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.
Read Me a Poem - “Wind-Up Doll” by Forugh Farrokhzad
Amanda Holmes reads Forugh Farrokhzad’s poem, “Wind-Up Doll,” translated from the Persian by Sholeh Wolpé. 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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Read Me a Poem - “Sonnet” by Elizabeth Bishop
Amanda Holmes reads Elizabeth Bishops’s last poem, “Sonnet.” 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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Read Me A Poem Podcast - 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.
Read Me a Poem - “Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” by W. B. Yeats
Amanda Holmes reads W. B. Yeats’s poem, “Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven.” 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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Read Me A Poem Podcast - 11: Ulalume
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.
Read Me a Poem - “Burnt Norton” by T. S. Eliot
Amanda Holmes reads “Burnt Norton,” the first of T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. 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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Read Me a Poem - “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T. S.” by Nissim Ezekiel
Amanda Holmes reads Nissim Ezekiel’s poem, “Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa T. S.” 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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Read Me a Poem - “I Sit and Sew” by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Amanda Holmes reads Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s poem, “I Sit and Sew.” 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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Read Me a Poem - “The Two Times I Loved You the Most In a Car” by Dorothea Grossman
Amanda Holmes reads Dorothea Grossman’s poem, “The Two Times I Loved You the Most In a Car.” 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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