Poetry Professors' Podcast

Last year didn't happen for us, but we're back with fresh new episodes, guest poets, less guessing, and more accessing.

Our 4th of July podcast explores the technique of allusion using the poem that shaped what the Statue of Liberty means to our country.  

This is the culmination of the Poetry Professors' National Poetry Month project - to take Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 through all five layers of the UnVEIL system.

For national poetry month, Dan and Becky are taking Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 and breaking it down in all five layers.  This episode looks at the Voice and Events layers.

For national poetry month, Dan and Becky are taking Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 and breaking it down in all five layers - one each week.  This week begins the process with the UNderstand Words layer.

In this Voice-layer episode, Dan and Becky talk about the different targets "to whom" a voice may be speaking.  Their examples are spring poems that seem to show poets have a hard time being happy about spring.  Featuring poems by Robert Herrick, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Thomas Carew.

In this Look/Listen/Lesson layer episode, Dan and Becky talk about letting your work shine in the light of day - whether it be publication or performance - and getting students to do so as well.  Dan performs his poem "An Arrow to the Knee"

In this special episode for Black History Month, Dan and Becky talk about the history of African-American poetry, the Harlem Renaissance, controversial modern issues, and allyship.

In this techniques-layer poem, Dan and Becky talk about the romantic things they do for each other and read a poem about death (at least it's a touching one?) so there's something for everyone on this holiday.

In this events-layer episode, Dan and Becky talk about the craziness of January and their desire to arise and go back to William Butler Yeats' "Lake Isle of Innisfree".