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Poetry For AllEpisode 91: Joanne Diaz, Two EmergenciesIn this episode, Katy Didden and Abram Van Engen discuss the extraordinary leaps, narrative disjunctions, and temporal frames that fill Diaz's extraordinary ekphrastic poem, a reflection on Bruegel's painting, "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" written in conversation with W.H. Auden's poem "Musée des Beaux Arts."
"Two Emergencies," appears in My Favorite Tyrants (University of Wisconsin Press 2014), winner of the 2014 Brittingham Prize in Poetry.
For more poetry of Joanne Diaz, see also The Lessons (Silverfish Review Press 2011), winner of the Gerald Cable Book Award.
For W.H. Auden's "Musee des Beaux A...2025-04-2424 min
Kostis & McCord - Off Their RockersPinehurst Making Par Threes Fun Again!From Pinehurst’s fantastic Par 3 course, The Cradle, Peter and Gary bring you another episode of their hit YouTube series and Podcast, "Kostis & McCord Off Their Rockers" a GOLF Production. The guys discuss the trend that’s actually growing the game of golf, Par 3 courses. And Peter, Gary and producer Mike Abram play a few holes and check out The Cradle. Coach Kostis shares another great tip to help your game.
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Kostis & McCord Off Their Rockers, a GOLF Production is brought to you in partnership with Golf Magazine and Golf.com, Peter Kostis and Gary...2024-08-2724 min
Poetry For AllWord Made Fresh (and Exciting Updates)We're interrupting your summer this week with a few exciting updates about Poetry For All and an excerpt from Abram Van Engen's newly released book, Word Made Fresh.
If you want to join Abram for a book launch online on July 9 at 4pm Eastern, register for free by clicking this link.
And if you want a free subscription to Image Journal, which is an incredible faith and arts magazine, check out this offer here by clicking this link.
You can see the book here: https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802883605/word-made-fresh/
Or at...2024-07-0112 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 71: Hopkins, As Kingfishers Catch FireThis episode dives into the wonderful world of Gerard Manley Hopkins, the musicality of his language, and the vision he has of becoming what we already are.
This poem illustrates the cover of Abram Van Engen's new book, Word Made Fresh. The book explores connections between poetry and faith, and it serves as an invitation to reading poetry of all kinds--with tools and tips for how to get started and explore broadly.
Special thanks to John Hendrix for the cover illustration of Word Made Fresh, which is an illustration of "As Kingfishers Catch Fire."
2024-04-1823 minKostis & McCord - Off Their RockersFinancial Fore-play? Kostis & McCord Off Their Rockers Talk SSG’s PGA Tour Investment in Episode 19Iconic golf legends, Peter Kostis and Gary McCord, are back with a new episode of their hit YouTube series and Podcast, "Kostis & McCord Off Their Rockers". In yet another emergency Tour news show, the guys discuss the why’s, the what’s and the maybe’s of the Strategic Sports Group’s potential $3 Billion investment into the new, “for profit” PGA Tour Enterprise and how it affects the PIF and LIV agreement. Help your game with a great lesson from Coach Kostis to help us control our bodies to make our swing, and game, more consistent. And we have a report fro...2024-02-0948 min
Poetry For AllGrant Writing BreakThis week, Joanne and Abram take a break to write a grant for the podcast. We very much hope you enjoy Poetry For All. And if you do, please leave us a review, share it with a friend, and let us know! Thank you all for listening.2022-12-0502 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 50: Rafael Campo, Primary CareIn this episode, we discuss how Rafael Campo, a practicing physician, uses blank verse to explore the experience of illness and suffering.
Thanks to the Georges Borchardt, Inc. for granting us permission to read this poem. You can find "Primary Care" in Alternative Medicine (Duke University Press, 2013). Links:Campo reads Primary CareCampo Author PageCampo at the Poetry Foundation2022-09-2622 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 49: Lisel Mueller, When I am AskedIn this episode, we closely read Lisel Mueller's "When I am Asked" in order to better understand grief as a deep source of artistic expression. We look at language as a source of connection and hope, even in the midst of sorrow and solitude. With this poem about the making of poetry (an_ ars poetica_), we come to see how one artist turned to the intricacies of language in the face of a nature that seemed indifferent to her loss.
"When I Am Asked" appears in Alive Together: New and Selected Poems, published by Louisiana State University...2022-09-1219 min
ABRAM PODCASTPENGALAMAN DALAM BERMUSIKDi Podcast ini kita ngobrol soal pengalaman dalam bermusik yang dijalani ABRAM, dan berbagi tips untuk meningkatkan skill sebagai musisi.2022-05-131h 27
Poetry For AllEpisode 48: Joy Harjo, An American SunriseIn this episode, we examine The Golden Shovel form and discuss the idea of "survivance" through the work of Muscogee (Creek) poet Joy Harjo, the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States.
You can find the text of "An American Sunrise" here, though this is an earlier version of the poem. The final version appears in her finished book of the same title, which you can find here.
For an introduction to The Golden Shovel form, see here.Links:Joy Harjo Official Site - Joy HarjoAn American Sunrise by Joy Harjo | Poetry...2022-04-2821 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 47: Walt Whitman, Leaves of GrassIn this episode, Christopher Hanlon joins us to discuss an excerpt from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. We discuss the poem's prophetic voice, its patterns of repetition, the connective tissue that binds his ideas and invites readers in, and the cultural context in which Whitman produced his work.
To read the text of this poem, click here or see below:
To learn more about Walt Whitman and his work, visit the Walt Whitman Archive, a magnificent compendium of information about Whitman's life, cultural context, and editions of Leaves of Grass.
