Podcasts

• Episode 091 Excerpt from Ceremony - Leslie Marmon Silko

  4/10/2020

  Connor and Jack dive into the poem that opens Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony. Along the way they discuss Plato's Symposium, Walter Ong's…

• Episode 090 Dedications - Adrienne Rich

  3/28/2020

  Connor and Jack discuss a poem that may resonate during this intense, isolated time: "Dedications" by Adrienne Rich, an excerpt from her sequence "An…

• Episode 089 REBROADCAST: To Make a Prairie

  3/18/2020

  This week, we revisit an oldie but goodie: Connor and Jack's discussion of Emily Dickinson's short, beautiful poem, "To Make a Prairie." To find the…

• Episode 088 Additional Notes On Tea - Fady Joudah

  2/29/2020

  Connor and Jack discuss Fady Joudah's, "Additional Notes on Tea" exploring the ways the poem moves around the globe, interrogates history, and deploys…

• Episode 087 REBROADCAST: How To Keep It Down - Justin Phillip Reed

  2/15/2020

  REBROADCAST! In honor of Black History Month and because it's primary season and this incredible poem touches on presidential themes, we are…