How to Write a Poem

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.8 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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A new 'Craftwork' episode about how to write a poem. My guest is Matthew Zapruder, author of the poetry collection I Love Hearing Your Dreams, available from Scribner. Zapruder is the author of six collections of poetry, including Come on All You Ghosts, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Father's Day; Why Poetry; and Story of a Poem, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams Award, a May Sarton Award from the Academy of American Arts and Sciences, and a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship. His poetry has been adapted and performed by Gabriel Kahane and Brooklyn Rider and Attacca Quartet at Carnegie Hall and San Francisco Performances and was the libretto for Vespers for a New Dark Age, a piece by Missy Mazzoli commissioned for the Ecstatic Music Festival at Carnegie Hall. He was Guest Editor of Best American Poetry 2022, and from 2016 to 2017, he held the annually rotating position of Editor of the weekly Poetry Column for TheNew York Times Magazine. He lives with his wife and son in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is editor at large at Wave Books, and teaches in the MFA in creative writing program at Saint Mary's College of California. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Twitter Instagram TikTok Bluesky Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.7	All right, everybody. Welcome to the podcast. This is The Other People Show, a weekly program featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
0:40.3	I am Brad Listy. I'm your host. I'm in Los Angeles. It is good to be with you. Thank you for being here. Hope you are hanging in there, wherever you happen to be.
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1:13.7	focus on either the craft of writing or the business of publishing some aspect thereof
1:20.6	today I'm going to be talking with Matthew Zapruder about how to write a poem
1:28.3	Matthew Zepruder has a new collection of poetry out on Scribner.
1:33.3	It is called I Love Hearing Your Dreams.
1:38.3	And I've had multiple conversations with Matthew Zepruder on this show over the years always illuminating and I thought
1:50.0	it would be a good idea to talk with him about how a poem actually gets made we had a
1:57.4	great conversation and you're going to hear it in just a moment.
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