app02 Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:10:51 +0000 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Poetry For All - Episodes Tagged with “Villanelle” https://poetryforall.fireside.fm/tags/villanelle Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:45:00 -0400 This podcast is for those who already love poetry and for those who know very little about it. In this podcast, we read a poem, discuss it, see what makes it tick, learn how it works, grow from it, and then read it one more time. Introducing our brand new Poetry For All website: https://poetryforallpod.com! Please visit the new website to learn more about our guests, search for thematic episodes (ranging from Black History Month to the season of autumn), and subscribe to our newsletter. en-us episodic Finding Our Way Into Great Poems Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen This podcast is for those who already love poetry and for those who know very little about it. In this podcast, we read a poem, discuss it, see what makes it tick, learn how it works, grow from it, and then read it one more time. Introducing our brand new Poetry For All website: https://poetryforallpod.com! Please visit the new website to learn more about our guests, search for thematic episodes (ranging from Black History Month to the season of autumn), and subscribe to our newsletter. no poetry, poems, literature, teaching, education Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen vanengen@wustl.edu Episode 116: Patricia Smith, "XXXL" https://poetryforall.fireside.fm/116 a10dabfb-6ef0-42d0-9e16-5a2f18d44534 Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:45:00 -0400 Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen full Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen In this episode, we continue our series on the villanelle with Patricia Smith's "XXXL." In this poem, Smith uses the constraints of the villanelle form to create a powerful portrait of familial love. 26:51 no <p>In this episode, we continue our series on the villanelle with Patricia Smith's "XXXL." In this poem, Smith uses the constraints of the villanelle form to create a powerful portrait of familial love. </p> <p>Patricia Smith is the author of numerous collections of poetry, a winner of the National Book Award for <em><a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Intentions-of-Thunder/Patricia-Smith/9781668055731" rel="nofollow noopener">The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems</a></em> (Scribner, 2025), and a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts. </p> african american, family, love, refrain, repetition, twenty-first century, villanelle In this episode, we continue our series on the villanelle with Patricia Smith's "XXXL." In this poem, Smith uses the constraints of the villanelle form to create a powerful portrait of familial love.

Patricia Smith is the author of numerous collections of poetry, a winner of the National Book Award for The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems (Scribner, 2025), and a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts.

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Patricia Smith is the author of numerous collections of poetry, a winner of the National Book Award for The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems (Scribner, 2025), and a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts.

]]> Episode 115: A.E. Stallings, Burned https://poetryforall.fireside.fm/115 744f40fc-35b4-4017-b2ca-1a7c4ee4bfb0 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400 Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen full 9 Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen In this episode, we continue our villanelle series with the incredible formalist poet A.E. Stallings. 22:18 no <p>In this episode, we continue our villanelle series with the incredible formalist poet A.E. Stallings. Every form begs for a bending of the rules, sometimes in small ways, sometimes in big ways. We look here at how slight bends in the rules bring home the poem.</p> <p>For more on A.E. Stallings, see her biography at <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ae-stallings" rel="nofollow noopener">The Poetry Foundation</a>.</p> <p>Thank you to Northwestern University Press for permission to read the poem. This poem comes from A.E. Stallings' remarkable collection of poems titled <a href="https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810165779/olives/" rel="nofollow noopener"><em>Olives</em></a>. We encourage you to check it out.</p> <p>For another great villanelle of Stallings that is available online, see <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/153195/daedal" rel="nofollow noopener">Daedal</a>.</p> 21st century, villanelle, elegy, repetition or refrain, grief and loss In this episode, we continue our villanelle series with the incredible formalist poet A.E. Stallings. Every form begs for a bending of the rules, sometimes in small ways, sometimes in big ways. We look here at how slight bends in the rules bring home the poem.

For more on A.E. Stallings, see her biography at The Poetry Foundation.

Thank you to Northwestern University Press for permission to read the poem. This poem comes from A.E. Stallings' remarkable collection of poems titled Olives. We encourage you to check it out.

For another great villanelle of Stallings that is available online, see Daedal.

