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Poetism 4: Can you break a word? Gabriel Ellis on SOPHIE and Jos Charles

Elegy Who would I show it to In this short one-line poem, W.S. Merwin condenses the anguish of loss, of being alive, and of the limitations of languages into a neat li...

Poetism 3: Can You Feel It? Johnnie Hobbs on D’Angelo and Amiri Baraka

She listen to a little of that D’Angelo music, some love’s melody, sophisticated-type rap, which she say sounds more like real music, like intelligent music, than some...

Poetism Part 2: Are we numb yet? Lisa Robertson and the Airborne Toxic Event with Mitch Therieau

  Why are we so blind, why do we see so little, when there is much around us to see?   So asks philosopher Alva Noë in Strange Tools, an exploration of how art objects...

Poetism Part 1: Patrick Rosal and The Doors with Fang Liu

  Happy July! While Stan and the usual Back in America podcast are on a hiatus this summer, Podcast Editor Josh Wagner will be hosting a new series entitled Poetism, t...

Doug Steinel: Cancel Culture in Classroom

  Before we dive into today’s episode, a personal note: This summer, I will be going back to France for the first time in two years, and I will take a break from podca...

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