Read Me A Poem Podcast

In this episode we welcome the beginning of fall with Peter Everwine’s beautiful and contemplative dawn song.

In this episode we take a look at the titular poem from Schultz's Pulitzer prize-winning collection of poetry Failure.

In this extra-long episode we take on Bob Dylan’s epic spoken word poem. He only ever performed this song once, in 1963, and after that it was circulated on boot leg releases. It was finally officially released in 1991. Sit down, and let’s listen to Bob think about the nature of hope.

Welcome to the first episode of season two where we explore one of Olivia Gatwood’s odes.
In this poem, Gatwood celebrates one of the mundane and sometimes messy aspects of femininity. She is one of my favorite poets of the past decade. I love how fierce she is. Treat yourself and also listen to her read Ode to the Women on Long Island.

Let’s explore one of Pablo Neruda’s most famous love poems. In this episode, I am joined by guest reader Otto Martinez to take a look at this sonnet in both English and Spanish. This is the 17th poem in One Hundred Love Sonnets, a collection inspired by and dedicated to his wife Matilde.

In the first episode of the new year, we will take a look at the Orphic myth and the mysterious connection between D. H Lawrence and his strangest of strange companions — H.D. This poem echos the idea that in order to be truly good something has to be just a little bit rotten.

Let’s celebrate Christmas with one of Robert Frost’s most loved poems. After such a tough year, wouldn’t it be nice to get away from Earth for a while?

Let’s celebrate Halloween with one more poem from our prince of darkness, Edgar Allen Poe. In this episode we explore the beautiful ballad Annabel Lee and Poe’s Poetic Principle.

In this extra-special, extra-long episode we explore T.S. Eliot’s famous love song.

This poem continues with the horror theme and begins with an epigraph, or six-line quotation, in the original Italian from Canto 27 of Dante’s Inferno. References to Dante pop-up a lot in Eliot’s work.

The epigraph hints that the poem that follows is about to describe some type of hell.

Edgar Allen Poe is perhaps most famous for his expertise in building dramatic tension and the macabre subject matter of his short stories and poems. Equally remarkable are the poetic principles he helped form and the “art for art’s sake” movement that he inspired.