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Read Me A Poem Podcast

Hailey Petway•www.readmeapoem.com
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These poems have traveled a long way to find you.

In each episode, listen to a soothing poem and learn a little about who the poet is and why they are interesting.

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Episodes

20: Aubade in Autumn

In this episode we welcome the beginning of fall with Peter Everwine’s beautiful and contemplative dawn song.

Oct 01, 2021

19: Failure

In this episode, we read the titular poem from Schultz's Pulitzer prize-winning Failure.

Aug 29, 2021•4 min•Season 2Ep. 19

16: One Hundred Love Sonnets XVII

Let’s explore one of Pablo Neruda’s most famous love poems. In this episode, I am joined by guest reader Otto Martinez to take a look at the poem in both English and Spanish. This is the 17th poem in One Hundred Love Sonnets, a collection inspired by and dedicated to his wife Matilde.

Feb 14, 2021

15: Medlars and Sorb Apples

In the first episode of the new year, we will take a look at the Orphic myth and the mysterious connection between D. H Lawrence and his strangest of strange companions — H.D. This poem echos the idea that in order to be truly good something has to be just a little bit rotten.

Jan 29, 2021

14: Birches

Let’s celebrate Christmas with one of Robert Frost’s most loved poems. After such a tough year, wouldn’t it be nice to get away from Earth for a while?

Dec 25, 2020

13: Annabel Lee

Let’s celebrate Halloween with one more poem from our prince of darkness, Edgar Allen Poe. In this episode, we explore the beautiful ballad Annabel Lee and Poe’s Poetic Principle.

Oct 31, 2020

12: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

In this extra-special, extra-long episode we explore T.S. Eliot’s famous love song. This poem continues with the horror theme and begins with an epigraph, or six-line quotation, in the original Italian from Canto 27 of Dante’s Inferno. References to Dante pop-up a lot in Eliot’s work. The epigraph hints that the poem that follows is about to describe some type of hell.

Oct 19, 2020

11: Ulalume

Enjoy Poe's October themed poem about the loss of love. Edgar Allen Poe is perhaps most famous for his expertise in building dramatic tension and the macabre subject matter of his short stories and poems. Equally remarkable are the poetic principles he helped form and the “art for art’s sake” movement that he inspired.

Oct 05, 2020

10: Hermes of the Ways

Take five minutes to enjoy one of the earliest Imagist poems by H.D and to learn about one of America's most avant-garde poets.

Sep 04, 2020

08: Phenomenal Woman

Take five minutes to enjoy one of the most famous poems by Maya Angelou, and to learn a little about one of America's favorite poets.

May 13, 2020

07: Song of Myself Verse 52

The poetic I of Song of Myself connects with readers across time and space, and asserts Whitman’s belief that through poetry we pass on humankind’s greatest wisdom.

May 06, 2020

06: Among Women

Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

Apr 30, 2020

05: Song

For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

Apr 21, 2020

04: A Perfect Mess

In this episode, we will read A Perfect Mess by Mary Karr and speak briefly about who she is and why she's interesting.

Apr 15, 2020•Season 1Ep. 4

03: Brown Penny

O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it.

Apr 13, 2020

02: The Geranium

The greenhouse is my symbol for the whole of life, a womb, a heaven on earth.

Apr 08, 2020

01: The Garden By Moonlight

And you are quiet like the garden, And white like the alyssum flowers, And beautiful as the silent sparks of the fireflies.

Apr 05, 2020
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