What Are Poems

What Are Poems episodes

March 12, 2022 Pauli Murray
You want to feel like you haven't done anything yet today? Get a load of the life and times of Pauli Murray (lawyer, priest, activist, author and poet)
25 min
March 05, 2022 Etheridge Knight
Stunned by Etheridge Knight. New Favorite Poet. He was doing it. Cursing, Swearing, Inspiring, Sir?! Hatin Regan, bringing people up into the light. I continue to tease out what happened between me and Phil over soccer...
22 min
February 26, 2022 Amy King
Poet and Activist Amy King's poems are read. I wonder about the fight at the Golden Corral Buffet.
22 min
February 19, 2022 Muses (Maud Gonne)
Forget Yeats - let's do this. Muses and Yeat's Muse herself, Maud Gonne, are the topic of discussion. A poem about soup is read.
24 min
October 11, 2021 W.B. Yeats
I fail miserably at tackling the topic of Yeats.
20 min
September 26, 2021 Mary Oliver
This lady was out in the woods!
23 min
September 16, 2021 Homer
I return for an actual second season after an epiphany while mopping a floor.
25 min
July 08, 2021 Stephen Dunn
Stephen Dunn, American Poet who played basketball, is discussed in and around thought-tangents.
23 min
June 15, 2021 John Keats (Part Three)
SEASON 2 begins with JOHN KEATS PART 3
21 min
April 12, 2021 John Keats (Part Two)
Keats is a doctor in this EPISODE
24 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.