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Length:
49 episodes
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Description

One poem. One guest. Each episode, Kamran Javadizadeh, a poetry critic and professor of English, talks to a different leading scholar of poetry about a single short poem that the guest has loved. You'll have a chance to see the poem from the expert's perspective—and also to think about some big questions: How do poems work? What can they make happen? How might they change our lives?
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Episodes1 - 10 of 49 episodes

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Huda Fakhreddine on Hiba Abu Nada ("Pull Yourself Together")

What can a poem do in the face of calamity? This was an extraordinary conversation. Hud...

90 minutes
May 13, 2024

Emily Wilson on Sappho ("Ode to Aphrodite")

This is the kind of conversation I dreamed about having when I began this podcast. Emil...

87 minutes
Mar 25, 2024

Robert Volpicelli on W. H. Auden ("In Memory of W. B. Yeats")

"Poetry," according to this episode's poem, "makes nothing happen." But as our guest, R...

112 minutes
Mar 11, 2024

Margaret Ronda on Walt Whitman ("This Compost")

How does life grow from death? When we taste a fruit, are we, in some sense, ingesting ...

109 minutes
Feb 26, 2024

Michelle A. Taylor on Patricia Lockwood ("The Ode on Grecian Urn")

What is a poem worth? What does beauty do to the person who wants it, or to the person ...

116 minutes
Feb 19, 2024

Sylvie Thode on Tim Dlugos ("The Far West")

How might a poem map the passage from life to death? Sylvie Thode joins the podcast to ...

92 minutes
Feb 12, 2024

Marisa Galvez on William IX ("The Song of Nothing")

For the first time in the run of this podcast (though certainly not the last!) today we...

63 minutes
Feb 05, 2024

Stephanie Burt on Allan Peterson ("I thought all life came from the alphabet")

Very few scholars have as much enthusiasm for poetry as Stephanie Burt, and so it was a...

83 minutes
Jan 22, 2024

Paul Fry on William Wordsworth ("A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal")

Some of the most profound insights I have ever had as a student of poetry occurred in t...

91 minutes
Jan 15, 2024

Keegan Cook Finberg on Harryette Mullen ("Dim Lady")

What kind of love do we find in comparison? Keegan Cook FInberg joins the podcast to di...

92 minutes
Jan 08, 2024