The Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry Podcast
The Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry Podcast features recordings from the BWLS archive, where contemporary poets explore their thinking on poetry and poetics. Season 10 features lectures by Srikanth Reddy, while seasons 1-9 include lectures by Joshua Beckman, Dorothea Lasky, Terrance Hayes, and others. The series also includes recordings from the 2018 BWLS conference and The Seattle Series.
Episodes
11.3 Renee Gladman: "Lines Into Grasses"
Welcome to the third and final episode of Season Eleven of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.Season Eleven features a trio of linked lectures written and delivered by Renee Gladman during her time as a Bagley Wright Lecturer, in 2020 and 2021. Gladman shared these lectures over Zoom during Covid, in partnership with the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State Un
11.2 Renee Gladman: "Figuration: Transversal Properties of Fictional Knowing
Welcome to the second episode of Season Eleven of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.Season Eleven features a trio of linked lectures written and delivered by Renee Gladman during her time as a Bagley Wright Lecturer, in 2020 and 2021. Gladman shared these lectures over Zoom during Covid, in partnership with the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University
11.1 Renee Gladman: "Theory for Moving Houses"
Welcome to the first episode of Season Eleven of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Eleven features a trio of linked lectures written and delivered by Renee Gladman during her time as a Bagley Wright Lecturer, in 2020 and 2021. Gladman shared these lectures over Zoom during Covid, in partnership with the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University.
10.3 Srikanth Reddy: "The 'O' of Wonder: A Syzygy"
Welcome to the third and final episode of Season Ten of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Ten is comprised of lectures written and delivered by
Srikanth Reddy during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer, in 2015.
Srikanth Reddy’s series of lectures consider a range of
questions concerning poetry and visual art, including theories of likeness, ekphrasis, and wonder.
To
10.2 Srikanth Reddy: "Like a Very Strange Likeness and Pink"
Welcome to the second episode of Season Ten of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Ten is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Srikanth Reddy during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer, in 2015.
Srikanth Reddy’s series of lectures consider a range of questions concerning poetry and visual art, including theories of likeness, ekphrasis, and wonder.
Today, we’
10.1 Srikanth Reddy: "The Unsignificant"
Welcome to the first episode of Season Ten of the Bagley
Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Ten is comprised of lectures written and delivered by
Srikanth Reddy during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer, in 2015.
Srikanth Reddy’s series of lectures consider a range of
questions concerning poetry and visual art, including theories of likeness, ekphrasis, and wonder.
Today, we’ll
9.4 Lisa Jarnot: "Is That A Real Poem Or Did You Just Make It Up?"
Welcome to the fourth and final episode of Season Nine of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Nine is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Lisa Jarnot during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.
Lisa Jarnot’s autobiographical lectures are an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry. Throughout these talks, Jarnot explores w
9.3 Lisa Jarnot: "Epistle to the Summer Writing Program (On the Metaphysics of Deep Gossip)"
Welcome to the third episode of Season Nine of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Nine is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Lisa Jarnot during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.
Lisa Jarnot’s autobiographical lectures are an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry. Throughout these talks, Jarnot explores what it mean
9.2 Lisa Jarnot: "Abandon the Creeping Meatball: an Anarcho-Spiritual Treatise"
Welcome to the second episode of Season Nine of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Nine is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Lisa Jarnot during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.
Lisa Jarnot’s autobiographical lectures are an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry. Throughout these talks, Jarnot explores what it mea
9.1 Lisa Jarnot: "White Whales, White Males, Whitehead"
Welcome to the first episode of Season Nine of the Bagley
Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Nine is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Lisa Jarnot during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.
Lisa Jarnot’s autobiographical lectures are an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry. Throughout these talks, Jarnot explores what it me
8.5 Rachel Zucker: "Poetry and Photography"
Welcome to the fifth episode of Season Eight of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Eight is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Rachel Zucker during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.
