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Poems for Company

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  • On this theme-based show, host Brian Dillon reads and comments on poems from the ancient world to the present. Topics include Unlived Lives, Inanimate Objects, Swimming, Advice, and Unrequited love, among many others.
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  • Poems for Company - July 22nd, 2024

    Poems for Company - July 22nd, 2024
    Jul 22 2024
    “Swimming”: We dive in with two action-packed excerpts from ancient poetic narratives. Both depict heroic swimmers moving through dangerous waters. This episode concludes with a contemporary American poet’s solitary naked swim in a pond in the early morning mist. Homer, The Odyssey (trans. Robert Fitzgerald), from Book V, lines 403-408, 415-437, 441-486. Beowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney), lines 506-510, 515-518, 532-581 (Norton, 2000). Maxime Kumin, “Morning Swim,” from Selected Poems 1960-1990 (Norton), used by kind permission of the Maxine Kumin Literary Trust. {Splash!, by Howard Means, provided useful, entertaining context.} The show’s theme music is Philip Aaberg’s “Going-to-the-Sun,” from his CD Live from Montana (available at sweetgrassmusic.com) and used with kind permission of...
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    29 m
  • Poems for Company - June 24th, 2024

    Poems for Company - June 24th, 2024
    Jun 24 2024
    “Meta-Verse”: The four poems on this episode make a virtue out of being self-conscious. Each poem comments on the very poem we’re reading. The poem pulls back the curtain and reveals the composing process. Or at least that’s what the poem pretends to do. Billy Collins, “The Suggestion Box,” from Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (Random House, 2013). Stephen Dunn, “Bad,” from The Not Yet Fallen World: New and Selected Poems (Norton, 2022). W. B. Yeats, “When You Are Old.” Lawrence Raab, “Request,” from Visible Signs (Penguin, 2003) and used with kind permission of the author. The show’s theme music is Philip Aaberg’s “Going-to-the-Sun,” from...
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    29 m
  • Poems for Company - May 27th, 2024

    Poems for Company - May 27th, 2024
    May 27 2024
    “Where Is My Home?” (Part 2): The four poems on this episode address this question from a variety of perspectives: home as an imaginary place; home valued for the quality of one’s neighbors; home as a portable existence, a van; and home as the indoor / outdoor zone where multiple generations in a family live together over many years. W. B. Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree.” T’ao Ch’ien, “Moving House,” from A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, translated by Arthur Waley (Knopf, 1919). Linds Sanders, “Those Places We Melt Into,” from Quibble Lit, Issue 4: Muddle, Summer 2022 (see lindssanders.com), and used...
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    29 m
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