web01.fireside.fm Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:14:51 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Poetry For All - Episodes Tagged with “Asian American And Pacific Islander Month” https://poetryforall.fireside.fm/tags/asian%20american%20and%20pacific%20islander%20month Tue, 02 May 2023 09:00:00 -0400 This podcast is for those who already love poetry and for those who know very little about it. In this podcast, we read a poem, discuss it, see what makes it tick, learn how it works, grow from it, and then read it one more time. Introducing our brand new Poetry For All website: https://poetryforallpod.com! Please visit the new website to learn more about our guests, search for thematic episodes (ranging from Black History Month to the season of autumn), and subscribe to our newsletter. en-us episodic Finding Our Way Into Great Poems Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen This podcast is for those who already love poetry and for those who know very little about it. In this podcast, we read a poem, discuss it, see what makes it tick, learn how it works, grow from it, and then read it one more time. Introducing our brand new Poetry For All website: https://poetryforallpod.com! Please visit the new website to learn more about our guests, search for thematic episodes (ranging from Black History Month to the season of autumn), and subscribe to our newsletter. no poetry, poems, literature, teaching, education Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen vanengen@wustl.edu Episode 60: Li-Young Lee, From Blossoms https://poetryforall.fireside.fm/60 82015254-6db7-45ba-8a76-0c0134dd0c8d Tue, 02 May 2023 09:00:00 -0400 Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen full 5 Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen In this episode, we explore the poetry of joy in a world of shade and death, looking to sounds and repetitions while examining how "From Blossoms" speaks back to the poem that immediately precedes it in Lee's great book "Rose." 19:07 no In this episode, we explore the poetry of joy in a world of shade and death, looking to sounds and repetitions while examining how "From Blossoms" speaks back to the poem that immediately precedes it in Lee's great book Rose. For more on Li-Young Lee, see The Poetry Foundation here (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/li-young-lee). Thanks to BOA Editions for granting us permission to read Li-Young Lee's work on our podcast. "From Blossoms (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43012/from-blossoms)" and "The Weight of Sweetness (https://poets.org/poem/weight-sweetness)" originally appeared in Rose (https://www.boaeditions.org/products/rose) (BOA Editions, 1986). 20th century, asian american and pacific islander month, free verse, gratitude, joy, repetition or refrain, summer, wonder In this episode, we explore the poetry of joy in a world of shade and death, looking to sounds and repetitions while examining how "From Blossoms" speaks back to the poem that immediately precedes it in Lee's great book Rose.

For more on Li-Young Lee, see The Poetry Foundation here.

Thanks to BOA Editions for granting us permission to read Li-Young Lee's work on our podcast. "From Blossoms" and "The Weight of Sweetness" originally appeared in Rose (BOA Editions, 1986).

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For more on Li-Young Lee, see The Poetry Foundation here.

Thanks to BOA Editions for granting us permission to read Li-Young Lee's work on our podcast. "From Blossoms" and "The Weight of Sweetness" originally appeared in Rose (BOA Editions, 1986).

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