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When was the last time you wrote a poem? Or studied a poem, or read one? Or even thought about poetry at all? Chances are, more recently than you think, particularly if you listen to popular music, if you read, or even watch Netflix. If this podcast has a central idea, it is that poetry still has a place in connecting humans to a shared experience, and that exploring the ideas of poetry outside of university and high school classroom yields something more rich and meaningful. Let’s take poet ...
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The liminal space at the beach, where lands meet sea and vice versa, also brings us to a liminal space in our pysche as well, where we can be both alive in moment, flush with memories of the past, and sober about our mortality. Join for a brief exploration of this theme in Sarah Dickenson Snyder's poem 'Eve at the Beach.'…
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Authority, identity, causality, being able to view your role and privilege through the lens of another - these all feels like very modern, very meta concerns. But are they? Around roughly 800 CE, in China's Tang dynasty, Bao Juyi wrestled with these same concerns, with both an incisiveness and lightness that might be instructiveness for our modern,…
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