Best Siobhan Daniels Podcasts (2025)

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Siobhan Phillips on Marianne Moore ("Armor's Undermining Modesty") 1:47:12

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"What is more precise than precision? Illusion." I talked with my friend, the scholar Siobhan Phillips, about Marianne Moore's poem "Armor's Undermining Modesty." Siobhan Phillips is a professor of English at Dickinson College, where she teaches courses on American literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, food studies, and creative w…

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Megan Quigley on T. S. Eliot ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock") 2:06:59

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"Do I dare / Disturb the universe?" I've been waiting to record this episode for a long time: Megan Quigley, my dear friend and colleague, joins the podcast to talk about T. S. Eliot and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Megan Quigley is an associate professor of English at Villanova University, where she is also on the Irish Studies and Gende…

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Daniel Katz on Jack Spicer ("Psychoanalysis: An Elegy") 1:27:03

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How is a poem like a session of psychoanalysis? The scholar Daniel Katz joins the podcast to talk about a fascinating poem that poses that question, Jack Spicer's "Psychoanalysis: An Elegy." Daniel Katz is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick and is the author of several books and articles on modernism,…

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Lindsay Turner on Alice Notley (Waltzing Matilda: "Dec. 12, 1980") 1:27:43

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The third in our series of conversations about the late Alice Notley. Lindsay Turner returns to the podcast to discuss a selection from Waltzing Matilda, "Dec. 12, 1980." A poet, critic, and translator, Lindsay Turner is the author of the poetry collections The Upstate (University of Chicago Press, 2023) and Songs & Ballads (Prelude Books, 2018). H…

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Joyelle McSweeney on Alice Notley (The Descent of Alette) 1:40:47

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The second in a series of conversations about the poet Alice Notley, who passed away on May 19, 2025. The poet and critic Joyelle McSweeney joins the podcast to talk about selections from Notley's epic The Descent of Alette. (A brief note on audio quality: we listen to three recordings of Notley reading from her book during this episode. The volume…

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Nick Sturm on Alice Notley ("At Night the States") 2:02:59

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After a long break, the podcast returns with an episode on the late Alice Notley, who passed away on May 19, 2025. Nick Sturm joins us to discuss Notley's elegy for her husband Ted Berrigan, "At Night the States." Nick Sturm teaches at Georgia State University in Atlanta. His book on small press print culture, publishing communities, and the New Yo…

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Patient led research with Siobhan Gaynor 44:33

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Today on the podcast we are joined by Siobhan Gaynor who talks to us about her research on the metestatic breast cancer patients experiences and needs. Her mission is to hopefully make the path for others living with metestatic breast cancer more gently. Thank you for joining us Siobhan we learned so much from this conversation .…

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Menopause with Kate Pleace 33:48

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Today on the podcast we are joined by Kate Pleace also know as Fertility_menopause_support on instagram. We loved this episode and Kates passion really shines through so we hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

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Exercise and Cancer with Clare Kelly and Amy Walsh 1:15:43

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This is a rerelease of one of our most loved episodes on exercise and cancer with Clare Kelly and Amy Walsh who are experts in this area and champion movement before, during and after treatment. We hope you enjoy it and learn as much as we did

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Sarcoma Cancer- Carols story and Sarcoma Cancer Ireland 50:41

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This week on the Answers for Cancers podcast to mark sarcoma cancer awareness month we have 2 special episodes. On the second episode we are joined by Carol Haslam who kindly shares her experience of recieving a diagnosis of sarcoma. She also discusses the incredible role of Sarcoma Cancer Ireland who just recently recieved charity status. We would…

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Sarcoma cancer with Dr Mark Doherty and Prof Charles Gillham 50:35

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This week on the Answers for Cancers podcast to mark sarcoma cancer awareness month we have 2 special episodes. The first is with Dr Mark Doherty a medical oncologist at St Vincents hospital Dublin and Prof Charles Gillham a radiation oncologist at St. Lukes hospital Dublin. They join us to discuss this rare cancer and they explain the signs and sy…

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Huda Fakhreddine on Hiba Abu Nada ("Pull Yourself Together") 1:30:30

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What can a poem do in the face of calamity? This was an extraordinary conversation. Huda Fakhreddine joins the podcast to discuss "Pull Yourself Together," a poem that Huda has translated into English and that was written by the Palestinian poet, novelist, and educator Hiba Abu Nada. Hiba was killed by an Israeli airstrike in her home in the Gaza S…

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Bowel cancer awareness month: A Patients story with Carmel Drohan with friend and surgeon Prof Ann Brannigan 1:13:58

