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Podcasts
- Episode 101 Could We Please Give the Police Departments to the Grandmothers? - Junauda Petrus
6/12/2020
Connor and Jack examine the poem "Could We Please Give the Police Departments to the Grandmothers?" by Junauda Petrus. They discuss police abolition…
- Episode 100 The Man Moves Earth - Cathy Song
5/22/2020
It's a landmark episode - NUMBER 100!!! Connor and Jack dive into Cathy Song's "The Man Moves Earth." They discuss the elegance of the poem's language…
- Episode 099 Prayer (I) - George Herbert
5/8/2020
Jack and Connor go way back to the 1600s for the George Herbert poem, "Prayer (I)". They discuss the sonnet's beautiful meditation on prayer, its…
- Episode 098 Vocabulary Of Dearness - Naomi Shihab Nye - Reflections Week Ep. 6
4/30/2020
Connor and Jack close out Poetry Month 2020 with a series of shorter episodes about short poems that can be comforting springboards to reflection and…
- Episode 097 Wild Nights - Wild Nights! - Emily Dickinson - Reflections Week Ep. 5
4/29/2020
Conor and Jack spend some wild time talking about Wild Nights by Emily Dickinson. They talk about the 2019 movie Wild Nights with Emily, Shakespeare's…