The Watering Hole Podcast

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The Watering Hole Podcast is a poetry review show hosted by poet laureates Jay Ward and Angelo Geter. Every episode, Jay and Angelo sit with recorded readings from two Fellows of The Watering Hole Poetry Organization, which cultivates writers of color across the South, and then do what poets do behind the scenes. They take the poems apart to understand how each one is built, how it is delivered, and how it leaves us moved and changed. This is close reading, out loud. Whether they are debating a poem's metaphors, how a poet uses their body during performance, or the traditions a poem is arguing with, our hosts break poetic craft down for the poetry-curious and the poetry-enthusiast alike. And because every episode holds two readings, the conversation rarely stays inside one poem. Jay and Angelo reach for other poets' work and find the theme running underneath two p