To learn more...2022-04-2226 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 46: Lucille Clifton, spring songLucille Clifton (1936-2010) was one of the most powerful poets of the twentieth century. This joyful poem caps a sequence of sixteen poems called "some jesus," which walks through biblical characters (beginning with Adam and Eve) and ends on four poems for Holy Week and Easter. She wrote other poems on the Bible as well, including "john" and "my dream about the second coming," which reimagine a way into biblical characters to make their stories fresh.
Clifton wrote from the perspective of a Black woman and many of her most famous poems address race and gender. Clear-eyed...2022-04-1317 min
Poetry For AllFrom Talk Easy: Claudia Rankine’s Just Us: An American ConversationWe’re sharing a special preview of a podcast we’ve been enjoying, Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso, from Pushkin Industries. Talk Easy is a weekly interview podcast, where writer Sam Fragoso invites actors, writers, activists, and musicians to come to the table and speak from the heart in ways you probably haven't heard from them before. Driven by curiosity, he’s had revealing conversations with everyone from George Saunders and Cate Blanchett to Ocean Vuong and Gloria Steinem. In this preview, Sam talks with poet Claudia Rankine about her book Just Us: An American Conversation, how history remains presen...2022-04-0315 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 45: Ben Jonson, On My First SonIn this episode, we look at Ben Jonson's elegy for his son who died of the plague at the age of 7. This poem is so brief, and yet, it manages to cross a lot of emotional terrain as Jonson struggles to understand the profundity of his loss.
Here is the poem:
On my First Son
Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy;
My sin was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy.
Seven years tho' wert lent to me, and I thee pay,
Exacted by thy fate, on...2022-03-2321 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 44: Ann Hudson, SoapIn this episode, Ann Hudson joins us to read her poem “Soap” and discuss how its narrative structure allows her to explore the history of science, technology, and our notions of progress and beauty, even when those notions do great harm to ordinary workers.
Ann is the author of two collections of poetry: The Armillary Sphere, which was selected by Mary Kinzie as the winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and published by Ohio University Press; and Glow, published by Next Page Press. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, including Crab Orchard Review, North Amer...2022-03-1623 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 43: Margaret Noodin, What the Peepers SayIn this episode, Margaret Noodin joins us to discuss her poem "What the Peepers Say." In our conversation, we talk about Margaret's writing in both Anishinaabemowin and English, her attention to sounds and rhythms, and what the peeper--a tiny springtime frog--can teach us about presence and listening.
Margaret Noodin is the author of two bilingual collections of poetry in both Anishinaabemowin and English: Weweni and What the Chickadee Knows. She is a professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she also serves as director of the Electa Quinney Institute for Am...2022-03-0224 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 42: Robert Hayden, Frederick DouglassTo read Hayden's poem, click here.
Thanks to W.W. Norton & Company for granting us permission to read this poem. Reginald Dwayne Betts's introduction to the Collected Poems of Robert Hayden is very moving, as is the afterword by Arnold Rampersad.
For a series of insightful observations about Hayden's sonnet, see Ross Gay, Aracelis Girmay, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Patrick Rosal, and Ira Sadoff, "Poets Respond: A Discussion of "Frederick Douglass" by Robert Hayden." American Poetry Review, 38.3 (2009): 25-28.
For a helpful close reading of the poem, see Fred M. Fetrow, "Robert Hayden's 'Frederick Douglass': Form...2022-02-2317 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 41: F.E.W. Harper, Learning to ReadFrances Ellen Watkins Harper was a prolific writer and activist of the nineteenth century. In this episode, Professor Janaka Bowman Lewis joins us to discuss her power, influence, voice, and work. "Learning to Read" foregrounds the ballad style in a narrative poem designed to keep alive the memories of fighting for both literacy and liberation.
For the full text of the poem, see here: "Learning to Read"
Janaka Bowman Lewis is an Associate Professor of English at the University of North Carolina--Charlotte, and she includes a chapter on Frances Ellen Watkins Harper in Freedom Narratives...2022-02-1623 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 40: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116In this episode, we provide a close reading of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116, which allows us to consider the poem's definition of a love that is enduring. In addition, though, we consider a reading of the poem which foregrounds a disappointed poetic speaker who can see the love's transience, too.
For the text of this poem, click here.
Colin Burrow and Stephen Booth's editions of Shakespeare's sonnets are essential reading for anyone who wants to know more about this amazing sonnet sequence.
During the pandemic, Sir Patrick Stewart has read one Shakespeare sonnet each...2022-02-0925 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 39: Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear The MaskThis week, Rafia Zafar joins us to discuss "We Wear the Mask" by the great poet and writer Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906). Rafia leads us in a discussion of Dunbar's fame and influence while opening up broader themes of African American history and literature.
We Wear the Mask
BY PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Why sh...2022-02-0222 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 38: Laura Van Prooyen, Elegy for My Mother's MindIn this episode, our guest Laura Van Prooyen reads "Elegy for My Mother's Mind," a poem that navigates the complexities of memory, loss, and familial relationships. Laura's poem gives us an opportunity to think about the deep sources of poetic inspiration, the revision process, and the power of metaphor.
To learn more about Laura's work, check her website.
Click here to see the version of the poem that appeared in Prairie Schooner.
Our two favorite books on elegy are Jahan Ramazani's Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney and Peter...2022-01-2629 minPoetry For AllEpisode 37: Why Poetry For AllJoanne and Abram launch the fourth season of Poetry For All with a short discussion about what this podcast is all about and how it relates to all the other great poetry podcasts in the world.
