel about toads? Where does the word chortle come from, and when is an anthem truly personal? Ian McMillan gets to the heart of these questions through brand new poetry commissions, exploring the poems and poets we love, and through celebrating language's delights and quirks - all in the company of his …

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The Final Verbdown 43:39

1y ago43:39

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The Verb, which for the past 22 years has been bringing linguistic delights to the Radio 3 audience, will be leaving to make its new home on Radio 4. But in a mood of celebration Ian McMillan and his guests put the number 3 in the spotlight as they explore the magic and the power of three in poetry, storytelling and writing; with poet and memoirist…

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The Claustrophobic Verb 43:41

1y ago43:41

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Ian McMillan is leaning into unease this week as he discusses writing and Claustrophobia. His guests are Holly Pester, whose new novel 'The Lodgers' examines the psychological disturbances of precarious housing situations; we meet a woman renting a flat that is more like a sandwich packet than a house, and another who must make her own life extreme…

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Zadie Smith 43:36

1y ago43:36

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This week The Verb offers you another chance to hear a special extended interview with Zadie Smith. Her audacious first book 'White Teeth', written when she was just 24, was one of the most talked about debut novels of all time. Most of Smith's novels take place in north west London, where she grew up, and which she has described as the location of…

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International Women's Day Verb 43:43

1y ago43:43

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On International Women's Day Ian McMillan is joined by poets Joelle Taylor, Rommi Smith, Kim Moore and Shirley May to explore how women poets are using poetry and writing to explore and challenge sexism and to empower women through words. There's also music from soul singer, Sarah-Jane Morris, and musician, Tony Remy, from their new album 'Sisterho…

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Words on Music 43:23

1y ago43:23

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Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins’ practise notebooks, pianist Stephen Hough’s account of tackling Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto, the voice of Fairport Convention’s Sandy Denny in the words of Scottish poet Don Paterson, and E. M. Forster’s evocation of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in Howard’s End: just some of the texts we’ll hear on tonight’s cele…

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The Cute Verb 43:34

1y ago43:34

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This week it’s the ‘cabaret of cuteness’ as this week Ian McMillan and his guests examine all things small, fluffy, wide eyed and sleepy in The Cute Verb. Ian is joined by poet Isabel Galleymore who reads from her new collection Baby Schema which asks what we ask cuteness to do for us and follows Mickey Mouse’s journey towards cuteness across the p…

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The World in Words 43:38

1y ago43:38

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The World in Words. The Verb, presented by Ian McMillan, revisits the Contains Strong Language which was held in Leeds in September of last year. It was a gathering of poets from all over the world and featured Felene Cayetano from Belize, Andre Bagoo from Trinidad and Tobago, Ngwatilo Mawiyoo from Kenya, Lebo Mashile from South Africa, Chris Tse, …

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The Physical Verb 44:15

1y ago44:15

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This edition of the verb is a celebration of the physical - everything from mountain climbing, human desire, a mother's touch or the act of writing. The poet Helen Mort writes in her head, while running, climbing and she even wrote one whilst in labour. She tells Ian about her new collection The Illustrated Woman - inspired by what she calls a "pai…

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The Hip Hop Verb 43:40

1y ago43:40

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The Verb goes back to the brilliant Contains Strong Language Festival held in September last year in Leeds to consider the poetics of rap, rhyme and flows with a celebration of 50 years of hip hop. Rapper and playwright, and friend of The Verb, Testament led a panel discussion on one of the 20th and 21st century’s most powerful and influential lite…

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Tessa Hadley 44:03

1+ y ago44:03

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Ian McMillan presents a special extended interview with writer and novelist Tessa Hadley. Tessa Hadley's books are admired for the flowing, thoughtful intensity of her prose; and she is a master of capturing the humanity of domestic lives and the quietly devastating drama of the everyday. Hadley is a writer with a keen eye for the telling detail an…

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The TS Eliot Prize 43:40

1+ y ago43:40

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Ian McMillan presents a celebration of remarkable poets and poetry readings from one of the major events in the poetry calendar: the TS Eliot Prize Readings at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The prize is awarded annually by the TS Eliot Foundation for the best collection of the year. The winning book Self-Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Pais…

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Language 43:40

1+ y ago43:40

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Ian McMillan is looking at, and listening to, the wonderfully different ways we use language with three poets: Daljit Nagra whose new collection Indiom celebrates language in more than forty different poetic forms; Nasser Hussain whose poems take us deep into individual words often creating patterns so that build something new, and Safiya Kamaria K…

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Last Lines 43:43

1+ y ago43:43

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Ian McMillan enjoys last lines in poetry, song, memoir, and novels - and his guests introduce him to different varieties of endings: the trap door, the rug-pull, the fade and many more. Stuart Maconie, writer and broadcaster, is Ian's guide to the bathetic and sometimes dramatic ends to be found in popular song - and explores an ending created by t…

