Poet and teacher Lisa Dordal joins us to talk about memory, the imagination, clearing up misconceptions about poetry, and so much more!
Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay
Episode artwork: Leon Kowalsi, Nostalgia (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commmons.
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Claire-Louise Bennett Pond
Joe Brainard I Remember
Oliver Burkeman Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Willa Cather Lucy Gayheart
Gaius Valerius Catullus Catullus: The Complete Poetry, transl. Frank. O. Copley
Leonard Cohen "Anthem"
Julio Cortázar Hopscotch
Simon Critchley The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology
Simon Critchley Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance
Lisa Dordal Mosaic of the Dark
Lisa Dordal Next Time You Come Home
Lisa Dordal Water Lessons
T. S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Vilém Flusser Gestures
David Guterson Snow Falling on Cedars
Martin Heidegger Poetry, Language, Thought
Jack Kerouac On the Road
Maxine Kumin "Woodchucks"
Julie Otsuka When the Emperor Was Divine
Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time series
Patrick Radden Keefe Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Rumi "A Great Wagon"
Percy Bysshe Shelley "Ozymandias"
Clint Smith Above Ground
Clint Smith How the Word Is Passed
Thao Thai Banyan Moon
Antonio Zadra/Robert Stickgold When Brains Dream: Understanding the Science and Mystery of Our Dreaming Minds
