In & Out (2025)

The queens go in (and out) on poetry trends for 2025, all while doing their Kegel exercises.

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SHOW NOTES:

Watch Marie Howe in conversation with poet and friend of the show, Nicole Tallman (18 mins), for South Florida Poetry Journal.

 You can catch a reading of some poets included in Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift here. 

Read Carol Frost's poem "Gross Clinic" from her book I Will Say Beauty (mentioned in the show).

When we mention "the Sharon Olds stanza," here’s a representative of what we mean: "After Making Love in Winter" (Poetry Magazine, May 1987)

A bit more about The Vivienne, a drag superstar and winner of Season 1 of Drag Race UK, can be found here.

More about Ada Limon's historic appointment as Poet Laureate can be accessed here.

A few Game Shows poems:
Jennifer L. Knox, “The New Let’s Make a Deal”
Julie Marie Wade, "From the Jeopardy! Category Spoiler Alerts"