ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
O, Word? is a podcast interested in talking to poets about the craft choices they come back to, the processes that make them tick, and the work that keeps them writing. The podcast's companion series, e·pon·y·mous, focuses on the title poem of a poet's collection and diving deeper into the background that brought the work into the world. If you're interested in dissecting a poet's personal poetics, this podcast is for you!
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Update frequency:
every 16 days
Average audio length:
29 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
16 episodes
since Sept. 29, 2025
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
A conversation with Texas Poet Laureate Amanda Johnston about the anthology, the power of poetry to build community, and freedom
Anthony Thomas Lombardi is a writer, educator, organizer, & romantic in revolt. He is the author of murmurations (YesYes Books, 2025); runs Verses & Voltas, a ped…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
A A conversation with Vasvi Kejriwal about the poetics of grief, what it can contain, and our responsibility to those that have passed
Vasvi Kejriwal is a writer and educator from India. She won the Black Warrior Review Poetry Contest and her work was a finalist for the Sewanee Review Poetry Contes…
A conversation with Maya Williams about the poetics of aliveness, play, and writing about people in our lives
Maya Williams (ey/they/she) is a religious Black multiracial nonbinary suicide survivor who served as Portland, Maine's seventh poet laureate for a 2021-2024 term. Eir full length poetry co…
A conversation with Texas Poet Laureate Amanda Johnston about the anthology, the power of poetry to build community, and freedom
Amanda Johnston is a writer, visual artist, the 61st Texan Poet Laureate, and founder of Torch Literary Arts. Get full access to O, Word? at oword.deesoulpoetry.com/subsc…
A conversation with jason b. crawford about their collection YEET!, finding a safe home for Black people, and how we write ourselves alive
jason b. crawford (He/They), born in Washington, DC and raised in Lansing, Michigan, is the author of Year of the Unicorn Kidz. Their second collection, YEET! i…
A conversation with Nick Martino about Nonce Forms, The Possibilities of Visual Poetics, and Writing Towards Surprise
Nick Martino is a poet and teacher from Milwaukee. His debut poetry collection, Scrap Book (from Alice James Books) won the 2024 Alice James Editors’ Choice Award and will be publis…
A conversation with Jonny Teklit about Joy as Poetic Practice, Poetic Influences, and How Joy Can Push Us Towards Action
Jonny Teklit is an award-winning poet who has had work appear in The Academy of American Poets, The New Yorker, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. His poems have been anthologize…
Talking with Alison C. Rollins about Black Bell, the poetics of referentiality, and performance as mode of collective meaning-making
Alison C. Rollins is the author of the poetry collections Black Bell and Library of Small Catastrophes. Rollins holds an MFA from Brown University and is an assistant…
A conversation with Tariq Thompson about Rhythm, Hip Hop as a Guiding Force, and the Muscularity of Language
Tariq Thompson is a poet and educator from Memphis, Tennessee. He’s the author of the chapbook LONE LILY (from Sunset Press, 2021). His poetry has appeared in the American Poetry Review, The…
Talking with Summer Farah about Repetition, leaning into frantic energy, and the value of revisitation
Summer Farah is a Palestinian American writer, editor, and zine-maker from California. She is the author of the chapbook, i could die today and live again, poems inspired by the legend of Zelda an…
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