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S1E42 SE01E42 | You Said, I Agreed | Anita Nair
Two lovers. Facts. And what seems to be an agreeable conversation. Anita Nair employs these elements across six verses that appear to tell an ordinary tale. This episode wonders about that very…
S1E41 SE01E41 | Success is Counted Sweetest | Emily Dickinson
High-octane superlative adjectives and people who have “made it” are the usual suspects employed to define success. Can you ignore them all though and yet get to know success face to face? This…
S1E40 SE01E40 | The Poet's Grave | Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
A dead poet. The other the first to write English poems in India. The ocean. Seamews. The shore. The usual opera of nature. And a 19th-century poem. This episode unearths the elements of The Poet’s…
S1E37 SE01E39 | DIY02: About The Allegation in Episode 38
In Episode 38, I said I wasn't sure whether Auden did write 'Give Me a Doctor'. Well, I cannot say that anymore. This episode tells you why. Instagram: icouldthinkofverse Transcript:…
S1E38 SE01E38 | DIY02: Give Me a Doctor | W. H. Auden
A doctor, a patient, and a poem conspire to make you laugh. And this episode offers you questions to deconstruct them all—the alleged laugh including. (00:00) Before You Begin (00:57) An…
S1E37 SE01E37 | #workshop | The Object of Your (Dis)Affection | An Afterthought
Does it make sense for the human in you to employ AI to complete this workshop? Think about it; write down your reasons; and then listen in. Instagram: icouldthinkofverse Transcript: …
S1E36 SE01E36 | #workshop | The Object of Your (Dis)Affection | 5: Shape, Size, Rhyme, and Verse
Part 5 might antagonize you into rethinking the shape and size of your rhyme and verse. Proceed with caution. Instagram: icouldthinkofverse Transcript: https://bit.ly/4gW5wzd Background Score: Glass…
S1E35 SE01E35 | #workshop | The Object of Your (Dis)Affection | 4: The Chopping Table
Part 4 brings out the knives and the sewing kit: You’ll rip—and quilt lexical patches—into your writing to bring your verses alive. Instagram: icouldthinkofverse Transcript: …
S1E34 SE01E34 | #workshop | The Object of Your (Dis)Affection | 3: Marination
Part 3 asks you to let your words stew for a while. Come back to it later, it says; and it also tells you why. Instagram: icouldthinkofverse Transcript: https://bit.ly/3NeygFU Background Score:…
S1E33 SE01E33 | #workshop | The Object of Your (Dis)Affection | 2: In Conversation With Your Object
Part 2 invites you into a conversation—be it chatty or usually awkward—with the object under your scrutiny. Instagram: icouldthinkofverse Transcript: https://bit.ly/47WkjWG Background Score: Glass of…
S1E32 SE01E32 | #workshop | The Object of Your (Dis)Affection | 1: Finding The Object
Part 1 of this poetry workshop works with you to find an object—and thus, an objective—for your verses. Instagram: icouldthinkofverse Transcript: https://bit.ly/3zPfFgI Background Score: Glass of…
S1E31 SE01E31 | #filmswithpoems | In Her Shoes
In Her Shoes stars Cameron Diaz, Shirley MacLaine, Toni Collette, and, of course, Elizabeth Bishop’s One Art. And yes, it led to Episode 30 of this podcast. So, is the film worth your time at all?…
S1E30 SE01E30 | One Art | Elizabeth Bishop
Door keys, places, names, and some badly spent hours peer over Elizabeth Bishop’s shoulder as she writes this villanelle about losing them all. This episode investigates why Bishop wrote them all—and…
S1E29 SE01E29 | On Being Brought from Africa to America | Phillis Wheatley
Christianity. Slavery. The first African American woman poet. And her poem that knits them all into its pulsating daring exploding nucleus. This episode brings out many a lens to examine the patterns…
S1E28 SE01E28 | Résumé | Dorothy Parker
Work experience seems to have been studiously kept out of this biographical summary of a career. So, this episode sifts through this Résumé to find out whether its writer hid any of that between its…
S1E27 SE01E27 | Dishes | Megha Harish
A mundane diary entry. A deciding moment at the kitchen sink. Or a reverie on a bothersome afternoon. We hold Megha Harish’s Dishes to the light in this episode to see whether all of that and more…
S1E26 SE01E26 | DIY01: This is My Letter to The World | Emily Dickinson
Why that letter? What world? What be the message? and other such questions are what you’re going to find answers to—quite literally—on your own. Here’s the transcript: https://bit.ly/47w5dFp You’ll…
S1E25 SE01E25 | In You The Earth | Pablo Neruda
A chance conversation, a confession, and the very controversial Nobel laureate—all sit alongside one another to make sense of this poem. This six-part episode grabs them all by the collar and asks…
S1E24 SE01E24 | The Unknown Citizen | W.H. Auden
A laundry list of observations, a man startlingly similar to an automated assembly line, and the question of happiness and freedom. This episode inspects these and the threads that bind them into the…
S1E23 SE01E23: Scandal | Lola Ridge | 3
A window in a village, Mars (of all things!), the Moon (not unsurprisingly), winds, canyons, Neptune and a skyscraper find themselves strung into a poem of 12 lines. Is that a scandal? Or what…
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