Reading BAP (a poetguru podcast)

About Reading BAP (a poetguru podcast)

Every year for my birthday, I buy myself a copy of the best American poetry. Some years I read it all the way through, some years I don’t. This year we’re gonna read it together. - Thom

Publisher

Thom Ingram

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Nov 2025

Latest episode

7 Dec 2025

Latest episodes

5 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Dec 2025

   Episode 5: Tell Me Something Good

   In Episode 5 we read a poem from one of the elders of the movement, Margaret Atwood.

2. 

   7 Dec 2025

   Episode 4: At The Gate

   In Episode 4 we visit one of my favorite poetic forms, the Villanelle.

3. 

   22 Nov 2025

   Episode 3: Incantation for a Lake

   In Episode 3 we are met with a poem that navigates the ways in which we collect and count the bodies.

4. 

   12 Nov 2025

   Episode 2 - Forwards

   In this second episode we discuss the two forwards of BAP 2025, the Series Editor and Guest Editor, and the condition of poetry in 2025.

5. 

   9 Nov 2025

   Episode 1 - The People’s History of 1998

   In this episode I skip over the two forwards and go right to the first poem, “The People’s History of 1998” by Gbenga Adesina

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