Rachel Zucker’s lectures ask questions about obedience, wrongness, and decorum. Like her poetry, the lectures are borne from a long lineage of female writers and artists who as
8.4: Rachel Zucker: "The Poetics of Motherhood"
Welcome to the fourth episode of Season Eight of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Eight is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Rachel Zucker during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.
Rachel Zucker’s lectures ask questions about obedience, wrongness, and decorum. Like her poetry, the lectures are borne from a long lineage of female writers and artists who a
8.3 Rachel Zucker: "A Very Large Charge: The Ethics of 'Say Everything' Poetry"
Welcome to the third episode of Season Eight of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Eight is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Rachel Zucker during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.
Rachel Zucker’s lectures ask questions about obedience, wrongness, and decorum. Like her poetry, the lectures are borne from a long lineage of female writers and artists who as
8.2 Rachel Zucker: "What We Talk About When We Talk About the Confessional, and What We SHOULD Be Talking About"
Welcome to the second episode of Season Eight of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Eight is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Rachel Zucker during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.
Rachel Zucker’s lectures ask questions about obedience, wrongness, and decorum. Like her poetry, the lectures are borne from a long lineage of female writers and artists who a
8.1 Rachel Zucker: "The Poetics of Wrongness: an Unapologia"
Welcome to the first episode of Season Eight of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Eight is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Rachel Zucker during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.
Rachel Zucker’s lectures ask questions about obedience, wrongness, and decorum. Like her poetry, the lectures are borne from a long lineage of female writers and artists
7.5 Douglas Kearney with Val-Inc: "Read Red / Red Read: Putting Violence Down in Poetry"
Welcome to the fifth & final episode of Season Seven of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Seven is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Douglas Kearney during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Today we'll hear “Read Red / Red Read: Putting Violence Down in Poetry,” a collaborative performance with Val-Inc, given in person at the Ace Hotel Brooklyn in pa
7.4 Douglas Kearney: "You Better Hush: Blacktracking A Visual Poetics"
Welcome to the fourth episode of Season Seven of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Seven of the podcast includes lectures written and delivered by Douglas Kearney during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Today we'll hear “You Better Hush: Blacktracking A Visual Poetics.” This talk was originally given March 31, 2021, at Seattle Arts & Lectures, via Zoom.
Aretha a
7.3 Douglas Kearney: "Red Read / Read Red: Depictions of Violence in Poetry"
Welcome to the third episode of Season Seven of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Seven is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Douglas Kearney during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Today we'll hear "Red Read / Read Red: Depictions of Violence in Poetry." This talk was originally given March 24, 2021, at Portland Literary Arts, via Zoom.
Douglas Kearney
7.2 Douglas Kearney: "#WEREWOLFGOALS"
Welcome to the second episode of Season Seven of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Seven is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Douglas Kearney during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Today we'll hear "#WERWOLFGOALS." This talk was originally given October 8, 2020, at Washington University in St. Louis, via Zoom.
Douglas Kearney discloses the nexus of lyc
7.1 Douglas Kearney: "I Killed, I Died: Banter, Self-Destruction, and the Poetry Reading"
Welcome to the first episode of Season Seven of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Seven is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Douglas Kearney during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. We begin with Kearney’s talk, "I Killed, I Died: Banter, Self-Destruction, and the Poetry Reading." This talk was originally given September 25, 2020, at Cave Canem, via Zoom
6.5 Matthew Dickman: "Making the Black Dog Sit: A Look at Suicide Through Poetry"
Matthew Dickman’s lecture “Making The Black Dog Sit: A Look at Suicide Through Poetry” is a personal talk about Dickman’s experience with suicide and turning to poetry to better understand the act of suicide.
This talk was originally given June 29, 2016, at the Hugo House, Seattle, WA.
6.4 Judy Halebsky: "From Haiku to Collage"
Judy Halebsky's "From Haiku to Collage" engages the teachings of Basho and how the aesthetic practice of haiku has shaped her work in lyric and free-verse poetry. You can read Halebsky’s accompanying notes for this talk here.
This talk was originally given February 28th, 2016, at the Hugo House in Seattle, WA.
