{"id":144025,"date":"2020-04-01T13:20:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T17:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=144025"},"modified":"2020-04-02T16:55:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T20:55:40","slug":"poets-on-couches-natalie-shapero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/04\/01\/poets-on-couches-natalie-shapero\/","title":{"rendered":"Poets on Couches: Natalie Shapero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/natalie-shapero2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-144026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/natalie-shapero2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/natalie-shapero2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/natalie-shapero2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/natalie-shapero2-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>In this series of videograms, poets read and discuss the poems getting them through these strange times\u2014broadcasting straight from their couches to yours. These readings bring intimacy into our spaces of isolation, both through the affinity of poetry and through the warmth of being able to speak to each other across the distances.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9KH5wn3O2Vw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><main class=\"article-body blog-body\"><\/main><main class=\"article-body blog-body\"><span id=\"more-143964\"><\/span>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/7540\/crash-kay-ryan\">Crash<\/a>\u201d<br \/>\nby Kay Ryan<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 151 (Summer 1999)<\/em><\/main>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Slip is one<br \/>\nlaw of crash<br \/>\namong dozens.<\/p>\n<p>There is also<br \/>\nshift\u2014<br \/>\nmoving a<br \/>\ngranite lozenge<br \/>\nto the left<br \/>\na little,<br \/>\nsending down<br \/>\na cliff.<\/p>\n<p>Also toggles:<br \/>\nthe idle flip<br \/>\nthat trips<br \/>\nthe rails<br \/>\ntrains travel.<\/p>\n<p>No act<br \/>\nor refusal<br \/>\nto act, no<br \/>\nspecial grip<br \/>\nor triple lock<br \/>\nor brake stops<\/p>\n<p>crash: crash<br \/>\nquickens<br \/>\non resistance<br \/>\nlike a legal system<br \/>\nout of Dickens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Natalie Shapero is the author of the poetry collections\u00a0<\/em>Hard Child <em>and<\/em>\u00a0No Object<em>. 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