In this episode, we read the titular poem from Schultz's Pulitzer prize-winning Failure.
In this extra-long episode, we take on this epic poem by Bob Dylan.
In celebration of National Poetry Month, we explore one of Olivia Gatwood's odes.
In this episode, we will read A Perfect Mess by Mary Karr and speak briefly about who she is and why she's interesting.
In this episode we welcome the beginning of fall with Peter Everwine’s beautiful and contemplative dawn song.
Let’s explore one of Pablo Neruda’s most famous love poems. In this episode, I am joined by guest reader Otto Martinez to take a look at the poem in both English and Spanish. This is the 17th poem in One Hundred Love Sonnets, a collection inspired by and dedicated to his wife Matilde.
In the first episode of the new year, we will take a look at the Orphic myth and the mysterious connection between D. H Lawrence and his strangest of strange companions — H.D. This poem echos the idea that in order to be truly good something has to be just a little bit rotten.
Let’s celebrate Christmas with one of Robert Frost’s most loved poems. After such a tough year, wouldn’t it be nice to get away from Earth for a while?
Let’s celebrate Halloween with one more poem from our prince of darkness, Edgar Allen Poe. In this episode, we explore the beautiful ballad Annabel Lee and Poe’s Poetic Principle.
In this extra-special, extra-long episode we explore T.S. Eliot’s famous love song. This poem continues with the horror theme and begins with an epigraph, or six-line quotation, in the original Italian from Canto 27 of Dante’s Inferno. References to Dante pop-up a lot in Eliot’s work. The epigraph hints that the poem that follows is about to describe some type of hell.
Enjoy Poe's October themed poem about the loss of love. Edgar Allen Poe is perhaps most famous for his expertise in building dramatic tension and the macabre subject matter of his short stories and poems. Equally remarkable are the poetic principles he helped form and the “art for art’s sake” movement that he inspired.
Take five minutes to enjoy one of the earliest Imagist poems by H.D and to learn about one of America's most avant-garde poets.
“There’s a hell of a good universe next door, lets go.”
Take five minutes to enjoy one of the most famous poems by Maya Angelou, and to learn a little about one of America's favorite poets.
The poetic I of Song of Myself connects with readers across time and space, and asserts Whitman’s belief that through poetry we pass on humankind’s greatest wisdom.
Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.
For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it.
The greenhouse is my symbol for the whole of life, a womb, a heaven on earth.
And you are quiet like the garden, And white like the alyssum flowers, And beautiful as the silent sparks of the fireflies.