Having a Coke with You

About Having a Coke with You

Hey poets and poetry lovers! Welcome to Having a Coke with You, The Poetry Society of New York's podcast sponsored by the Radio Drama Network! Join Tova Greene as they sit down and have a coke with some of the most iconic poets of today’s day and age! Having a Coke with You allows any listener to have MFA-grade, unfettered access to poetry. This podcast aims to demystify poetry by allowing listeners to get a glimpse of the real person behind award-winning stanzas. With a little something for any listener, welcome to your new favorite literary podcast.

Publisher

The Poetry Society of New York

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Jul 2023

Latest episode

27 May 2026

Latest episodes

17 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 May 2026

   Marisa Crawford on Gurlesque, the Zack Morris Cell Phone Aesthetic, & the Poetics of Having a Day Job

   Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with the Weird Sister herself, Marisa Crawford! Marisa Crawford is the author of the poetry collections Diary (https://www.spuytenduyvil.net/diary.html) (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023), Reversible (http://www.switchbackbooks.com/copy-of-marisa-crawford), and The Haunted House (http://www.switchbackbooks.com/copy-of-marisa-crawford). She is the editor of The Weird Sister Collection (https://www.feministpress.org/books-n-z/the-weird-sister-collection) (Feminist Press, 2024), and co-editor, with Megan Milks, of We Are The Baby-Sitters Club: Essays & Artwork from Grown-Up Readers (https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/we-are-the-baby-sitters-club-products-9781641604901.php). Her next project, a poetry collaboration with Morgan Parker, is forthcoming from Bloof Books in 2025. Marisa’s writing about feminism, art and pop culture has appeared in The Nation, Harper’s Bazaar, Dazed, BUST, VICE, Hyperallergic, Bitch, Ms., The Rumpus, Polyester Zine and elsewhere. Marisa is the creator and editor-in-chief of WEIRD SIST (http://weird-sister.com/)E (http://weird-sister.com/)R (http://weird-sister.com/), a website and organization that explores the intersections of feminism, literature, and pop culture, and co-host of the 90s rock podcast All Our Pretty Songs (https://anchor.fm/pretty-songs). She lives in Brooklyn, NY. This podcast is brought to you by The Poetry Society of New York & the Radio Drama Network. Become a member of PSNY today! Visit poetrysocietyny.org to learn more, & follow us on social media @poetrysocietyny!

2. 

   20 May 2026

   D.A. Powell on Disaster Movies, Breakup Poems, & When the Dollar Was Strong

   Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with the legendary D.A. Powell! D. A. Powell's most recent collections include Low Hanging Fruit (Foundlings Press, 2022) & Atlas T (Rescue Press, 2020). Powell's awards include the National Book Critics Circle Award, Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Kingsley Tufts Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, & the California Book Award. He has taught at Stanford, University of Iowa, & Harvard University. His poetry inhabits the intersections of land, body and popular culture. This podcast is brought to you by The Poetry Society of New York & the Radio Drama Network. Become a member of PSNY today! Visit poetrysocietyny.org to learn more, & follow us on social media @poetrysocietyny!

3. 

   13 May 2026

   Joyelle McSweeney on Tumbling Through Forms, the Dead Meeting the Dead, & All of the Different You’s

   Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with the magnificent Joyelle McSweeney! Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of suicidal ideations & infant mortality. Please take care of yourself, & feel free to skip or pause if you need to. Joyelle McSweeney's collections of poetry include The Red Bird (2002), winner of the 2001 Fence Modern Poetry Series, The Commandrine and Other Poems (2004), Percussion Grenade (2012), Toxicon and Arachne (2020), a finalist for the 2021 Kingsley Tufts Award, and Death Styles (2024). She is also the author of the novels Nyland, the Sarcographer (2007) and Flet (2007); the prose work Salamandrine, 8 Gothics (2013); the critical volume Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults (2014); and the verse play Dead Youth, or, the Leaks (2014), awarded the inaugural Leslie Scalapino Prize for Innovative Women Performance Writers. She is a co-translator of Yi Sang: Selected Works (2020), winner of the MLA's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Translation. Her honors include the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Literature Award from the Academy of American Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry. This podcast is brought to you by The Poetry Society of New York & the Radio Drama Network. Become a member of PSNY today! Visit poetrysocietyny.org to learn more, & follow us on social media @poetrysocietyny!

