Poetry For All
Finding Our Way Into Great Poems
Displaying items 1-10 of 16 in total of Poetry For All with the tag "anger".
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Episode 96: Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur
September 3rd, 2025 | Season 7 | 24 mins 23 secs
19th century, alliterative verse, anger, christianity, climate change, grief and loss, hope, rhymed verse, sonnet, wonder
Today we look at a sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins that dwells equally in the grandeur of God and the wreck made of earth. Hopkins wonders how these two aspects of our world could possibly relate, and he holds out hope for the dearest freshness deep down things.
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Episode 82: Sidney, Translation of Psalm 52
November 14th, 2024 | Season 6 | 26 mins 33 secs
16th century, anger, christianity, hope, poetry in translation, rhymed verse, social justice and advocacy, women's history month
Psalm 52 concerns a lying tyrant and God's impending judgment. Mary Sidney, who lived 1561-1621, was an extraordinary writer, editor, and literary patron. Like many talented writers of her time, she translated all the psalms. Here we talk about translation, early modern women's writing, religious engagements with politics, and the power of Psalm 52.
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Episode 69: Live with Marilyn Nelson!
February 11th, 2024 | Season 6 | 55 mins 17 secs
21st century, anger, ars poetica, black history month, children, guest on the show, poet laureate, sonnet, surprise, wonder
Our first live performance of the podcast, featuring Marilyn Nelson and a discussion or her amazing poem "How I Discovered Poetry."
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Episode 51: Martín Espada, Jumping Off the Mystic Tobin Bridge
October 10th, 2022 | Season 5 | 30 mins 20 secs
21st century, anger, city, guest on the show, hispanic heritage month, laborers, narrative, repetition or refrain, social justice and advocacy
In this episode, we talk with the 2021 winner of the National Book Award, Martín Espada, about narrative poetry, poetry of engagement, and the witness of poetry as a work of advocacy.
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Episode 48: Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
April 28th, 2022 | Season 4 | 21 mins 47 secs
21st century, anger, golden shovel, grief and loss, hope, joy, native american heritage month, poet laureate, social justice and advocacy, spirituality
In this episode, we examine The Golden Shovel form and discuss the idea of "survivance" through the work of Muscogee (Creek) poet Joy Harjo, the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States.
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Episode 42: Robert Hayden, Frederick Douglass
February 23rd, 2022 | Season 4 | 17 mins 58 secs
20th century, anger, black history month, blank verse, gratitude, hope, repetition or refrain, restlessness, social justice and advocacy, sonnet
In this episode, we offer a close reading of "Frederick Douglass," a poem in which Hayden channels the prophetic energies of his subject in order to imagine what freedom might one day mean.
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Episode 41: F.E.W. Harper, Learning to Read
February 16th, 2022 | Season 4 | 23 mins 27 secs
19th century, anger, black history month, guest on the show, narrative, social justice and advocacy
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a prolific writer and activist of the nineteenth century. In this episode, Professor Janaka Bowman Lewis joins us to discuss her power, influence, voice, and work. "Learning to Read" foregrounds the ballad style in a narrative poem designed to keep alive the memories of fighting for both literacy and liberation.
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Episode 39: Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear The Mask
February 2nd, 2022 | Season 4 | 22 mins 9 secs
19th century, anger, black history month, grief and loss, guest on the show, repetition or refrain, rhymed verse, rondeau, social justice and advocacy
This week, Rafia Zafar joins us to discuss "We Wear the Mask" by the great poet and writer Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906). Rafia leads us in a discussion of Dunbar's fame and influence while opening up broader themes of African American history and literature.
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Episode 34: Tracy K. Smith, Declaration
December 7th, 2021 | Season 3 | 23 mins 10 secs
21st century, anger, black history month, erasure, grief and loss, poet laureate, social justice and advocacy
In this episode, we discuss erasure poetry and its power to reveal hidden histories and redacted stories through Tracy K. Smith's erasure of the Declaration of Independence.
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Episode 28: Countee Cullen, Yet Do I Marvel
September 29th, 2021 | Season 3 | 24 mins 48 secs
20th century, anger, black history month, christianity, guest on the show, harlem renaissance, rhymed verse, social justice and advocacy, sonnet, surprise
Countee Cullen was a major voice of the Harlem Renaissance. Joined by the renowned cultural critic Gerald Early, we here examine together story of Countee Cullen and the astounding sonnet that opens his main collection of poetry, My Soul's High Song.