Poetry For All
Episodes
Episode 11: Alberto Ríos, When Giving Is All We Have
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we think with the inaugural state poet laureate of Arizona, Alberto Ríos, about the meaning of giving. Why do we give? What is givin...
Episode 10: Mary Jo Bang, The Head of a Dancer
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week Mary Jo Bang joins us! We learn about the Bauhaus movement and an influential photographer named Lucia Moholy, whose works were largely stol...
Episode 9: Anne Bradstreet, In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we read Anne Bradstreet's elegy for her grandchild Elizabeth and draw out the multiple voices (both faith and doubt, both grief and consolat...
Episode 8: Toi Derricotte, "The Minks"
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Carl Phillips joins us this week to take a close look at Toi Derricotte's "The Minks." Together we consider the art of narrative poetry, the movements...
Episode 7: John Donne, Holy Sonnet 14
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we look at one of John Donne's Holy Sonnets from the seventeenth century. This famous poem (#14, "Batter my heart") turns a poetic tradition...
Episode 6: Jen Bervin, Nets
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we learn about erasure poetry and poetic tradition by looking at Jen Bervin's incredible book NETS, composed of erasure poems created ...
Episode 5: Claude McKay, "America"
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss Claude McKay, an influential poet of the Harlem Renaissance, taking a close look at his incredible sonnet "America." For ...
Episode 4: Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we introduce listeners to one of the most resilient forms in English-language poetry: the sonnet. And we do it with one of the most fa...
Episode 3: Phillis Wheatley, On Being Brought from Africa to America
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To view the poem, please see: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45465/on-being-brought-from-africa-to-america To hear Cornelius Eady reading the ...
Episode 2: Emily Dickinson, Tell all the truth
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Full poem (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56824/tell-all-the-truth-but-tell-it-slant-1263): Tell all the truth but tell it slant — (1263) by...
Episode 1: Seamus Heaney, Digging
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we begin learning about poetry through Seamus Heaney's great poem "Digging." For the text of Heaney's poem, please see: https://www.p...