4. 

   29 Apr 2026

   Chen Chen on Teenage Angst, K-Dramas, & Notes App Titles

   Hey poets & poetry lovers! In honor of National Poetry Month, I'm so thrilled to present this episode with the wondrous Chen Chen! Chen Chen is the author of two books of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (BOA Editions, 2022) and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. His work appears in many publications, including Poetry and three editions of The Best American Poetry. He has received two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from Kundiman, the National Endowment for the Arts, and United States Artists. He was the 2018-2022 Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University and currently teaches for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast. He lives with his partner, Jeff Gilbert, and their pug, Mr. Rupert Giles. This podcast is brought to you by The Poetry Society of New York & the Radio Drama Network. Become a member of PSNY today! Visit poetrysocietyny.org to learn more, & follow us on social media @poetrysocietyny!

5. 

   22 Apr 2026

   Danez Smith on Emotional Labor Before Noon, Over-poeting, & Sussing Out the Room

   Hey poets & poetry lovers! In honor of National Poetry Month, I'm so thrilled to present this episode with the iconic Danez Smith! Danez Smith is the author of four poetry collections: [insert] boy, Don’t Call Us Dead, Homie, and, most recently, Bluff.  They are also the curator of Blues In Stereo: The Early Works of Langston Hughes. For their work, Danez was won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry, the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and have been a finalist for the NAACP Image Award in Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, as well as an array of grants, fellowships, and residencies including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the Princeton Arts Fellowship. Danez lives in the Twin Cities with their people and teaches at the Randolph College MFA program and the Black Youth Healing Arts Center in St. Paul, MN. This podcast is brought to you by The Poetry Society of New York & the Radio Drama Network. Become a member of PSNY today! Visit poetrysocietyny.org to learn more, & follow us on social media @poetrysocietyny!

6. 

   15 Apr 2026

   Safia Elhillo on the Poetry Agenda, Hotel Stationary Poems, & Fire Sign Writing

   Hey poets & poetry lovers! In honor of National Poetry Month, I'm so thrilled to present this episode with the lovely Safia Elhillo! Sudanese by way of Washington, DC, Safia Elhillo is the author of the books The January Children, Girls That Never Die, Home Is Not A Country, and Bright Red Fruit. Elhillo’s work appears in Poetry Magazine, Callaloo, and The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day series, among others, and in anthologies including The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop and The Penguin Book of Migration Literature. With Fatimah Asghar, she is co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket Books, 2019), which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in 2020. Her fellowships include a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, Cave Canem, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. Elhillo received the 2015 Brunel International African Poetry Prize, and was listed in Forbes Africa’s 2018 “30 Under 30.” Her work has been translated into several languages, and commissioned by Under Armour, Cuyana, and the Bavarian State Ballet. This podcast is brought to you by The Poetry Society of New York & the Radio Drama Network. Become a member of PSNY today! Visit poetrysocietyny.org to learn more, & follow us on social media @poetrysocietyny!

7. 

   15 Sept 2023

   Cornelius Eady on Who Really Broke Up The Beatles, Cave Canem, & Record Deals

   Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with a poetry wonder: the prolific Cornelius Eady! Cornelius Eady is the author of eight books of poetry, including Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems (Putnam, April 2008). His second book, Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, won the Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets in 1985; in 2001 Brutal Imagination was a finalist for the National Book Award. His work in theater includes the libretto for an opera, “Running Man,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1999. His play, “Brutal Imagination,” won Newsday’s Oppenheimer award in 2002. In 1996 Eady co-founded, with writer Toi Derricotte, the Cave Canem  (http://cavecanempoets.org/)summer workshop/retreat for African American poets. More than a decade later, Cave Canem is a thriving national network of black poets, as well as an institution offering regional workshops, readings, a first book prize, and the summer retreat. Eady has been a teacher for more than twenty years, and is now a professor at Notre Dame University. Thank you so much Cornelius for having a coke with us today! This podcast is brought to you by The Poetry Society of New York and the Radio Drama Network. Become a member of PSNY today! Visit poetrysocietyny.org to learn more, & follow us on social media @poetrysocietyny!