This conversation is an excerpt from our virtual visit with the students in Grace Talusan's creative writing workshop at Brandeis University. Grace uses our podcast in her course, and her students have gone on to create their own podcasts that focus on close readings of poems. If you want more information on how to use our podcast in the classroom, please...2022-01-1914 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 36: Denise Levertov, On the Mystery of the IncarnationIn this episode, we discuss Denise Levertov's powerful meditation on the horrors of the twentieth century, and how the mystery of the incarnation might provide humanity with some hope. Our close reading of this poem is informed by Eavan Boland's Preface and Anne Dewey and Paul A. Lacey's Afterword in The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov (New Directions, 2013).
To read "On the Mystery of the Incarnation," click here.
To read Levertov's essay "Some Notes on Organic Form," click here.
''On the Mystery of the Incarnation'' by Denise Levertov comes from her book A...2021-12-2116 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 35: Matthew Zapruder, Poem for WisconsinIn this episode, we discuss the way in which Matthew Zapruder attends to vivid, specific details to create a sense of wonder, connection, and surprise.
To read "Poem for Wisconsin," click here.
"Poem for Wisconsin" originally appeared in the collection Sun Bear. Thanks to Copper Canyon Press for granting us permission to read this poem on the podcast.
For a glimpse of the "Bronze Fonz," click here.
To see how the Milwaukee Art Museum opens its wings, watch this time-lapse video.
For a sense of the "many moods" of...2021-12-1522 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 34: Tracy K. Smith, DeclarationIn this episode, we discuss erasure poetry and its power to reveal hidden histories and redacted stories through Tracy K. Smith's erasure of the Declaration of Independence.
For the poem (including a reading and discussion of the poem by Tracy Smith), see the Poetry Foundation.
For Solmaz Sharif's discussion of the political implications of erasure poetry, see "The Near Transitive Properties of the Political and Poetical: Erasure": https://thevolta.org/ewc28-ssharif-p1.html
See also "Erasure in Three Acts" by Muriel Leung.
For more on Tracy K. Smith, see The Library...2021-12-0723 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 33: Adrienne Rich, PowerThis week, the poet and scholar Stephanie Burt joins us to discuss the extraordinary power of Adrienne Rich. We think through how the spacing and stanzas of a poem can draw out denials and divulgences, while also exploring the life and writing of Rich.
Stephanie Burt's excellent book Don't Read Poetry ends with an examination of this poem by Adrienne Rich. The book, which can be found at the link, offers an introduction to reading poems and different ways of approaching them.
For the text of the poem, see here.
For more on...2021-11-1017 min
ABRAM PODCASTMUSIC PRODUCTION TALKSHOW with MARANATHA x BERKLEE ALUMNI Part 2Music Production Workshop co-hosted by Maranatha Art and Design Centre x Berklee College of Music on October 9, 2021!
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𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟒: 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 Speakers: Abram, Greybox (Rizky Argadipraja) #MADCxBerkleeGlobal #MusicWorkshopMADCxBerkleeGlobal #WorkshopMusikBandung #musicworkshop #BerkleeCollegeofMusic #UniversitasKristenMaranatha #MADCFSRDMaranatha #FSRDMaranatha2021-11-0417 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 32: Rick Barot, Cascades 501In this episode, poet Rick Barot guides us in our reading of his poem "Cascades 501" from The Galleons, his most recent collection. Rick's insights into how poets engage with place, create juxtapositions, and arrive at insights taught us so much about how poets create their best work.
To learn more about Rick Barot, you can visit his website:
https://www.rickbarot.com/about/
To learn more about The Galleons, you can visit the Milkweed Editions website:
https://milkweed.org/book/the-galleons
To read "Cascade 501," visit the Academy of American...2021-11-0338 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 31: Jane Kenyon, Twilight: After HayingThis week we take a closer look at another autumn poem, this one by Jane Kenyon from her wonderful book Otherwise: New and Selected Poems. Kenyon builds from and transforms the same tradition of the autumn ode we examined last week with John Keats.
Thank you to Graywolf Press for permission to read this poem from Otherwise: New and Selected Poems by Jane Kenyon.
Click here for the full text of Twilight: After Haying.
See the Poetry Foundation for more on Jane Kenyon.Links:Twilight: After Haying by Jane Kenyon...2021-10-2716 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 30: John Keats, To AutumnTo Autumn
by John Keats
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has...2021-10-2022 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 29: Elizabeth Bishop, One ArtElizabeth Bishop was one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and "One Art" is certainly one of the greatest villanelles. In this episode, we talk about the poetic form and its constraints. We also draw upon recent scholarship that has revealed a great deal about Elizabeth Bishop's life and work in order to understand the power of poetic constraint.
Click here to read "One Art": https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-art
For more about Elizabeth Bishop's life and the cultural context that informed her work, read Megan Marshall's Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for...2021-10-0625 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 28: Countee Cullen, Yet Do I MarvelCountee Cullen was a major voice of the Harlem Renaissance. Joined by the renowned cultural critic Gerald Early, we here examine together story of Countee Cullen and the astounding sonnet that opens his main collection of poetry, My Soul's High Song.
For more on Countee Cullen, see the Poetry Foundation.
Here is the text of the sonnet:
Yet Do I Marvel
Countee Cullen
I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind,
And did He stoop to quibble could tell why
The little buried mole continues blind,
...2021-09-2924 min
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Poetry For AllEpisode 27: Marianne Moore, PoetryIn this episode, we read and discuss the influential modernist poet Marianne Moore and her witty, wonderful poem called "Poetry," a classic ars poetica (a poem about writing poetry). This poem has gone through many different editions. We take an earlier, longer version and ask how it participated in the modernist practice of "making it new" in the early 1900s.
