What Are Poems

What Are Poems

By Jacob DaviesArtsPerforming Arts
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What Are Poems episodes

  • John Gillespie Magee Jr.

    It's a vivid, quick, important life on What Are Poems today. It's reaching back for inspiration and that inspiration reverberating for generations. Hey! Have you ever had a Rolling Rock Beer? 

    33 min
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln may or may not have written a poem about suicide in 1838.  A reading, an investigation, thoughts of Lizzie McGuire.  

    33 min
  • Dorothy Wordsworth

    The sister of William Wordsworth gets some thoughts.  My buddy Phil reads a poem at around 4 AM in my home.  My buddy Noah says "May I?" A little taste of friendship and the friends we keep on WHAT ARE POEMS. 

    24 min
  • Gerda Mayer

    Number 50! and it's Gerda Mayer (refugee, poet) OPERATION KINDERTRANSPORT.  What happened in Jim Thorpe? 

    30 min
  • Jimmy Stewart (And His Poem)
    The short story of American film actor James Stewart and the poem he wrote about his dog.  (A sort of Special What are POEMS). I read a poem and let you know about some exclusive merch (available at: https://www.bonfire.com/what-are-shirts/)
    25 min
  • Don Welch

    Stumbled upon this Don Welch fella. Got into his poems, kept reading them throughout the whole podcast.  Neat one. Quiet one.  What are Poems. 

    22 min
  • Ovid

    It's Ovid on a LATE NIGHT EPISODE of WHAT ARE POEMS.  Hey! How about Ovid? He's not raised by horse people (I just haven't gone to bed yet) but he is writing erotic poems in Ancient Rome.  Here we go. 

    29 min
  • Anne Bradstreet

    She's born when the only thing going on is shoeing horses. She founds Boston (James Brown saves it) She's writing poetry (All the men are shaking their heads) It's Anne Bradstreet. (The Queen of Clam Chowder)

    28 min

About What Are Poems

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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.