Poetry Centered
Linger in the space between a poem being spoken and being heard.
Poetry Centered features curated selections from Voca, the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s online audiovisual archive of more than 1,000 recordings of poets reading their work during visits to the Center between 1963 and today. In each episode, a guest poet introduces three poems from Voca, sharing their insights about the remarkable performances recorded in our archive. Each episode concludes with the guest poet reading a poem of their own.
Podcasting since 2020 • 57 episodes
Poetry Centered
Latest Episodes
Dawn Lundy Martin: Our Present, Long Moment
Dawn Lundy Martin selects poems of urgency, tension, and devotion. She shares Daniel Borzutzky responding to massacres with a poem that must be written (“Written after a Massacre in the Year 2018”),...
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Episode 54
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31:37
Leila Chatti: How Lucky to Have Lived
Leila Chatti chooses poems illuminated by a heart left often to life here on Earth. She introduces us to Linda Gregg’s fierce and incandescent honesty (“There She Is”), Lucille Clifton’s embrace of lig...
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Episode 53
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22:27
Samuel Ace: Rage, Complicity, and the True Nature of Amends
Samuel Ace introduces poems that speak to today with raw honesty, truthfulness, and bravery. He shares Angel Dominguez wrestling with atrocity and empathy (“Dear Diego, Tell me what you know of star...
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Episode 52
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35:01
Harmony Holiday: Against Sentimentality
Harmony Holiday selects poems that shed the skin of nostalgia, testing the boundaries of cruelty as they push toward clarity. She introduces Robert Hass accepting moments of error (“A Story About the Body”), Ai recognizing the humanity of the e...
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Episode 51
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