You Shouldn't Let Poets Lie to You

Greetings and blessings upon all April fools!  This episode we hear all about everyone's favorite network of wisdom from the future Poet Laureate of the Skies and the author of Latitude (2021), Natasha Rao .  Natasha joins our educational programme to break down some important internet slang (NSFW, IRL, AMA, OP) and to debunk some common misconceptions about how to remove slugs from your gard...

Good morning Earthlings! Season's greetings! Celestial seasonings! For their last episode of 2024, Amelia and Alexandria talk about grief, 80s children's toys, and mixed metaphors with poet Miller Oberman , author of Impossible Things , just out from Duke University Press. We also swim around in Star Wars spoilers, fatherhood, the long-forgotten American poet icon Adelaide Crapsey, too-l...

In this uniquely timely episode of Poets Lie, Alexandria and Amelia ask poet T Bambrick (author of Intimacies, Received , 2022) to explain everyone's favorite American institution of higher learning: The Electoral College. Who goes there? How do you get in? What's the graduation rate? How does it put the "mid" in Midwest? Listen to find out (maybe). We also get into: "Finl...

BLAMMO! Amelia and Alexandria are back with Season Two! Shaking off the crust of another hot goblin summer. Did you miss us? Don't lie. Our guest for this very special premiere out-and-about episode is Callie Siskel , expert loop-walker and author of Two Minds (Norton 2024). On our journey we discuss the elegiac mode, the meditative silence of art museums, the difficulty of walking and talkin...

Every year, in early spring, thousands of American poets flock to a city in the continental U.S. for a gathering known as Conference. What do they do there? What kind of business do they conduct? What is a “panel”? In this very special episode, Amelia and Alexandria travel to Kansas City, Missouri, to try and answer these questions, and more, in their first foray into investigative podcast fabulis...

Who's ready to get bogged up?! This month on YSLPLTY we're sitting down with Tracy Fuad to discuss her new book PORTAL (U Chicago Press 2024) and her deep and abiding love of land that is wet. We also get bogged up about: The Corn Feed, Renaissance Faires, German buses, noise, permeability, (poetry) business trips, types of doors, "land that's wet," revenue streams, Jason&...

Would you like it if we told you? If we told you about Napoleon? Would, would you like it? On this episode we invite the poet Erin Marie Lynch , author of Removal Acts (Graywolf 2023), to debunk common misunderstandings about everyone's favorite short king. Or was he really a toxic tall? We also get into the weeds with Amelia's favorite Gertrude Stein recording, Alexandria's inevita...

This month we get symbiotic with Jesse Nathan , author of Eggtooth (Unbound Edition 2023), who tells us sweet lies about interspecies cooperation, dependence, and all kinds of dynamic relation. Biological metaphors abound. Also discussed: Discourse Barbie, making Dogs , cat litter(ature), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , dreaming relevantly, lying rhymes, the singing of the frog, the little...

What do April Fools, alter egos, Sappho, and the cult classic 2001 film Scotland, Pa. have in common? Find out in this special BONUS CONTENT from Alexandria and Amelia's interview with poet Elizabeth Metzger. Don't underestimate her boldness. Be sure to listen to the full interview, follow us on Instagram @poetsliepodcast , and check out poetslie.biz . 

Let’s get mystical! Elizabeth Metzger -- author of Lying In (Milkweed 2023) -- tells it slant, brings us deep into the five-layer dip of consciousness, and reads Amelia and Alexandria (for filth??). Also discussed: perfumery; head, heart, and base notes; the inevitable Emily Dickinson, inventor of tarot; wallpaper glue, bed rest, the unborn and the dead; and Amelia's bearded grandmother. Time...

You find yourself at the watering hole ... with YSLPLTY's first poet-couple dual interview ... Catherine Pond , author of Fieldglass (Crab Orchard Series 2021) and Kai Carlson-Wee , author of Rail (BOA Editions 2018) ... Imagine ... we discuss Kai’s culinary elan, the metal content of animals, a pet squirrel named Chauncey, Drop Dead Gorgeous, volleyball with Vanguard, confession and risk, po...

Question: Three poets are lying about 'rithmetic. If each is traveling at different speeds, and Amelia has two apples, Alexandria has eight cats and two dogs, and Adrienne has four leather jackets, when will we arrive at the truth? On our latest episode, we invite Adrienne Chung , author of the forthcoming National Poetry Series-winning book Organs of Little Importance (Penguin, 2023), to lie...

Amelia and Alexandria are back! From the bottom of the well! With a new episode featuring Matt Broaddus , author of Temporal Anomalies (Ricochet Editions 2023). We do a deep dive into the shady and fantastical world of cryptic currency, and discuss along the way gray goblins, improv poker, things falling out of the sky, gossip, the Gospel of Gretchen, and a singularity of lies. And we introduce th...

In our second episode, we get spooky with Diannely Antigua . We talk about Diannely's first book Ugly Music , her forthcoming book Good Monster , and her work as Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, NH. Lies ensue about physics, distance, and food delivery. "To be close to someone is to decide to allow your spaces to collide." Also discussed: Hot Goblin Summer™, LoTR, Yoga Toes, Capri Sun,...

For our inaugural episode, we talked with poet Austen Leah Rose about her new book Once, This Forest Belonged to a Storm, and invited her to lie to us about aeronautics . What is flight? "Air in conversation with air. That's flying." We also discuss: storms, motherhood, mushrooms, sky dancers, physics and Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête. PS: We know the Björk video is from the 80...

In anticipation of the first YSLPLTY episode, Amelia and Alexandria introduce themselves, and try to figure out what a podcast is... where do they grow? Who made the first one? Is this one?? Spoiler alert: the Poddy is in the bag. Follow us @poetsliepodcast , check out poetslie.biz , and stay tuned NEXT WEEK for Episode 1!