6.3 Tyehimba Jess: "on OLIO"
Tyehimba Jess discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Olio (Wave Books, 2016). This talk was given March 4, 2018 in conjunction with Seattle Arts Lectures. Jess talks about the genesis and stories behind the poems in Olio, which revisits the biographies of African American creatives from the Civil War until WW1, including Scott Joplin, Blind Boone, Sissieretta Jones, Blind Tom, the Fisk Jubilee
6.2 Matthew Rohrer: "Poetry is Not a Symbol"
Matthew Rohrer's short lecture, “Poetry is Not a Symbol,” was co-presented by the Hugo House on May 17, 2017 in Seattle, WA.
Read Rohrer's essay, "Instead of Trying So Much, Why Don't You Just Try a Little?" here.
6.1 Ange Mlinko: "Poetry at Sea"
Ange Mlinko’s “Poetry at Sea” is a discussion of the paradox that for a certain strand of the poetic tradition, language is a complete conflation of the cerebral and the erotic: that it uses the bewilderment of meaning as a seduction strategy; and that this seduction is meant to tempt us to remain open to the possibility of transformation of our lives. This lecture was given Sept 8, 2016, at Hugo
5.4 Poetry & Non-Literary Influence: "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention & Audience"
In February of 2018, the Bagley Wright Lecture Series and the University of Arizona Poetry Center co-hosted a three-day conference called, "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention, & Audience," featuring reading, talks, and conversations between the first six BWLS lecturers, Joshua Beckman, Dorothea Lasky, Timothy Donnelly, Srikanth Reddy, Rachel Zucker, and Terrance Hayes. This fall we
5.3 Poetry & Autobiography: "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention, & Audience"
In February of 2018, the Bagley Wright Lecture Series and the University of Arizona Poetry Center co-hosted a three-day conference called, "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention, & Audience," featuring reading, talks, and conversations between the first six BWLS lecturers, Joshua Beckman, Dorothea Lasky, Timothy Donnelly, Srikanth Reddy, Rachel Zucker, and Terrance Hayes. This fall we
5.2 Poetry & Practice: "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention, & Audience"
In February of 2018, the Bagley Wright Lecture Series and the University of Arizona Poetry Center co-hosted a three-day conference called, "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention, & Audience," featuring reading, talks, and conversations between the first six BWLS lecturers, Joshua Beckman, Dorothea Lasky, Timothy Donnelly, Srikanth Reddy, Rachel Zucker, and Terrance Hayes. This fall we
5.1 Poetry & Social Engagement: "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention, & Audience"
In February of 2018, the Bagley Wright Lecture Series and the University of Arizona Poetry Center co-hosted a three-day conference called, "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention, & Audience," featuring reading, talks, and conversations between the first six BWLS lecturers, Joshua Beckman, Dorothea Lasky, Timothy Donnelly, Srikanth Reddy, Rachel Zucker, and Terrance Hayes. Over the next
Geoffrey Nutter: from Cities at Dawn
In 2017, Geoffrey Nutter gave a workshop & reading from his then-new collection, Cities at Dawn, (Wave Books, 2016) in Seattle at Hotel Sorrento, in partnership with The Hugo House. Please enjoy this short reading by the author, in celebration of his now-new collection, Giant Moth Perishes, (Wave Books, 2021).
Nutter's essay, "A Note on Concordances," is here.
Srikanth Reddy: from Underworld Lit
In 2016, BWLS lecturer Srikanth Reddy gave a brief reading from his work-in-progress, Underworld Lit (Wave Books, 2020) in Seattle at Elliott Bay Books. Please enjoy this short reading by the author.
