Kamran Javadizadeh

"Even gifted scholars lose their way / through faulty etymology." Incredible poem and conversation.

Siobhan Phillips on Marianne Moore ( Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 07/28/2025 · 1h 47m

You can also find our conversation here, as always. Highly recommend this one, both as an introduction to Marianne Moore and the poem, and as an exploration of how constraints can become generative, of how conditions of boundedness can contain infinities. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Siobhan Phillips on Marianne Moore ("Armor's Undermining Modesty") Close Readings · Episode

“What is more precise than precision? Illusion.” Today, a long-overdue episode on Marianne Moore, with the great Siobhan Phillips. We talked about Moore’s wonderful poem “Armor’s Undermining Modesty.” open.spotify.com/episode/2FPe...

Do I dare to eat a peach?

I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear my trousers rolled

and wriggling on the wall!

Super sharp, super fun - the amazing Megan Quigley is well worth a listen wherever you can catch her! Here she is with Dr Kamran Javadizadeh on our pal Prufrock - do check out the Close Readings podcast

Thanks Matt!

Great podcast. Great guest. And, let’s face it, great poem.

Let us go and make our visit... to this delightful podcast!

Megan Quigley on T. S. Eliot ( Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 07/21/2025 · 2h 7m

You can of course also find us here. Megan is the ideal guest for this great, truly weird, hugely influential poem. Plus we like to give each other a hard time. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Megan Quigley on T. S. Eliot ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock") Close Readings · Episode

“Do I dare / Disturb the universe?” I talked with my friend Megan Quigley, modernism scholar extraordinaire, about T. S. Eliot and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Total dream of a conversation. open.spotify.com/episode/2oIz...

a conversation that loops about psychoanalysis and repetition and poetry and seriality and opens upon the unbound subject of the poem:

What are you thinking now?

I am thinking that a poem could go on forever.

Finally got to listen to this one this morning. So grateful for all that went into to the creation of the three episodes of Close Readings which focus on the life and work of Alice Notley. Filled in a lot of gaps for me about her work and made me curious for more. 💜

“I am thinking that a poem could go on forever.”

Pleasure all mine, Dan!

Wow thank you! I hope you enjoy the conversation!

Daniel Katz on Jack Spicer ( Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 07/14/2025 · 1h 27m

‪Dan knows this poet inside and out—he’s the author of the first monograph on Spicer and the editor of Be Brave to Things: The Uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer—so he was an ideal guest for this one. You can also find us on Apple! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Probably my favorite poetry podcast going and Spicer was an important early love for me (though not someone I’ve read in a while!) so this is a big day for me personally

Daniel Katz on Jack Spicer ("Psychoanalysis: An Elegy") Close Readings · Episode

How is poetry like psychoanalysis? I had a fascinating conversation with Daniel Katz (@danielkatz.bsky.social) about Jack Spicer and his poem “Psychoanalysis: An Elegy.” open.spotify.com/episode/78hE...

Close Readings Books Podcast · One poem. One guest. Each episode, Kamran Javadizadeh, a poetry critic and professor of English, talks to a different leading scholar of poetry about a single short poem that the guest...

Also here! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Close Readings Podcast · Kamran Javadizadeh · One poem. One guest. Each episode, Kamran Javadizadeh, a poetry critic and professor of English, talks to a different leading scholar of poetry about a single short poem...

New episode coming tomorrow morning! open.spotify.com/show/6ekeFa2...

“Then they started to talk about cuffing me, and that if the kids were here legally, what do they have to lose by answering. I told them that they still have their fifth and fourth amendment rights, and that they don’t have to speak to you or help with any investigation.”

I loved that conversation, Anthony, and found myself thinking back to it yesterday as well!

Anthony Reed on June Jordan ("In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.") by @Kamran Javadizadeh Anthony Reed [https://as.vanderbilt.edu/english/bio/anthony-reed/] joins the podcast to discuss June Jordan's marvelous poem "In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr. [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...

Yesterday was June Jordan's celestial birthday. A few years ago, Kamran (@kjavadizadeh.bsky.social ) was kind enough to engage me in conversation about one of her poems.

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🚫 What’s being cut:

– NIH: –$19.5B
– CDC: –$4B
– Cancer research: –$3.1B
– SNAP: –$30B
– Education: –$12B

💰 What’s being funded:

– ICE detention: +$45B
– Tax cuts for the wealthy: +$4.5T over 10 years

This is the trade.

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Listening to this today on my walk in the woods. This is the third in a series of episodes on the work of the late Alice Notley. Such a wonderful introduction to a new to me poet. Thankful for the work here! 💜

Listened to this episode slowly over the last two days. What a great conversation! And especially timely for me as someone who just recently encountered “Alette” for the first time.