Poetry For All
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Displaying 3 items of Poetry For All with the tag "pantoum".
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Episode 99: Oliver de la Paz, Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns
October 15th, 2025 | Season 7 | 33 mins 3 secs
asian american literature, diaspora, exile, filipino american literature, immigrant experience, migration, pantoum, poetic form
In this third episode in our series on the pantoum, we read and discuss Oliver de la Paz's "Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns," a poem that draws its inspiration from a visual art object as well as the story of migration that shapes the poetic speaker's lived experience.
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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 97: Donald Justice, Pantoum of the Great Depression
September 17th, 2025 | Season 7 | 26 mins 46 secs
21st century, grief and loss, labor day, laborers, pantoum, repetition or refrain
This episode begins a three-part series on the pantoum and looks at how the repetitions work especially well for a poem that dwells incessantly in memories of the past, trying to recover, trying to move forward.