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Episode 101: The Second Half of a Chocolate Cake

I haven't finished part one to my satisfaction, but I'll serve you part two anyway. Rather like having dessert first, which I hear is possible if you're feeling unruly. 

"In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII:54" 

"In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII:55"

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 

Episode 100!!!

100 Episodes! We've been through a lot together. 

To celebrate, I compiled some audio mail I've received into another poetry reading episode. If you enjoy it, send me a poem why dontcha! 

Pamela reads "Crooked" by G.K. Chesterton

Carrie reads "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron

Melinda reads "Doors opening, closing on us" by Marge Piercy 

 

Thank you to all who have listened and contributed to this poetry endeavor! 

 

Episode 99: Poem

Does this poem stir around in your heart and mind a little bit? 

Keith Hansen brings "Poem" by North Dakota poet and screenwriter Thomas McGrath. 

Episode 98: Two Poems About Marriage

The other Giudice takes the mic again! <3 <3 <3

"A Romance" by Stephen Dunn

"The Country of Marriage" by Wendell Berry 

Episode 97: Not I, Not I, But The Wind That Blows Through Me!

Another Lawrence poem! Unfortunately, there's no fruit-throwing in this one. But there is ecstatic inspiration, a creepy knock on the door, and angels. So that's pretty good. 

"Song of a Man Who Has Come Through" by D.H. Lawrence 

 

The "Word on Fire" podcast episode that I mention:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wof-392-poetry-beauty-and-the-shock-of-grace-w/id1065019039?i=1000618329473

Episode 96: Here, Take All That’s Left of My Peach

I bring you "Peach" by D.H. Lawrence. This guy gets it. 

Episode 95: Two Poems for Our Current Predicament

A super special guest--Ben Giudice--brings us two poems that run headlong into the human task of reconciling bad and good, despair and hope. 

"As the World Population Surpasses 8 Billion, I Purposely Misremember a Line from Anne Carson's Sappho and Hear in Its Utterance the Song of the Humpback Whale" by Dante Di Stephano

"Good Bones" by Maggie Smith 

Episode 94: Eternity by Jason Shinder

Two minds--divided by millennia--come together in the spaces between words...

Or, if that sounds too cosmic and far-fetched, you can call it by its other name: "reading a poem in the kitchen". 

Episode 93: Hair

Today's two poems--brought to us by Keith Hansen--take us to the beauty salon and the barber chair. Are these places ordinary or sacred? Maybe we don't have to choose. 

"Wayne's College of Beauty, Santa Cruz" by David Swanger

"Hair" by BH Fairchild

Episode 92: Summer, It’s Getting Late

Why is late summer such a gut-puncher? If anyone can get at the heart of this mystery, it's these two:

"Summer Has Two Beginnings" by Emily Dickinson

"Three Songs at the End of Summer" by Jane Kenyon