Wednesday, January 14, 2009
It’s not exactly public radio, so it’s a little off-topic, but the latest episode of the Poetry Foundation’s “Poetry Off the Shelf” podcast includes what might be the most inspired moment ever: they call back a group of “Poetry” magazine readers who disapprove of the magazine’s content. This would be like if Rush Limbaugh called [...]
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Quite often I set something down to do something else. I’ll put down one book to read another. I’ll forget to flip the record because I realized, one track in, in that I needed to do the dishes, which don’t get finished because I needed to load the washing machine. The wet clothes in the [...]
As many of you no doubt noticed over the course of April, Matthew is a big poetry-loving dork. He did a fun weekly series of posts on poetry featured on Writer’s Almanac. A few of you know that I’m kind of a little poetry dork. Though both of us adore poetry, his is usually relevant [...]
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
This is the post wherein I declare my triumphant return from finals and my less triumphant, but no less hard-earned, exit from undergraduate studies–If I passed German.But I’ll save it for later, because I must urgently report a crime taking place among the poetry section of your local bookstore, however meager an existence it claims.
I’m not a Sylvia Plath fan, exactly – I find many of her poems tedious in subject matter, and I don’t feel that she earns many of her metaphors, the “Daddy as Nazi” metaphor in “Daddy” being a prime example. But the woman is a master of sound. As tedious as I find “Daddy” to [...]
EDIT: The Studio 360 link broke; but it seems like that may be a problem with Studio 360′s website. Let me know if it starts working again. T.S. Eliot’s poem, “The Waste Land” begins with the words, “April is the cruelest month.” Which is why it’s really stupid that April is National Poetry Month. But [...]
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Public Radio Poetry, vol. 4: Limericks shouldn’t count
It’s been a while since I’ve done this, and I’ve skipped over talking about the Poetry Magazine podcast, mostly because it’s not funded or distributed through public media channels. But listening to “Morning Edition” this morning, Kerry and I heard this terrible limerick regarding a judge’s reaction to a lawsuit whose “short and plain” allegations [...]