Marianne Moore was a technical master with widespread influence who was at the very center of American modernism -- friends with William Carlos Williams (see episode 25), Ezra Pound, H.D., and many others, as well as a...2021-09-2221 min
A Most Unusual T PartyS4 Ep4 Leah Kemerling The WriterConventional wisdom says: Do your best.
But is it possible that doing something poorly is part of doing your best?
Teresa Abram and Leah Kemerling explore this idea as well as what an umbrella shaped T means, saber tooth tigers, ill-fitting jeans, ransom notes and so much more. It's a rollicking good time!
Teresa's contact info:
social handles @handwriting_pi
website www.handwritingpi.ca
Leah's contact info:
social handles @leahbkemerling
website www.leahbkemerling.com
Link to Leah's brilliant article: Zapier building habits2021-09-2145 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 26: Brenda Cárdenas, "Our Lady of Sorrows"In this episode, Brenda Cárdenas guides us through a reading of "Our Lady of Sorrows," an ekphrastic poem that is inspired by the work of Ana Mendieta.
To read more of Brenda Cárdenas's work, click here:
https://uwm.edu/english/our-people/cardenas-brenda/
To learn more about Ana Mendieta's work, click here:
https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/ana-mendieta2021-09-1521 min
A Most Unusual T PartyS4 Ep3 Lena Rivkin: Handwriting and ArtEver wonder whether an artist's handwriting might influence how you see their art? Teresa Abram and Lena Rivkin take a look a the art and handwriting of Claude Monet, Edward Hopper and Cy Twombly.
Contact Teresa at:
www.handwritingpi.ca
handwritingpi@gmail.com
IG @handwriting_pi
Contact Lena at:
www.lenarivkin.net
lena@abouthandwriting.com
Intro
2:00 James Victore art & handwriting review
3:15 What Lena sees in James’ writing and art
5:27 Deep Dive: Claude Monet
2021-09-1428 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 25: William Carlos Williams, "This is Just to Say"In this episode, we discuss a simple, iconic, "sorry-not sorry" poem from the early age of American modernism, which has taken on new life in the age of Twitter and the pandemic.
For more on William Carlos Williams, see the Poetry Foundation. See the text of "This is Just to Say" there as well.
“This Is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams, from The Collected Poems: Volume I, 1909-1939, copyright ©1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.2021-09-0818 min
ABRAM PODCASTBEDANYA EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, MUSIC PRODUCER & ARRANGER? with UPH MUSIC🇮🇩“Produser itu ngapain aja? Apa bedanya executive producer, music producer, dan arranger? Apakah arranger dengan producer musik itu sama?”
Semuanya ada jawabannya di acara “Music Industry Days 2021 UPH” full versionnya udah tayang di Youtube Ngobrol bareng ABRAM! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5KIi65GLNE
Di podcast ini juga kita ngebahas tentang approach Finneas (abangnya Billie Eilish) dalam mem-produce sebuah lagu, yuk ditonton!.
🇺🇸"What does the producer do? What’s the difference between an executive producer, a music producer and an arranger? Are arrangers and music producers the same?”
Everything is answered in the “Musi...2021-07-0705 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 24: Robert Hayden, Those Winter SundaysRobert Hayden was one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century. His poems are known for their formal grace and his deep and broad explorations of the African American experience. "Those Winter Sundays" is one of our all-time favorite poems. We hope you enjoy this conversation.
For the text of "Those Winter Sundays," click here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46461/those-winter-sundays
For more about Robert Hayden, click here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-hayden
We love Reginald Dwayne Betts's introduction to the Centenary Edition of Robert Hayden's Collected Poems, edited by...2021-06-1420 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 23: Langston Hughes, "Johannesburg Mines"In this episode, we discuss social poetics, the poetry of witness, and the way poets can speak of the failure of language and the need for silence in the face of trauma. "The worst is not, so long as we can say, 'This is the worst.'"
For the text of Langston Hughes's poem "Johannesburg Mines," see here.
For more on Langston Hughes, see the Poetry Foundation.
For more on social poetics, see Mark Nowak's book by that name.
For more on the poetry of witness, see Sandra Beasley's essay "Flint...2021-05-2119 min
The Round Table with Abram and AishaPride 2Episode Notes
Abram and Aisha continue on the subject of pride.2021-05-2038 min
Abram's tracksEpisodio 18 - Abram's tracks2021-04-3000 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 22: Two Poems of World War IIn this episode, we talk with Vince Sherry about two poems of WWI: Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier" and Ivor Gurney's "To His Love." The first poem, a stately beauty, imagines war almost peacefully; the second poem, scarred by combat, speaks back nervously and angrily. We talk through this remarkable set of poems and experiences and examine how a careful use of language conveys their effects.
"The Soldier"
by Rupert Brooke
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever En...2021-04-2724 minThe Round Table with Abram and AishaPrideAbram and Aisha talk about how pride goes before a fall.2021-04-1533 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 21: Christian Wiman, I Don't Want to Be a Spice StoreIn this episode we talk with Christian Wiman about the arc of a book of poetry, the structure of an individual poem, the desire for openness and accessibility, and the surprising shifts from levity to seriousness that take even the writer by surprise. The episode considers how poets construct and organize their poems, and it also touches on differing approaches poets take across their career.
