Really enjoy this, excited for summer to turn to fall so I can burn through all the back episodes. Would like to share episodes to my Instagram story, I suppose I could do that from the app? Yada yada, thanks a bunch. Mammoth Lakes CA

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a perfect podcast for we [who] can still love the world

I very much enjoy the in depth discussions and wonderful selection of guests and poems on this podcast. It is a pleasure to learn from such close and well informed readings. My one note is that I agree with another reviewer that Kamran, who certainly has his own valuable insights to add, does tend to interrupt and talk over guests. This is the only thing that prevents me from coming back to this podcast more often. Otherwise, the content is marvelous!

I love this podcast. For listeners looking to find an approachable way to begin accessing conversations around poetry, this is the perfect program. Its host is insightful and his voice is very sexy. I would love for Kamran to do an episode based on a poem of his own choosing. Poetry fan been waiting for an H.D. episode!

This podcast has become my constant companion as I walk; it is insightful and accessible, and features a lovely rapport between the host and his guests.

I want to love this podcast, but I always end up turning off episodes because I cannot stand the way the host interrupts his guests, makes little noises over them while they're speaking, rephrases their points after they've already been capably made, and generally inserts himself into the show's airtime in an unprofessional and perhaps even narcissistic way. I wonder if the host might also need to examine his gender and class politics: I've found he's much more deferential to male guests, especially those who teach at Ivies, than to the female professors to whose episodes I've tried to listen. The premise of this show is perfection, and the discussion definitely has its moments, but the host really needs to learn to hold his tongue and give over the floor.

I love this podcast!!! Very grateful for it.

An elegant and surprisingly simple idea for a poetry podcast, and executed to perfection. Kamran is the ideal host: knowledgeable about poetics, deferential to his guests, and considerate of his audience. Whether I am familiar with the poem of the week or not, I leave each episode feeling richer and smarter.

Great podcast to listen to that keeps poetry close to feelings and words, yet also goes deeper into style/form of poems without getting too critical, deconstructive, and boring. Keep the poems coming!

Kamran knows what’s up. This podcast will be my favorite, I’m certain of it. Honored to provide the first review.