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As April is bowel cancer awareness month we are delighted to have a bonus episode for our listeners. We are joined by Carmel Drohan who was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer in 2015 and she talks us through her experience to date. Carmel has had multiple surgerys and chemotherapy treatments and we are extremely grateful to her for sharing her sto…

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Emily Wilson on Sappho ("Ode to Aphrodite") 1:27:15

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This is the kind of conversation I dreamed about having when I began this podcast. Emily Wilson joins Close Readings to talk about Sappho's "Ode to Aphrodite," a poet and poem at the root of the lyric tradition in European poetry. You'll hear Emily read the poem in the Ancient Greek and then again in Anne Carson's English translation. We talk about…

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Robert Volpicelli on W. H. Auden ("In Memory of W. B. Yeats") 1:52:26

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"Poetry," according to this episode's poem, "makes nothing happen." But as our guest, Robert Volpicelli, makes clear, that poem, W. H. Auden's "In Memory of W. B. Yeats," offers that statement not as diminishment of poetry but instead as a way of valuing it for the right reasons. Robert Volpicelli is an associate professor of English at Randolph-Ma…

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Margaret Ronda on Walt Whitman ("This Compost") 1:49:36

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How does life grow from death? When we taste a fruit, are we, in some sense, ingesting everything the soil contains? Margaret Ronda joins the podcast to discuss a poem that poses these questions in harrowing ways, Walt Whitman's "This Compost." [A note on the recording: from 01:10:11 - 01:12:59, Margaret briefly loses her internet connection and I …

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Michelle A. Taylor on Patricia Lockwood ("The Ode on Grecian Urn") 1:56:45

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What is a poem worth? What does beauty do to the person who wants it, or to the person who makes it? Michelle A. Taylor joins the pod to talk about Patricia Lockwood's poem "The Ode on a Grecian Urn," a wild and funny and ultimately quite moving poem (which is also, obviously, a riff on Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn"). Michelle A. Taylor is a Postd…

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Sylvie Thode on Tim Dlugos ("The Far West") 1:32:58

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How might a poem map the passage from life to death? Sylvie Thode joins the podcast to talk about a fascinating poem by Tim Dlugos, "The Far West." Sylvie is a graduate student in English at UC Berkeley, where she works on poetry and poetics, with particular interest in the poetry of the HIV/AIDS crisis. Though that focus roots her in the 20th cent…

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Marisa Galvez on William IX ("The Song of Nothing") 1:03:44

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For the first time in the run of this podcast (though certainly not the last!) today we have a poem in translation. Marisa Galvez joins Close Readings to discuss "The Song of Nothing," a poem by the first attested troubadour, William IX. The poem is something like 900 years old, and Marisa helps us see both its strangeness and the sense in which it…

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Stephanie Burt on Allan Peterson ("I thought all life came from the alphabet") 1:23:01

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Very few scholars have as much enthusiasm for poetry as Stephanie Burt, and so it was a delight to have her back for this episode. Steph has been in the news of late for offering a (very popular) course at Harvard on Taylor Swift, and we begin this episode by talking in fascinating ways about the long history of the relation between popular music a…

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Paul Fry on William Wordsworth ("A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal") 1:31:17

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Some of the most profound insights I have ever had as a student of poetry occurred in the classroom of Paul Fry, and so this episode really is a dream for me. Paul Fry joins the podcast to talk about William Wordsworth's poem "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal." Just an eight-line poem, but it opens for us into some big questions: Where does Wordsworth …

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Keegan Cook Finberg on Harryette Mullen ("Dim Lady") 1:32:35

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What kind of love do we find in comparison? Keegan Cook FInberg joins the podcast to discuss Harryette Mullen's poem "Dim Lady," which is simultaneously a love poem and a (perhaps?) loving tribute to Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 (itself a love poem and parody). Keegan is an assistant professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.…

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Eric Lindstrom on James Schuyler ("Empathy and New Year") 2:00:05

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"New Year is nearly here / and who, knowing himself, would / endanger his desires / resolving them / in a formula?" So asks James Schuyler in this episode's poem, "Empathy and New Year." No resolutions for me this year, but instead an indulgence, a gift to myself, and I hope to you: my friend Eric Lindstrom rejoins the podcast to talk once again ab…

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David B. Hobbs on George Oppen ("Ballad") 1:57:10

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Why might a poet set poetry aside for more than two decades and then return to it? What would the return sound like? When, as a young man, George Oppen stopped writing poetry, it was because, in his words, "I couldn't make the art I wanted to make while also pursuing the politics I wanted to pursue." David Hobbs joins the podcast to discuss "Ballad…

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Jahan Ramazani on Derek Walcott ("A Far Cry from Africa") 1:41:42

