Episode 28: Poems for Mother's Day
Episode 28 is a special Mother’s Day episode featuring a collection of poems chosen and read by poets who are mothers.
THE POETS (and the POEMS THEY READ) in EPISODE 28
Rachel Zucker reading “The Language of the Brag” by Sharon Olds from Strike Sparks
Alicia Ostriker reading “In the Shadow of Liberty”
Keetje Kuipers reading section XIII of “An Atlas of the Difficult World” by Adrienne Rich in An Atlas of the Difficult World
Jennifer Militello reading “Invention: The Handy Every-Mother Zone-Out Capacitor” by Mairéad Byrne
Vandana Khanna reading “Persephone Abducted” by Rita Dove from Mother Love
Jenny Browne reading “You Can’t Have It All” by Barbara Ras from Bite Every Sorrow
Lisa Olstein reading “Pain for a Daughter” by Anne Sexton
Maggie Smith reading “A Drink in the Night” by Deborah Garrison
Aimee Nezhukumatathil reading “First Day at Daycare” by Beth Ann Fennelly from Tender Hooks
Meridian Johnson reading “Spool” by Laressa Dickey
Carolina Ebeid reading “An Arriving Guard of Angels Thusly Coming to Greet” by Akilah Oliver
Nancy Kricorian reading “Ghost Children”
Rachel Moritz reading an excerpt from Ongoingness: The End of a Diary by Sarah Manguso
Renee Angle reading “Marie Makes Fun of Me at the Shore” by Bernadette Mayer in A Bernadette Mayer Reader
Sally Ball reading “Black Swan” by Brigit Pegeen Kelly from The Orchard
Sarah Vap reading “mother tongue, to the child just born” by Lucille Clifton
Victoria Chang reading “From Blossoms” by Li-Young Lee from Rose
Martha Silano reading “Harborview”
Kristen Hanlon reading “Lullaby” by Chloe Garcia Roberts from The Reveal
Blueberry Morningsnow reading “Milk, See Child”
Robin Clarke, reading the the last stanza of “An Owl Is Born out of a White Owl’s Forehead—1972” Alice Notley from Mysteries of Small Houses
Emily Carlson reading “Mary’s Dream” by Lucille Clifton from Two Headed Woman
Aracelis Girmay reading section 5 of “On the Road to Sri Bhuvaneshwari” by Robin Coste Lewis from Voyage of the Sable Venus
Erika Meitner reading “The Speed of Darkness” by Muriel Rukeyser from Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser
Joy Katz reading “Sunday Mornings” by Robert Hayden
Montana Ray reading “Porfina” by Adélia Prado in Portuguese and in English (translated by Ellen Doré Watson as “Concerted Effort”)
Robin Beth Schaer reading “Morning Song” by Sylvia Plath from Ariel
Arielle Greenberg reading the last section of “Here Happy is No Part of Love” by Rachel Zucker from The Last Clear Narrative
Rachel Zucker reading “won’t you celebrate with me” by Lucille Clifton from The Collected poems of Lucille Clifton
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