app03 Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:18:51 +0000 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Poetry For All - Episodes Tagged with “Family” https://poetryforall.fireside.fm/tags/family Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:45:00 -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 116: Patricia Smith, "XXXL" https://poetryforall.fireside.fm/116 a10dabfb-6ef0-42d0-9e16-5a2f18d44534 Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:45:00 -0400 Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen full Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen In this episode, we continue our series on the villanelle with Patricia Smith's "XXXL." In this poem, Smith uses the constraints of the villanelle form to create a powerful portrait of familial love. 26:51 no <p>In this episode, we continue our series on the villanelle with Patricia Smith's "XXXL." In this poem, Smith uses the constraints of the villanelle form to create a powerful portrait of familial love. </p> <p>Patricia Smith is the author of numerous collections of poetry, a winner of the National Book Award for <em><a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Intentions-of-Thunder/Patricia-Smith/9781668055731" rel="nofollow noopener">The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems</a></em> (Scribner, 2025), and a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts.</p> african american, family, love, refrain, repetition, twenty-first century, villanelle In this episode, we continue our series on the villanelle with Patricia Smith's "XXXL." In this poem, Smith uses the constraints of the villanelle form to create a powerful portrait of familial love.

Patricia Smith is the author of numerous collections of poetry, a winner of the National Book Award for The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems (Scribner, 2025), and a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts.

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Patricia Smith is the author of numerous collections of poetry, a winner of the National Book Award for The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems (Scribner, 2025), and a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts.

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