Today on the show we have the poet David Baker—but he joins us to talk about another poet, the late Stanley Plumly, his good friend, and whose new Collected Poems he has coedited with Michael Collier.

Stanley Plumly published twelve collections of poetry along with four books of prose, including Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography and Elegy Landscapes: Constable and Turner and the Intimate Sublime. His 2009 collection, Old Heart, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Paterson Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He taught for many years in the MFA program at the University of Maryland, and he served as Maryland’s poet laureate as well.

David Baker is the author of thirteen books of poetry (and new one is on the way!), as well as several books and anthologies of poetry criticism.

Pick up a copy of Collected Poems here.

Read more about Plumly here.

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Today on the show it's Natalie Shapero, and her new book, Stay Dead, her fourth full-length collection. Stay Dead was nominated for the longlist of the National Book Award in Poetry, I think even before it actually came out! And overseas, its British-published counterpart is a finalist for the equally impressive TS Eliot Prize. These are punchy poems, full of irony and humor and a sharp critical eye. We have a great talk about her poetry, the labor of working in space, washing the red item with the whites, and putting together a notes section for a book.

Natalie Shapero’s previous books include Popular Longing and Hard Child, also from Copper Canyon, and No Object, her debut, from Saturnalia books, which received the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. Hard Child made the 2018 shortlist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Her work has earned her a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Ruth Lilly Fellowship and has appeared in The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, The Nation, and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches writing at UC Irvine.

Pick up a copy of Stay Dead here.

Read more about Shapero here.

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It’s episode 20! And a special one in many ways. It’s my first live in-person podcast recording, and it’s with my great friend Ross White! White is the author of Charm Offensive and the chapbooks Valley of Want, How We Came Upon the Colony, and The Polite Society, and is teaching faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. White also runs Bull City Press, which focuses on chapbooks of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Tin House, and The Southern Review, among others. He also hosts a weekly trivia show and podcast, Trivia Escape Pod, which I have been lucky enough to help with for a couple years now.

Pick up a copy of Charm Offensive here.

And while you’re at it, grab a chapbook or three from Bull City Press. Get ready for the Sealey Challenge!

Read more about White here.

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