Poet and teacher Lisa Dordal joins us to talk about memory, the imagination, clearing up misconceptions about poetry, and so much more!

Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay

Episode artwork: Leon Kowalsi, Nostalgia (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commmons.

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Claire-Louise Bennett Pond

Joe Brainard I Remember

Oliver Burkeman Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Willa Cather Lucy Gayheart

Gaius Valerius Catullus Catullus: The Complete Poetry, transl. Frank. O. Copley

Leonard Cohen "Anthem"

Julio Cortázar Hopscotch

Simon Critchley The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology

Simon Critchley Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance

Emily Dickinson

Lisa Dordal Mosaic of the Dark

Lisa Dordal Next Time You Come Home

Lisa Dordal Water Lessons

T. S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Vilém Flusser Gestures

Robert Frost

Ross Gay

David Guterson Snow Falling on Cedars

Kent Haruf

Václav Havel

Martin Heidegger Poetry, Language, Thought

John Keats

Claire Keegan

Jack Kerouac On the Road

Maxine Kumin "Woodchucks"

Alice McDermott

Julie Otsuka When the Emperor Was Divine

Per Petterson

Poets & Writers

Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time series

Patrick Radden Keefe Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Rumi "A Great Wagon"

W. G. Sebald

William Shakespeare

Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ozymandias"

Clint Smith Above Ground

Clint Smith How the Word Is Passed

Dorothee Sölle

Elizabeth Strout

Thao Thai Banyan Moon

Natasha Trethewy

William Wordsworth

The Writer's Chronicle

Antonio Zadra/Robert Stickgold When Brains Dream: Understanding the Science and Mystery of Our Dreaming Minds