O, Word?

O, Word? is a podcast interested in talking to poets about the craft choices they come back to, the processes that make them tick, and the work that keeps them writing. The podcast's companion series, e·pon·y·mous, focuses on the title poem of a poet's collection and diving deeper into the background that brought the work into the world. If you're interested in dissecting a poet's personal poetics, this podcast is for you! oword.deesoulpoetry.com

O, Word? is a arts podcast hosted by DeeSoul Carson, with 13 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  e·pon·y·mous | "YEET!" by jason b. crawford

  Jun 1, 202630 minS0

  <p>A conversation with jason b. crawford about their collection YEET!, finding a safe home for Black people, and how we write ourselves alive</p><p>jason b. crawford (He/They), born in Washington, DC and raised in Lansing, Michigan, is the author of Year of the Unicorn Kidz. Their second collection, YEET! is the winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize and was published Fall 2025. At the time of this recording, it was also a finalist for the 2026 Lammy Awards from Lambda Literary. They have been published in POETRY Magazine, Academy of American Poets, Cincinnati Review, Beloit Poetry...

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  O, Nonce!

  May 11, 202639 minS2026

  <p>A conversation with Nick Martino about Nonce Forms, The Possibilities of Visual Poetics, and Writing Towards Surprise</p><p>Nick Martino is a poet and teacher from Milwaukee. His debut poetry collection, Scrap Book (from Alice James Books) won the 2024 Alice James Editors’ Choice Award and will be published in June of 2026. His poems have been published in Best New Poets, Narrative, Ninth Letter, The Boston Review, and The Southern Review, among others. A finalist for the 2024 Sewanee Review Poetry Prize, he holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine where he received the 2022 Excellence in Poetry Prize. He...

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  O, Joy!

  Apr 27, 202633 minS2026

  <p>A conversation with Jonny Teklit about Joy as Poetic Practice, Poetic Influences, and How Joy Can Push Us Towards Action</p><p>Jonny Teklit is an award-winning poet who has had work appear in The Academy of American Poets, The New Yorker, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. His poems have been anthologized in Poemhood: Our Black Revival and The Gift of Animals: Poems on Love, Loss, and Connection. He is currently working on his debut collection.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to O, Word? at oword.deesoulpoetry.com/subscribe

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  e·pon·y·mous | "Black Bell" by Alison C. Rollins

  Apr 13, 202634 minS2026

  <p>Talking with Alison C. Rollins about Black Bell, the poetics of referentiality, and performance as mode of collective meaning-making</p><p>Alison C. Rollins is the author of the poetry collections Black Bell and Library of Small Catastrophes. Rollins holds an MFA from Brown University and is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was awarded a 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship and named a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in 2019. Her work, across genres, has appeared in American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere.</p> <br/><br/>...

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  O, Prosody!

  Mar 30, 202633 minS2026

  <p>A conversation with Tariq Thompson about Rhythm, Hip Hop as a Guiding Force, and the Muscularity of Language</p><p>Tariq Thompson is a poet and educator from Memphis, Tennessee. He’s the author of the chapbook LONE LILY (from Sunset Press, 2021). His poetry has appeared in the American Poetry Review, The Adroit Journal, Split Lip Magazine and elsewhere. Thompson was a finalist for a 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. He holds an MFA in poetry from New York University. You can find more of his work at tariqthompson.com.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to O...

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