What Can Poetry Do: Erin Coughlin Hollowell 2019-12-24

Kenni Psenak Linden and David Cheezem discuss Erin Coughlin Hollowell’s book of poems, “Every Atom.”In these poems, a daughter takes care of her parents in their last years. The poems draw their inspiration from Walt Whitman, who, as Erin says, teaches us empathy and...

What Can Poetry Do: DF Brown 2019-11-26

Kenni Linden and David Cheezem discuss DF Brown’s “Ghost of a person passing in front of the flag.” These are poems out of the Vietnam war, with radical juxtapositions and a deep sense of how language can be used either to illuminate or...

What can Poetry do? Olga Livshin August 2019

David Cheezem and Kenni Linden continue the series exploring what poetry can do.They discuss Olga Livshin’s poems and translations which bring together three generations of Russian and Russian-American poets in one phenomenal book.Part one. Part...