Poetry For All
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Displaying 3 items of Poetry For All with the tag "nature".
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Episode 98: Arthur Sze, Papyrus Pantoum
October 1st, 2025 | Season 7 | 28 mins 38 secs
asian american, climate change, ecopoetry, nature, pantoum, poet laureate
In this episode, we continue our three-part series on the pantoum, this time focusing on Arthur Sze's "Papyrus Pantoum." We consider the poem's collage-like qualities, Sze's ability to juxtapose abundance and scarcity, and the way he attends to both beauty and danger in the natural world.
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Episode 94: Sumer is icumen in
June 19th, 2025 | Season 6 | 25 mins 6 secs
13th century, joy, middle english, nature, round
In this episode, we offer a close reading of "Sumer is icumen in," a Middle English song that anticipates the abundant joys of summer.
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Episode 89: Pádraig Ó Tuama, excerpts from Kitchen Hymns
April 3rd, 2025 | Season 6 | 54 mins 50 secs
belief, christianity, doubt, lyric, mythology, nature
This episode was recorded on March 2, 2025 at the Phillis Wheatley Heritage Center in St. Louis., Missouri. In this conversation, Pádraig Ó Tuama reads several poems from Kitchen Hymns (Copper Canyon Press, 2024), his newest collection. We discuss subversive speech, belief and doubt, lyrical poetry, the psychology of poetic forms, and the power of ancient myths.