8. 

   8 Sept 2023

   Paul Muldoon on The New Yorker, a “Poetry Reading Voice,” & Small Revelations

   Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with long time friend of The Poetry Society of New York, the renowned Paul Muldoon! Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet and professor of poetry, as well as an editor, critic, playwright, lyricist and translator. Born in 1951 in Portadown, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland, to Patrick Muldoon, a farm labourer and market gardener, and Brigid Regan, a schoolteacher, Paul Muldoon was brought up near a village called The Moy on the border of counties Armagh and Tyrone. He is the oldest of three children. After studying at Queen’s University, Belfast, he published his first book, New Weather (https://www.paulmuldoonpoetry.com/new-weather) (Faber) in 1973, at the age of 21. From 1973 he worked as a producer for the BBC in Belfast until, in the mid-1980’s, he gave up his job to become a freelance writer and moved to the United States with his second wife, the American novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz (http://www.jeanhanffkorelitz.com/). He now lives in New York City and Sharon Springs, New York. He is the father of two children. Muldoon is the author of fourteen full-length collections of poetry, including Howdie-Skelp (https://www.paulmuldoonpoetry.com/howdieskelp) (2021), Frolic and Detour (https://www.amazon.com/Frolic-Detour-Poems-Paul-Muldoon/dp/0374158398) (2019), One Thousand Things Worth Knowing (https://www.paulmuldoonpoetry.com/one-thousand-things-worth-knowing) (2015),  Maggot (https://www.paulmuldoonpoetry.com/maggot) (2010), Horse Latitudes  (https://www.paulmuldoonpoetry.com/horse-latitudes)(2006), Moy Sand and Gravel (https://www.paulmuldoonpoetry.com/moya-sand-and-gravel) (2002), Hay (https://www.paulmuldoonpoetry.com/hay)(1998), The Annals of Chile  (https://www.paulmuldoonpoetry.com/the-annals-of-chile)(1994),  Madoc: A Mystery (https://www.paulmuldoonpoetry.com/made-a-mystery) (1990), Meeting the British (https://www.paulmuldoonpoetry.com/meeting-the-british) (1987), Quoof (https://www.paulmuldoonpoetry.com/quoof) (1983), Why Brownlee Left  (https://www.paulmuldoonpoetry.com/why-brownlee-left)(1980), Mules  (https://www.paulmuldoonpoetry.com/mules)(1977) and New Weather  (https://www.paulmuldoonpoetry.com/new-weather)(1973). He has also published innumerable smaller collections, works of criticism, opera libretti, books for children, song lyrics, and radio and television drama. His poetry has been translated into twenty languages. Muldoon served as Professor of Poetry at Oxford University from 1999 to 2004 and as poetry editor of The New Yorker from 2007 to 2017. He has taught at Princeton University since 1987 and currently occupies the Howard G.B. Clark ’21 chair in the Humanities. He was the Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts. In addition to being much in demand as a reader and lecturer, he occasionally appears with a spoken word music group, Rogue Oliphant (https://www.paulmuldoonpoetry.com/music). Paul Muldoon is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his awards are the 1972 Eric Gregory Award, the 1980 Sir Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award, the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize, the 2006 European Prize for Poetry, the 2015 Pigott Poetry Prize, the 2017 Spirit of Ireland Award from the Irish Arts Center (NYC), the 2017 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, the 2018 Seamus Heaney Award for Arts & Letters, and the 2020 Michael Marks Award. He is the recipient of honorary doctorates from ten universities. Paul Muldoon has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as "the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War." Roger Rosenblatt, writing in The New York Times Book Review, described Paul Muldoon as "one of the great poets of the past hundred years, who can be everything in his poems - word-playful, lyrical, hilarious, melancholy. And angry. Only Yeats before him could write with such measured fury." Thank you so much Paul for having a coke with us today! This podcast is brought to you by The Poetry Society of New York and the Radio Drama Network. Become a member of PSNY today! Visit poetrysocietyny.org to learn more, & follow us on social media @poetrysocietyny!