Hoa Nguyen: "Living Room"
Hoa Nguyen’s lecture, “Living Room,” considers the meaning and purpose of creative writing classes, and draws upon her extensive history of teaching poetics through deep reading and ‘living’ with poets. This is a spacious talk, with lots of descriptions of images the listener gets to dream through. This lecture was given in Seattle, WA on April 21, 2016 in partnership with Hugo House. It begins wi
4.5 Cedar Sigo: "Shadows Crossing: Tones of Voice Continued"
Welcome to the fifth and final episode of Season Four of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
This season, we're listening to the lectures of Cedar Sigo. Cedar Sigo’s lectures plumb the particulars of influence, history, tone, and form to beget a singular ‘autobiography of voice.’ Across these talks, Sigo explores his childhood on the Suquamish Reservation, his c
4.4 Cedar Sigo: "A Necessary Darkness: Barbara Guest and the Open Chamber"
Welcome to the fourth episode of Season Four of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
This season, we're listening to the lectures of Cedar Sigo. Cedar Sigo’s lectures plumb the particulars of influence, history, tone, and form to beget a singular ‘autobiography of voice.’ Across these talks, Sigo explores his childhood on the Suquamish Reservation, his coming to
4.3 Cedar Sigo: "Not Free From the Memory of Others: A Lecture on Joanne Elizabeth Kyger"
Welcome to the third episode of Season Four of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
This season, we're listening to the lectures of Cedar Sigo. Cedar Sigo’s lectures plumb the particulars of influence, history, tone, and form to beget a singular ‘autobiography of voice.’ Across these talks, Sigo explores his childhood on the Suquamish Reservation, his coming to p
4.2 Cedar Sigo: "Becoming Visible"
Welcome to the second episode of Season Four of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
This season, we're listening to the lectures of Cedar Sigo. Cedar Sigo’s lectures plumb the particulars of influence, history, tone, and form to beget a singular ‘autobiography of voice.’ Across these talks, Sigo explores his childhood on the Suquamish Reservation, his coming to
4.1 Cedar Sigo: "Reality Is No Obstacle: A Poetics of Participation"
Welcome to the first episode of Season Four of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
This season, we're listening to the lectures of Cedar Sigo, beginning with today's talk: "Reality Is No Obstacle: A Poetics of Participation." Cedar Sigo’s lectures plumb the particulars of influence, history, tone, and form to beget a singular ‘autobiography of voice.’ Across the
3.6 Terrance Hayes: "DIY For Langston Hughes"
Welcome to the sixth and final episode of Season Three of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
This season, we're listening to the lectures of Terrance Hayes. Hayes’s lectures circle the work and life of Etheridge Knight, a poet who has been a muse and mystery (and ghost mentor) for Hayes throughout his career. In each of the six lectures we’ll hear this season, Hayes uses Knight to
3.5 Terrance Hayes: "Poetics of Liquid"
Welcome to the fifth episode of Season Three of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
This season, we're listening to the lectures of Terrance Hayes. Hayes’s lectures circle the work and life of Etheridge Knight, a poet who has been a muse and mystery (and ghost mentor) for Hayes throughout his career. In each of the six lectures we’ll hear this season, Hayes uses Knight to anchor hi
3.4 Terrance Hayes: "Poems From Prison"
Welcome to the fourth episode of Season Three of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
This season, we're listening to the lectures of Terrance Hayes. Hayes’s lectures circle the work and life of Etheridge Knight, a poet who has been a muse and mystery (and ghost mentor) for Hayes throughout his career. In each of the six lectures we’ll hear this season, Hayes uses Knight to anchor h
3.3 Terrance Hayes: "Three Acts of Love"
Welcome to the third episode of Season Three of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
This season, we're listening to the lectures of Terrance Hayes. Hayes’s lectures circle the work and life of Etheridge Knight, a poet who has been a muse and mystery (and ghost mentor) for Hayes throughout his career. In each of the six lectures we’ll hear this season, Hayes uses Knight to anchor hi
3.2 Terrance Hayes: "Ideas of Influence"
Welcome to the second episode of Season Three of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
This season, we're listening to the lectures of Terrance Hayes. Hayes’s lectures circle the work and life of Etheridge Knight, a poet who has been a muse and mystery (and ghost mentor) for Hayes throughout his career. In each of the six lectures we’ll hear this season, Hayes uses Knight to anchor h