]]> In this episode, we continue our villanelle series with the incredible formalist poet A.E. Stallings. Every form begs for a bending of the rules, sometimes in small ways, sometimes in big ways. We look here at how slight bends in the rules bring home the poem.

For more on A.E. Stallings, see her biography at The Poetry Foundation.

Thank you to Northwestern University Press for permission to read the poem. This poem comes from A.E. Stallings' remarkable collection of poems titled Olives. We encourage you to check it out.

For another great villanelle of Stallings that is available online, see Daedal.

]]> Episode 114: Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night https://poetryforall.fireside.fm/114 87c89d7e-e2b3-46f0-9330-da16e0f7db32 Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:00:00 -0400 Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen full 9 Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen In this episode, we introduce the first villanelle in our three-part series on that poetic form. We begin with Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," a poem that attempts to stave off the inevitability of mortality. 26:40 no <p>In this episode, we introduce the first villanelle in our three-part series on that poetic form. We begin with Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," a poem that attempts to stave off the inevitability of mortality. </p> <p>To learn more about Dylan Thomas, visit the <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/dylan-thomas" rel="nofollow noopener">Poetry Foundation</a>.</p> villanelle, twentieth century, elegy, repetition, refrain, grief and loss In this episode, we introduce the first villanelle in our three-part series on that poetic form. We begin with Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," a poem that attempts to stave off the inevitability of mortality.

To learn more about Dylan Thomas, visit the Poetry Foundation.

]]> In this episode, we introduce the first villanelle in our three-part series on that poetic form. We begin with Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," a poem that attempts to stave off the inevitability of mortality.

To learn more about Dylan Thomas, visit the Poetry Foundation.

]]> Episode 29: Elizabeth Bishop, One Art https://poetryforall.fireside.fm/29 6bd17207-fdaf-403e-9e55-7b64b17ceed3 Wed, 06 Oct 2021 10:00:00 -0400 Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen full 3 Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen 25:16 no <p>Elizabeth Bishop was one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and "One Art" is certainly one of the greatest villanelles. In this episode, we talk about the poetic form and its constraints. We also draw upon recent scholarship that has revealed a great deal about Elizabeth Bishop's life and work in order to understand the power of poetic constraint. </p> <p>Click here to read "One Art": <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-art" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-art</a></p> <p>For more about Elizabeth Bishop's life and the cultural context that informed her work, read Megan Marshall's <em><a href="https://www.hmhbooks.com/shop/books/elizabeth-bishop/9781328745637" rel="nofollow noopener">Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast</a></em>.</p> <p>To learn more about the correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, read <em><a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374531898" rel="nofollow noopener">Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell</a></em>, edited by Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton.</p> <p>“One Art” from POEMS by Elizabeth Bishop. Copyright © 2011 by The Alice H. Methfessel Trust. Publisher's Note and compilation copyright © 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. </p> 20th century, grief and loss, lgbtqia month, love, rhymed verse, villanelle, women's history month Elizabeth Bishop was one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and "One Art" is certainly one of the greatest villanelles. In this episode, we talk about the poetic form and its constraints. We also draw upon recent scholarship that has revealed a great deal about Elizabeth Bishop's life and work in order to understand the power of poetic constraint.

Click here to read "One Art": https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-art

For more about Elizabeth Bishop's life and the cultural context that informed her work, read Megan Marshall's Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast.

To learn more about the correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, read Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, edited by Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton.

“One Art” from POEMS by Elizabeth Bishop. Copyright © 2011 by The Alice H. Methfessel Trust. Publisher's Note and compilation copyright © 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

]]> Elizabeth Bishop was one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and "One Art" is certainly one of the greatest villanelles. In this episode, we talk about the poetic form and its constraints. We also draw upon recent scholarship that has revealed a great deal about Elizabeth Bishop's life and work in order to understand the power of poetic constraint.

Click here to read "One Art": https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-art

For more about Elizabeth Bishop's life and the cultural context that informed her work, read Megan Marshall's Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast.

To learn more about the correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, read Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, edited by Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton.

“One Art” from POEMS by Elizabeth Bishop. Copyright © 2011 by The Alice H. Methfessel Trust. Publisher's Note and compilation copyright © 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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