9. 

   1 Sept 2023

   Joanna Fuhrman on Data Mind, Movies, & Multiverses

   Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with long time friend of The Poetry Society of New York, the savvy Joanna Fuhrman! Joanna Fuhrman is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Creative Writing at Rutgers University and the author of six books of poetry, including To a New Era (Hanging Loose Press 2021), The Year of Yellow Butterflies (Hanging Loose Press 2015) and Pageant (Alice James Books 2009).  Her  seventh book, Data Mind, a collection of darkly comic surreal prose poems, is forthcoming from Curbstone/Northwestern University Press in 2024. Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Baffler, The Believer, The Georgia Review, Fence and many other journals, as well as Best American Poetry 2023, The Pushcart Prize anthology, The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day and The Slowdown podcast. She first published with Hanging Loose Press as a teenager and became a co-editor in 2022. Thank you so much Joanna for having a coke with us today! This podcast is brought to you by The Poetry Society of New York and the Radio Drama Network. Become a member of PSNY today! Visit poetrysocietyny.org to learn more, & follow us on social media @poetrysocietyny!

10. 

    25 Aug 2023

    Matthew Yeager on Foil-Balling, Memorization, & Miscellaneous Life Advice

    Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with long time friend of The Poetry Society of New York, the fascinating Matthew Yeager! Matthew Yeager's poems have appeared in Sixthfinch, Gulf Coast, Bat City Review, and elsewhere, as well as Best American Poetry 2005 and Best American Poetry 2010. His short film "A Big Ball of Foil in a Small NY Apartment" was an official selection at eleven film festivals in 2009-2010, picking up three awards. Other distinctions include the Barthelme Prize in short prose and two MacDowell fellowships. The former co-curator of the long running KGB Monday Night Poetry Series, he has worked in the NY catering industry for thirteen years in various capacities: truck driver, waiter, sanitation helper, sanitation captain, bartender, bar captain, and lead captain. A native of Cincinnati, OH, his interests include 18th century American history, fingerpicking, the Cincinnati Bengals, and creative carpentry. His first book is Like That from Forklift Books. Thank you so much Matt for having a coke with us today! This podcast is brought to you by The Poetry Society of New York and the Radio Drama Network. Become a member of PSNY today! Visit poetrysocietyny.org to learn more, & follow us on social media @poetrysocietyny!

11. 

    18 Aug 2023

    Jennifer Michael Hecht on The Wonder Paradox, Human Magic, & Armageddon

    Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with the wise & awe-inspiring Jennifer Michael Hecht! Jennifer Michael Hecht is a poet and historian. Her new book is The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives - just out, March 2023, with FSG. Hecht is the author of the bestseller Doubt: A History, a history of religious and philosophical doubt all over the world, throughout history. Her book Stay is a history of suicide and a secular argument against it (Yale).  Hecht’s books have been translated into many languages. Her The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology won Phi Beta Kappa’s 2004 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award “For scholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.”Publisher’s Weekly called her poetry book, Funny, “One of the most original and entertaining books of the year.”  Her first book of poetry, The Next Ancient World, won three national awards, including the Poetry Society of America’s First Book award for 2001. Her most recent poetry book is Who Said (Copper Canyon, 2013). Her prose book The Happiness Myth (HarperOne, 2007), brings a historical eye to modern wisdom about how to lead a good life.  Hecht has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Politico, Vox, Poetry, and The New Yorker. She holds a Ph.D. in the history of science/European cultural history from Columbia University (1995) and has taught in the MFA program at Columbia University and the New School in New York City. Hecht has also published in peer-reviewed journals, including;The Journal of the History of Ideas, Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society, French Historical Studies, The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, and has delivered lectures at Harvard, Yale, MIT, Cal Tech, Columbia University as well as The Zen Mountain Monastery, Temple Israel, Saint Bart’s Episcopal Church, and other institutions of learning and introspection. Hecht has been featured on many radio programs, including On Being with Krista Tippet, Leonard Lopate Show, the BBC, Speaking of Faith, Talk of the Nation, and Brian Lehrer. In 2010 Hecht served as one of the five nonfiction judges for the National Book Award. She is a member of the New York Institute for the Humanities. She has appeared on Hardball on MSNBC, the Discovery Channel, and The Morning Show. She lectures widely. Thank you so much Jennifer for having a coke with us today! This podcast is brought to you by The Poetry Society of New York and the Radio Drama Network. Become a member of PSNY today! Visit poetrysocietyny.org to learn more, & follow us on social media @poetrysocietyny!

