Emotion Put Into Measure: Poetry Matters

By Alex&Richard

When our emotions lack words (or the reverse), maybe those of the greatest poets can aid us. This is our challenge. How can the poets help us today?... more

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The podcast currently has 35 episodes available.

Emotion Put Into Measure: Poetry Matters episodes:

June 23, 2020 The Civil Rights Movement: Dudley Randall's "Ballad of Birmingham"
In 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed in an act of racist terror. The four girls murdered were Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Carol Denise McNair.
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16min
June 19, 2020 James Baldwin "Staggerlee Wonders" Analysis
Folklore, Time, Lady History, and so much more. Our first layer of analysis, cause we'll have to come back to this poem a few times...
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41min
June 15, 2020 James Baldwin! "Stagger lee Wonders"(READING ONLY)
After 5 hours of recording, and so many poems left, Richard and Alex read the hell out of Baldwin's poem. Analysis to follow.
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30min
June 12, 2020 BLM! Etheridge Knight
Two brutally intense poems in this one. The lobotomized inmate and blues for a Mississippi black boy.
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21min
June 11, 2020 BLM! Audre Lorde's "Afterimages" and Emmett Louis Till
Afterimages: Emmett Louis Till & His Courageous Mother & How many mothers are Emmett's mothers? Also, maybe double jeopardy isn't the greatest law...
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27min
June 09, 2020 BLM! Harlem Renaissance: Claude McKay
In this episode on the Harlem Renaissance, we discuss a few poems by Claude McKay: "Birds of Prey", "If We Must Die" and "The White House". On our minds are topics like police brutality, whiteness, law that wages war on its citizens and racist exclusion from social/political spheres.
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19min
June 09, 2020 BLM! The Harlem Renaissance: Countee Cullen
Richard & Alex discuss a few Countee Cullen poems. Definitely puzzling...
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24min
June 05, 2020 BLM! The Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes
"Let America Be America Again" ...But when was it America? Whose dream is it and is it just a dream?
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34min
June 03, 2020 Black Lives Matter: Othello, Caliban X and the Negritude Movement
Othello and double consciousness, the Negritude Movement (Senghor, Cesaire), Fanon's "The Fact of Blackness" and Caliban in both Tempests!
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58min
June 02, 2020 Black Lives Matter: Language as a Battlefield
Richard and Alex introduce a new series and discuss their plans for upcoming episodes on Black poetry, Blackness in poetry and the history of Black resistance in poetry.
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12min

FAQs about Emotion Put Into Measure: Poetry Matters:

How many episodes does Emotion Put Into Measure: Poetry Matters have?

The podcast currently has 35 episodes available.