web01.fireside.fm Sun, 10 May 2026 21:31:35 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Poetry For All - Episodes Tagged with “Blank Verse” https://poetryforall.fireside.fm/tags/blank%20verse Mon, 26 Sep 2022 10:00:00 -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 50: Rafael Campo, Primary Care https://poetryforall.fireside.fm/50 54ff6502-605c-4e66-8030-40d7e5b6cd77 Mon, 26 Sep 2022 10:00:00 -0400 Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen full 5 Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen In this episode, we discuss how Rafael Campo, a practicing physician, uses blank verse to explore the experience of illness and suffering. 22:24 no <p>In this episode, we discuss how Rafael Campo, a practicing physician, uses blank verse to explore the experience of illness and suffering.</p> <p>Thanks to the Georges Borchardt, Inc. for granting us permission to read this poem. You can find "Primary Care" in <em>Alternative Medicine</em> (Duke University Press, 2013). </p> 21st century, aging, blank verse, body in pain, gratitude, hispanic heritage month, repetition or refrain, science and medicine, spirituality, wonder In this episode, we discuss how Rafael Campo, a practicing physician, uses blank verse to explore the experience of illness and suffering.

Thanks to the Georges Borchardt, Inc. for granting us permission to read this poem. You can find "Primary Care" in Alternative Medicine (Duke University Press, 2013).

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Thanks to the Georges Borchardt, Inc. for granting us permission to read this poem. You can find "Primary Care" in Alternative Medicine (Duke University Press, 2013).

Links:

]]> Episode 42: Robert Hayden, Frederick Douglass https://poetryforall.fireside.fm/42 8983eed6-67c2-48cf-bd0f-c6e9ce371d1c Wed, 23 Feb 2022 16:00:00 -0500 Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen full 4 Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen 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. 17:58 no <p>To read Hayden's poem, <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46460/frederick-douglass" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">click here</a>.</p> <p>Thanks to W.W. Norton &amp; Company for granting us permission to read this poem. Reginald Dwayne Betts's introduction to the <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9780871406798/about-author" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><em>Collected Poems of Robert Hayden</em></a> is very moving, as is the afterword by Arnold Rampersad.</p> <p>For a series of insightful observations about Hayden's sonnet, see Ross Gay, Aracelis Girmay, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Patrick Rosal, and Ira Sadoff, "Poets Respond: A Discussion of "Frederick Douglass" by Robert Hayden." <em>American Poetry Review</em>, 38.3 (2009): 25-28.</p> <p>For a helpful close reading of the poem, see Fred M. Fetrow, "Robert Hayden's 'Frederick Douglass': Form and Meaning in a Modern Sonnet." <em>CLA Journal</em> 17.1 (September 1973): 78-84. </p> 20th century, anger, black history month, blank verse, gratitude, hope, repetition or refrain, restlessness, social justice and advocacy, sonnet To read Hayden's poem, click here.

Thanks to W.W. Norton & Company for granting us permission to read this poem. Reginald Dwayne Betts's introduction to the Collected Poems of Robert Hayden is very moving, as is the afterword by Arnold Rampersad.

For a series of insightful observations about Hayden's sonnet, see Ross Gay, Aracelis Girmay, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Patrick Rosal, and Ira Sadoff, "Poets Respond: A Discussion of "Frederick Douglass" by Robert Hayden." American Poetry Review, 38.3 (2009): 25-28.

For a helpful close reading of the poem, see Fred M. Fetrow, "Robert Hayden's 'Frederick Douglass': Form and Meaning in a Modern Sonnet." CLA Journal 17.1 (September 1973): 78-84.

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Thanks to W.W. Norton & Company for granting us permission to read this poem. Reginald Dwayne Betts's introduction to the Collected Poems of Robert Hayden is very moving, as is the afterword by Arnold Rampersad.

For a series of insightful observations about Hayden's sonnet, see Ross Gay, Aracelis Girmay, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Patrick Rosal, and Ira Sadoff, "Poets Respond: A Discussion of "Frederick Douglass" by Robert Hayden." American Poetry Review, 38.3 (2009): 25-28.

For a helpful close reading of the poem, see Fred M. Fetrow, "Robert Hayden's 'Frederick Douglass': Form and Meaning in a Modern Sonnet." CLA Journal 17.1 (September 1973): 78-84.

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