Poetry For All

Episode 12: James Merrill, Christmas Tree

December 2nd, 2020  |  Season 1  |  21 mins 37 secs

20th century, advent/christmas, aging, body in pain, elegy, friendship, grief and loss, guest on the show, intimacy, lgbtqia month, love, science and medicine, visual poetry

Episode 5: Claude McKay, "America"

September 29th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  14 mins 40 secs

20th century, anger, black history month, harlem renaissance, modernism, rhymed verse, social justice and advocacy, sonnet

In this episode, we discuss Claude McKay, an influential poet of the Harlem Renaissance, taking a close look at his incredible sonnet "America."

Episode 1: Seamus Heaney, Digging

August 31st, 2020  |  Season 1  |  14 mins 44 secs

20th century, ars poetica, free verse, laborers, wonder

We begin Poetry for All by teaching and talking about a great poem on poetry itself: Seamus Heaney's "Digging."