Podcasts

• Episode 140 First Snow - Aria Aber

  8/27/2021

  Connor and Jack discuss the poem "First Snow" by Aria Aber. They explore the poem's subtle and marvelous use of perspective, the representation of…

• Episode 139 Excerpt from John Brown's Body - Stephen Vincent Benét

  8/13/2021

  Connor and Jack dig into an excerpt from the epic, book-length poem "John Brown's Body" by Stephen Vincent Benet. In the late 1920s the book was a…

• Episode 138 Why I Am Silent About The Lament - Abdullah Al-Baradouni

  7/23/2021

  Connor and Jack discuss the poem "Why I Am Silent About The Lament" by Abdullah Al-Baradouni, translated by Threa Almontaser. Despite being one of the…

• Episode 137 Time Traveler - Patrick Cotter

  7/9/2021

  Time travel stories are everywhere - Avengers: Endgame, Loki, Back to the Future, Outlander, the list is endless - but what happens when a poem takes…

• Episode 136 Coping - Audre Lorde

  6/25/2021

  Connor and Jack discuss the Audre Lorde poem "Coping." They discuss Lorde's legacy as a writer and theorist, how poems and other pieces of culture can…