Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Episode 92: Dorianne Laux, Singer
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Episode 92: Dorianne Laux, Singer
In this episode, we read and discuss "Singer," a narrative poem that celebrates the poetic speaker's mother in all of her complexity.
Dorianne Laux is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Life on Earth, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is also the author of a new craft book titled Finger Exercises for Poets.
“Singer” appears in LIFE ON EARTH by Dorianne Laux. Copyright © 2024 by Dorianne Laux. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
View all episodes
By Joanne Diaz and Abram Van Engen
4.9
171171 ratings
In this episode, we read and discuss "Singer," a narrative poem that celebrates the poetic speaker's mother in all of her complexity.
Dorianne Laux is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Life on Earth, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is also the author of a new craft book titled Finger Exercises for Poets.
“Singer” appears in LIFE ON EARTH by Dorianne Laux. Copyright © 2024 by Dorianne Laux. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
More shows like Poetry For All
View all
Fresh Air
38,478 Listeners
Hidden Brain
43,588 Listeners
The New Yorker: Fiction
3,346 Listeners
Poetry Off the Shelf
444 Listeners
The New Yorker: Poetry
521 Listeners
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
470 Listeners
On Being with Krista Tippett
10,134 Listeners
The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
2,137 Listeners
The Paris Review
795 Listeners
Emergence Magazine Podcast
506 Listeners
The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
1,215 Listeners
Poetry Unbound
3,567 Listeners
Turning to the Mystics with James Finley
1,833 Listeners
Learning How to See with Brian McLaren
803 Listeners
Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
11,420 Listeners