Read Me A Poem Podcast

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These poems have traveled a long way to find you. In each episode, listen to a soothing poem and learn a little about who the poet is and why they are interesting. Find out more at https://readmeapoem.com/

Hailey Petway


    • Oct 1, 2021 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 7m AVG DURATION
    • 20 EPISODES


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    20: Aubade in Autumn

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2021


    In this episode we welcome the beginning of fall with Peter Everwine's beautiful and contemplative dawn song.

    19: Failure

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2021 4:16


    In this episode, we read the titular poem from Schultz's Pulitzer prize-winning Failure.

    18: Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2021 10:25


    In this extra-long episode, we take on this epic poem by Bob Dylan.

    17: Ode To My Period Underwear

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2021


    In this episode, we explore one of Olivia Gatwood's odes.

    16: One Hundred Love Sonnets XVII

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2021


    Let’s explore one of Pablo Neruda’s most famous love poems. In this episode, I am joined by guest reader Otto Martinez to take a look at the poem in both English and Spanish. This is the 17th poem in One Hundred Love Sonnets, a collection inspired by and dedicated to his wife Matilde.

    15: Medlars and Sorb Apples

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2021


    I love you, rotten, delicious rottenness..

    apples medlars
    14: Birches

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 25, 2020


    The best way out is always through.

    13: Annabel Lee

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2020


    Let’s celebrate Halloween with one more poem from our prince of darkness, Edgar Allen Poe. In this episode, we explore the beautiful ballad Annabel Lee and Poe’s Poetic Principle.

    12: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2020


    In this extra-special, extra-long episode we explore T.S. Eliot’s famous love song. This poem continues with the horror theme and begins with an epigraph, or six-line quotation, in the original Italian from Canto 27 of Dante’s Inferno. References to Dante pop-up a lot in Eliot’s work. The epigraph hints that the poem that follows is about to describe some type of hell.

    11: Ulalume

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2020


    Enjoy Poe's October themed poem about the loss of love.

    10: Hermes of the Ways

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2020


    Take five minutes to enjoy one of the earliest Imagist poems by H.D and to learn about one of America's most avant-garde poets.

    09: [i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2020


    “There’s a hell of a good universe next door, lets go.”

    08: Phenomenal Woman

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2020


    Take five minutes to enjoy one of the most famous poems by Maya Angelou, and to learn a little about one of America's favorite poets.

    07: Song of Myself Verse 52

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2020


    The poetic I of Song of Myself connects with readers across time and space, and asserts Whitman’s belief that through poetry we pass on humankind’s greatest wisdom.

    06: Among Women

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2020


    Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

    05: Song

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2020


    For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

    04: A Perfect Mess

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2020


    In this episode, we will read A Perfect Mess by Mary Karr and speak briefly about who she is and why she's interesting.

    03: Brown Penny

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2020


    O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it.

    02: The Geranium

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2020


    The greenhouse is my symbol for the whole of life, a womb, a heaven on earth.

    01: The Garden By Moonlight

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2020


    And you are quiet like the garden, And white like the alyssum flowers, And beautiful as the silent sparks of the fireflies.

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