For episode 9, Sanna discusses crushes with local love expert EJ Kneifel. EJ and Sanna define crushing through concentric circles; compare and contrast their poetic natures; and strike the gong of ekphrasis and guides. The spirit of Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid broadly informs the conversation: mothering, dreams of oneness, and relentless, even vicious, desire for freedom. Together, the duo explores questions like: How do we pattern? What is the soup we are stewing in? And, most importantly:...
3 Apr 2026
8 — Poet Talk about Newness
Episode eight marks a transition! This episode of Poet Talk is just Sanna and she explains why. Learn more about new directions, returning to newsletters, and practical and poetic reasons why this poet, at least, is talking about newness. * ⛰️ Another Mountain 💌 The letter a.k.a transcript of this episode "Starlings in Winter" 🐦⬛ The poem by Mary Oliver the newsletter is named after 📘 Atomic Habits by James Clear 💌 Harry's beautiful letters 📕 Good Material by Dolly Alderton...
12 Sept 2025
7 — Poet Talk about Trees featuring Farah Ghafoor
In episode seven of Poet Talk, Jody and Sanna are joined by award-winning Toronto poet, Farah Ghafoor, to talk about trees. Together, the trio explores photos of snails after the rain; the ethos of commas; power and prestige as barriers to poetry; and the practice one creates the feeling of time in a poem. Against the backdrop of the magic and factuality of long poems—and the sharp political and economical analysis of Farah's debut collection, Shadow Price—we ask questions like: why do people...
20 Apr 2025
6 — Poet Talk about Swimming featuring Diana Khoi Nguyen
In the sixth episode of Poet Talk, we’re joined by one of our favourite poets: Diana Khoi Nguyen. Together, we explore swimming as both a poetic and life practice. A master class on the body's inherent abilities as well as the legacy of inherited sound, this episode dives deep into what it means to sculpt language like water. What does learning to speak have to do with learning to swim? How does the sheet music of the body emerge from silence? And where, in poems, might the natural cade...
27 Dec 2024
5 — Poet Talk about a Poem: "God is an American" by Terrance Hayes
In the last episode of 2024, Jody and Sanna reflect on the first year of the podcast and their own places in writing community. They also do a close reading of one of their favourite poems: “God is an American” by Terrance Hayes. Together, they investigate beauty’s difficulty and longing’s limits, informed by the wisdom of Audre Lorde, Heather Christle and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha among others. How is the artist a cultural worker? What constitutes an American poetics? And why, most importantly, wa...
3 Oct 2024
4 — Poet Talk about Law featuring Chimwemwe Undi
In the fourth episode of Poet Talk, Jody and Sanna talk to poet, linguist and lawyer Chim Undi about language. Why do adults tell certain kids to become lawyers? How do people find themselves in the world of spoken word poetry? From erasure poetry to text trajectory, Canadian court cases to poetry's penchant for uncertainty, the trio traverse interpersonal beliefs, linguistic axioms and the powerful presence of silence. Join us as we read poems by Donika Kelly, Danez Smith and Chim hers...
30 Aug 2024
3 — Poet Talk about Dogs
In this episode of Poet Talk, Jody and Sanna dive into one of our favourite topics: dogs. What kind of poems would a dog write? How do they see (or smell) the world? The duo share their favourite dog poems and earliest dog memories. From protest dogs to canine colonial history, Eileen Myles to Mary Oliver, join us as we talk play, mastery, grief, devotion, freedom and more.*Cool Stuff Below! 🛍️📕 "The Humber is a Haunting" by Craig Fortier 📺 How do dogs "see" with their noses? - Alexandra Horo...
26 Jun 2024
2 — Poet Talk about the Parasocial featuring Summer Farah
Welcome to the second episode of Poet Talk! In this episode, Jody and Sanna talk to Palestinian poet, critic and editor Summer Farah about the parasocial. Together, they delve into all things online: video games, prose poems and Tumblr as a critical space. The trio defines the parasocial by analyzing pop culture, like Chappell Roan and Mitski's “solidarity” with Palestine and Richard Siken's relationship to the Supernatural fandom. Summer shares poems from her chapbook, I could live again and die again , and her in-progress series, I tell Etel Adnan about Supernatural. From loneliness and obsession to the ancient act of fanfiction, this episode is an introduction to what the parasocial and poetry have to offer each other.
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Cool Stuff Below! 🛍️
💬 "para" (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/para-#English)
💬 "social" ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/socius#Latin)
📚 Dictionary.com's definition (https://www.dictionary.com/e/tech-science/parasocial-relationship/)
📗 I could live today and die again by Summer Farah
(https://www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/i-could-die-today-and-live-again)📕 "& I was so young when I behaved 25" by Summer Farah (https://ko-fi.com/s/609fa1f559)
📙 Capable Monsters by Marlin M. Jenkins (https://bullcitypress.com/product/capable-monsters-by-marlin-m-jenkins/)
🎮 Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (https://zelda.fandom.com/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Breath_of_the_Wild)
📺 Haikyu!! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haikyu!!)