Christian Wiman is the Clement-Muehl Professor of Communication Arts at Yale Divinity School, the former editor of Poetry magazine, and the author, editor, and translator of multiple books. He has won countless...2021-04-1318 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 20: Hester Pulter, View But This TulipWendy Wall joins us to discuss an extraordinary poet whose works went unknown for over three hundred years. Hester Pulter brought together science, religion, poetic traditions and so much more. Her 120 remarkable poems are now available at the award-winning Pulter Project website.
In this episode we discuss her work with emblems, her scientific chemistry experiment with flowers, and her wonderment (both worried and confident, doubtful and awestruck) about the resurrection of the body and its reunification with the soul after death.
For a biography of Hester Pulter, see here:
https://pulterproject.northwestern.edu/about-hester-pulter-and-the-manuscript...2021-03-2925 min
The Amateur AthleteTop Ten Teams on the HardwoodAbram and Steven talk about their all time favorite college and NBA basketball teams.2021-03-191h 08
Poetry For AllEpisode 19: Naomi Shihab Nye, Gate A-4Naomi Shihab Nye, a Palestinian-American poet born in St. Louis and raised in Jerusalem and San Antonio, focuses on the ordinary to observe the extraordinary. Her poetry often speaks of cultural encounters and celebrates different cultures. She is the recipient of many awards and is currently the Poetry Foundation's Young People's Poet Laureate.
In this poem, we explore what makes a poem "poetry" versus some other genre, and we consider what difference such designations make while walking through a longer, narrative poem.
For the text of the poem, see here: https://poets.org/poem/gate-42021-03-1018 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 18: Jenny Johnson, Dappled ThingsJenny Johnson is the author of In Full Velvet (Sarabande Books, 2017). Her honors include a Whiting Award, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, and a NEA Fellowship. She has also received awards and scholarships from the Blue Mountain Center, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo. Her poems have appeared in The New York Times, New England Review, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, and elsewhere. After earning a BA/MT in English Education from the University of Virginia, she taught public school for several years in San Francisco, and sh...2021-03-0227 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 17: Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied BeautyPied Beauty
Glory be to God for dappled things –
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.
In this extraordinary curtal sonnet (a shortened sonnet...2021-02-2314 minThe Amateur AthleteGridiron FilmsOn this episode Abram and Steven dive into the world of sports films/movies/documentaries and our focus on this episode is football.2021-02-211h 27
Poetry For AllEpisode 16: John Milton, When I Consider How My Light is SpentThe episode explores Milton's great sonnet spun from the difficulties of middle age and new disappointments. We consider how he pulls consolation from his sense of defeat and near despair. Faced with his coming blindness, he hears the voice of Patience giving him the strength to wait.
THE TEXT
John Milton, "When I Consider How My Light is Spent"
When I consider how my light is spent,
Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one Talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless...2021-02-1515 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 15: Amanda Gorman, Chorus of the CaptainsAmanda Gorman became the first poet ever to perform at the Super Bowl on February 7, 2021. In this episode we talk about poetry for the masses, mass media, genres of poetry, spoken word, the visual and the verbal, and the mix of ancient methods with emergent forms.
See her poem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ejbSCjg2qo
See this great article by Virginia Jackson and Meredith Martin about Amanda Gorman's Inauguration Poem at Avidly:
The Poetry of the Future
For more on Amanda Gorman, see The Poetry Foundation: https://www.poetryfoundation...2021-02-1017 minThe Amateur AthleteTop Ten Players on the GridironAbram and Steven discuss there all time favorite college/NFL teams2021-02-051h 13
Poetry For AllEpisode 14: George Herbert, The CollarIn this episode, we look at "The Collar"--a famous single-stanza poem, playing with meter, rhythm, and rhyme by the seventeenth-century priest and poet, George Herbert.
Here is the poem in full:
THE COLLAR
I struck the board, and cried, "No more;
I will abroad!
What? shall I ever sigh and pine?
My lines and life are free, free as the road,
Loose as the wind, as large as store.
Shall I be still in suit?
Have I no harvest but a thorn
To let me...2021-02-0118 minThe Amateur AthleteTop ten teams on the GridironAbram and Steven rank their top ten football teams. 5 College and 5 NFL with honorable mentions2021-01-311h 42The Amateur AthleteA True Legend on and off the HardwoodOn this episode Abram and Steven pay tribute to one of the greatest NBA Legends to ever grace the hardwood, Kobe Bryant on the 1 year anniversary of his death.2021-01-2650 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 13: Amanda Gorman, The Hill We ClimbIn this episode, we discuss Amanda Gorman's "The Hill We Climb," the poem that she recited at the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. We discuss how well suited the poem is to its occasion, Gorman's powerful use of sound, and the conversation that she engages in--with John Winthrop, the Constitution, the Bible, George Washington, Maya Angelou, and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Like everyone else in America, we are in love with this poem and hope you enjoy the discussion. 2021-01-2518 minThe Amateur AthleteThe Covid EffectOn This Episode Abram and Steven tackle the topic of the Effect on sports the Covid virus has had during this pandemic.2021-01-231h 05
Poetry For AllEpisode 12: James Merrill, Christmas TreeIn this episode, Spencer Reece guides us through a reading of "Christmas Tree," one of the last poems that James Merrill wrote before his death. We learned so much through this conversation--about the friendship between James Merrill and Spencer Reece, the rhetorical force of visual poems, and the emotional power of elegy during the AIDS pandemic as well as in our own moment.
For the full text of "Christmas Tree," please see this page from the September 1995 issue of Poetry magazine.
