Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast

The King Is Dead (with guest Diane Seuss)

Aaron Smith and James Allen Hall Episode 135

It's a queens' jubilee as we discuss  Clifton and  Glück poems with Diane Seuss, who concludes by reading a new poem!

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Louise Glück's first book is Firstborn, published in 1968 when she was 25. You can read "Here Are My Black Clothes"

Recorded on March 27, 2023, here is one of Louise Glück's final recorded readings (~15 minutes).

Read the text of Lucille Clifton "Study the Masters." You can see Tara Betts read that poem here.

Watch an interview with Prof. Clifton  here.

You can read  more about  the first crafting, and subsequent replications, of Keats's death masks here.