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    11 Aug 2023

    Robert Pinsky on Niche Elizabethan Poetry, the Favorite Poem Project, & Personal Poetry Anthologies

    Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with the man, the myth, the legend... Robert Pinsky! Known worldwide, Pinsky’s work has earned him the PEN/Voelcker Award, the William Carlos Williams Prize, the Lenore Marshall Prize, Italy’s Premio Capri, the Korean Manhae Award, and the Harold Washington Award from the City of Chicago, among other accolades. Robert Pinsky is a poet, essayist, translator, teacher, and speaker. His first two terms as United States Poet Laureate were marked by such visible dynamism—and such national enthusiasm in response—that the Library of Congress appointed him to an unprecedented third term. Throughout his career, Pinsky has been dedicated to identifying and invigorating poetry’s place in the world. Pinsky is a professor of English and creative writing in the graduate writing program at Boston University. In 2015 the university named him a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, the highest honor bestowed on senior faculty members who are actively involved in teaching, research, scholarship, and university civic life. Thank you so much Robert for having a coke with us today! This podcast is brought to you by The Poetry Society of New York and the Radio Drama Network. Become a member of PSNY today! Visit poetrysocietyny.org to learn more, & follow us on social media @poetrysocietyny!

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    4 Aug 2023

    Victoria Chang on a Super-Secret Poetry Group, Wires, & Writing Towards Grief

    Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with the thoughtful & genre-bending Victoria Chang! Victoria Chang’s forthcoming book of poems, With My Back to the World will be published in 2024 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Corsair Books in the U.K. Her most recent book of poetry, The Trees Witness Everything was published by Copper Canyon Press and Corsair Books in the U.K. in 2022, and was named one of the Best Books of 2022 by the New Yorker and The Guardian. Her nonfiction book, Dear Memory (Milkweed Editions), was published in 2021 and was named a favorite nonfiction book of 2021 by Electric Literature and Kirkus. OBIT (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), her most recent poetry book, was named a New York Times Notable Book, a Time Must-Read Book, and received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and the PEN/Voelcker Award. It was also longlisted for a National Book Award and named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize. She has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Chowdhury Prize in Literature. She serves as the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech. Thank you so much Victoria for having a coke with us today! This podcast is brought to you by The Poetry Society of New York and the Radio Drama Network. Become a member of PSNY today! Visit poetrysocietyny.org to learn more, & follow us on social media @poetrysocietyny!

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    28 Jul 2023

    Saeed Jones on Slipperiness, Naps, & Decolonizing the Canon

    Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with an iconic headliner of The 12th Annual New York City Poetry Festival, Saeed Jones! Saeed is the author of the memoir HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES (https://bookshop.org/books/how-we-fight-for-our-lives-a-memoir-2296de7f-771a-406c-9c47-f5c6a0f0a8b9/9781501132742), winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction & the poetry collection PRELUDE TO BRUISE (https://bookshop.org/books/prelude-to-bruise/9781566893749), winner for the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. His poetry & essays have appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, Oxford American & GQ among other publications. His new poetry collection ALIVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD (https://bookshop.org/books/alive-at-the-end-of-the-world/9781566896511) is out now. You can find Saeed at @theferocity on Instagram & Twitter, as well as on the podcast Vibe Check! Thank you Saeed for having a coke with us today! This podcast is brought to you by The Poetry Society of New York and the Radio Drama Network. Become a member of PSNY today! Visit poetrysocietyny.org to learn more, & follow us on social media @poetrysocietyny!

