Poetry Off the Shelf

Poetry Foundation

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How to Survive on an Island
03/2/2026 | 48 mins.
Stephanie Niu on being lost at sea, crab bridges, and finding the heart of the world.

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The Multiverse of Me
20/1/2026 | 43 mins.
Diamond Forde on poison, fan fiction, and writing the Great American Vampire Novel.

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Poets We Lost in 2025
30/12/2025 | 36 mins.
Remembering Ellen Bryant Voigt, plus a few words on mortality by Andrea Gibson.

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An Old Face
16/12/2025 | 56 mins.
Amanda Quaid on cancer, being bad in New York, and erotic hands.

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An Impossible Wish
02/12/2025 | 45 mins.
Tracy K. Smith on her Hello Kitty notebook, automatic writing, and the afterlife.

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About Poetry Off the Shelf

Producer Helena de Groot talks to poets about language, dreams, love and loss, identity, connection, anger, discomfort, the creative process, the state of the world and the world of the soul. Hard conversations are welcomed—laughter is, too.

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