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Episode 41: Asa Drake's MAYBE THE BODY Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 02/05/2026 · 9m

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 41: Asa Drake’s MAYBE THE BODY.

"Asa Drake urges us to reconsider, and this is invaluable in a time
of hot takes."

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Episode 40: Andrés Cerpa's THE PALACE Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 12/29/2025 · 8m

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 40: Andrés Cerpa's THE PALACE (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social).

"We need any refuge built of wood or kindness or, indeed, of language."

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It was a pleasure to spend time with your work. Enjoy the rollout!

Episode 39: Ally Ang's LET THE MOON WOBBLE Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 11/15/2025 · 8m

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 39: Ally Ang's LET THE MOON WOBBLE (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social).

"As much as Ally Ang's LET THE MOON WOBBLE serves as a testament to survival, it is also buzzing with erotic energy."

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Episode 38: Erin L. McCoy's WRECKS Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 10/07/2025 · 11m

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 38: Erin L. McCoy's WRECKS (@noemipress.bsky.social).

"I appreciated [McCoy's] skillful weaving of textures and materials in a book that comes to resemble less the chaos of the wreck than the natural artistry and ingenuity of a nest."

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Intriguing autumn harvest of ARCs to consider for VerseCurious. Thanks to @akashicbooks.bsky.social, @graywolfpress.bsky.social and @tinhouse.bsky.social/ @zandoprojects.bsky.social for sending!

Episode 37: Marcella Durand's A WINTER TRIANGLE Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 09/09/2025 · 11m

📚🚨VerseCurious is back from summer hiatus with Episode 37: Marcella Durand's A WINTER TRIANGLE (@fordhampress.bsky.social). "Marcella Durand's A WINTER TRIANGLE holds us, briefly, back from the fray, provides the curative caesura." Listen/enjoy/rate/share/subscribe!

VerseCurious returns shortly from its customary summer holiday with new #poetry reviews of work by #LGBTQIA+, #BIPOC, #women and debut authors. Up next: a collection published by @fordhampress.bsky.social. Watch this space!

Episode 36: Martheaus Perkins's THE GRACE OF BLACK MOTHERS Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 05/31/2025 · 11m

#Juneteenth is a day to celebrate Black excellence. Check out Martheaus Perkins's THE GRACE OF BLACK MOTHERS, published by @triohousepress.org and reviewed recently on VerseCurious.

We love the @versecurious.bsky.social podcast - 10 minute audio reviews of recent and forthcoming poetry books by @tagreathouse.bsky.social @martheaus.bsky.social Erin Marie Lynch and other poets we love. Please follow them and subscribe!!

Episode 36: Martheaus Perkins's THE GRACE OF BLACK MOTHERS Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 05/31/2025 · 11m

Get a Listen of Ep. 36: Martheaus Perkins's THE GRACE OF BLACK MOTHERS (@triohousepress.org)...

"Have grace, Perkins enjoins in the collection's titular poem—grace which is 'a story we keep / because we cannot keep each other.'"

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Episode 36: Martheaus Perkins's THE GRACE OF BLACK MOTHERS Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 05/31/2025 · 11m

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 36: Martheaus Perkins's THE GRACE OF BLACK MOTHERS (@triohousepress.org).

"Perkins's [...] fierce debut [...] asks us to feel deeply, despite a world that attempts to deaden our ability to feel with unending indignities..."

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Episode 35: Jennifer Hasegawa's NAOMIE ANOMIE Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 04/13/2025 · 10m

ICYMI This Week:

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 35: Jennifer Hasegawa's NAOMIE ANOMIE, from @omnidawn.bsky.social .

"[Naomie's story] ends up being the story not so much of pandemic survival as survival, proper."

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Episode 35: Jennifer Hasegawa's NAOMIE ANOMIE Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 04/13/2025 · 10m

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 35: Jennifer Hasegawa's NAOMIE ANOMIE, from @omnidawn.bsky.social.

"[Naomie's story] ends up being the story not so much of pandemic survival as survival, proper."

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Episode 34: Andrea Ballou's OTHER TIMES, MIDNIGHT Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 03/25/2025 · 10m

It’s pub day for Andrea Ballou's OTHER TIMES, MIDNIGHT (Persea). Have a listen!

