Poetry For All

Finding Our Way Into Great Poems

We found 10 episodes of Poetry For All with the tag “love”.

Episode 12: James Merrill, Christmas Tree

December 2nd, 2020 | Season 1 | 21 mins 37 secs

20th century, advent/christmas, aging, body in pain, elegy, friendship, grief and loss, guest on the show, intimacy, lgbtqia month, love, science and medicine, visual poetry
Episode 4: Shakespeare, Sonnet 18

September 22nd, 2020 | Season 1 | 16 mins 12 secs

17th century, eros and desire, love, rhymed verse, sonnet, summer

In this episode we introduce listeners to one of the most resilient forms in English-language poetry: the sonnet. And we do it with one of the most famous sonnets Shakespeare wrote.