The Glimpse

Our second season of The Glimpse is here, featuring lively conversations between poets about their work and about poems that inspire them.

Our host for this season, Seán Hewitt, interviews poets connected to Ireland, including Irish, Northern Irish, and diasporic poets. Guest poets for Season 2 include Victoria Kennefick, Mícheál McCann, Nithy Kasa, Kit Fryatt, Martina Evans, Stephen Sexton, Gustav Parker Hibbett, and Jane Clarke. As in our first season, each guest chooses two poems to read and discuss: one they’ve written, and one by another poet.

The Glimpse is produced by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, with new episodes available each Tuesday starting in March 2025.

About the host: Seán Hewitt is a poet, memoirist, novelist, and literary critic. His award-winning books across genres include Tongues of Fire, All Down Darkness Wide, and the forthcoming Open, Heaven.

If you haven’t had the opportunity to check out our first season with host Camille Rankine, give it a listen. Rankine is an author, poet, and professor. Her books include Incorrect Merciful Impulses and the chapbook Slow Dance with Trip Wire. Her conversations with John Murillo, Ama Codjoe, Kaveh Akbar, Hafizah Geter, Chen Chen, Solmaz Sharif, Rachel McKibbens, and Omotara James are thoughtful, reverent, and spirited.

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Episodes

A Space for Feeling and Thinking

Jane Clarke joins Seán Hewitt for the final episode in this season of The Glimpse, discussing the power of writing with restraint, dry stone walls, and bringing queerness to the Irish pastoral tradition. Jane reads her poem “Spalls” and Natasha Trethewey’s “Incident.”

May 06, 2025•39 min•Season 2Ep. 8

A Chorus of Selves

Poet Gustav Parker Hibbett joins host Seán Hewitt for a chat about metamorphosis poems, trusting the rhythm of the body, and Joni Mitchell’s artistic betrayal. Parker reads their poem “Joni Mitchell dresses up as me (parts one and two)” and Donika Kelly’s poem “Love Poem: Chimera.”

Apr 29, 2025•34 min•Season 2Ep. 7

Are You with Me?

Poet Stephen Sexton speaks with host Seán Hewitt about the need for mystery, the exoticism of American English, and making meaning with the reader. Stephen reads his poem “The Capital of Heaven” and Oni Buchanan’s poem “The Only Yak in Batesville, Virginia.”

Apr 22, 2025•35 min•Season 2Ep. 6

The Language of the Cat

Poet Martina Evans and host Seán Hewitt take part in a wide-ranging conversation on the connection between place and voice, the pressure of living, sun worship, and, of course, cats. Martina reads her poem “The Day My Cat Spoke to Me” and Frank O’Hara’s “A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island.”

Apr 15, 2025•35 min•Season 2Ep. 5

A Dizzying Range of Meaning

Poet Kit Fryatt joins host Seán Hewitt for a conversation about erasure and rearrangement, poetic edgelord and chancer Ezra Pound, and poetry’s transitional moment between the medieval and modern eras. Kit reads his poem “bodyservant” and Thomas Wyatt’s “They fle from me.” Note: Thomas Wyatt's poem is presented in its original form.

Apr 08, 2025•36 min•Season 2Ep. 4

Where the Voice Wants to Stop

Poet Nithy Kasa speaks with host Seán Hewitt about carrying two countries, line breaks, and the taboo of black female sexuality in Congolese culture. Nithy reads her poem “My People Dance by Their Hips” and C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Ithaka.”

Apr 01, 2025•38 min•Season 2Ep. 3

A Note of Unscholarliness

Mícheál McCann joins host Seán Hewitt to chat about bringing queerness to the traditional Irish lament, writers as magpies and cheesecloths, and a brilliant, brave parenthesis placement. Mícheál reads his poem “To an Imagined Child” and Fiona Benson’s “Big Dipper Fireflies (Photinus pyralis) .”

