3 Podcasts for Poetry Month
It’s National Poetry Month and Podcasts are here for it. And you.
It’s April, 2020, and the world is in the grips of a global pandemic. We are isolated. We are distanced. And we are striving for connection. Annual events like National Poetry Month exist to bring us together, quilting our shared affinities into a lovely whole.
This year may be the year when we need the social quilting more than ever. And podcast producers are here for us. What follows are three poetry podcast recommendations (plus two bonus picks) to get celebrating, or at least connecting:
The Slowdown
This is the first poetry podcast I ever discovered (possibly from Fast Company’s Recommender section?). If you need your poetry served with credibility so you know it’s good, The Slowdown has you covered: Host Tracy K. Smith was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017–19.
The show features Smith reciting others’ poems. But before she gets into the reading, she leads in with her own artful opening that is so delightful and exquisite, I sometimes don’t realize the poem hasn’t started yet. It makes me feel…
