The Glimpse
Our second season of The Glimpse is here, featuring lively conversations between poets about their work and about poems that inspire them.Our host for this season, Seán Hewitt, interviews poets connected to Ireland, including Irish, Northern Irish, and diasporic poets. Guest poets for Season 2 include Victoria Kennefick, Mícheál McCann, Nithy Kasa, Kit Fryatt, Martina Evans, Stephen Sexton, Gustav Parker Hibbett, and Jane Clarke. As in our first season, each guest chooses two poems to read and discuss: one they’ve written, and one by another poet.The Glimpse is produced by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, with...
S2 E7 · Tue, April 29, 2025
A Chorus of Selves
Poet Gustav Parker Hibbett joins host Seán Hewitt for a chat about metamorphosis poems, trusting the rhythm of the body, and Joni Mitchell’s artistic betrayal. Parker reads their poem “Joni Mitchell dresses up as me (parts one and two)” and Donika Kelly’s poem “Love Poem: Chimera.”
S2 E6 · Tue, April 22, 2025
Are You with Me?
Poet Stephen Sexton speaks with host Seán Hewitt about the need for mystery, the exoticism of American English, and making meaning with the reader. Stephen reads his poem “The Capital of Heaven” and Oni Buchanan’s poem “The Only Yak in Batesville, Virginia.”
S2 E5 · Tue, April 15, 2025
The Language of the Cat
Poet Martina Evans and host Seán Hewitt take part in a wide-ranging conversation on the connection between place and voice, the pressure of living, sun worship, and, of course, cats. Martina reads her poem “The Day My Cat Spoke to Me” and Frank O’Hara’s “A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island.”
S2 E4 · Tue, April 08, 2025
A Dizzying Range of Meaning
Poet Kit Fryatt joins host Seán Hewitt for a conversation about erasure and rearrangement, poetic edgelord and chancer Ezra Pound, and poetry’s transitional moment between the medieval and modern eras. Kit reads his poem “bodyservant” and Thomas Wyatt’s “They fle from me.” Note: Thomas Wyatt's poem is presented in its original form.
S2 E3 · Tue, April 01, 2025
Where the Voice Wants to Stop
Poet Nithy Kasa speaks with host Seán Hewitt about carrying two countries, line breaks, and the taboo of black female sexuality in Congolese culture. Nithy reads her poem “My People Dance by Their Hips” and C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Ithaka.”
S2 E2 · Tue, March 25, 2025
A Note of Unscholarliness
Mícheál McCann joins host Seán Hewitt to chat about bringing queerness to the traditional Irish lament, writers as magpies and cheesecloths, and a brilliant, brave parenthesis placement. Mícheál reads his poem “To an Imagined Child” and Fiona Benson’s “Big Dipper Fireflies (Photinus pyralis) .”
S2 E1 · Tue, March 18, 2025
Something Has to Shatter
Poet Victoria Kennefick opens the second season of The Glimpse , joining host Seán Hewitt for a discussion of birth and rebirth, self-actualization, and the rewards of keeping your heart open. Kennefick reads her poem “The Ego is Crushed Like a Snail Shell Under a Stiletto and is Begrudgingly Divested of Its Own Smugness” and Carolyn Kizer’s poem “Heart’s Limbo.”
Trailer · Tue, March 11, 2025
The Glimpse Season Two Trailer
Our second season of The Glimpse is here, featuring lively conversations between poets about their work and about poems that inspire them. Our host for this season, Seán Hewitt , interviews poets connected to Ireland, including Irish, Northern Irish, and diasporic poets. Guest poets for Season 2 include Victoria Kennefick , Mícheál McCann, Nithy Kasa , Kit Fryatt , Martina Evans , Stephen Sexton , Gustav Parker Hibbett , and Jane Clarke . As in our first season, each guest chooses two poems to read and discuss: one they’ve written, and one by another poet. The Glimpse is produced by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, with new episodes available each Tuesday starting in March 2025. About the host: Seán Hewitt is a poet, memoirist, novelist, and literary critic. His award-winning books across genres include Tongues of Fire , All Down Darkness Wide , and the forthcoming Open, Heaven .
S1 E8 · Tue, August 06, 2024
This is a F*** You Poem
Poet Omotara James and host Camille Rankine explore the tension between vulnerability and confidence in poetry. They also delve into the language of pleasure and cruelty as well as the importance of subverting tropes.
S1 E7 · Tue, July 30, 2024
Breaking the Silence with Solmaz Sharif
Poet Solmaz Sharif speaks about her relationship to silence, the cost of speaking up for people whose narratives have been silenced and June Jordan’s impact on her writing. WARNING: a poem in this episode describes violence that some may find disturbing.
S1 E6 · Wed, July 24, 2024
A Poet, Not a Murderer with Rachel McKibbens
Poet Rachel McKibbens explores the role violence and has played in her life, her poetry and motherhood. She talks to host Camille Rankine about her poem "glutton" and the impact Brigit Pegeen Kelly's poem "Song" has had on her work. Warning: This episode contains some descriptions of violence that listeners may find disturbing.
S1 E5 · Tue, July 16, 2024
Grief, Hope and Garbage with Chen Chen
Poet Chen Chen talks about petitioning the universe on multiple levels, the personification of grief and finding inspiration in a ketchup packet.
S1 E4 · Tue, July 09, 2024
Keeping the Knife Sharp with Hafizah Geter
Poet Hafizah Geter talks about the power of a good line break, her love of Carl Phillips and how memory can be affected by grief.
S1 E3 · Tue, July 02, 2024
The Keyhole Of Kaveh Akbar's Brain
Poet Kaveh Akbar talks about his obsession with mortality, adding a second language to poetry and the continual impact of his “desert island poem.”
S1 E2 · Tue, June 25, 2024
Heaven and Hell with Ama Codjoe
Poet Ama Codjoe talks to host Camille Rankine about her version of paradise, how dance influenced her writing, and why community can be crucial for poets. In this episode Codjoe reads her poem "Heaven as Olympic Spa" [Koreatown, Los Angeles} from her book Bluest Nude and talks about the appearance of two other famous poets in the poem, Gwendolyn Brooks and Wanda Coleman. In the second segment, Codjoe reads a favorite poem from Gwendolyn Brooks "my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell" and discusses what makes the poem feel so personal and relatable.
S1 E1 · Tue, June 18, 2024
A Reckoning with John Murillo
Poet John Murillo delves into reckoning, the definition of masculinity and how we fictionalize memory in his wide-ranging conversation with host Camille Rankine in the first episode of The Glimpse. Poems featured in this episode include Murillo's poem "On Confessionalism” and Etheridge Knight's poem “Cop-Out Session.”
Trailer · Mon, May 06, 2024
The Glimpse (Trailer)
Welcome to The Glimpse, a new poetry podcast hosted by poet Camille Rankine. Our guest poets this season include John Murillo, Ama Codjoe, Kaveh Akbar, Hafizah Geter, Chen Chen, Solmaz Sharif, Rachel McKibbens, and Omotara James.
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