Queer Poets Society

By: Mars Tarassenko
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  • Queer Poets Society is an LGBTQIA+ poetry-centered podcast featuring poetic analysis, discussions on famous queer poets, as well as read-aloud performances by your host, Mars Tarassenko. It covers a range of topics, from in-depth looks at specific poetry collection to discussions on the intersection of queerness, poetry, and other identities.
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  • sex, god, and clones; talking slam poetry with mary schwab

    sex, god, and clones; talking slam poetry with mary schwab
    Nov 23 2024

    In today’s episode of Queer Poets Society, Mars Tarassenko is joined by their first guest on the show, Mary Schwab, to discuss her experience in slam poetry and writing and performing “weird shit” as a therapeutic hobby. Delve with us into her slam “eras”, including sex with god and clones, as we discuss all things slam poetry!
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • sweet miracle of orchard breath; poems of edna st. vincent millay

    sweet miracle of orchard breath; poems of edna st. vincent millay
    Nov 9 2024

    Starting off Season 2 of Queer Poets Society, Mars Tarassenko reads from the Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), a Pulitzer Prize winning poet who ventured fearlessly beyond familiar poetic subjects to tackle political injustice, social discrimination, and women’s sexuality in her poems and prose. Featured poems include “Short Song”, “Renascence”, and What thing is this that, built of salt and lime.

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    48 mins
  • let me tell you a story about war (of the foxes)

    let me tell you a story about war (of the foxes)
    Jul 9 2024

    In today’s episode of Queer Poets Society, Mars Tarassenko revisits Richard Siken’s work, this time via his 2016 poetry collection War of the Foxes. They read and explicate four poems from the book: The Way the Light Reflects, Landscape with Fruit Rot and Millipede, War of the Foxes, and Three/Four Proofs.

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    42 mins

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