For more on James Merrill, please see this page from the Poetry Foundation website.2020-12-0221 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 11: Alberto Ríos, When Giving Is All We HaveIn this episode, we think with the inaugural state poet laureate of Arizona, Alberto Ríos, about the meaning of giving. Why do we give? What is giving? And what are its consequences? Ríos wrote this poem for a broad audience and has shared it with many different groups. It is, on the one hand, a very simple and accessible poem, easy to understand. And it is also, on the other hand, filled with rich layers, structures, images, and contexts. We explore here how simplicity and complexity work together.
For the full text of the poem, se...2020-11-1715 min
The HinterlandsRule 9: Assume Interlocutor Intelligence (The Full Embrace of Seth Hirschkorn)In the process of discussing Rule 9 on the topic of listening to the person you're talking to, Seth and I stumble into religion and politics, personhood, self-examination, advice-giving, the divide between love and truth, intellectual blindspots, and coping with the discomfort of disagreement, among other amusing conversational pitfalls. Email comments to: abram.hinterlands@gmail.comSupport the show2020-11-111h 27
Poetry For AllEpisode 10: Mary Jo Bang, The Head of a DancerThis week Mary Jo Bang joins us! We learn about the Bauhaus movement and an influential photographer named Lucia Moholy, whose works were largely stolen during her lifetime. Mary Jo Bang's collection, A Doll for Throwing uses ekphrastic prose poetry throughout to delve into the riches of the Bauhaus movement which flourished in Germany between the world wars and had longlasting consequences for modern art. With Mary Jo Bang's poem this week, we explore both ekphrasis (poetry about an image) and prose poetry (poetry with no line breaks).
For the full text of the "Head of the...2020-11-1022 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 9: Anne Bradstreet, In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth BradstreetThis week we read Anne Bradstreet's elegy for her grandchild Elizabeth and draw out the multiple voices (both faith and doubt, both grief and consolation) and the tensions and deep emotions in the work of this talented Puritan poet--the first woman from British North America to publish a book of poems.
"In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665 Being a Year and a Half Old"
Farewell dear babe, my heart's too much content,
Farewell sweet babe, the pleasure of mine eye,
Farewell fair flower that for a space was...2020-10-2714 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 8: Toi Derricotte, "The Minks"Carl Phillips joins us this week to take a close look at Toi Derricotte's "The Minks." Together we consider the art of narrative poetry, the movements of a single-stanza poem, and the meaning of line breaks.
Toi Derricotte is the author of five books of poetry and a collection of prose called The Black Notebooks. She has won numerous awards and fellowhips, including the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Distinguished Pioneering of the Arts Award from the United Black Artists, the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement, the PEN/Voelcker Award...2020-10-2020 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 7: John Donne, Holy Sonnet 14This week we look at one of John Donne's Holy Sonnets from the seventeenth century. This famous poem (#14, "Batter my heart") turns a poetic tradition of love and longing to religious ends, earnestly seeking God and questioning whether union with God will ever be achieved.
John Donne was an influential metaphysical poet who enjoyed wide fame in his own day, then went largely unread for two centuries, and then, saw his reputation radically revived in the early twentieth century. He was born into a Catholic family, converted to Anglicanism, and became a minister. Along the way, he...2020-10-1415 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 6: Jen Bervin, NetsIn this episode we learn about erasure poetry and poetic tradition by looking at Jen Bervin's incredible book NETS, composed of erasure poems created from the sonnets of Shakespeare. The erasures are extraordinary--short and moving--and you'll never see Shakespeare the same way again. We also discuss poetic traditions, and the idea of writing into and over top of what has come before.
For an important essay on the political implications of erasure poetry, please see "The Near Transitive Properties of the Political and Poetical: Erasure" by Solmaz Sharif.
For more on Jen Bervin, please visit...2020-10-0619 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 5: Claude McKay, "America"In this episode, we discuss Claude McKay, an influential poet of the Harlem Renaissance, taking a close look at his incredible sonnet "America."
For help in our preparations for this podcast, we want to thank Professors Bill Maxwell and Vince Sherry at Washington University in St. Louis, both of whom have often taught Claude McKay and this poem in particular. Bill Maxwell in addition has written extensively on McKay, and we encourage you to look up his work.
For the complete collection of McKay's poetry, see Bill Maxwell's edited volume:
Claude McKay, Complete Poems2020-09-2914 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 4: Shakespeare, Sonnet 18In this episode we introduce listeners to one of the most resilient forms in English-language poetry: the sonnet. And we do it with one of the most famous sonnets Shakespeare wrote.
For the sonnet in full, see https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45087/sonnet-18-shall-i-compare-thee-to-a-summers-day
For helpful works on Shakespeare's sonnets, see:
Stephen Booth's edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets
and
Helen Vendler's edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets.2020-09-2216 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 3: Phillis Wheatley, On Being Brought from Africa to AmericaTo view the poem, please see: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45465/on-being-brought-from-africa-to-america
To hear Cornelius Eady reading the poem and discussing it, see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QezAVP_HiY
For a foundational essay about Phillis Wheatley and her work, please see June Jordan's essay, "The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America."
For two examples of the way Wheatley has inspired other artists and writers, please see the work of Cornelius Eady and Honoree Fanonne Jeffers.
