What's this? No scandal? A good man, writing good things who ends up in Greece (not exiled, just alone, but not alone at all) It's Robert Lax on What are Poems!
He is on the pulse of Late-60's New York City. A friend of all artist -- Frank O'Hara. I discuss a harrowing tale of hammers I heard second hand.
Two men choke on grapes in this episode.
NPR contributor, poet, and philosopher Baxter Black's poems are read. I regret making fun of Ronald Reagan in a twist of fate I never saw coming.
It's everyone in England's biggest crush: Rupert Brooke.
It's a vivid, quick, important life on What Are Poems today. It's reaching back for inspiration and that inspiration reverberating for generations. Hey! Have you ever had a Rolling Rock Beer?
Abraham Lincoln may or may not have written a poem about suicide in 1838. A reading, an investigation, thoughts of Lizzie McGuire.
The sister of William Wordsworth gets some thoughts. My buddy Phil reads a poem at around 4 AM in my home. My buddy Noah says "May I?" A little taste of friendship and the friends we keep on WHAT ARE POEMS.
It's Ginsberg. He's just as I thought he would be.
Number 50! and it's Gerda Mayer (refugee, poet) OPERATION KINDERTRANSPORT. What happened in Jim Thorpe?
Quick holiday episode, folks! My thoughts on the top, Amy Lowell mentions a rabbit, we wish each other well.
Stumbled upon this Don Welch fella. Got into his poems, kept reading them throughout the whole podcast. Neat one. Quiet one. What are Poems.
It's Ovid on a LATE NIGHT EPISODE of WHAT ARE POEMS. Hey! How about Ovid? He's not raised by horse people (I just haven't gone to bed yet) but he is writing erotic poems in Ancient Rome. Here we go.
She's born when the only thing going on is shoeing horses. She founds Boston (James Brown saves it) She's writing poetry (All the men are shaking their heads) It's Anne Bradstreet. (The Queen of Clam Chowder)
You want to feel like you haven't done anything yet today? Get a load of the life and times of Pauli Murray (lawyer, priest, activist, author and poet)
