Read Me a Poem

Read Me a Poem

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Read Me a Poem episodes

  • “To Lallie (Outside the British Museum)” by Amy Levy

    Amanda Holmes reads Amy Levy’s “To Lallie (Outside the British Museum).” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: [email protected]. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.


    This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.

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    4 min
  • “Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh” by Thomas James

    Amanda Holmes reads Thomas James’s “Mummy of a Lady Named Jemutesonekh.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: [email protected]. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.


    This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    6 min
  • “Psalm 102” by Mary Sidney Herbert

    Amanda Holmes reads Mary Sidney Herbert’s translation of Psalm 102. Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: [email protected]. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.


    This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    6 min
  • “Cubistic Body World” by Carolyn Rodgers

    Amanda Holmes reads Carolyn Rodgers’s “Cubistic Body World.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: [email protected]. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.

     

    This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    3 min
  • “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why” by Edna St Vincent Millay

    Amanda Holmes reads Edna St Vincent Millay’s “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: [email protected]. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.

     

    This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    3 min
  • “Ithaka” by C. P. Cavafy

    Amanda Holmes reads C. P. Cavafy’s “Ithaka,” translated from the Greek by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: [email protected]. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.

     

    This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    4 min
  • “Everybody Who Is Dead” by Frank Stanford

    Amanda Holmes reads Frank Stanford’s “Everybody Who Is Dead.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: [email protected]. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.

     

    This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    3 min
  • “The Giver” by James Baldwin

    Amanda Holmes reads James Baldwin’s “The Giver.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: [email protected]. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.

     

    This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    3 min
  • “Wild Nights—Wild Nights!” by Emily Dickinson

     Amanda Holmes reads Emily Dickinson’s “Wild Nights—Wild Nights!” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: [email protected]. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.


    This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    2 min
  • “Homecoming” by Henry Sloss

    Amanda Holmes reads Henry Sloss’s “Homecoming.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: [email protected]. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.

     

    This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    7 min

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