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Poetry Off the Shelf

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A Handful of Dust
2026/04/14 | 49 mins.
Iain McGilchrist on Rip Van Winkle, the poet's brain, and the real word for sunshine.

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The Wrong Details
2026/03/31 | 57 mins.
D.S. Waldman on the left hand, losing his brother, and introducing the most wounded part.

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The Character in the Corner
2026/03/17 | 53 mins.
Sony Ton-Aimé on radical joy, pig blood, and the ancestors we forgot.

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Those Bodies We Borrowed
2026/03/03 | 58 mins.
Monica Ferrell on robot apples, Playboy bunnies, and botox vs. crow's feet.

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What It Takes to Be a Man
2026/02/17 | 56 mins.
James Ciano on sports, masculinity, and the desperation to belong.

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About Poetry Off the Shelf

Producer Helena de Groot talks to poets about language, dreams, love and loss, identity, connection, anger, discomfort, the creative process, the state of the world and the world of the soul. Hard conversations are welcomed—laughter is, too.

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