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Displaying 9 items of Poetry For All with the tag "ekphrasis".
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Episode 111: Katie Ford, The Shroud of Turin
July 28th, 2026 | Season 8 | 26 mins 33 secs
21st century, christianity, ekphrasis, eros and desire, free verse, grief and loss, spirituality
In this episode, Laura Evers (who has done so much work for this podcast), joins us to discuss the poem that drew her into poetry. We explore Katie Ford's haunting poem of longing, absence, and the desire to know, and we examine how her grammatical choices (including the absence of punctuation or breath marks) enhance the experience of reading and rereading the poem.
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Episode 108: Joanne Diaz, The Face
April 15th, 2026 | Season 8 | 25 mins 45 secs
21st century, aging, ekphrasis, free verse, grief and loss, hope
In a special episode, we celebrate the release of Joanne Diaz's latest book, Electric Dress, by reading "The Face," a poem of double ekphrasis that reflects on the hope of tomorrow in the losses of today.
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Episode 91: Joanne Diaz, Two Emergencies
April 24th, 2025 | Season 6 | 24 mins 40 secs
21st century, ekphrasis, free verse, laborers, narrative, violence
In this episode, Katy Didden and Abram Van Engen discuss the extraordinary leaps, narrative disjunctions, and temporal frames that fill Diaz's extraordinary ekphrastic poem, a reflection on Bruegel's painting, "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" written in conversation with W.H. Auden's poem "Musée des Beaux Arts."
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Episode 87: Monica Ong, Her Gaze
March 6th, 2025 | Season 6 | 35 mins 21 secs
children, ekphrasis, free verse, science, visual poetry, wonder, word and image
In this episode, Monica Ong joins us to discuss "Her Gaze," a visual poem that celebrates the achievements of astronomer Caroline Herschel. "Her Gaze" appears in Planetaria, Ong's new collection that merges archival materials with striking lyric poems.
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Episode 85: Jacob Stratman, To Momento Mori
January 21st, 2025 | Season 6 | 20 mins 20 secs
ekphrasis
In this episode, we read and discuss a poem that takes its inspiration from a painting by Andrew Wyeth. The poem provides a meditation on what we perceive and interpret when we look at a painting, and at one another.
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Episode 79: W.H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts
October 3rd, 2024 | Season 6 | 39 mins 1 sec
20th century, ekphrasis, free verse, guest on the show, lgbtqia month, modernism, word and image
In this episode, Shankar Vendantam joins us to read and discuss "Musee des Beaux Arts," a poem that explores the ways in which humans become indifferent to the suffering of others.
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Episode 77: Jennifer Grotz, The Conversion of Paul
September 5th, 2024 | Season 6 | 26 mins 14 secs
21st century, body in pain, christianity, ekphrasis, free verse, friendship, grief and loss, narrative
Poetry engages in conversation. Today, we explore a long, beautiful, narrative poem weaving together the work of fellow poets while looking carefully at a Caravaggio painting, all reflecting on illness, death, and friendship.
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Episode 26: Brenda Cárdenas, "Our Lady of Sorrows"
September 15th, 2021 | Season 3 | 21 mins 44 secs
21st century, ekphrasis, erasure, free verse, grief and loss, guest on the show, hispanic heritage month, nature poetry, social justice and advocacy, spirituality, visual poetry, word and image
In this episode, Brenda Cárdenas guides us through a reading of "Our Lady of Sorrows," an ekphrastic poem that is inspired by the work of Ana Mendieta.
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Episode 10: Mary Jo Bang, The Head of a Dancer
November 10th, 2020 | Season 1 | 22 mins 22 secs
21st century, ekphrasis, free verse, guest on the show, intimacy, visual poetry, word and image
This week Mary Jo Bang joins us! We learn about the Bauhaus movement and a photographer named Lucia Moholy. And we look at both ekphrastic poetry (poetry about an image) and prose poetry (poetry with no line breaks).