Summer 2024 | Leila Chatti Reads "Once I Was Beautiful Now I Am Myself"
A note about the work “Once I Was Beautiful Now I Am Myself” from Leila Chatti for the Michigan Quarterly Review's Summer 2024 issue: First, the poem’s title is a line borrowed from an Anne Sexton poem. I wrote this poem in a period when I thought I wasn’t writing; rather, I felt I was reacting, or…
266. Voronoi Cookies
Lords:
Ben
Andrew
Topics:
Baking: precise science of measurement or do it all by feel? (People have very different philosophies of muffins)
I've gotten into making crosswords this year and recently had the idea to start putting them on postcards and leaving them in public places for pe…
266. Voronoi Cookies
Lords:
Ben
Andrew
Topics:
Baking: precise science of measurement or do it all by feel? (People have very different philosophies of muffins)
I've gotten into making crosswords this year and recently had the idea to start putting them on postcards and leaving them in public places for pe…
Future Tripping ft. Allie Lawrence
Featured poem: My Sentimental Afternoon by Leila Chatti. Featured topics: balloons, birthday, springtime, the future, dirty talk, exercise, balloons, and subway platforms.
Poem read with permission from the author.
Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com
New episode ev…
Future Tripping ft. Allie Lawrence
Featured poem: My Sentimental Afternoon by Leila Chatti. Featured topics: college, dirty talk, subway platform as dating app, balloons, birthdays, and the wonderful season of springtime.
Poem read with permission from the author.
Send us your poems inspired by our topics: pokingaroundpod@gmail.com…
1332: Tea by Leila Chatti
Today’s poem is Tea by Leila Chatti.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “Maybe the ultimate self care is learning to give yourself the respect, the tenderness, and the grace you extend to others. To love yourself the way you love others.”
Celebrate the power…
Leila Chatti: How Lucky to Have Lived
Leila Chatti chooses poems illuminated by a heart left often to life here on Earth. She introduces us to Linda Gregg’s fierce and incandescent honesty (“There She Is”), Lucille Clifton’s embrace of lightness amidst struggle (“sorrows”), and Jane Hirshfield’s distillation of silence and attention (“…
[encore] 1332: Tea by Leila Chatti
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Today’s poem is Tea by Leila Chatti.
The Slowdown is taking a week to return to some of our favorite episodes from Maggie’s tenure so far. We’ll be back on Monday, December 15 with new episodes.
Today’s episode was originally released on August 18, 2025.
In this episode, Maggie writes… “Maybe th…
Leila Chatti: "The World Is Too Much With Us"
Recorded by Leila Chatti for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on March 11, 2026. www.poets.org
Bonus Bit: Sunu Chandy
Please note that this is a “bonus bit” - a short supplemental that accompanies a full-length interview with Sunu Chandy for the Melody or Witchcraft podcast.
People, places, poems & books mentioned:
Danusha Laméris’s “Small Kindnesses”
Leila Chatti
Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
Unicorn Au…
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می توانید از وب سایت ما برای جستجوی پادکست های3,835,541و قسمت های197,436,068بر اساس افراد، مکان ها یا موضوعات استفاده کنید.
If I have seen further than others, it is by listening to podcasts and standing upon the shoulders of
giants.
‐ Isaac "Llamacorn" Newton
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