3.1 Terrance Hayes: "Turning Into Dwelling: The Space Between the Poet and the Poem"
Welcome to the first episode of Season Three of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
This season, we're listening to the lectures of Terrance Hayes, beginning with today's talk: “Turning Into Dwelling: The Space Between the Poet and the Poem.” Hayes's lectures circle the work and life of Etheridge Knight, a poet who has been a muse and mystery (and ghost mentor) for Hayes thro
2.5 Dorothea Lasky: "The Bees"
Welcome to the fifth and final episode of Season Two of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to five lectures by Dorothea Lasky. Today, we’ll hear Dorothea Lasky give her lecture, “The Bees.” This lecture, the last in Lasky’s book of poetry lectures, Animal, was recorded especially for this episode. Following the lecture, Lasky and podcast host/BWLS coor
2.4 Dorothea Lasky: "The Beast: How Poetry Makes Us Human"
Welcome to the fourth episode of Season Two of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series podcast. This season, we're listening to five lectures by Dorothea Lasky, and related conversations with experts in some of the subjects of Lasky's talks. This week, we’ll hear Dorothea Lasky give her lecture, “The Beast: How Poetry Makes Us Human.” This lecture was given December 5, 2013, at the Library of Congress.&n
2.3 Dorothea Lasky: "On The Materiality of the Imagination"
Welcome to the third episode of Season Two of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to five lectures by Dorothea Lasky, and related conversations with experts in some of the subjects of Lasky's talks. Today we'll hear "On the Materiality of the Imagination.” This lecture was given November 21, 2013, at Seattle Arts and Lectures.
Lasky's lectures explore t
2.2 Dorothea Lasky: "What is Color in Poetry, or Is It the Wild Wind in the Space of the Word?"
Welcome to the second episode of Season Two of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to five lectures by Dorothea Lasky, and related conversations with experts in some of the subjects of Lasky's talks. Today, we'll hear “What is Color in Poetry, or Is It the Wild Wind in the Space of the Word?” This lecture was given September 20, 2013, at New York Univer
2.1 Dorothea Lasky: "Poetry and the Metaphysical 'I'"
Welcome to the first episode of Season Two of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to five lectures by Dorothea Lasky, and related conversations with experts in some of the subjects of Lasky's talks. Today we'll hear "Poetry and the Metaphysical 'I'.” This lecture was given October 10, 2013, at Harvard University's Woodberry Poetry Room.
Lasky's lectures
1.3 Joshua Beckman: "Friendship, Porousness, and the Intimate Experience of Poetry"
Welcome to the third and final episode of Season One of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series podcast. This week, we’ll hear Joshua Beckman give his lecture “Friendship, Porousness, and the Intimate Experience of Poetry.” This lecture was given May 22, 2014, at the Poetry Foundation.
Joshua Beckman’s Bagley Wright lectures attempt to articulate and conjure for the listener the private and shared experi
Don Mee Choi: "Translation is a mode=Translation is an anti-neocolonial mode"
In celebration of Don Mee Choi's recent National Book Award for DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020), we wanted to share the following talk:
On OCTOBER 17, 2017 Don Mee Choi gave a lecture based on her keynote address at the 2016 American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) conference, entitled “Translation is a mode=Translation is an anti-neocolonial mode.” This talk, now available as a pamphlet pub
1.2 Joshua Beckman: "A Talk About Books"
Welcome to the second episode of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series podcast. This week, we’ll hear Joshua Beckman give his lecture, “A Talk About Books.” This lecture was given October 16, 2014, at Harvard University’s Woodberry Poetry Room, and was originally called "On the Porous Experience of the Book in Physical and Imagined Space."
To view some of the archival images Beckman refers to in this t
1.1 Joshua Beckman: "The Lives of the Poems"
Welcome to the first episode of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. In this episode, the first of three in a series, we listen to Joshua Beckman's lecture, "The Lives of the Poems," originally given May 8, 2014 at New York University, and then hear an interview between Beckman and Colin McDonald of Seminary Coop's Open Stacks podcast, originally aired April 22, 2018.
Beckman's lect
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