By Lucie Brock-Broido
Everything Everywhere Daily - Genie The Feral Child
In October 1970, a blind woman accidentally walked into a Los Angeles County welfare office with a child in tow. The staff in the office immediately noticed the odd girl with the woman. She walked funny, was emaciated, drooling, didn’t make a sound, and when asked, the woman mentioned that the girl was 13. The staff thought she looked like she was seven. This began one of the saddest cases of child welfare in history, and one which fascinated researchers for years.
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Read Me a Poem - “The Wind Will Blow Us Away” by Forugh Farrokhzad
Amanda Holmes reads Forugh Farrokhzad’s poem “The Wind Will Blow Us Away.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.
This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.
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Audio Poem of the Day - Scrabble with Matthews
Everything Everywhere Daily - Queen Isabella I of Castile
She was never intended to be a queen. She wasn’t the firstborn and the rules of the time didn’t support her as a woman. Yet through cunning and guile, she managed to take power.
As a queen, she was at the center of many of the most significant and notorious events in European history, and she was largely responsible for the creation of the country which became Spain.
Learn more about Isabella I of Castille and how she influenced the history of Europe on this episode of Everything Everywhere Dail
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Audio Poem of the Day - CAMH (On Sight)
by Douglas Kearney
Everything Everywhere Daily - The Battle of Thermopylae
In the year 480 BC, one of the most famous battles in history took place on the shore of the Malian Gulf in the Aegean Sea.
Several thousand Greeks held back several hundred thousand Persians, in a battle which is still remembered 2,500 years later.
While the Greeks lost the battle, they did ultimately win the war.
Learn more about the Battle of Thermopylae and the 300 hundred Spartans, on the 300th episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Audio Poem of the Day - The Pain Reliever
By Carrie Olivia Adams
Everything Everywhere Daily - May Day
Every year of May 1st, people all around the northern hemisphere celebrate the arrival of spring. A day we call May Day.
But it is also the day that communist countries held military parades, and the Soviets would show off all of their military strength in public.
Mayday is also the international distress signal for radio.
How are these very different things all related? Learn more about May Day on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Audio Poem of the Day - What’s Written on the Body
By Peter Pereira