Adi Assis's Poetry of Social Critique and Per...

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In his essay, "The Desire to be Gisella," Grossman ponders the root of our fear of the "other" in ourselves and in those we love, and he thinks of authorship as a mad rebellion against this fear.

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This week, Marcela takes a step back from the literature itself to look at the language of the words we use. The idea of the podcast, Israel in Translation, is that the works discussed were written originally in a language other than English—indeed, in the writer's native lang ...

Collected Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)C.K. Williams' Collected Poems covers a lifetime's concern with ethics and personal morality. As his work proceeds, he develops a quality of consciousness and empathy that some would describe as a soul. In this conversation, this accessibl ...  Show more

Get ready for a deep dive into the poetic mind of C.S. Lewis as we prepare for our upcoming discussion on The Screwtape Letters! In this episode, Thornton and a special poetry expert explore three of Lewis's profound poems🖋️✨ Join us as we unpack the darkly insightful "Wormwood, ...  Show more

Cet été, on s’est retrouvé avec Mouloud pour quelques poèmes ;Parler de pluie et du beau temps ;S’énerver contre quelques problèmes ;Et… se dire qu’on s’aime… évidemment…Lis Tes Ratures // Le Podcast PoésieAujourd’hui encore, qui sont les gens qui font vivre la Poésie ?Lis Tes Ra ...  Show more

Even though Palestinian-American Fady Joudah’s poem is sparingly titled “[...],” an ellipsis surrounded by brackets, this work itself is psychologically dense. Through crisp lines and language, it wrestles with the nature of human ambivalence — about things like fear, desire, dis ...  Show more