What Are Poems

What Are Poems episodes

April 07, 2021 John Keats (Part One)
Hey! It's John Keats and it's the First Part of a Three Part Season Finale.
17 min
March 29, 2021 Robot Poetry (A Very Special Episode)
I explore the evolution of robot poetry
19 min
March 21, 2021 Paul Laurence Dunbar
It's Paul Laurence Dunbar! and it's all fun and games and achievements until he drops the ball at the very end.
19 min
March 14, 2021 Rainer Maria Rilke
What's going on with this guys early life? Holy Crow! My cats almost get out.
19 min
March 07, 2021 Amy Lowell
Amy Lowell knocks it out of the park with her poem "Bath" - I also read a poem about a bath. In a Very Special Bath Episode of WHAT ARE POEMS?
20 min
February 28, 2021 Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti doesn't hit as hard as I suspect he will. My poem "American Legion" is read.
21 min
February 22, 2021 Philip Levine
Detroit poet Philip Levine is explored. How about Nature Documentaries?
20 min
February 14, 2021 Roses Are Red (An Origin Story)
The origins of Roses are Red are explored, and Thomas Crapper gets some thoughts.
19 min
February 08, 2021 Amanda Gorman
Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman is discussed along with the idea that Stenonychosaurus could have evolved into a dinosaur man.
26 min
January 31, 2021 Dr. Seuss
How about it? Dr. Seuss? I read Yertle the Turtle and get so exhausted I can't compose my own poem.
23 min

From the publisher's feed

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