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How can a poet choose between his language and his idea of home? A postcolonial turn this week, as Jahan Ramazani joins the podcast to talk about Derek Walcott's "A Far Cry from Africa." Jahan Ramazani is University Professor and Edgar F. Professor and the Director of Modern and Global Studies in the Department of English at the University of Virgi…

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Elisa Gabbert on Sylvia Plath ("Lady Lazarus") 1:42:46

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What a searching, stimulating conversation this was. Elisa Gabbert joins the podcast to talk about a poem she and I have both long loved, Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus." Elisa is a poet, critic, and essayist—and the author of several books. Her recent titles include Normal Distance (Soft Skull, 2022), The Unreality of Memory (FSG Originals, 2020), a…

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Hanif Abdurraqib on Umang Kalra ("Job Security") 1:13:10

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A conversation I've been wanting to have for a long time: Hanif Abdurraqib joins the podcast to talk about Umang Kalra's poem "Job Security." Hanif is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He is the author of A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance, A Fortune for Your Disaster, Go Ahead in the Rain: Note…

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Ellen Bryant Voigt on Louise Glück ("Brooding Likeness") 1:05:29

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The last of three episodes in our cluster on Louise Glück: one of her oldest and dearest friends, the marvelous poet Ellen Bryant Voigt joins the podcast to talk about Louise's poem "Brooding Likeness." Ellen's books of poetry have recently been assembled into a staggering single volume, Collected Poems (Norton, 2023). She is also the author of two…

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Langdon Hammer on Louise Glück ("A Foreshortened Journey") 1:24:52

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The second episode in our cluster on the great Louise Glück, who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, and who passed away on October 13. Lanny Hammer rejoins the podcast to talk about his friend and colleague Louise and her poem "A Foreshortened Journey." Langdon Hammer is Niel Gray, Jr. Professor of English at Yale University, where he studies …

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Elisa Gonzalez on Louise Glück ("A Village Life") 1:43:40

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After a little hiatus, the podcast returns with a cluster of new episodes on the great, late poet Louise Glück, recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. Louise passed away on October 13. First up we have the brilliant poet and writer Elisa Gonzalez, who knew Louise as both teacher and friend. Elisa has chosen the poem "A Village Life" for o…

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The impacts of prostate cancer treatment on men and their partners with Martin Sweeney 27:23

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Today on the podcast we are joined by the wonderful Martin Sweeney who's joins us today to speak about support for men after a cancer diagnosis. Martin speaks about his own diagnosis of prostate cancer in 2015 and how the support recieved particularly from arc cancer support led him to becoming a group facilitator for men with prostate cancer and h…

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Exercise & Cancer with Clare Kelly and Amy Walsh 1:16:05

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This week on the podcast we are joined by Clare Kelly and Amy Walsh champions for promoting exercise before treatment and after treatment and during and living with a cancer diagnosis. This episode is dedicated to shedding light on how physical activity can be a lifeline of hope for cancer patients. We'll be joined by experts who will share their i…

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Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer Patients with Dr Daniel Cagney 30:54

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This week on the podcast we are joined by Dr Daniel Cagney to discuss Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer Patients . Dr. Daniel Cagney is clinical director of radiation oncology at Mater Private Hospital, Dublin and network director of stereotactic radiation. Dr. Cagney’s internship and general medical training was in the Mercy Hospital Cork and Beaumon…

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LGFB Ireland Mary Drummond bonus episode 28:20

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On today's episode of the answersforcancers podcast we have a special bonus episode for you! Today we will be chatting with Mary Drummond, who is a make up artist for LGFB Ireland and her history with skin care. Look Good Feel Good Ireland is renowned for its unwavering commitment to helping cancer fighters and survivors feel their best, both insid…

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Patient Story on Breast Cancer with Aine 1:04:15

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This week on the podcast we are joined by Aine who shares her story from her beginnings and her journey through life with a breast cancer diagnosis. Through her words, we gain insight into the highs and lows of the cancer journey, the importance of a supportive community, and the incredible impact of maintaining a positive outlook. This episode is …

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LGFB Ireland The Skin Nerd Jennifer Rock bonus episode 46:23

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On today's episode of the answersforcancers podcast we have a special bonus episode for you! Today we will be chatting with Jennifer Rock, who is the CEO of the Skin Nerd and her history with skin care. Look Good Feel Good Ireland is renowned for its unwavering commitment to helping cancer fighters and survivors feel their best, both inside and out…

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Metastatic Breast Cancer with Mikel Ross 44:22

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This week on the podcast we are joined by Mikel Ross to discuss metastatic breast cancer along with its advancements and treatments.Mikel Ross, MSN, RN, AGPCNP-BC, OCN, CBCN is a board certified nurse practitioner on the breast medicine service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. In this role, he collaborates with an interdiscipl…

