Take this poem

Episode 4: I died for Beauty--but was scarce

When you skulk around in cemeteries may I suggest that you take Emily Dickinson's #449  to accompany you?

Episode 3: My Mother's Body

Sometimes you're just minding your own business and a poem jumps out from the bushes and surprises you. In this episode I share a poem that did that to me: "My Mother's Body" by Marie Howe.

Episode 2: "I thank You God for most this amazing"

My favorite engineering professor Dr. Ben Giudice shares "i thank You God for most this amazing" by e.e.cummings and we discuss the interdisciplinary goodness that happens when poems get in our blood. 

Episode 1: Let Evening Come

This pilot episode includes stories of how "Let Evening Come" by Jane Kenyon has been passed around like a gift in my life and how the poem derives its simplicity and rootedness from material nouns that have been in our language from the very beginning.

Collected Poems of Jane Kenyon