Eady, "Diabolic"
Eady, "To Phillis Wheatley's Mother"
Eady, Interview
2020-09-1514 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 2: Emily Dickinson, Tell all the truthFull poem:
Tell all the truth but tell it slant — (1263)
by Emily Dickinson
Tell all the truth but tell it slant —
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind —
For more on Emily Dickinson, see https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/emily-dickinsonLinks:Emily Dickons, Tell all the truth but tell it slant --Emily Dickinson | Poetry Foundation2020-09-1014 min
Poetry For AllEpisode 1: Seamus Heaney, DiggingIn this episode, we begin learning about poetry through Seamus Heaney's great poem "Digging."
For the text of Heaney's poem, please see: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47555/digging
To hear Seamus Heaney reading this poem himself, please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNRkPU1LSUg
For more on Seamus Heaney, please visit: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/seamus-heaneyLinks:Digging by Seamus Heaney | Poetry FoundationSeamus Heaney reading "Digging"More on Seamus HeaneySeamus Heaney, Death of a Naturalist2020-08-3114 min
We Are RadicalsEp. 2.3: Jayden Anderson on the Radical Response to RacismGreetings.
It is a joy to have Jayden Anderson on the We are Radicals Podcast. Connect with him on Instagram HERE @jayhis_servant. Today, we were able to talk about what it looks like for us to respond to racism. Specifically, Jayden gives us a unique perspective as a younger student. We were able to hear parts of his story and heart as we move forward to build a more unified Kingdom. I hope you are blessed and challenged by our conversation on racism and how we as the Kingdom of God can respond. //
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The Abram Gomez PodcastEnd Times Part 4 - Judgement and RewardsEveryone will face judgement after death, according to the Bible. Will there be rewards? How will I be judged?
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We Are RadicalsEp. 2.2: Damion Cooper on the Radical Response to RacismGreetings.
It is a pleasure to have Pastor Damion Cooper back on the We are Radicals Podcast. Damion is a pastor at GracePointe Community Church in Lees Summit, MO. Connect with him on Instagram HERE (@damioncooper3). I hope you are blessed and challenged by our conversation on racism and how we as the Kingdom of God can respond. //
I pray we can all listen and have our own essential conversations! //
Here are links to some of the videos referenced in the episode!
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We Are RadicalsEp. 2.1: Season 2 "The Radical Response to Racism" IntroductionGreetings.
Sadly, our world is dark and evil place. A place which calls for hard and difficult conversations to arise. Today, I am launching season 2 of the We are Radicals Podcast, The Radical Response to Racism. I am open. I am trying to listen. I want to help. Unity and love are on my heart, yet justice and peace must not be neglected. I hope these conversations will help you. These are my reflections over the past week as I prepare for the forthcoming conversations. I may not be correct. Each day I seek to find...2020-06-0217 minThe Abram Gomez PodcastEnd Times Part 3 - The Rapture of the ChurchI am believer that the Rapture of the Church could happen at any moment. In this episode, I share some biblical reasons and examples of my personal perspective of the Rapture. This is Part 3 of my End Times mini-teachings.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/abram-gomez/message2020-04-2726 minThe Abram Gomez PodcastEnd Times Part 2 - Setting the StageJesus gave His disciples signs that would occur before His return. Did you know that we may not know the day and hour, but we can discern the signs? This episode seeks to shed some light on what some of those signs would be.
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The Radical BureaucratS2:E16--Sam and Abram Make Space for GriefSam and Abram make space to talk about some of the loss that we are all facing, from the death of dear loved ones, to the more trivial losses of work, momentum, or just routine. What does it look like to intentionally dig in on an emotion that we pretty much avoid unless we absolutely have to?2020-04-2549 minThe Abram Gomez PodcastEnd Times Part 1We are living in unusual times. Many people have different thoughts, ideas, and fears. In this episode, I simply wanted to shed some biblical truth on what the Bible has to say about the future.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/abram-gomez/message2020-04-0622 minThe Radical BureaucratS2:E10--Sam And Abram DebriefSam and Abram share media (books, articles, music) that has been giving them life over the last few weeks. Happy Friday!2020-03-2835 minThe HinterlandsMarx, Not A Communist? (Phil Griffin, Pt 2)Phil and I dive into it again on the topics of Marxism, the place of government, self-sufficiency, and responsibility. We stumble our way through the neuroses of billionaires, the illegitimacy of property, how we're all on the team of the serfs, and how capitalism is in the air we breathe. How do we get our bearings in the winds of commercialism if we don't have another source of existential meaning?Abram's review of The Communist ManifestoSupport the show2020-02-0659 minAbram's tracksEpisodio 15 - Abram's tracks2019-11-2900 minAbram's tracksEpisodio 14 - Abram's tracks2019-11-2900 minAbram's tracksEpisodio 13 - Abram's tracks2019-11-0600 min
We Are RadicalsEp. 1.11: Your Questions: Luke Warm Christian, Sexuality, Medication, and MoreGreetings. In this week's episode, I answer questions that you sent in over the past month. All these answers are my own understandings and how I perceive each topic respectively. They are not meant to proclaim a foundational or absolute truth. I also answered these questions without a full and length study or preparation, so allow for this broad approach to be sufficient for this purpose!
Don't forget to leave a rating and review to help us grow our radical community.
As always feel free to contact me with any comments, questions, or requests:
abagunu@gmail.com
We are Radicals o...2019-09-0643 minWe Are RadicalsEp. 1.10: Corbin White_Christians & Gun ViolenceGreetings, this week on the We are Radicals podcast I have a conversation with Corbin White, a bible student, church influencer, and friend. We have an honest discussion on a difficult topic, Christians and Gun Violence. We talk about what the church should be doing in communities that are affected by violence and how we should respond and react to how guns are used in our society. Listen to the whole episode to hear how we believe the church should move forward in this chaotic and violent age.
