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Displaying 1 Episode of Poetry For All with the tag “new year’s day”.
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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.