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Displaying 4 items of Poetry For All with the tag "thanksgiving".
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Episode 103: Dinah Maria Craik, Friendship
January 16th, 2026 | Season 8 | 14 mins 48 secs
19th century, free verse, friendship, gratitude, joy, love, thanksgiving, women's history month
In a short, simple, well-loved poem, Dinah Maria Craik names one aspect of friendship that many have found true. A great way to start the new year and launch the season. Find a friend and listen in.
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Episode 18: Jenny Johnson, Dappled Things
March 2nd, 2021 | Season 2 | 27 mins 25 secs
21st century, gratitude, guest on the show, joy, lgbtqia month, nature poetry, thanksgiving, wonder
In this episode, Jenny Johnson discusses the sources of inspiration for her poem "Dappled Things," her love of Gerard Manley Hopkins, and the incredible diversity--and fragility--of the natural world.
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Episode 17: Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty
February 23rd, 2021 | Season 2 | 14 mins 35 secs
19th century, alliterative verse, gratitude, joy, nature poetry, rhymed verse, sonnet, thanksgiving, wonder
In this extraordinary curtal sonnet (a shortened sonnet, curtailed), Hopkins packs immense power. He uses the shortened form to heighten the emotion, drawing himself up short in the end with nothing else that can be said other than "Praise him." This week, we walk through these short lines and unfold some of the ways that Hopkins works.
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Episode 11: Alberto Ríos, When Giving Is All We Have
November 17th, 2020 | Season 1 | 15 mins 46 secs
21st century, free verse, friendship, gratitude, hispanic heritage month, joy, repetition or refrain, thanksgiving
In this episode, we read and discuss a poem about giving by Alberto Ríos, the inaugural state poet laureate of Arizona.