Poetry Off the Page

For this episode we read two poems by Dorianne Laux: “Demographic” and “Democracy.” Author of numerous poetry collections, Laux was recently elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She has taught at the University of Oregon’s Program in Creative Writing. She now lives with her husband, poet Joseph Millar, in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she teaches in the MFA program at North Carolina State University.

A very short episode featuring poems by Terrance Hayes and Gerald Stern mentioned in the previous episode.

Poems featuring one of the most satisfying four-letter words ever.

Today we feature (we? It’s just me!) a selection by David Kirby from his 2007 collection The House on Boulevard St. published by Louisiana State University Press. Today’s poem is “My Dead Dad.”