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by Matt E. Lewis

Cortazar speaks of Paris (from the 1994 film 'Cortazar'):

Columbo Speech as Poem

“Excuse me, sir. I couldn’t resist trying your pinball machine. I guess I tried a little too hard, but that’s an old problem with me, sir —the way I keep...

the nightshades

by Carling Berkhout

Finding the Mother Tree: A Conversation with Suzanne Simard

Stephen Fry reading a letter from E. B. White to a gloomy fan (2020)

The number of rabbits that emerge in the night in Providence, Rhode Island hints at the existence of a magic trick that exists somewhere at the intersection...

What To Do About The Delta Variant?

The above map is from The New York Times and current as of July 22nd, 2021. It represents new COVID infections. A majority of those hospitalized as a result...

High Noon at the Cactus Sanctuary

by Claudia Lundahl

Chekhov (In Our Time, 2018)

Dispatch from the Morning Calm

by Melanie Hyo-In Han

Life After The Fall - Storytelling from Iraq (2018)

James Fenton reads "Out of the East, "Blood and Lead" and "The Milk Fish Gatherers" (2012)

Places Where Yo-Yo Ma Has Given A Surprise Concert

by Evan Fleischer

Oxford Translation Day: Sophie Hughes Discusses Hurricane Season (2020)

Oxford Translation Day '21: Khoury-Ghata, The Last Days of Mandelstam, trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan

NBA Finals: Game 6 Preview.

If Birds Left Tracks in the Sky

by Alyssa Quinn

Oxford Translation Day '21: Nicky Smalley on Wretchedness

Oxford Translation Day '21: Esther Kinsky, Grove, trans. from German by Caroline Schmidt

#4: You're The Breeze in my Austin Nights

In early June of the never-ending 2020, I attended an anti-curfew, anti-police terror demonstration in my hometown of Oakland, California. (“We Met At A...

'Satanism as a Feminist Strategy in Sylvia Townsend Warner's Lolly Willowes (1926)', Per Faxneld (2018)

How To Catch Fireflies

by Emily L. Famularo

Clint Smith discusses "How the Word Is Passed" with Min Jin Lee (2021)

Music at Midnight: Rose City Daydream (#3)

A song.Previously: Lily MacHugh and Jared McCormack (#1) / Kathy Acker in Fragments (#2) /

A Chat With Kara Vernor

Evan Fleischer: Which was the first question of the "Questions I've Asked My Boyfriend While Writing?" Kara Vernor: Not sure, because I can't recall all of...

Rebecca Solnit and Mary Beard: Recollections of My Non-Existence (2021)

Shoes For The Coup

Jane Kenyon - interviewed by Henry Lyman for Poems to a Listener (1984 series)

How do you 'open up' a character?

I want to put the question I put to Todd Dillard to all of you — when you’re creating a character, what turns them into a three-dimensional character for...

A Thought About Giannis

I’m starting to think that one of the weird byproducts of media commentary around Giannis Antetokounmpo — that he’s a ‘Robin,’ not a ‘Batman’; that Khris or...

Terry Pratchett at the Wheeler Centre (2013)

New Writing Showcase (Cúirt Festival, 2021)

Alexander Chee and Carmen Maria Machado (Cúirt Festival, 2021)

The next batter is Jimi Hendrix. Jerry flashes two-two-one. That’s our sign for, shut the fuck up and just listen to this genius play the guitar. (“No No,”...

NYRB: Anakana Schofield presents "Bina: A Novel in Warnings," with Elif Batuman

Four Lost Cities: Annalee Newitz with Amal El-Mohtar | LIVE from NYPL

Music at Midnight: Kathy Acker in Fragments (#2)

Sources: Avant-garde Cosplay, Kathy Acker Interviews William S. Burroughs (1 of 3), “I Was Walking Down The Street,” “The Female Doctor,” “Plant Music -...

A Chat With Todd Dillard About Three Poems

Evan Fleischer: I know poems speak for themselves, but why the Guinness Book of World Records? Todd Dillard: I loved the GBWR as a kid — it was this really...

An Online Conversation with Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Imani Perry on A RAISIN IN THE SUN | Books on Film

Arthur Sze | A Rain Taxi Event

Terrance Hayes: The Blaney Lecture, 2019

Ross Gay - Poem To My Child, If Ever You Shall Be with Gia Margaret

#02: Fry Me Some Pork Chops and Forgive My Sins

I’ve been covering myself in butter. Taking sticks of dairy and smearing them like sunscreen. Those hungry flies will come after me. Sooner or later. I’ve...

Nikki Giovanni Delivers a Poetry Reading | Black History, Continued

Reaping What We Sow: A Conversation with Pulitzer Prize Winner Alice Walker

Music at Midnight: #1

Welcome to Music at Midnight, a freeform podcast published by Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo. This episode features a fragment of a story read by Lily MacHugh and...

On Sylvia Wynter: The Making of Black Metamorphosis