This episode explores the incantation and mystic union of Momaday’s famous delight poem, ending with a recorded recitation in his own rich voice. We explain anaphora and explore its power, and we.
Oksana Maksymchuk joins us for a reading and discussion of “Tempo,” a poem that explores the how war causes us to “whirl with / planets and stars that coil / around our.
In this episode, Monica Ong joins us to discuss “Her Gaze,” a visual poem that celebrates the achievements of astronomer Caroline Herschel. “Her Gaze” appears in Planetaria, Ong’s new collection that merges.
Gwendolyn Bennett was a poet, journalist, editor, and activist whose contributions helped to fuel the Harlem Renaissance. In this episode, we read “I Build America,” a poem that exposes and critiques the.
In this episode, we offer close readings of poems from Ted Kooser’s_ Winter Morning Walks: 100 Postcards to Jim Harrison_. Kooser’s poems allow us to think about the poem as a social.
Poetry engages in conversation. Today, we explore a long, beautiful, narrative poem weaving together the work of fellow poets while looking carefully at a Caravaggio painting, all reflecting on illness, death, and.
In this episode, we read one of Victoria Chang’s moving poems from her collection OBIT, and discuss how the poem explores the interplay between life, death, grieving, and memory as the poet.
In this episode, Lauren Camp joins us to read and discuss "Inner Planets," a poem that she wrote during her time as the astronomer in residence at Grand Canyon National Park. She.