<description>&lt;p&gt;I had a wonderful conversation with poet and creative Nancy Kangas at her "Emergency Poetry Clinic in Red Hook Brooklyn -- &lt;a href="https://shows.acast.com/poetry-what-is-it-good-for/episodes/nancys-emergency-poetry-clinic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;See PGF #17&lt;/a&gt; -- and wanted more. And so -- Nancy invited her poet-friend Karl Michael Iglesias and we sat down in the pinball loft of &lt;a href="https://www.beerculture.nyc/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Gebhard's Beer Culture Bar &lt;/a&gt;with PGF co-host Chris Brandt to talk about the work of editing a poem. A fun adventure through the creative minds of two poets who enjoy each other's work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Poetry Good For is a podcast produced by &lt;a href="barcrawlradio.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;BCR Podcast.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'&gt; Hosted on Acast. See &lt;a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'&gt;acast.com/privacy&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Poetry! What is it good for? Surviving as a humane being

I had a wonderful conversation with poet and creative Nancy Kangas at her "Emergency Poetry Clinic in Red Hook Brooklyn -- <a href="https://shows.acast.com/poetry-what-is-it-good-for/episodes/nancys-emergency-poetry-clinic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">See PGF #17</a> -- and wanted more. And so -- Nancy invited her poet-friend Karl Michael Iglesias and we sat down in the pinball loft of <a href="https://www.beerculture.nyc/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gebhard's Beer Culture Bar </a>with PGF co-host Chris Brandt to talk about the work of editing a poem. A fun adventure through the creative minds of two poets who enjoy each other's work.Poetry Good For is a podcast produced by <a href="barcrawlradio.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">BCR Podcast.</a><hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Nancy Kangas & Karl M. Iglesias on Editing Poems

<description>&lt;p&gt;Our producer – Alina Larson – told us about Nancy Kangas’s &lt;em&gt;Emergency Poetry Clinic&lt;/em&gt; in Red Hook, Brooklyn.&amp;nbsp;It seemed clear to me that America needs an emergency poetry clinic;&amp;nbsp;I wanted to see what that was about.&amp;nbsp;and so on a recent Tuesday morning I took a subway and a bus and a walk to 166 Van Dyke Street, Brooklyn.&amp;nbsp;Earlier that morning I looked up “Nancy Kangas” and discovered a creative who defies categorization – Nancy K rides the wind of her whims.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I arrived at 10:17am -- Ms. K was ensconced on the other side of a store front window in a tiny, colorful -- Thru the Looking Glass -- office.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nancy Kangas and her poet friend Karl Michael Iglesias will be on Poetry Good For podcast in the very near future.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'&gt; Hosted on Acast. See &lt;a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'&gt;acast.com/privacy&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Humans need Poetry

Our producer – Alina Larson – told us about Nancy Kangas’s Emergency Poetry Clinic in Red Hook, Brooklyn.&nbsp;It seemed clear to me that America needs an emergency poetry clinic;&nbsp;I wanted to see what that was about.&nbsp;and so on a recent Tuesday morning I took a subway and a bus and a walk to 166 Van Dyke Street, Brooklyn.&nbsp;Earlier that morning I looked up “Nancy Kangas” and discovered a creative who defies categorization – Nancy K rides the wind of her whims.I arrived at 10:17am -- Ms. K was ensconced on the other side of a store front window in a tiny, colorful -- Thru the Looking Glass -- office.Nancy Kangas and her poet friend Karl Michael Iglesias will be on Poetry Good For podcast in the very near future.<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Nancy's Emergency Poetry Clinic

<description>&lt;p&gt;Back at our usual poetry-reading haunt -- Gebhard's Beer Culture Bar -- Chris Brandt, Rebecca McKean and Alan Winson talk with poets Amy Barone and Ron Kolm -- about:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Extinction / Gambling with God / Men's love of their penes / COVID / Bison comeback / Book thieves and Ceiling stompers / Suicide and Attempted suicide / and -- of course -- A child's bicycle. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can you resist?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;CONTACT: barcrawlradio@gmail.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'&gt; Hosted on Acast. See &lt;a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'&gt;acast.com/privacy&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

A talk with two poets who know each other's work.

Back at our usual poetry-reading haunt -- Gebhard's Beer Culture Bar -- Chris Brandt, Rebecca McKean and Alan Winson talk with poets Amy Barone and Ron Kolm -- about:Extinction / Gambling with God / Men's love of their penes / COVID / Bison comeback / Book thieves and Ceiling stompers / Suicide and Attempted suicide / and -- of course -- A child's bicycle. Can you resist?CONTACT: barcrawlradio@gmail.com<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Bicycles & Book Stores: Amy Barone & Ron Kolm