Also, of course, happy #NationalPoetryMonth.

#poetry #poems #poets #books #readers

Episode 34: Andrea Ballou's OTHER TIMES, MIDNIGHT Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 03/25/2025 · 10m

Andrea Ballou's OTHER TIMES, MIDNIGHT, arrives from Persea Books next week. Hear all about it in Episode 34.

"[This collection's] thematic seriousness beckons us closer, & the playful slipperiness reminds us that joy is a radical response to difficulty."
#poetry #poems #poets #books #readers

Episode 34: Andrea Ballou's OTHER TIMES, MIDNIGHT Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 03/25/2025 · 10m

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 34: Andrea Ballou's OTHER TIMES, MIDNIGHT, from Persea Books.

"[This collection's] thematic seriousness beckons us closer, and the playful slipperiness reminds us that joy is a radical response to difficulty."
#poetry #poems #poets
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Benjamin Landry reviewed Rachel Trousdale's Five-Paragraph Essay on the Mind-Body Problem, winner of the Cardinal Poetry Prize.

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#Poetry #RachelTrousdale #CardinalPoetryPrize

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 9 A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @briankspears.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @mcrucefix.bsky.social @hanvanderhart.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @angelatopping.bsky.social 1/3
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Episode 33: Rachel Trousdale's FIVE-PARAGRAPH ESSAY ON THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 02/28/2025 · 11m

Not exactly a blog, but a new review is up this week on VerseCurious…

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Episode 33: Rachel Trousdale's FIVE-PARAGRAPH ESSAY ON THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 02/28/2025 · 11m

✨📚New Release: Episode 33: Rachel Trousdale's FIVE-PARAGRAPH ESSAY ON THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM📚✨ @weslpress.bsky.social
"Rachel Trousdale's MIND-BODY PROBLEM is a steadying collection in our most turbulent of times." Listen/share/subscribe/rate. #poetry #poems #books
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Episode 31: Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 11/29/2024 · 9m

Good #Book News: Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD is new in the world! Have a listen.

Day after book recommendation (@harvardpress.bsky.social) for thinking people in increasingly cruel times:

Episode 31: Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 11/29/2024 · 9m

Exciting! Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD (Milkweed) arrives in a week. Prepare by listening to the brief review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get pods. Rate/share/enjoy VerseCurious, the podcast of new #poetry #book reviews featuring the work of LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, women and debut #poets.

It’s a joy to have Benjamin Landry’s close and thoughtful reading of The Museum of Unnatural Histories as the first full review of my debut collection.

Thank you @1benjaminlandry.bsky.social for taking such care in linking my book to the larger world w/ your review at @versecurious.bsky.social

Episode 32: Annie Wenstrup's THE MUSEUM OF UNNATURAL HISTORIES Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 01/06/2025 · 11m

✨📚NEW REVIEW📚✨Episode 32: Annie Wenstrup's THE MUSEUM OF UNNATURAL HISTORIES (@weslpress). "We need #poets and #poetry like Wenstrup’s to take these risks, to shock the archive, to make us see the unnatural tendencies of our current endeavors." Listen/share/rate! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

VerseCurious Books Podcast · 31 Episodes

We see you with that “What-books-do-I-buy-for-the-people-I-love?” December panic in your eye 👀 . VerseCurious has you covered, with brief reviews of great new #poetry titles. Have a listen, then make informed gift choices! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

Episode 31: Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 11/29/2024 · 9m

NEW REVIEW!
VerseCurious Episode 31: Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD

"Askia Ba writes with verve and attitude."

Want to hear more? Listen/subscribe/rate VerseCurious @ Apple Podcasts. Follow VC on Bluesky & share what you think. #poetry #poems #poets #books #TBR

Episode 31: Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 11/29/2024 · 9m

📚✨NEW REVIEW RELEASED✨📚
VerseCurious Ep. 31: Latif Askia Ba's THE CHOREIC PERIOD

"Askia Ba writes with verve and attitude."

Want to hear more? Listen/subscribe/rate @ Apple Podcasts. Follow VerseCurious on Bluesky & share what you think. #poetry #poetrybluesky #poems #poets #poetrycommunity #books