Get Lit Minute
A weekly podcast focusing on all things poetic, poetry and poets. Each week we will feature a poet and their poem. We will be highlighting classic poets from our In-School Anthology, sharing brief bios on the poet and a spoken word reading of one of their poems. We will also be introducing contemporary poets from the greater poetry community and our own Get Lit poets into the podcast space.
Episodes
123 episodes
Francisco X. Alarcón | "In a Neighborhood in Los Angeles" and "L.A. Prayer"
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Season 6
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Episode 18
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11:23
Tanya Ko Hong | "Second Period"
In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of Korean American poet, translator, columnist, and advocate for bilingual artists, Tanya (Hyonhye) Ko Hong. She is the author of four poet...
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Season 6
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Episode 12
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10:17
Lawson Fusao Inada | “Healing Gila”
In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Lawson Fusao Inada. A third-generation Japanese American, his collections of poetry are Before the War: Poems as They Happened...
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Season 6
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Episode 11
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9:31
Toyo Suyemoto | "Barracks Home"
In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, librarian, and memorist, Toyo Suyemoto. During her early years, Suyemoto published under her husband’s surname as Toyo Kawakami, T...
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Season 6
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Episode 10
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8:11
Garrett Hongo | excerpt from “Something Whispered in the Shakuhachi”
In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, memoirist, and editor, Garrett Hongo. His collections of poetry include Yellow Light (1982), The River of Heaven
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Season 6
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Episode 9
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11:11
Layli Long Soldier | “Resolution (6)”
In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Layli Long Soldier. She is the author of the chapbook Chromosomory (2010) and the full-length collection Whereas...
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Season 6
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Episode 8
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13:56
Alice Walker | “How Poems are Made / A Discredited View”
In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, writer, and activist, Alice Walker. Her books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and ...
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Season 6
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Episode 7
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13:42
Claude MaKay | “I Know My Soul”
In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Claude McKay. He was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, a prominent literary movement of the 1920s. His work ranged from vern...
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Season 6
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Episode 6
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12:15
Fatimah Asghar | “If They Come for Us”
In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, filmmaker, educator and performer, Fatimah Asghar. Their work has appeared in many journals, including POETRY Magazine
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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12:26
Carolyn Forché | “The Boatman”
In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet and writer, Carolyn Forché. Coiner of the term “poetry of witness,” she is frequently characterized as a political poet; she calls ...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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11:51
Joy Harjo | "Perhaps the World Ends Here"
In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet and writer, Joy Harjo. She is the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States and a member of the Mvskoke Nation and belongs to Oc...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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11:27
Lateef McLeod | "I Am Too Pretty For Some Ugly Laws"
In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, writer, and scholar, Lateef McLeod. He published his first poetry book entitled A Declaration of A Body Of Love in ...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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4:51
W.E.B. Du Bois | "The Song of the Smoke"
In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, W.E.B. Du Bois. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, civil rights activist, and historian. Throughout his...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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9:39
Paige Lewis | "The Moment I Saw a Pelican Devour"
In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Paige Lewis. is the author of Space Struck (Sarabande Books, 2019). Their poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poe...
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Season 5
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Episode 19
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8:08
Kimiko Hahn | "The Dream of Shoji"
In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, Kimiko Hahn. She is the author of ten books of poems, including: Foreign Bodies (W. W. Norton, 2020);The Unbearable H...
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Season 5
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Episode 18
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9:31
Elisa Gonzalez | "Failed Essay on Privilege"
In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet, essayist, and fiction writer, Elisa M. Gonzalez. Her work appears in the New Yorker and elsewhere. A graduate of Yale Uni...
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Season 5
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Episode 17
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8:43
Angélica Maria Aguilera | "The Star Spanglish Banner"
In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of international touring Chicana poet and teaching artist, Angélica María Aguilera. She comes from a mixed family of immigrants and uses sp...
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Season 5
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Episode 16
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12:05
José Olivarez | "(Citizen)(Illegal)" and "Ars Poetica"
In this episode of Get Lit Minute, we spotlight the accomplished author, poet and educator, José Olivarez.José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. His debut book of poems, Citizen Illegal, was a finalist for the PEN/ Jea...
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Season 5
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Episode 15
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12:11
Rigoberto Gonzalez | "Birthright"
In this episode of Get Lit Minute, we spotlight the accomplished writer and poet, Rigoberto González. Rigoberto González was born in Bakersfield, California and raised in Michoacán, Mexico. He earned a BA from the University of Californ...
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Season 5
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Episode 14
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9:31
