Welcome to Lunch Poems, a freeform show of music and poetry! Today I'll be joined again by a guest: John Ganiard is a poet, a graduate of the Helen Zell MFA program in creative writing at the University of Michigan, and the long-time former event director at Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor. He's also my partner <3 In this episode, we talk about the practice of writing and reading poetry (aloud), and the way that poetry gestures toward the mystery between language and experience. John also reads two poems from Michael Palmer's 2016 collection The Laughter of the Sphinx: "Addendum," and "Strange Now"; two poems by Charles Wright: "Cicada" (from Chickamauga, 1995), and "Things Have Ends and Beginnings" (from Caribou, 2014); and one of his own poems: "Then as Late Summer Into Fall."

You can find John, and read more of his work, at johnganiard.com

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Welcome to Lunch Poems, a freeform show of music and poetry! Today I'll be reading three poems by Heather McHugh: "A Night in a World," The Most," and "In A World of Taking, The Mistake." — Thanks for listening. xLis

Welcome to Lunch Poems, a freeform show of music and poetry! Today I'll be reading three poems from Tracy K. Smith's Pulitzer Prize–Winning 2011 collection, Life on Mars: "At Some Point, They'll Want To Know What It Was Like," "The Largeness We Can't See," and "The Soul."

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Welcome to Lunch Poems, a freeform show of music and poetry. Today I'll be reading three poems by Lucille Clifton: "quilting," "blessing the boats," and "a dream of foxes."

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Welcome to Lunch Poems, a freeform show of music and poetry! Today I'll be reading three poems from Ocean Vuong's 2016 collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds, "Trojan," "Eurydice," and "Torso of Air."

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Welcome to Lunch Poems, a freeform show of music and poetry! Today I'll be reading three poems from Jasmine Dreame Wagner's 2008 collection Charcoal: "Ballad Past Meridian," "Noise," and "Port of Morrow."

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Welcome to Lunch Poems, a freeform show of music and poetry! Today I'm joined for the first time by a guest: Delsa Lopez is a third-year PhD student in Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. In this episode, we talk about Emily Dickinson's feral energy, and Delsa reads several poems, sketches and drafts from The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems (2013), edited by Jan Bervin and Marta Werner. Delsa also curated the playlist for today's show.

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Welcome to Lunch Poems, a freeform show of music and poetry! Today I'll be reading three poems by Sylvia Plath: "Monologue at 3 a.m.," "The Couriers," and "Edge."

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Welcome to Lunch Poems, a freeform show of music and poetry! Today I'll be reading three poems from Camille Dungy's 2017 collection Trophic Cascade: "Ars Poetica Apocalyptica," "Characteristics of Life," and "Against Nostalgia."

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Welcome to Lunch Poems, a freeform show of music and poetry! Today I'll be reading three poems from Camille Rankine's 2016 debut poetry collection, Incorrect Merciful Impulses: "Syzygy," "Little Children, My Apologies," and "Instructions for the Forest."

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Welcome to Lunch Poems, a freeform show of music and poetry. Today I'll be reading three poems from Louise Glück's 1992 book The Wild Iris: "The Wild Iris," "The Garden," and "Violets."

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Welcome to Lunch Poems, a freeform show of music and poetry! Today I'll be reading three poems from John Berryman's 1965 Pulitzer Prize winning work, The Dream Songs. Thanks for listening. xxLis

Welcome to Lunch Poems, a freeform show of music and poetry. Today I'll be reading three poems from the collected works of Wallace Stevens: "Man Carrying Thing," "Human Arrangement," and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."

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Welcome to Lunch Poems! Today I'll be reading three poems from John Ashbery's 2015 book Breezeway: "The Sad Thing," "Dramedy," and "Forget Where I Heard It."

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