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S2 Ep 4: Tracy K. Smith reads from 'Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body'
S2 Ep 4: Tracy K. Smith reads from 'Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body'

Listen to Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and educator Tracy K. Smith interpret the photography of RaMell Ross into a lyrical and uncanny text. Taking five images from ⁠Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body⁠ (2023), Smith’s poem complements photographs taken by Ross in Hale County, Alabama, the setting of his Academy Award-nominated documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018).
S2 Ep 3: Moyra Davey reads from 'The Shabbiness of Beauty'
S2 Ep 3: Moyra Davey reads from 'The Shabbiness of Beauty'

In this episode, artist Moyra Davey describes encountering Peter Hujar’s photographs through the archive. Reading from The Shabbiness of Beauty (2021), Davey focuses on Hujar’s lesser-known work of farm animals and babies, culminating in a thoughtful reflection on the artist’s legacy and the inherent mystery of photography.
S2 Ep 2: Ishion Hutchinson reads from 'Fugitive Tilts'
S2 Ep 2: Ishion Hutchinson reads from 'Fugitive Tilts'

Jamaican poet and essayist Ishion Hutchinson reads ‘Splash Crowns: On Donald Rodney’ from Fugitive Tilts (2025).
S2 Ep 1: Carmen Winant reads from 'Instructional Photography'
S2 Ep 1: Carmen Winant reads from 'Instructional Photography'

What can instructional photographs teach us about ways of seeing? This is the question asked by artist Carmen Winant in the introduction to her book Instructional Photography: Learning How to Live Now (2021).
Our podcast Thought Pieces is back
Our podcast Thought Pieces is back

Upcoming episodes include Moyra Davey on encountering Peter Hujar’s photographs through the archive, Ishion Hutchinson’s homage to the British artist Donald Rodney, Stephen Shore on the importance of the everyday, Tracy K. Smith’s poetic response to the photography of RaMell Ross and Amelia Abraham’s essay on the changing nature of sexual subcultures
Thought Pieces Ep.8: Ahndraya Parlato reads from 'Who is Changed and Who is Dead'
Thought Pieces Ep.8: Ahndraya Parlato reads from 'Who is Changed and Who is Dead'
In Ep. 8 of ‘Thought Pieces’, Ahndraya Parlato reads from her multi-faceted rumination on the contradictions and complexities of motherhood, 'Who is Changed and Who is Dead'. Drawing on her own experiences as both a parent and a child, Parlato strives to find clarity around the fundamental questions of parenthood, mortality, and gender. Are her contemporary fears any different than the fears felt by mothers throughout history? Which anxieties are specific to having female children? And how is motherhood itself a construction?