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LGFB Ireland Annabel O'Keeffe bonus episode 17:55

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On today's episode of the answersforcancers podcast we have a special bonus episode for you! Today we will be chatting with Annabel O'Keeffe, who is the General Manager of Look Good Feel Better and her history with the organisation. Look Good Feel Good Ireland is renowned for its unwavering commitment to helping cancer fighters and survivors feel t…

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Breast cancer genetics with Dr Karen Cadoo 28:30

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This week on the podcast we are joined by Dr Karen Cadoo to discuss breast cancer genetics. Dr Cadoo kindly joined us last season on the podcast for our world GO day special when we discussed gynaecological oncology genetics. Today we discuss the benifits and risks of genetic testing, the importance of knowing family history when possible, gene mut…

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Finding calm in cancer with Dr Sinead Lynch 46:50

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Today on the podcast we are delighted to be joined by Dr Sinead Lynch senior councilling psychologist in the Mater hospital Dublin and a member of the psychoncology team, an extremly valuable service to cancer patients that was started in 2021. Dr Lynch explains to us on the podcast how events in her personal life led her to a career caring for can…

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A Cancer Diagnosis and Sexual Fuction with Linsey Blair 43:43

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This week on the podcast we are joined by Linsey Blair to discuss cancer diagnosis and sexual functions. A special thank you to Pfizer healthcare Ireland for sponsoring this episode of the podcast.

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Jeff Dolven on Sir Thomas Wyatt ("They Flee from Me") 1:47:28

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"Dear heart, how like you this?" There's really nothing better than that, is there? I talked to Jeff Dolven about Sir Thomas Wyatt's gorgeous poem "They Flee from Me." It's one of the hottest poems I know, and after talking to Jeff I know it much better. Jeff Dolven is Professor of English at Princeton University, where he teaches courses in poetry…

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Lymphedema after cancer with Clare Kelly part 2 36:54

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Today on the podcast we have part 2 of our episode on lymphedema after cancer with Clare Kelly. We have split this episode into two parts as it is packed full of information by 2 incredible specialists so we felt they needed their own episode. If you have not listened to part 1 with Monica Conway we suggest you go back and listen to this episode fi…

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Lymphedema after cancer with Monica Conway Part1 39:30

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WE ARE BACK!! Today on the podcast we are discussing lymphedema after cancer with Monica Conway and Clare Kelly. We have split this episode into two parts as it is packed full of information by these 2 incredible specialists so we felt they needed their own episode. Monica and Clare have extensive experience helping people recover after a cancer di…

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Matthew Zapruder on James Tate ("Quabbin Reservoir") 1:35:48

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How is poetry like skipping stones across the surface of a lake? How might a poem be like an undelivered letter or package? Matthew Zapruder joins the podcast to talk about James Tate's "Quabbin Reservoir," a poem that raises those and other questions—and does so with Tate's gorgeous ear for weird idiom, full of both humor and feeling. (For the bac…

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Priscilla Gilman on William Cowper ("The Castaway") 1:26:02

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How does suffering separate the person going through it from their friends and loved ones? Priscilla Gilman joins the podcast to talk about a poem that takes on that question in literal terms—it tells the tragic story of a sailor who drowns as his shipmates are forced to sail away—and that sees it, at the same time, as a question we all have to fac…

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Kristin Grogan on Lorine Niedecker ("Poet's Work") 1:25:23

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What kind of work is the work of poetry, and how does it compare with other kinds of labor? We have the perfect pairing of poem and critic to think through that question on this episode: Kristin Grogan joins the podcast to talk about Lorine Niedecker's "Poet's Work." Kristin is assistant professor of English at Rutgers University, where she works o…

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Gillian White on Elizabeth Bishop ("Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance") 1:45:32

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What if life were like a book that you could open at will and know in real time? Gillian White joins the podcast to talk about Elizabeth Bishop's fascinating poem "Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance." Gillian is an associate professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, where she also…

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Walt Hunter on Gwendolyn Brooks ("kitchenette building") 1:17:36

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What a delight this was, to talk to my friend Walt Hunter about the marvelous Gwendolyn Brooks poem "kitchenette building." Walt is an associate professor and the Chair of the Department of English at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of two books of criticism: Forms of a World: Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization (F…

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Evan Kindley on Kenneth Koch ("One Train May Hide Another") 1:35:16

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How should we deal with the fact that we have to read the lines of a poem in order, one after another—or, for that matter, that we have to live our days one after the other? That's some of what comes up in my conversation with Evan Kindley about Kenneth Koch and his funny, didactic, and haunting poem "One Train May Hide Another." Evan is an associa…