What Are Poems

What Are Poems episodes

May 02, 2024 Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes out here living
20 min
April 19, 2024 John Berryman
It all goes around and around
21 min
April 12, 2024 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I’ve returned with my rich buddy Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
25 min
November 13, 2022 W.S. Merwin
W.S. Merwin he's marrying women, he's writing poetry, he may have written a dark version of the Lorax.
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22 min
July 21, 2022 Robert Lax
What's this? No scandal? A good man, writing good things who ends up in Greece (not exiled, just alone, but not alone at all) It's Robert Lax on What are Poems!
34 min
July 14, 2022 Frank O'Hara
He is on the pulse of Late-60's New York City. A friend of all artist -- Frank O'Hara. I discuss a harrowing tale of hammers I heard second hand.
28 min
July 03, 2022 The Star-Spangled Banner
Two men choke on grapes in this episode.
27 min
June 24, 2022 Marianne Moore
Marianne Moore was out there. Another poet who's father has a psychotic break. Another poet who was writing, and breathing and living and dying in times before our times. Also: She sums up what I've been trying to say in her poem "Poetry"
28 min
June 20, 2022 Baxter Black
NPR contributor, poet, and philosopher Baxter Black's poems are read. I regret making fun of Ronald Reagan in a twist of fate I never saw coming.
24 min
June 13, 2022 Rupert Brooke
It's everyone in England's biggest crush: Rupert Brooke.
30 min

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A man living inside his own head searches for the meaning of poetry while reading works by real poets and writing poems himself.