Poetry For All
Finding Our Way Into Great Poems
Displaying Episode 21 - 24 of 24 in total of Poetry For All with the tag “wonder”.
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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 8: Toi Derricotte, "The Minks"
October 20th, 2020 | Season 1 | 20 mins 18 secs
21st century, black history month, free verse, guest on the show, narrative, surprise, wonder
This week, with special guest Carl Phillips, we take a close look at "The Minks" and consider the art of narrative poetry and the movements of a single-stanza poem.
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Episode 1: Seamus Heaney, Digging
August 31st, 2020 | Season 1 | 14 mins 44 secs
20th century, ars poetica, free verse, laborers, wonder
We begin Poetry for All by teaching and talking about a great poem on poetry itself: Seamus Heaney's "Digging."