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FAQs about Take this poem:How many episodes does Take this poem have?The podcast currently has 122 episodes available.
September 21, 2023Episode 95: Two Poems for Our Current PredicamentA super special guest--Ben Giudice--brings us two poems that run headlong into the human task of reconciling bad and good, despair and hope. "As the World Population Surpasses 8 Billion, I Purposely Misremember a Line from Anne Carson's Sappho and Hear in Its Utterance the Song of the Humpback Whale" by Dante Di Stephano"Good Bones" by Maggie Smith ...more9minPlay
September 18, 2023Episode 94: Eternity by Jason ShinderTwo minds--divided by millennia--come together in the spaces between words...Or, if that sounds too cosmic and far-fetched, you can call it by its other name: "reading a poem in the kitchen". ...more12minPlay
September 05, 2023Episode 93: HairToday's two poems--brought to us by Keith Hansen--take us to the beauty salon and the barber chair. Are these places ordinary or sacred? Maybe we don't have to choose. "Wayne's College of Beauty, Santa Cruz" by David Swanger"Hair" by BH Fairchild...more25minPlay
August 25, 2023Episode 92: Summer, It’s Getting LateWhy is late summer such a gut-puncher? If anyone can get at the heart of this mystery, it's these two:"Summer Has Two Beginnings" by Emily Dickinson"Three Songs at the End of Summer" by Jane Kenyon ...more22minPlay
August 18, 2023Episode 91: Going bye-byeLate summer is peak bye-bye season! These three poems fit perfectly in your suitcase or moving box. "The Summer Camp Bus Pulls Away From the Curb" by Sharon Olds"Leaving Town" by Jane Kenyon[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] by ee cummings ...more26minPlay
August 14, 2023Episode 90: Don Thompson: Poems From a Dry ValleyListen to what can happen when a poet keeps a sustained gaze on the desolate place that has always been his home. Keith Hansen comes back to the mic to read six poems by Don Thompson."Flat Earth""Water""Egret I""Buena Vista Slough II""October""December"...more12minPlay
August 09, 2023Episode 89: Three BlackberriesPart 3 of the summer poems series is JUICY! "Blackberry-Picking" by Seamus Heaney "An Invitation" by Clemens Starck"Meditation at Lagunitas" by Robert Hass ...more17minPlay
August 04, 2023Episode 88: Summer in the GardenHere's part 2 of the "summer poems" series! This one's for you, Farmer Ben. "Putting in the Seed" by Robert Frost"Cutting the Grass" by Clemens Starck"In Defense of Our Overgrown Garden" by Matthea Harvey ...more18minPlay
August 01, 2023Episode 87: Summer MoodsIt's AUGUST!I had a request for some summer poems and got a little carried away. I hope you like sunshine, blackberries, nostalgia, and love, because this is just the beginning of a 4 part summer poem series. We kick off with"Summer Moods" by John Clare"The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver"Mossbawn: Sunlight" by Seamus Heaney"Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota" by James Wright ...more28minPlay
June 05, 2023Episode 86: Four Walls and a Blackboard3 school poems to kick off summer break!"Night" by Jill Osier"M. Degas Teaches Art & Science at Durfee Intermediate School" by Philip Levine"Mrs. Smith 1959" by Kim Stafford...more26minPlay
FAQs about Take this poem:How many episodes does Take this poem have?The podcast currently has 122 episodes available.