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    28 Jul 2023

    Alice Notley on Allen Ginsberg's Proposal, Disobedience, & Throwing Buckets of Water on Peoples' Heads

    Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with the legend herself, Alice Notley! Alice is the author of more than 20 books of poetry including The Descent of Alette (1996) & Mysteries of Small Houses (Penguin, 1998). She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, & winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry. In the spring of 2001 she received an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters & the Poetry Society of America’s Shelly Memorial Award. She edited & wrote a new introduction to her late husband Ted Berrigan’s The Sonnets (Penguin, 2000). Born in Bisbee, Arizona, Notley grew up in Needles, California. After leading a peripatetic life during the late 60s & early 70s, she settled in New York, where, for 16 years, she was an important force in the eclectic second generation of the so-called New York school of poetry. (Credit to the Griffin Poetry Prize website for this bio!) Thank you so much Alice for having a coke with us! This podcast is brought to you by The Poetry Society of New York and the Radio Drama Network. Become a member of PSNY today! Visit poetrysocietyny.org to learn more, & follow us on social media @poetrysocietyny!

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    28 Jul 2023

    Jennifer L. Knox on Comedy, Mushrooms, & Subverting Expectations

    Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with the hilarious Jennifer L. Knox! Jennifer’s fifth book of poems, Crushing It, (https://www.jenniferlknox.com/crushing-it) was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Her poems have appeared five times in the Best American Poetry series & in publications such as the New York Times, the New Yorker & American Poetry Review. Her non-fiction writing has appeared in The New York Times & The Washington Post. Currently she is at work on MYCYOWA, (https://www.jenniferlknox.com/art) a traveling art project designed to increase awareness of mycoremediation. From 2016-2017, she developed & curated the crowd-sourced poetry project, Iowa Bird of Mouth (http://www.iowabirdofmouth.com/), which was supported by the Iowa Arts Council & the National Endowment for the Arts. Over 750 people from around the world contributed to the project. Jennifer teaches at Iowa State University & in an ongoing series of private creative writing classes online (https://www.jenniferlknox.com/classes).  She is also the co-proprietor of a small spice company called Saltlickers (http://www.salt-lickers.com/). Born in Lancaster, California—home to Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, & the Space Shuttle—Jennifer received her B.A. from the University of Iowa, & her M.F.A. in poetry writing from New York University. Thank you so much Jennifer for having a coke with us today! This podcast is brought to you by The Poetry Society of New York and the Radio Drama Network. Become a member of PSNY today! Visit poetrysocietyny.org to learn more, & follow us on social media @poetrysocietyny!

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    14 Jul 2023

    Trailer: Having a Coke with You

    Hey poets and poetry lovers! Welcome to Having a Coke with You, The Poetry Society of New York's podcast sponsored by the Radio Drama Network! My name is Tova, I use they/them pronouns, and I’m the Programs Director of PSNY and the Creative Director of The New York City Poetry Festival, and now… the host of this podcast! Join me as I sit down and have a coke with some of the most iconic poets of today’s day and age. This all-star lineup is KILLER and features Pulitzer Prize winners, United States Poet Laureates, and bestselling authors! The Poetry Society of New York is all about bringing poetry to the public eye and making it accessible, and this podcast is meant to do just that. Having a Coke with You allows any listener, no matter their geographical location or socioeconomic status, to have MFA-grade, unfettered access to poetry. While other poetry podcasts tend to hypostatize successful artists who generate transcendent work, Having a Coke with You aims to demystify poetry by allowing listeners to get a glimpse of the real person behind award-winning stanzas. Also, in honor of the Radio Drama Network, in every episode of this podcast, listeners will hear poetry straight from the poets’ mouth, punctured by laugh-out-loud anecdotes, such as Allen Ginsberg’s proposal to Alice Notley and Saeed Jones’ profound love of naps. I promise that Having a Coke with You has a little something for any listener, whether they are poets, poetry-lovers, or even poets-to-be. Having a Coke with You is sure to be your new favorite literary podcast. Tune in every Friday starting July 28, 2023, anywhere you listen to podcasts. Become a member of The Poetry Society of New York: https://poetrysocietyny.org/ Check out the Radio Drama Network: https://www.radiodramanetwork.org/

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