Beyond the Verse
Episodes
Answering Community Questions with Joe & Maiya
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of Beyond the Verse, the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Maiya and Joe close Season Three with a special Q&...
Writing Urban Landscapes in Ai Ogawa's 'The Man with the Saxophone'
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of Beyond the Verse, the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Maiya and Joe discuss Ai’s ‘The Man with the S...
The Ode Form: Keats, Neruda, Brontë & Boland
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of Beyond the Verse, the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Maiya and Joe take a deep dive into one of poetry’...
Faith and Femininity in Christina Rossetti's 'Remember'
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of Beyond the Verse, the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Maiya and Joe focus on Christina Rossetti’s ‘R...
Blood, Sweat & Song: Langston Hughes in Four Poems
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of “Beyond the Verse,” the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Maiya and Joe turn their attention to Langst...
'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner': Navigating Troubled Waters with Coleridge
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of “Beyond the Verse,” the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Maiya and Joe dive into Samuel Taylor Coleri...
'Our Casuarina Tree': Bridging Continents with Toro Dutt
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of “Beyond the Verse,” the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Maiya and Joe turn their attention to Toru D...
Illusions of Power in Robert Browning's 'My Last Duchess' - Behind the Curtain
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of “Beyond the Verse,” the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Maiya and Joe turn their attention to Robert...
Japanese Poetry: Delving into Haiku
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of “Beyond the Verse,” the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Joe and Maiya kick off Season 3 with a speci...
Beyond the Verse: A Year in Review
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of “Beyond the Verse,” the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Joe and Maiya celebrate the show’s one-yea...
Ancestral Rituals & Encroaching Modernity: Mamang Dai's 'Small Towns and the River'
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Beyond the Verse, the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, hosts Maiya and Joe explore 'Small Towns and the River...
Writing the Real World: Tennyson's 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Beyond the Verse, the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, hosts Joe and Maiya examine Alfred Lord Tennyson's ico...
The Makings of a Movement: The Metaphysical Poets
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of Beyond the Verse, the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Joe and Maiya delve into the strange brilliance of...
Beauty on the Wing: Keats' Ode to a Nightingale
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of Beyond the Verse, the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Joe and Maiya look into John Keats’s haunting me...
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night: Writing against Mortality with Dylan Thomas
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of Beyond the Verse, the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Joe and Maiya unpack Dylan Thomas’s iconic villa...
A Modernist Manifesto: Exploring T. S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of Beyond the Verse, the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Joe and Maya delve into T. S. Eliot’s groundbrea...
Resurrecting the Dead: Poetic Exorcisms in Sylvia Plath's 'Daddy' & 'Lady Lazarus'
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
TW: Discussions of suicideIn this week’s episode of Beyond the Verse, the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, hosts Joe and Maiya dive...
Reflecting on the War Years with Siegfried Sassoon (WWI Mini-Series)
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Beyond the Verse, the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, hosts Joe and Maiya conclude their mini-series on the poets...
Wilfred Owen and Changing Attitudes Towards the War (WWI Mini-Series)
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Beyond the Verse, the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, hosts Joe and Maiya continue their exploration of First Wor...
Rupert Brooke & The Romance of War (WWI Mini-Series)
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the opening episode of Season 2 of Beyond the Verse, the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, hosts Joe and Maiya launch into a three-...
Taylor Swift & Contemporary Poetry: Talking 'Invisible Strings' with Kristie Frederick-Daugherty
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this special bonus episode of Beyond the Verse, hosts Joe and Maiya take on Taylor Swift's incredible legacy, delving into an insightful conve...
Chinua Achebe's 'Love Cycle': Exploring Tensions and Harmonies in Post-Colonial Poetry
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of Beyond the Verse, the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, hosts Joe and Maiya delve into Chinua Achebe’s &...
'Because I Could Not Stop For Death': Emily Dickinson's Mediation on Mortality
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of Beyond the Verse, the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, hosts Joe and Maiya delve into the hauntingly sere...
'Ozymandias' and the Ruins of Power: Shelley's Vision of Empire
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of Beyond the Verse, the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, hosts Joe and Maiya delve into the world of Percy ...
From Innocence to Experience: William Blake's 'The Tyger'
09 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of Beyond the Verse, the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Joe and Maya explore William Blake’s 1794 poem, ...
Reflections of the Romantics: Wordsworth's 'I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud'
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of Beyond the Verse, the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Joe takes us on a journey through the world of Wil...
'How Do I Love Thee?': Love Letters from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of Beyond the Verse, the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Joe and Maiya delve into Elizabeth Barrett Brownin...
Wole Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation': Decoding Racial Satire
19 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of Beyond the Verse, the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Joe and Maya explore Wole Soyinka’s powerful poe...
Haunting the Canon: Poe's 'The Raven' and the Gothic Tradition
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of 'Beyond the Verse,' podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, hosts Joe and Maiya present a detailed exploration of Edgar ...
Contrasting Femininities: 'An Introduction' by Kamala Das
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of 'Beyond the Verse,' the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, podcast hosts Joe and Maiya delve into the poem...
Shakespeare's Sonnets: The Fair Youth and The Dark Lady
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of “Beyond the Verse,” the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Maiya and Joe delve into the depth and compl...
Tens Years of PoemAnalysis.com with Will, the Founder (and Poetry+ Questions)
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this milestone 10th episode of 'Beyond the Verse,' hosts Joe and Maiya welcome Will, the founder of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+ to share...
'The Second Coming': Yeats and the Apocalypse
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of "Beyond the Verse", brought to you by PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Joe and Maiya take a deep dive into William ...
Rudyard Kipling's 'If': Fatherhood, Masculinity and Legacy Through Time
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of “Beyond the Verse,” the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Joe and Maiya delve into Rudyard Kipling’s...
Searching for Sappho: 'The Anactoria Poem'
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On today's episode of Beyond the Verse, a poetry podcast brought to you by PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Maiya and Joe dive into the ancient Gree...
Poetry+ Question Time: Debunking Stereotypes, Poetic Movements, and More
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode of “Beyond the Verse,” the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, sees Joe and Maiya answering questions from ...
Inconsistent Miracles in Danez Smith's 'dear white america'
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode of “Beyond the Verse,” the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Joe and Maiya explore the poem ‘dear white...
The Spade, The Pen and The Gun: 'Digging' through the Past with Seamus Heaney
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode of “Beyond the Verse,” the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+, Joe and Maiya explore the poem 'Digg...
'The Road Not Taken': (Mis)Understanding Robert Frost
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I shall be telling this with a sigh / Somewhere ages and ages hence: / Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— / I took the one less traveled by, / And...
Maya Angelou's 'Still I Rise': Remaking, Recycling, and the Language of Erasure
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'You may write me down in history / with your bitter, twisted lies. / You may trod me in the very dirt. / But still, like dust, I'll rise.&a...
Journeying into Poetry: Answering Poetry+ User Questions
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the inaugural episode of “Beyond the Verse,” the official podcast of PoemAnalysis.com and Poetry+. In this first episode, Joe and Maiy...