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The Verb Christmas Special 44:16

1+ y ago44:16

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Ian McMillan ho ho hosts a special Christmas edition of The Verb from the Trades Club in Hebden Bridge, recorded in front of a live audience. With stories and verse and song to bring comfort and joy, from poet Jackie Kay, singer-songwriter Amelia Coburn, international storyteller Danyah Miller and doorstep poet Rowan McCabe who's been knocking on s…

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Writing a Good Future 44:11

1+ y ago44:11

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What does a good life mean in 2023 and beyond? The Verb returns to the future for a look at stories for a fast-changing planet. This week we hear from some of the most talented storytellers in the world - who have looked at (both literally and metaphorically) the retreat of the glaciers and asked themselves “what can I do now as a writer to help ma…

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The Art of Spoken Word with Bob Holman #8 with Leonard Cohen 10:03

1+ y ago10:03

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The Art of Spoken Word with Bob Holman #8 Focus on poet Leonard Cohen The podcast is co-produced by Ram Devineni. Find more episodes at https://www.bowerypoetry.com/By Bowery Poetry

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The Art of Spoken Word with Bob Holman #7 with Besmilr Brigham 7:24

1+ y ago7:24

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The Art of Spoken Word with Bob Holman #7 Focus on poet Besmilr Brigham The podcast is co-produced by Ram Devineni. Find more episodes at https://www.bowerypoetry.com/By Bowery Poetry

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The Art of Spoken Word with Bob Holman #6 with Dennis Cooper, Sparrow, Quincy Troupe, Joseph Brodsky, Miguel Algarin and John Trudell 15:33

1+ y ago15:33

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The Art of Spoken Word with Bob Holman #6 Focus on poets Dennis Cooper, Sparrow, Quincy Troupe, Joseph Brodsky, Miguel Algarin and John Trudell. The podcast is co-produced by Ram Devineni. Find more episodes at https://www.bowerypoetry.com/By Bowery Poetry

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The Art of Spoken Word with Bob Holman #5 with Robert Creeley, Czesław Miłosz, James Still, Maggie Estep and Lou Reed 13:09

1+ y ago13:09

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The Art of Spoken Word with Bob Holman #5 Focus on poets Robert Creeley, Czesław Miłosz, James Still, Maggie Estep and Lou Reed. The podcast is co-produced by Ram Devineni. Find more episodes at https://www.bowerypoetry.com/By Bowery Poetry

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The Art of Spoken Word with Bob Holman #4 with Allen Ginsberg, Hal Sirowitz, C.D. Wright, AI and Lois-Ann Yamanaka 11:59

1+ y ago11:59

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The Art of Spoken Word with Bob Holman #4 Focus on poets Allen Ginsberg, Hal Sirowitz, C.D. Wright, AI and Lois-Ann Yamanaka. The podcast is co-produced by Ram Devineni. Find more episodes at https://www.bowerypoetry.com/By Bowery Poetry

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The Art of Spoken Word with Bob Holman #3 with Tracie Morris, Amiri Baraka, Pearl Cleage, Paul Beatty and Indran Amirthanayagam 15:25

1+ y ago15:25

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The Art of Spoken Word with Bob Holman #3 Focus on poets Tracie Morris, Amiri Baraka, Pearl Cleage, Paul Beatty and Indran Amirthanayagam. The podcast is co-produced by Ram Devineni. Find more episodes at https://www.bowerypoetry.com/By Bowery Poetry

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The Art of Spoken Word with Bob Holman #2 with Thylias Moss, Pedro Pietri, Emily XYZ with Myers Bartlett, Matt Cook and Ruth Forman. 11:39

1+ y ago11:39

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The Art of Spoken Word with Bob Holman #2 Focus on poets Thylias Moss, Pedro Pietri, Emily XYZ with Myers Bartlett, Matt Cook and Ruth Forman. The podcast is co-produced by Ram Devineni . Find more episodes at https://www.bowerypoetry.com/By Bowery Poetry

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The Art of Spoken Word with Bob Holman #1 --Nuyorican Bowery Slams 1:48:32

1+ y ago1:48:32

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The Art of Spoken Word with Bob Holman. Hosted by JRose Special focus on the poetry slams. Showcasing the December 4, 2023 slam at Bowery Poetry Club. The podcast is co-produced by Ram Devineni. More information https://www.bowerypoetry.com/slamBy Bowery Poetry

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Poetry is Bread Podcast Episode 24 with poets Saul Williams and Momolu SK Stewart 52:06

1+ y ago52:06

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Poetry is Bread Podcast Episode 24 with poets Saul Williams and Momolu SK Stewart. Host Bob Holman. Get more episodes at Bowery Poetry. Producer Ram Devineni.By Bowery Poetry

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