Mar 25, 2025•34 min•Season 2Ep. 2

Something Has to Shatter

Poet Victoria Kennefick opens the second season of The Glimpse , joining host Seán Hewitt for a discussion of birth and rebirth, self-actualization, and the rewards of keeping your heart open. Kennefick reads her poem “The Ego is Crushed Like a Snail Shell Under a Stiletto and is Begrudgingly Divested of Its Own Smugness” and Carolyn Kizer’s poem “Heart’s Limbo.”

Mar 18, 2025•37 min•Season 2Ep. 1

The Glimpse Season Two Trailer

Our second season of The Glimpse is here, featuring lively conversations between poets about their work and about poems that inspire them. Our host for this season, Seán Hewitt , interviews poets connected to Ireland, including Irish, Northern Irish, and diasporic poets. Guest poets for Season 2 include Victoria Kennefick , Mícheál McCann, Nithy Kasa , Kit Fryatt , Martina Evans , Stephen Sexton , Gustav Parker Hibbett , and Jane Clarke . As in our first season, each guest chooses two poems to r...

Mar 11, 2025•2 min

This is a F*** You Poem

Poet Omotara James and host Camille Rankine explore the tension between vulnerability and confidence in poetry. They also delve into the language of pleasure and cruelty as well as the importance of subverting tropes.

Aug 06, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 8

Breaking the Silence with Solmaz Sharif

Poet Solmaz Sharif speaks about her relationship to silence, the cost of speaking up for people whose narratives have been silenced and June Jordan’s impact on her writing. WARNING: a poem in this episode describes violence that some may find disturbing.

Jul 30, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 7

A Poet, Not a Murderer with Rachel McKibbens

Poet Rachel McKibbens explores the role violence and has played in her life, her poetry and motherhood. She talks to host Camille Rankine about her poem "glutton" and the impact Brigit Pegeen Kelly's poem "Song" has had on her work. Warning: This episode contains some descriptions of violence that listeners may find disturbing.

Jul 24, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 6

Grief, Hope and Garbage with Chen Chen

Poet Chen Chen talks about petitioning the universe on multiple levels, the personification of grief and finding inspiration in a ketchup packet.

Jul 16, 2024•27 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Keeping the Knife Sharp with Hafizah Geter

Poet Hafizah Geter talks about the power of a good line break, her love of Carl Phillips and how memory can be affected by grief.

Jul 09, 2024•24 min•Season 1Ep. 4

The Keyhole Of Kaveh Akbar's Brain

Poet Kaveh Akbar talks about his obsession with mortality, adding a second language to poetry and the continual impact of his “desert island poem.”

Jul 02, 2024•30 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Heaven and Hell with Ama Codjoe

Poet Ama Codjoe talks to host Camille Rankine about her version of paradise, how dance influenced her writing, and why community can be crucial for poets. In this episode Codjoe reads her poem "Heaven as Olympic Spa" [Koreatown, Los Angeles} from her book Bluest Nude and talks about the appearance of two other famous poets in the poem, Gwendolyn Brooks and Wanda Coleman. In the second segment, Codjoe reads a favorite poem from Gwendolyn Brooks "my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell" and...

Jun 25, 2024•27 min•Season 1Ep. 2

A Reckoning with John Murillo

Poet John Murillo delves into reckoning, the definition of masculinity and how we fictionalize memory in his wide-ranging conversation with host Camille Rankine in the first episode of The Glimpse. Poems featured in this episode include Murillo's poem "On Confessionalism” and Etheridge Knight's poem “Cop-Out Session.”

Jun 18, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 1

The Glimpse (Trailer)

Welcome to The Glimpse, a new poetry podcast hosted by poet Camille Rankine. Our guest poets this season include John Murillo, Ama Codjoe, Kaveh Akbar, Hafizah Geter, Chen Chen, Solmaz Sharif, Rachel McKibbens, and Omotara James.

May 06, 2024•2 min

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