Ross Gay

For breakups, heartache, and unrequited love. More “screw Cupid” than “Be mine.”

Whether you’re looking for a pre-meal toast, a way to give thanks, or a late-night conversation starter, these poems should provide ample stuffing.

A fistful of poems about fatherhood by classic and contemporary poets.

Composed, produced, and remixed: the greatest hits of poems about music.

Love, I’m done with you!

Recent poems about pregnancy, birth, and being a mother.

Witnessing the struggle for freedom, from the American Revolution to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Sit still. Avoid the “parade of the world.” Difficult?

Get your hands in the dirt on this wonderful episode with Aimee Nezhukumatathil. The brilliant poet and Ole Miss professor gives a status update on her garden, her son’s sock...

Angel Nafis is paying attention. She talks with Danez and Franny about learning to rescale her sight, getting through grad school with some new skills in her pocket, activated charcoal,...

Aurielle Marie hops on the line, and the line will never be the same. The poet and organizer talks about the ways that her poetics and movement work are interwoven,...

Don Share is the editor of Poetry Magazine, a poet and translator, and a gem of a human. He chats with Danez and Franny about the mechanics and ethos of...

In 1954, on a small coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean, the United States detonated a weapon designed to annihilate every living thing in its path. That year, Frank O’Hara...

Poet and translator Emily Jungmin Yoon comes through the studio for a deep dive into her work translating contemporary and modern Korean poetry, her new collection A Cruelty Special to...

Ross Gay finds joy in life that outlives us.

In this week’s episode, Bennett and Monson get into literary ancestors, Monson’s top 5 rappers of all time, and what the future of poetry in this country might look like...

The VS Podcast squad pops down south to Oxford, MS for a handful of episodes featuring students and professors in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi. First up...

This week, Holly Amos speaks with KB Brookins, a writer, cultural worker, and artist living in Austin, TX, and the author of the chapbook How to Identify Yourself with a...

How to teach bewildering poems.

What I didn’t know before reading Ada Limón’s What I Didn’t Know Before is where research—scientific, philosophical, historical, or any other kind—belongs in the poetry writing process. What I learned after...

This week, Poetry’s new editor, Adrian Matejka, sits down with Nikky Finney and Ross Gay for a joy-filled conversation about time and how we catalog it with artifacts, heartbeats, and,...

Hop in the wayback machine with us for our very first ReVS episode, in which we return to an already-released VS conversation and catch up with the ideas and themes...

We’re dancing in the reflection pool with the inimitable Sarah Kay. On this penultimate interview led by Franny and Danez, the magnificent poet and poetry community member talks about what...

If you don’t fall head over heels with Tasha by the time you finish this episode, run this pod back and give it another shot because she is to die...

Ross Gay on the connections between gardening and poetry.