What Are Poems

What Are Poems

By Jacob DaviesArtsPerforming Arts
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What Are Poems episodes

  • Herbert Huncke
    Beat Poet, Drug Addict, Hustler and The Mayor of 42nd Street is explored in this episode: His Poem "Two for One" is read and I read my own work "Someone's got to do That."
    13 min
  • Shel Silverstein
    Playboy Contributor and Children's Poet Shel Silverstein is discussed, and we dig our heels into an anti-academic stance of poetry as a whole.  Poems include: Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein and Google Maps by J. Davies
    12 min
  • Langston Hughes
    American Poet Langston Hughes is discussed. His poems: The Negro Speaks of Rivers and I, Too, Sing are read along with my original work: Chickens.
    11 min
  • Ezra Pound

    Ezra Pound's antisemitism is explored.  Pound's poem April along with the original poem entitled "Ezra Pound" 

    10 min
  • William Shakespeare
    The Big Balls Bard's sonnets and shot-gun wedding are explored. Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 is read along with my own poem: Spooky Poem
    11 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.