Having a Coke with You
Hey poets and poetry lovers! Welcome to Having a Coke with You, The Poetry Society of New York's podcast sponsored by the Radio Drama Network! Join Tova Greene (Programs Director of PSNY) as they sit down and have a coke with some of the most iconic poets of today’s day and age! Having a Coke with You allows any listener to have MFA-grade, unfettered access to poetry. This podcast aims to demystify poetry by allowing listeners to get a glimpse of the real person behind award-winning stanzas. With a little something for any listener, welcome to your new favorite literary podcast. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/poetrysocietyny/support
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Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with a poetry wonder: the prolific Cornelius Eady!
Cornelius Eady is the author of eight books of poetry, including Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems (Putnam, April 2008). His second book, Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, won the Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets in 1985; in 2001 Brutal Imagination was a finalist for the National Boo...
Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with long time friend of The Poetry Society of New York, the renowned Paul Muldoon!
Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet and professor of poetry, as well as an editor, critic, playwright, lyricist and translator. Born in 1951 in Portadown, Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland, to Patrick Muldoon, a farm labourer and market gardener, and Brigid Regan, a schoolteacher, Paul ...
Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with long time friend of The Poetry Society of New York, the savvy Joanna Fuhrman!
Joanna Fuhrman is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Creative Writing at Rutgers University and the author of six books of poetry, including To a New Era (Hanging Loose Press 2021), The Year of Yellow Butterflies (Hanging Loose Press 2015) and Pageant (Alice James Books 2009)...
Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with long time friend of The Poetry Society of New York, the fascinating Matthew Yeager!
Matthew Yeager's poems have appeared in Sixthfinch, Gulf Coast, Bat City Review, and elsewhere, as well as Best American Poetry 2005 and Best American Poetry 2010. His short film "A Big Ball of Foil in a Small NY Apartment" was an official selection at ele...
Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with the wise & awe-inspiring Jennifer Michael Hecht!
Jennifer Michael Hecht is a poet and historian. Her new book is The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives - just out, March 2023, with FSG. Hecht is the author of the bestseller Doubt: A History, a history of religious and philosophical doubt all over the wor...
Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with the man, the myth, the legend... Robert Pinsky!
Known worldwide, Pinsky’s work has earned him the PEN/Voelcker Award, the William Carlos Williams Prize, the Lenore Marshall Prize, Italy’s Premio Capri, the Korean Manhae Award, and the Harold Washington Award from the City of Chicago, among other accolades.
Robert Pinsky is a poet, essayist, translator, ...
Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with the thoughtful & genre-bending Victoria Chang!
Victoria Chang’s forthcoming book of poems, With My Back to the World will be published in 2024 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Corsair Books in the U.K. Her most recent book of poetry, The Trees Witness Everything was published by Copper Canyon Press and Corsair Books in the U.K. in 2022, and was na...
Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with an iconic headliner of The 12th Annual New York City Poetry Festival, Saeed Jones!
Saeed is the author of the memoir HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES, winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction & the poetry collection PRELUDE TO BRUISE, winner for the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. His poetry & essays have appeared in the New Yorker, ...
Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with the legend herself, Alice Notley!
Alice is the author of more than 20 books of poetry including The Descent of Alette (1996) & Mysteries of Small Houses (Penguin, 1998). She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, & winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry. In the spring of 2001 she received an Academy Award from the American Academ...
Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with the hilarious Jennifer L. Knox!
Jennifer’s fifth book of poems, Crushing It, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. Her poems have appeared five times in the Best American Poetry series & in publications such as the New York Times, the New Yorker & American Poetry Review. Her non-fiction writing has appeared in The New York Times & T...
Hey poets and poetry lovers!
Welcome to Having a Coke with You, The Poetry Society of New York's podcast sponsored by the Radio Drama Network!
My name is Tova, I use they/them pronouns, and I’m the Programs Director of PSNY and the Creative Director of The New York City Poetry Festival, and now… the host of this podcast!
Join me as I sit down and have a coke with some of the most iconic poets of today’s day and age. This all-s...
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