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FAQs about The Poetry Fix:How many episodes does The Poetry Fix have?The podcast currently has 66 episodes available.
November 13, 2025Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Accept this "Bonnie Doon"Today, Erika Kyba reads through the end of "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi," by Emily Dickinson. We begin to tie together the themes of moral bankruptcy, surface versus substance, and modernity, served with a slice of devilry....more8minPlay
November 06, 2025Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Insolvency, Sublime!Today, Erika Kyba reads "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi," by Emily Dickinson, a witty societal critique dashed with a commentary how certain astronomical discoveries have altered the way we understand and behave towards the universe around us....more5minPlay
October 30, 2025The Abyss: Above, Below, On Every SideToday, Erika Kyba reads "The Abyss," by Baudelaire, and attempts to explore the poet's terror of the infinite....more5minPlay
October 23, 2025The Benefactors: The Pinch of Pain and FearToday, Erika Kyba reads "The Benefactors" by Rudyard Kipling. Kipling mediates on how all innovation springs from the "pinch of pain and fear" that drives man....more5minPlay
October 16, 2025Adam's Curse: As Weary-Hearted as that Hollow MoonToday, Erika Kyba reads "Adam's Curse" by William Butler Yeats. Yeats muses on how all beautiful and lovely things require labor...and how this laboring after the beautiful has become an "idle trade" in the hollow age of modernity....more5minPlay
October 09, 2025The Boston Evening Transcript: Who Are You, When Evening Falls?Today, Erika Kyba reads "The Boston Evening Transcript," by T. S. Eliot. Much in the same vein as Henry David Thoreau, Eliot mediates on our constant obsession with the news, and what that does to the human person....more5minPlay
October 02, 2025Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers: A Meditation on LegacyToday, Erika Kyba reads "Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers," by Emily Dickinson. In this poem, Dickinson plays with the image of a tomb acting as a lamp, and she meditates on legacy, death, and history....more5minPlay
September 25, 2025As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Lovely in Eyes not HisToday, Erika Kyba reads "As Kingfishers Catch Fire," by Gerard Manley Hopkins. In this poem, Hopkins explores the natural image of kingfishers and dragonflies reflecting the sun's light, and he uses it to portray how God's glory shines forth in every single person, with all their particularities....more5minPlay
September 18, 2025On Time: The Temporal and the EternalToday, Erika Kyba reads John Milton's "On Time." This is a poem that echoes the themes John Donne's "Holy Sonnet X," asserting the triumph of believers over death and temporal decay....more5minPlay
September 11, 2025Demain dès l'aube: Facing the UnspeakableToday, Erika Kyba reads Victor Hugo's "Demain dès l'aube," a poem about a man who has delayed facing his grief for far too long....more5minPlay
FAQs about The Poetry Fix:How many episodes does The Poetry Fix have?The podcast currently has 66 episodes available.