Oct 10, 2024
In Episode 16 of Multi-Verse, poet Devon Walker-Figueroa reads “Private Lessons,” in which a dying man determines that his young pupil must become a prima ballerina, and chats with host Evangeline Riddiford Graham about the uses of silence, breaking Dante’s rhyme scheme, and what it means to be haunted by lessons...
Jun 28, 2024
In Episode 15 of Multi-Verse, poet Philip Metres reads “Fugitive” and talks with host Evangeline Riddiford Graham about memory, home-longing, and paying attention to the accordion of time.
“Fugitive” can be found in Metres's latest collection, Fugitive/Refuge (Copper Canyon Press,...
May 14, 2024
In Episode 14 of Multi-Verse, poet Barbara Tran reads “Loon Song” and chats with host Evangeline Riddiford Graham about the fever, living with uncertainty, and the wisdom of the beehive.
“Loon Song” can be found in Tran's debut collection, Precedented Parroting (Palimpsest Press,...
Apr 2, 2024
In Episode 13 of Multi-Verse, poet Eugene Ostashevsky reads five sonnets and talks with host Evangeline Riddiford Graham about mixing humor with horror and the stupidity of war.
Eugene Ostashevsky's latest poetry collection is The Feeling Sonnets (New York Review Books,...
Nov 10, 2023
In Episode 12 of Multi-Verse, poet Timothy Liu reads “Last Christmas” and chats with host Evangeline Riddiford Graham about the poem's themes of love, desire, and loneliness—and how much detail is enough to tell a story.
“Last Christmas” can be found in Liu's collection “Down Low And Lowdown: Timothy...