Poetry For All
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Displaying all 7 Episode of Poetry For All with the tag “word and image”.
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Episode 87: Monica Ong, Her Gaze
March 6th, 2025 | Season 6 | 35 mins 21 secs
children, ekphrasis, free verse, science, visual poetry, wonder, word and image
In this episode, Monica Ong joins us to discuss "Her Gaze," a visual poem that celebrates the achievements of astronomer Caroline Herschel. "Her Gaze" appears in Planetaria, Ong's new collection that merges archival materials with striking lyric poems.
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Episode 81: Niki Herd, The Stuff of Hollywood
October 31st, 2024 | Season 6 | 37 mins 37 secs
21st century, black history month, found poetry, free verse, guest on the show, social justice and advocacy, violence, word and image
In this episode, Niki Herd joins us to read and discuss an excerpt from The Stuff of Hollywood, a collection in which Herd experiments with a range of forms and procedures to examine the history of violence in America.
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Episode 80: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias
October 17th, 2024 | Season 6 | 21 mins 11 secs
19th century, sonnet, word and image
In this episode, we closely read Shelley's "Ozymandias," a poem written in a time of revolution and social protest. We focus on the poem's sonnet structure, its engagement with--and critique of--empire, its meditation on the bust of Ramses II, and its afterlife in an episode of Breaking Bad.
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Episode 79: W.H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts
October 3rd, 2024 | Season 6 | 39 mins 1 sec
20th century, ekphrasis, free verse, guest on the show, lgbtqia month, modernism, word and image
In this episode, Shankar Vendantam joins us to read and discuss "Musee des Beaux Arts," a poem that explores the ways in which humans become indifferent to the suffering of others.
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Episode 66: Katy Didden, The Priest Questions the Lava
November 21st, 2023 | Season 6 | 26 mins 10 secs
21st century, christianity, climate change, erasure, grief and loss, guest on the show, nature poetry, spirituality, visual poetry, word and image
In our discussion of "The Priest Questions the Lava," Katy describes her interest in the sentience of the natural world, her erasure of documentary texts, her interest in visual poetry, and the importance of poems that examine ethical and spiritual questions in an era of climate change.
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Episode 26: Brenda Cárdenas, "Our Lady of Sorrows"
September 15th, 2021 | Season 3 | 21 mins 44 secs
21st century, ekphrasis, erasure, free verse, grief and loss, guest on the show, hispanic heritage month, nature poetry, social justice and advocacy, spirituality, visual poetry, word and image
In this episode, Brenda Cárdenas guides us through a reading of "Our Lady of Sorrows," an ekphrastic poem that is inspired by the work of Ana Mendieta.
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Episode 10: Mary Jo Bang, The Head of a Dancer
November 10th, 2020 | Season 1 | 22 mins 22 secs
21st century, ekphrasis, free verse, guest on the show, intimacy, visual poetry, word and image
This week Mary Jo Bang joins us! We learn about the Bauhaus movement and a photographer named Lucia Moholy. And we look at both ekphrastic poetry (poetry about an image) and prose poetry (poetry with no line breaks).