Episode 100: Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
This episode takes us to a graveyard for Halloween and explores one of the most canonical poems in the English language, poised between two huge eras of poetry as it meditates on.
Episode 62: Kobayashi Issa, Haiku
What makes haiku "the perfect poetic form"? This episode reads three wonderful haiku by Kobayashi Issa and explores what makes them so moving and fun. We use the beautiful translations of award-winning.
Episode 3: Phillis Wheatley, On Being Brought from Africa to America
To view the poem, please see: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45465/on-being-brought-from-africa-to-america To hear Cornelius Eady reading the poem and discussing it, see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QezAVP_HiY For a foundational essay about Phillis Wheatley and her work, please see.