Melody or Witchcraft: Poets on Emily Dickinson & Today's Issues

By Kathryn Petruccelli

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Conversations with today's poets and writers about Emily Dickinson and about the scope and sources of creative influence and the relevance of the past. Guests choose a Dickinson poem and one of their own to read.

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Episode Date
Dorianne Laux: quiet blasphemy
Nov 09, 2026
Angela Narciso Torres: making do
Nov 01, 2026
Jane Huffman: to change her own mind
Oct 26, 2026
James Crews: that closed door
Oct 19, 2026
Sunu Chandy: not a one-note situation
Oct 12, 2026
Bonus Bit: Sunu Chandy
Oct 12, 2026
Audrey Molloy: the poem as a made thing
Oct 05, 2026
Bonus for you from friends of the podcast
Sep 14, 2026
Bonus Bit: Brenda Hillman
Aug 24, 2026
Brenda Hillman: life loaded and unloaded
Aug 24, 2026
Bonus Bit: Kemi Alabi
Aug 17, 2026
Kemi Alabi: sound as a bridge to the beyond
Aug 17, 2026
Bonus Bit: Kemi Alabi
Aug 17, 2026
Bonus Bit: Pádraig Ó Tuama
Aug 10, 2026
Pádraig Ó Tuama: the baboon of the past
Aug 10, 2026
Bonus Bit: Pádraig Ó Tuama
Aug 10, 2026
James Allen Hall: dissident queen
Aug 03, 2026
Bonus Bit: James Allen Hall
Aug 03, 2026
Diane Seuss: strange freedom
Jul 27, 2026
Bonus Bit: Diane Seuss
Jul 27, 2026
Evie Shockley: the selective poet
Jul 20, 2026
Jane Wong: the ugly cry
Jul 13, 2026
Jane Wong Teaser Reel
Jul 08, 2026
Welcome to Season 3 of Melody or Witchcraft!
Jun 29, 2026
Gabrielle Calvocoressi: keeping it wild
May 25, 2026
Bonus Bit: Gabrielle Calvocoressi
May 25, 2026
Camille T. Dungy: a velocity in the language
May 18, 2026
Bonus Bit: Matt Donovan
May 11, 2026
Matt Donovan: filling in the gaps
May 11, 2026
Bonus Bit: Kelli Russell Agodon
May 04, 2026
Kelli Russell Agodon: led by the dead
May 04, 2026
Victoria Kennefick: the sensitive heart
Apr 27, 2026
Dana Levin: "poetry as an endurance technology"
Apr 20, 2026
Season Two of the Podcast!
Apr 01, 2026
Bonus Bit: 'Groundwater' by Tacey M. Atsitty
Mar 16, 2026
Tacey M. Atsitty: Ancestors-Literal & Literary
Mar 16, 2026
Bonus Bit: Barbara Mossberg
Mar 09, 2026
Barbara Mossberg: Unknowing
Mar 09, 2026
Katie Farris: faith & fierce questioning
Mar 02, 2026
Jennifer Franklin: 'I've stopped being Theirs —'
Feb 23, 2026
Bonus Bit: Jennifer Franklin
Feb 23, 2026
Nuala O'Connor: rediscovering hope
Feb 16, 2026
Tina Cane: the poem as "a dispatch of my mind"
Feb 09, 2026
Season 1 Trailer 1
Jan 28, 2026
Coming Around Again
Jan 27, 2026