Poetry For All
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Displaying 9 items of Poetry For All with the tag "ars poetica".
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Episode 102: Phillis Levin, An Anthology of Rain
December 10th, 2025 | Season 7 | 27 mins 34 secs
ars poetica
In this episode, Phillis Levin reads "An Anthology of Rain," the title poem of her new book of poetry. She guides us through the philosophical underpinnings of her poem, how it informs the book as a whole, and how the surfaces of things can tell us so much about their substance.
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Episode 74: Diane Seuss, [The sonnet, like poverty]
July 26th, 2024 | Season 6 | 24 mins 22 secs
21st century, ars poetica, elegy, gratitude, grief and loss, labor day, laborers, repetition or refrain, sonnet
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.
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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 49: Lisel Mueller, When I am Asked
September 12th, 2022 | Season 5 | 19 mins 57 secs
20th century, ars poetica, elegy, free verse, grief and loss, repetition or refrain
In this episode, we closely read Lisel Mueller's "When I am Asked" in order to better understand grief as a deep source of artistic expression.
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Episode 47: Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
April 22nd, 2022 | Season 4 | 26 mins 39 secs
19th century, ars poetica, children, free verse, guest on the show, nature poetry, repetition or refrain, spirituality, wonder
In this episode, Christopher Hanlon joins us to discuss an excerpt from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. We discuss the poem's prophetic voice, its patterns of repetition, the connective tissue that binds his ideas and invites readers in, and the cultural context in which Whitman produced his work.
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Episode 33: Adrienne Rich, Power
November 10th, 2021 | Season 3 | 17 mins 21 secs
20th century, ars poetica, body in pain, free verse, guest on the show, lgbtqia month, science and medicine, social justice and advocacy, women's history month
This week, the poet and scholar Stephanie Burt joins us to discuss the extraordinary power of Adrienne Rich. We think through how the spacing and stanzas of a poem can draw out denials and divulgences, while also exploring the life and writing of Rich.
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Episode 27: Marianne Moore, Poetry
September 22nd, 2021 | Season 3 | 21 mins 11 secs
20th century, ars poetica, christianity, modernism, rhymed verse, women's history month
In this episode, we read and discuss the influential modernist poet Marianne Moore and her witty, wonderful poem called "Poetry," a classic ars poetica (a poem about writing poetry).
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Episode 2: Emily Dickinson, Tell all the truth
September 10th, 2020 | Season 1 | 14 mins 13 secs
19th century, ars poetica, rhymed verse, spirituality, surprise, women's history month
What does it mean to tell the truth "slant"? Is this a ballad, a hymn? What is "ars poetica" and is this an example? Join us for a discussion of this great, short, fun, rich poem by Dickinson.
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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."