DiscoverPoetry For AllEpisode 74: Diane Seuss, [The sonnet, like poverty]
Episode 74: Diane Seuss, [The sonnet, like poverty]

Episode 74: Diane Seuss, [The sonnet, like poverty]

Update: 2024-07-26
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This remarkable sonnet dives into issues of poverty, poetry, and grief. We talk about the pedagogy of constraint, while exploring the achievements, including the hardbitten gratitude, embedded in this poem.



Thank you to Graywolf Press for permission to read and discuss the poem. Diane Seuss's "[The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do]" was published in her collection titled frank: sonnets (Graywolf, 2021).



See the work (and buy it!) here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/frank-sonnets



For more on Diane Seuss, see here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/diane-seuss



For more on the Sealey Challenge, see here: https://www.thesealeychallenge.com/

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Episode 74: Diane Seuss, [The sonnet, like poverty]

Episode 74: Diane Seuss, [The sonnet, like poverty]

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