Don't miss out on our contest f...2019-08-2243 minWe Are RadicalsEp. 1.9: Bonus Episode_Raw Thoughts 4AM by WHATUPRGThis bonus episode is a real, minimally edited, reaction and commentary on 4AM by WHATUPRG. In this song, WHATUPRG describes many of his own personal feelings and experiences revolving around immigration and living in America. I hope you come to this episode humbly and open to hear how we as believers can love and interact with people who are honestly struggling in our communities today. This episode was intentionally made to be raw and authentic. The commentary was not scripted and purely a genuine reaction on the lyrics of this song.
I hope you enjoy this song.
...2019-08-1533 minWe Are RadicalsEp. 1.8: Christian Response to NF Real MusicGreetings. Today I will discuss 2 approaches for why Christians should not ignore NF as a music artists. NF is known for his dark, moody sound and abstaining from the traditional outlets in the Christian music industry, and these two characteristics have led some Christians to discount his music. I suggest that it is because of his message and connection to people in our culture, that believers should utilize his music and evaluate his approach to growth.
I hope you enjoy the episode as I go further into how we as Christians should respond to a...2019-07-2529 minWe Are RadicalsEp. 1.7: Damion Cooper_Reconciliation in the KingdomJoin my conversation with Pastor Damion Cooper as we discuss reconciliation. We discuss racial reconciliation, how to approach conversations, and our identity as delivers in Christ. I enjoyed our conversation and I hope you do as well!
Damion's upbringing and and influences: 4:15
How did Christ change your identity?: 8:25
Two conflicting identities: 13:55
What can we do to bring reconciliation? 21:26
Recap: 32:20
Follow Damion Cooper on twitter and instagram.
As always feel free to contact me with any comments, questions, or requests:
abagunu@gmail.com
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The All-American Soccer PodcastEP 3 - 60 Days of Soccer
Is the Louisiana Premier League not deep enough in the pyramid for you? How about a step further down to the South Alabama Soccer Association? Abram talks with players, owners, league commissioners, and people looking to build beyond that and moving up the pyramid in the championship game of Mobile, Alabama's premier amateur men's league.
Listen Here2016-06-0600 minThe All-American Soccer PodcastEP 2 - 60 Days of Soccer
Mississippi? There's apparently soccer in Mississippi. Apparently elite amateur soccer. Apparently teams that play in the Louisiana Premier League. Wait? Louisiana? Mississippi? In Biloxi? Looks like Abram has some questions to ask.
Listen Here2016-05-2200 minThe All-American Soccer PodcastEP 1 - 60 Days of Soccer (Chattanooga FC at Birmingham Hammers)
Abram goes up to Birmingham, Alabama to talk to the Chattahooligans and the Magic City Brigade about promotion-relegation, twitter spats, and why amateur soccer matters.
Listen Here2016-05-1600 minThe All-American Soccer PodcastEP 35.5 - The First Eleven
This week Evan and Abram discuss American soccer. This week's 11: Benny Feilhaber, Juan Agudelo vs. Jordan Morris, MLS's boring-ass parity, Toronto Football Clubs curse, Detroit City FC to NASL, pretty much every soccer team in Florida, Montreal and the CCL, Tulsa's tifo, Kolo Toure, San Francisco City FC, and MLS 2s in the USL.
Twitter: @FirstElevenPod
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FirstElevenPod
Listen Here2015-04-2800 minThe All-American Soccer PodcastEP 34 - The First Eleven
This week Hisco Alejandro of the Midnight Ride Podcast joins Abram to discuss American soccer. This week's 11: Diego Fagundez and US immigration, Real Ronaldo and FTL Strikers, Columbus screws Colorado, MLS SuperDraft is super stupid, Jermain Defoe competes with Abram's kids, Don Garber loves STL, New York Cosmos B, NASL needs to get it together, Giovinco is bi, heat map, and Juan Agudelo.
Twitter: @FirstElevenPod
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FirstElevenPod
Listen Here2015-01-1900 minThe All-American Soccer PodcastEP 39 - Pickup Soccer
This is the podcast. It is irreverant.
Players to be named later: Hank, Seth and Abram
Twitter: @ThePickupSoccer
Facebook: http://facebook.com/allamericansoccerpod
listen here2015-01-1500 minThe All-American Soccer PodcastEP 33 - The First Eleven
This week Evan has Seth filling in for Abram. This week's 11:MLS interest vs. perception, Jozy to MLS, Possible fits for Jozy, Gerrard to LA, NYCFC and Mix, Red Bulls and Petke, Kljestan to RBNY, the New York derby, AFC Asian Cup, Gold Cup preview, US U-20s
Twitter: @FirstElevenPod
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FirstElevenPod
Listen Here
2015-01-1400 minThe All-American Soccer PodcastEP 38 - Pickup Soccer
This may or may not be the 38th episode. It is still irreverant.
Players to be named later: Hank, Seth and Abram
Twitter: @ThePickupSoccer
Facebook: http://facebook.com/allamericansoccerpod
listen here2015-01-0800 minThe All-American Soccer PodcastEP 32 - The First Eleven
This week Evan and Abram go live. Our 11: Frank Lampard, Soccer God's Article on Race in Soccer, Jacksonville, Gideon Zelalem, NPSL club structure, Jordan Morris, Grand Rapids FC, Adam Moffat to the Cosmos, NASL vs. USLPRO for D2, OCSC vs. NYCFC for real soccering, ATL's name struggles
Twitter: @FirstElevenPod
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FirstElevenPod
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