Poets Jason Morphew & Joe Wenderoth

About this episode

Erica Halverson interviews poets Jason Morphew and Joe Wenderoth about poetry and teaching.

This one's for all you poetry stans out there! On this episode, Erica sits down with two very singular gentlemen of letters, each of whom both teach and write poetry for a living. They discuss what poems are, what people are, and how to connect with students today in such a niche literary field. Jason Morphew is the author of the collections Eject City (Poets Wear Prada, 2024) and dead boy (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018) and the chapbooks What to deflect when you’re deflecting (Poets Wear Prada, 2017) and In Order to Commit Suicide (Floating Wolf Quarterly, 2012). His poems have been published in Seneca Review, Lana Turner, Bellevue Literary Review, and Smartish Pace, among other journals. Joe Wenderoth is an American writer, performer, teacher, and film-maker. He has published seven books: five books of poetry, an epistolary novel (Letters to Wendy's), and a book of essays. His work is widely anthologized, and has been published in collections and periodicals such as Harpers, The Nation, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, Best American Poetry 2007, Best American Essays 2008, Poetry 180, The Next American Essay, The Best American Poems: From Poe to Present, The Body Electric…

People in this episode

Host: Erica Halverson

Guests: Jason Morphew, Joe Wenderoth

Topics covered

• poetry
• education
• literary field
• teaching
• student connection

Keywords

• poetry
• teaching
• literature
• student engagement
• poets

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Eject City, dead boy, What to deflect when you’re deflecting, In Order to Commit Suicide, Letters to Wendy's, Best American Poetry 2007, Best American Essays 2008, The Best American Essays 2011

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