Love Poems
As Sean said, we did curse poems in the last episode, so we're doing love poems next to get the bitter taste out of our mouths." In this episode, we t...
Black Box Poetry
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Anastasia Nikolis, Isaac Wheeler, and Sean C. Hughes started talking about poetry a decade ago at Haverford College and never stopped. Now they talk about poems they love and explain how they work to each other and their podcast audience. Black Box (n.): A device which performs intricate functions but whose internal mechanism may not readily be inspected or understood; any component of a system specified only in terms of the relationship between inputs and outputs. Black Box Poetry (n.): A podcast which performs intricate functions to explain a poem's internal mechanisms that may not readily be inspected or understood; poetry elucidation machine.
Curse Poems
HEXES! CURSES! ILL WISHES! What makes a curse a curse and not just rage? How much does the backstory needs to be present to make a hex effective? How ...
Outer Reaches of Metaphor
This episode was recorded before we recorded episode 12, but we recommend listening to that episode on METAPHOR before listening to this episode on th...
Metaphor
In this track, Anastasia, Isaac, and Sean talk about metaphor! We talk about the academic jargon (a "tenor" is the thing being described, the "vehicle...
Poetry in Translation
After a one year hiatus, Sean, Isaac, and Anastasia are BACK! In the episode, they discuss how reading translated poems isn't that different (but also...
Long Poem: "The Undressing" by Li-Young Lee
Rather than choosing three short poems that teach us something about a theme, Isaac, Sean, and Anastasia allow one long poem, "The Undressing" by Li-Y...
Sonnets
In this episode, Isaac, Sean, and Anastasia talk about sonnets! In talking about Shakespeare's sonnet 9, Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias." and Terrance Ha...
Poems of Address
In this episode we discuss poems of address and we read "The Sun Rising" by John Donne; "To Sleep" by John Keats ; and "The Applicant" by Sylvia Plath...
Persona Poems
In this episode, the team talks about persona poems and--spoiler alert!--finds that persona poems might not have as much to do with voicing as we expe...
Short Poems
In this episode, Isaac, Sean, and Anastasia work through the weirdness of short poems. First we go through three different translations of the same Ba...