Poetry for the People

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For centuries, poetry was a unifying force in society: farmers and aristocrats alike shared a common knowledge and participated, to a large extent, in a common poetic story. Nowadays, things have changed. Poetry has been pigeon-holed to the classroom or the academy, and therefore become less approac…

Clinton and Sarah Collister

  • Feb 9, 2021 LATEST EPISODE
  • infrequent NEW EPISODES
  • 28m AVG DURATION
  • 10 EPISODES


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S1: Episode 9

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2021 27:05


In this episode, we consider the poems by two Johns of two different eras; John Clegg and John Heath-Stubbs. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/poetryforthepeople/message

S1: Episode 8

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2020 42:18


In this episode, we discuss a grand poem by Mary Jo Salter and a classic by the Bard, William Shakespeare.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/poetryforthepeople/message

S1: Episode 7

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2020 26:33


In this episode, we explore the lovely poetry of Catharine Savage Brosman and Paul Valery. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/poetryforthepeople/message

S1: Episode 6

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2020 27:17


In this episode, we explore a poem by Brett Foster and one of his influences, Cecco Angiolieri (who was a contemporary of Dante!).  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/poetryforthepeople/message

S1: Episode 5

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2019 25:46


In this episode, we discuss the poetry of two distinct poets: T.S. Eliot and Robert Crawford.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/poetryforthepeople/message

S1: Episode 4

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2019 27:53


In this episode, we discuss two poems: "The Angel with the Broken Wing" by Dana Gioia and "October Maples" by Richard Wilbur.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/poetryforthepeople/message

S1: Episode 3

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2019 30:37


In this special episode, we discuss the poem "The Sugar Shack" by Daniel Rattelle. We also consider one of the poets who influenced him, Alfred Lord Tennyson.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/poetryforthepeople/message

S1: Episode 2

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2019 24:19


In this episode, we read and discuss 2 poems related to the great country of Ireland: "From a Bench in St. Stephen's Green" by James Matthew Wilson and "Adam's Curse" William Butler Yeats.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/poetryforthepeople/message

S1: Episode 1

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2019 24:34


This week, the Collisters consider an unlikely connection between 2 unique poems: "Los Periquitos" by A.M. Juster and "Book I, Ode IX of Horace," translated by John Dryden.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/poetryforthepeople/message

S1: Pilot

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2019 30:15


The Collisters kick off their first podcast with 2 great poems: "Like" by A.E. Stallings and "Sestina" by Elizabeth Bishop. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/poetryforthepeople/message

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