Poetry Off the Shelf

As Best I Could

May 2, 2023

01:01:44

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Hardest Questions Any Child Can Ask

4min

The Only Thing

2min

How to Keep Lying and Walk an Honest Place With Your Mother

4min

How to Deal With Writing Your Family

3min

The Impossible

5min

Things I Could Never Tell My Mother

2min

The Shadow of Gay Poetry

6min

The Untideness of the Stories That We Tell

3min

10.

The Disappointment of Believers

2min

11.

How to Survive as a Poet

3min

12.

The Importance of Pedigree in Academic Life

5min

13.

The Ending of My Mom's Dad

5min

14.

The Importance of Resolving to Do the Right Thing

2min

15.

Stupid Beauty: A Poem About Acceptance

2min

16.

Stupid Beauty

2min

17.

The Unfulfilled Dreams of My Mom

2min

18.

Mom in Casket I Picked Out

3min

19.

The Longing of a Mom

3min

Aaron Smith on shame, telling the truth, and his mother's last lipstick.

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