Poetry For All
Finding Our Way Into Great Poems
We found 10 episodes of Poetry For All with the tag “free verse”.
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Episode 70: Lauren Camp, Inner Planets
March 19th, 2024 | Season 6 | 28 mins 29 secs
21st century, free verse, nature poetry, night, poet laureate, wonder
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Episode 68: W.S. Merwin, To the New Year
January 18th, 2024 | Season 6 | 22 mins 48 secs
21st century, free verse, hope, nature poetry, new year’s day, ode, poet laureate, spirituality, surprise, winter, wonder
In the first episode of 2024, we read one of the great poets of the past century, W.S. Merwin, and his address to the new year, considering his attentiveness, his style, and his wondrous mood and mode of contemplation and surprise.
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Episode 67: Alex Dimitrov, Winter Solstice
December 18th, 2023 | Season 6 | 24 mins 27 secs
21st century, city, free verse, hope, intimacy, lgbtqia month, loneliness, night, winter
In this episode, we read and discuss a poem that provides a powerful meditation on the longest night of the year.
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Episode 61: Ada Limón, "The Raincoat"
May 11th, 2023 | Season 6 | 18 mins 34 secs
21st century, body in pain, children, free verse, gratitude, hispanic heritage month, love, mother's day, poet laureate, surprise, wonder
With her quality of attention and focus on vivid, specific images, Ada Limón brings us to a moment of surprising insight in "The Raincoat."
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Episode 60: Li-Young Lee, From Blossoms
May 2nd, 2023 | Season 5 | 19 mins 7 secs
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."
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Episode 58: Richie Hofmann, Things That Are Rare
February 27th, 2023 | Season 5 | 23 mins 57 secs
21st century, eros and desire, free verse, guest on the show, intimacy, lgbtqia month, night, sonnet
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Episode 55: Kay Ryan, Crib
December 19th, 2022 | Season 5 | 17 mins 17 secs
20th century, advent/christmas, free verse, lgbtqia month, poet laureate, rhymed verse, wonder
In this episode, we discuss Kay Ryan's "Crib," a brief poem that begins with an interest in the deep archaeology of language and shifts to a powerful meditation on theft, innocence, and guilt.
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Episode 54: Carl Phillips, To Autumn
November 21st, 2022 | Season 5 | 24 mins 47 secs
21st century, autumn, black history month, city, free verse, guest on the show, intimacy, lgbtqia month, nature poetry, night, ode, restlessness, spirituality
In this episode, we talk with David Baker about "To Autumn" by Carl Phillips, exploring the way Phillips masterfully achieves a sense of intimacy and restlessness in a lyric ode that tosses between two parts while incorporating the sonnet tradition.
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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.