♪"Punisher" by Phoebe Bridgers' (https://genius.com/Phoebe-bridgers-punisher-lyrics)
🗣️ "Mitski had to Quite Music to Love It" (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/mitski-new-album-laurel-hell-cover-story-1272973/)
♫ Laurel Hell by Mitski (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Hell)
❤️ Etel Adnan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etel_Adnan)
📘 There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/695817/theres-always-this-year-by-hanif-abdurraqib/)
❤️ Mary Oliver (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Oliver)
📺 Supernatural (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernatural_(American_TV_series))
📕 How Do I Look? by Sennah Yee (https://metatron.press/shop/how-do-i-look/)
📝 "The Desert" by Sennah Yee (https://ex-puritan.ca/sennah-yee-four-poems-8)
📖 canthius (https://www.canthius.com/)
📘 Crush by Richard Siken (https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300246308/crush/)
📙 If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga (https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/if-egyptian-cannot-speak-english)
📗 War of Foxes by Richard Siken (https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/war-of-the-foxes-by-richard-siken/)
📝 "I Tell Etel Adnan about Mitski" by Summer Farah (https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/326/article/925879)
❤️ Jess Rizkallah (https://www.jessrizkallah.com/)
Support the Show. (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2362005/support)
🔔 Follow, rate and subscribe to Poet Talk wherever you're listening.
✨ Poet Talk is independently run, created and produced by Sanna Wani.
♫ Check out the show music in the album Hélice's Awesome Dance Adventure (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1PlYiMQFqI)and the creator Komiku on their website. (http://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/)
📲 Don't forget to follow us on Instagram, @talkpoet. (https://www.instagram.com/talkpoet)
29 May 2024
1 — Poet Talk about Beginnings featuring Jody Chan
Join us for the pilot episode of Poet Talk, a podcast where poets talk. In this episode, future cohosts Jody Chan and Sanna Wani delve into beginnings with questions like, "How does a poem begin?" and "What is the beginning of poetry?" Chan and Wani share some of their favourite poem beginnings, etymologies and more. From politics to gossip to lore, this epsiode is an introduction of what poetry means to us in community and in practice.
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Goodie Bag Alert! 🍭
Find all the things we mentioned in the episode below:
📗 Jody's books, sick and impact statement
(https://www.jodychan.com/books)
📕 Sanna's book, My Grief, the Sun (https://houseofanansi.com/products/my-grief-the-sun)
📙 Where Things Touch by Bahar Orang (https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/bahar-orang/where-things-touch-a-meditation-on-beauty-by-bahar-orang/)
📘The Year of Blue Water by Yanyi (https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300242645/the-year-of-blue-water)
📓Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/673723/ordinary-notes-by-christina-sharpe/9781039000582)
📖 “The Poetic Analytic: A Conversation with Zaina Alsous” (https://theadroitjournal.org/2019/08/06/the-poetic-analytic-a-conversation-with-zaina-alsous/amp/) in Adroit Journal (https://theadroitjournal.org/2019/08/06/the-poetic-analytic-a-conversation-with-zaina-alsous/amp/)
🤡 "No poets!" meme (https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyspecific/comments/tatd6w/no_poets/)
🎙️ VS podcast (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/series/142241/vs-podcast)
💬 Etymology of the word "begin" (https://www.etymonline.com/word/begin)
📝 Solmaz Sharif's poem "Look" (https://pen.org/look/)
📝 Fatimah Asghar's poem "Kal" (https://poets.org/poem/kal)
💬 "Poetry" etymology in English (https://www.etymonline.com/word/poet)
💬 "Poetry" etymology in Urdu (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%B1%DB%8C#Persian)
💬 "Poetry" etymology in Cantonese (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%A9%A9)
📒 The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/615570.The_Artist_s_Way)
📓 Dreams That Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination by Amira Mittermaier (https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520258518/dreams-that-matter)
📔The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study by Stefano Harvey and Fred Moten (https://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/undercommons-web.pdf)
📖 “The End of White Supremacy, An American Romance” by Saidiya Hartman in BOMB (https://bombmagazine.org/articles/the-end-of-white-supremacy-an-american-romance/)
🎙️ Fatimah Asghar's episode on the VS podcast
(https://www.poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/143798/fatimah-asghar-vs-the-people)
📝 Sanna Wani's poem "Tomorrow is a Place" (https://poets.org/poem/tomorrow-place)
Support the Show. (https://www.buzzsprout.com/2362005/support)
🔔 Follow, rate and subscribe to Poet Talk wherever you're listening.
✨ Poet Talk is independently run, created and produced by Sanna Wani.
♫ Check out the show music in the album Hélice's Awesome Dance Adventure (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1PlYiMQFqI)and the creator Komiku on their website. (http://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/)
📲 Don't forget to follow us on Instagram, @talkpoet. (https://www.instagram.com/talkpoet)
29 May 2024
1 — Poet Talk about Beginnings
Join us for the pilot episode of Poet Talk, a podcast where poets talk. In this episode, future cohosts Jody Chan and Sanna Wani delve into beginnings with questions like, "How does a poem begin?" and "What is the beginning of poetry?" Chan and Wani share some of their favourite poem beginnings, etymologies and more. From politics to gossip to lore, this epsiode is an introduction of what poetry means to us in community and in practice.*Goodie Bag Alert! 🍭Find all the things we mentioned in t...
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