The poem is the memory: a conversation with William Corbett and Davy Knittle

PennSound Podcasts

In Episode 64 of PennSound podcasts, William Corbett visited the Kelly Writers House in October 2017 for a retrospective reading and conversation with Stan Mir in honor of the poet Michael Gizzi. During his visit, Corbett and Knittle had a conversation in the Wexler Studio about the work of New York School poet James Schuyler, whose Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler Corbett edited (Turtle Point Press, 2009). In their conversation, they discussed Schuyler's early poems, his methods of perception, his fondness for children, his attention to New York and its qualities of light from his apartment window, and Corbett's long career of teaching Schuyler's poetry to undergraduate students.