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Phillis Levin’s &lt;/strong&gt;poems have appeared in&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;the&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;New Yorker&lt;/em&gt;, the&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;Atlantic, Poetry&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;magazine&lt;em&gt;, Kenyon Review, among others, she&lt;/em&gt; has also published 5 collections of poems, and edited &lt;em&gt;the&amp;nbsp;sonnet anthology.&amp;nbsp;She &lt;/em&gt;has taught at The University of Maryland, the Unterberg Poetry Center, the New School, and New York University, and currently is professor of English and poet-in-residence at Hofstra University.&amp;nbsp;Among her honors are the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship and a residency at the American Academy in Rome&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Heather Dubrow&lt;/strong&gt; holds the John D. Boyd Chair in the Poetic Imagination at Fordham; she specializes in early modern lyric poetry and Shakespeare.&amp;nbsp;She also taught at the University of Wisconsin.&amp;nbsp;Faced with the academic profession’s stigma that scholars should not be creative writers, Dubrow had given up writing poetry for twenty years, but returned to poetry in the 1990s.&amp;nbsp;She has published two chapbooks and two collections.&amp;nbsp;Among the journals where her poetry has appeared are Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Yale Review.&amp;nbsp;She was co-director of Fordham's Poets Out Loud public reading series from Fall 2009 to Summer 2020.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;CORRECTION: Chris gave the wrong date for the publication of Phillis Levin's newest poetry book. &lt;em&gt;An Anthology of Rain&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;will be available after April 15, 2025.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'&gt; Hosted on Acast. See &lt;a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'&gt;acast.com/privacy&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Breaking the logjam with two poets sharing each others work.

Phillis Levin’s poems have appeared in the&nbsp;New Yorker, the&nbsp;Atlantic, Poetry&nbsp;magazine, Kenyon Review, among others, she has also published 5 collections of poems, and edited the&nbsp;sonnet anthology.&nbsp;She has taught at The University of Maryland, the Unterberg Poetry Center, the New School, and New York University, and currently is professor of English and poet-in-residence at Hofstra University.&nbsp;Among her honors are the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship and a residency at the American Academy in Rome&nbsp;Heather Dubrow holds the John D. Boyd Chair in the Poetic Imagination at Fordham; she specializes in early modern lyric poetry and Shakespeare.&nbsp;She also taught at the University of Wisconsin.&nbsp;Faced with the academic profession’s stigma that scholars should not be creative writers, Dubrow had given up writing poetry for twenty years, but returned to poetry in the 1990s.&nbsp;She has published two chapbooks and two collections.&nbsp;Among the journals where her poetry has appeared are Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Yale Review.&nbsp;She was co-director of Fordham's Poets Out Loud public reading series from Fall 2009 to Summer 2020. CORRECTION: Chris gave the wrong date for the publication of Phillis Levin's newest poetry book. An Anthology of Rain&nbsp;will be available after April 15, 2025.<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Poetry as Play with Phillis Levin & Heather Dubrow

<description>It has been awhile since we have posted a&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; "Poetry! What Is It Good For" &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;episode. And this one was not done on Zoom but with the living poets before us at &lt;strong&gt;Gebhard's Beer Culture Bar &lt;/strong&gt;on Manhattan's Upper West Side. For this conversation we talked about running live poetry readings with three poets and organizers: Anton Yakovlev is a well-published poet born in Moscow, Russia; he co-hosts the&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; Carmine Street Metrics &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;poetry reading series. We first heard about Lola Koundakjian when she hosted the &lt;em&gt;World Poetry Movement's "For a World Without Walls" &lt;/em&gt;global poetry reading event. Lola heads up the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dead Armenian Poetry Society. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;And, Rachel Aydt has moved from writing poetry to short stories; she formerly co-hosted the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Crystal Radio Sessions &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;poetry reading series at a local UWS bar.&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'&gt; Hosted on Acast. See &lt;a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'&gt;acast.com/privacy&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Poetry matters because people matter.  Keep poetry alive.

It has been awhile since we have posted a "Poetry! What Is It Good For" episode. And this one was not done on Zoom but with the living poets before us at Gebhard's Beer Culture Bar on Manhattan's Upper West Side. For this conversation we talked about running live poetry readings with three poets and organizers: Anton Yakovlev is a well-published poet born in Moscow, Russia; he co-hosts the Carmine Street Metrics poetry reading series. We first heard about Lola Koundakjian when she hosted the World Poetry Movement's "For a World Without Walls" global poetry reading event. Lola heads up the Dead Armenian Poetry Society. And, Rachel Aydt has moved from writing poetry to short stories; she formerly co-hosted the Crystal Radio Sessions poetry reading series at a local UWS bar.<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Poetry Readings Abide!

"Poetry! What is it good for?" podcast is different. In other poetry podcasts -- a poet reads and talks about her poetry. "PWIIGF" brings together two poets who appreciate each others work to engage in a lively conversation and poetry reading on a topic that fascinates them. Along the way we find that poetry is good for a lot -- mostly to keep us human.Moderators Rebecca McKean and Alan Winson -- lovers of poetry -- and Chris Brandt -- a writer of poetry -- keep the conversation informal, critical and emotionally connected.If you enjoy poetry and want to meet some amazing poets and people -- give PWIIGF a try.<hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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