@connormstratton & @jackrossitermun read a poem, discuss, and read again, bringing in pop stuff, history, & lit theory. Subscribe: ow.ly/j6CF3080f0z
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22 May 2021
**New Episode**
Connor and Jack share poems by Palestinian writers and reflect on how poetry and language can be used as powerful tools to generate empathy, enact resistance, and more.
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7 Jan 2024
Close Talking is on hiatus but supports the boycott of @PoetryFound @poetrymagazine
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3 Apr 2023
STD-short term disability; LTD-long term disability
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3 Apr 2023
months of STD and seeing numerous specialists. Anyone else share this experience? (2/2)
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3 Apr 2023
Looking for recommendations for STD/LTD for my company who is highly invested in equitable care for employees health and wellness. I've been out of work for 7 months with post covid syndrome and have had a disheartening experience with @lincolnfingroup upon appealing 3 (1/2)
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17 Nov 2022
John Keene has won the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry for “Punks: New & Selected Poems.” #NBAwards
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17 Nov 2022
Big shout out to @thesongcave, a small poetry press that just won an #NBAwards for Poetry for John Keene's amazing collection!
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17 Nov 2022
CONGRATULATIONS to John Keene, faculty at the Rutgers @NewarkMFA program, for winning 2022 #NBA award in poetry! We are so proud of you! @EnglishNewark @RutgersSASN
17 Nov 2022
Punks: New & Selected Poems by John Keene has won the 2022 #NBAwards for Poetry!
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17 Nov 2022
John Keene thanks his literary ancestors, especially the Black, gay, queer, and trans writers, particularly those we lost to HIV/AIDS.
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17 Nov 2022
Punks: New & Selected Poems by John Keene has won the 2022 #NBAwards for Poetry!
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17 Nov 2022
Congratulations to John Keene, winner of the @nationalbook’s National Book Award in poetry for Punks: New & Selected Poems from @thesongcave! #NBAwards
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17 Nov 2022
Read a poem by the newly minted #NBAwards winner for Poetry, John Keene (who is also a wonderful guy) lithub.com/phone-book/
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17 Nov 2022
Personally thrilled for the great John Keene (@jstheater)
17 Nov 2022
Read a poem by the newly minted #NBAwards winner for Poetry, John Keene (who is also a wonderful guy) lithub.com/phone-book/
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17 Nov 2022
Congratulations to RU–N English Professor John Keene for winning the National Book Award for Poetry!
17 Nov 2022
John Keene accepts the National Book Award for Poetry, dedicating it in particular to "black, gay, queer, and trans writers, especially those we lost to HIV/AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s." #NBAwards
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17 Nov 2022
Two poems by John Keene.
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17 Nov 2022
Cooking from Hilda Hilst’s Letters From A Seducer a few years ago for @parisreview . Translation: John Keene. theparisreview.org/blog/2020…
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17 Nov 2022
John Keene accepts the National Book Award for Poetry, dedicating it in particular to "black, gay, queer, and trans writers, especially those we lost to HIV/AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s." #NBAwards
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14 Nov 2022
Quick before it all goes under! Every episode of Close Talking will be going to YouTube - one a day until we're all caught up.
Anyway, subscribe to the YouTube today: youtube.com/channel/UCCCSpjZ…
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14 Nov 2022
In the @NatalieGDiaz poem, "My Brother at 3am" the cyclical aspects of addiction are mirrored in the poem's form - a pantoum full of repeating lines.
Listen to the full episode, here: soundcloud.com/close-talking… x.com/CloseTalking/status/15…
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14 Nov 2022
Count on @adalimon to find not one, not two, but THREE meanings for the word "speaker." @connormstratton and @JackRossiterMun marvel over the lines:
Me, I became the shaking
speaker, all my hairs like lung’s thin cilia
waving in a whir of song
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