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Poetry & PedagogyThe Rapturous PresentIn this episode I discuss the poem 'And What Good Will Your Vanity Be When The Rapture Comes' by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
And What Good Will Your Vanity Be When The Rapture Comes
And What Good Will Your Vanity Be When The Rapture Comes
says the man with a cart of empty bottles at the corner of church
and lincoln while I stare into my phone and I say
I know oh I know while trying to find the specific
filter that will make the sun’s near-flawless descent look
the way I might describe it in a poem and the ma...2021-11-0323 minPoetry & PedagogySumptuous DisturbancesIn this episode I discuss the poem 'French Horn' by Jane Hirshfield
French Horn
For a few days only,
the plum tree outside the window
shoulders perfection.
No matter the plums will be small,
eaten only by squirrels and jays.
I feast on the one thing, they on another,
the shoaling bees on a third.
What in this unpleated world isn’t someone’s seduction?
The boy playing his intricate horn in Mahler’s Fifth,
in the gaps between playing,
turns it and turns it, dismantles a section,
shakes from it the condensation
of human passage. He is perhaps twenty.
Later...2021-11-0319 minPoetry & PedagogyRenunciation of ObligationIn this episode I discuss the poem 'The Art of Disappearing' by Naomi Shihab Nye
The Art of Disappearing
When they say don’t I know you?
say no.
When they invite you to the party
remember what parties are like
before answering.
Someone is telling you in a loud voice
they once wrote a poem.
Greasy sausage balls on a paper plate.
Then reply.
If they say We should get together
say why?
It’s not that you don’t love them anymore.
You’re trying to remember something
too important to forget.
Trees. The monastery bell at twilight.
Tell the...2021-11-0319 minPoetry & PedagogyRetrouvaillesIn this episode I discuss the poem 'Gate C22' by Ellen Bass
Gate C22
At gate C22 in the Portland airport
a man in a broad-band leather hat kissed
a woman arriving from Orange County.
They kissed and kissed and kissed. Long after
the other passengers clicked the handles of their carry-ons
and wheeled briskly toward short-term parking,
the couple stood there, arms wrapped around each other
like he’d just staggered off the boat at Ellis Island,
like she’d been released at last from ICU, snapped
out of a coma, survived bone cancer, made it down
from Anna...2021-11-0325 minPoetry & PedagogyBecoming a HurryIn this episode, I discuss the poem 'Postscript', by Seamus Haney.
Postscript
by Seamus Haney
And some time make the time to drive out west
Into County Clare, along the Flaggy Shore,
In September or October, when the wind
And the light are working off each other
So that the ocean on one side is wild
With foam and glitter, and inland among stones
The surface of a slate-grey lake is lit
By the earthed lightning of a flock of swans,
Their feathers roughed and ruffling, white on white,
Their fully grown headstrong-looking heads
Tucked or cresting or busy underwater.
...2021-10-0124 minPoetry & PedagogyThe Tender Gravity of KindnessIn this episode, I discuss the poem 'Kindness', by Naomi Shihab Nye.
Kindness
by Naomi Shihab Nye
Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.
Before you learn the tender gravity...2021-10-0130 minPoetry & PedagogyHow to Find Meaning in Pumping GasIn this this episode, I discuss the poem 'What You Missed that Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade', by Brad Modlin.
What You Missed that Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade
by Brad Modlin
Mrs. Nelson explained how to stand still and listen
to the wind, how to find meaning in pumping gas,
how peeling potatoes can be a form of prayer. She took
questions on how not to feel lost in the dark.
After lunch she distributed worksheets
that covered ways to remember your grandfather’s
voice. Then the class discussed falling asleep
without feeling you had fo...2021-10-0123 minPoetry & PedagogyLetting Go of AlonenessIn this episode, I discuss the poem 'Wishing Well' by Gregory Pardlo.
Wishing Well
by Gregory Pardlo
Outside the Met a man walks up sun
tweaking the brim sticker on his Starter cap
and he says pardon me Old School he
says you know is this a wishing well?
Yeah Son I say sideways over my shrug.
Throw your bread on the water.
I tighten my chest wheezy as Rockaway beach
sand with a pull of faux smoke on my e-cig
to cozy the truculence I hotbox alone
and I am at the museum because it is not a bar.
...2021-10-0121 minPoetry & PedagogyApprenticeship as a Form of LoveIn this episode, I discuss the poem 'Living Together' by David Whyte.
Living Together
by David Whyte
We are like children in the master’s violin shop
not yet allowed to touch the tiny planes or the rare wood
but given brooms to sweep the farthest corners
of the room, to gather shavings, mop spilled resins
and watch with apprehension the tender curves
emerging from apprenticed hands. The master
rarely shows himself but whenever he does he demonstrates
a concentrated ease so different from the willful accumulation
of experience we have come to expect,
a stripping away, a direct appreciation of...2021-10-0128 minPoetry & PedagogyIntegrating Poetry and PedagogyIn this overview to the podcast, I discuss how I use poetry to invite my students to consider the larger questions for which the intellectual language they’ve inherited is inadequate. The language we use in our teaching is often too small and too impoverished. It isn’t large enough for the territories we want to explore and inhabit.
Poetry offers us a language that is more expansive, more generous, deeper, and more worthy either of the identities we are on the hunt for or the ideas we are trying to make peace with.2021-09-1621 minPoetry & PedagogyIntroduction to the podcastWelcome to the Poetry & Pedagogy podcast. My name is Neill Korobov. I am a Professor of Psychology at the University of West Georgia. I’m also a lover of poetry. One of the ways I stay in love with my teaching is to bring poetry to it. I regularly bring my favorite poetry to my students and I invite them to listen closely to how poetry asks us to live more spaciously and courageously and humbly, how it teaches us to listen more carefully, and how it creates in us, if we let it, a kind of robust vulnerability.
In ea...2021-09-1601 min
It's Funny You Should AskEp 5: Who Asked You?Do you ever feel obligated to give advice? Well, so do we. T & K discuss why we feel the need to give others relationship advice and how we feel receiving it, too.
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Carrot cake recipe (legit the best carrot cake EVER):sallysbakingaddiction.com/my-favorite-carrot-cake-recipe/
T’s article: Andrew King. ‘Chick Crack’: Self-Esteem, Science and Women’s Dating Advice. Society, 57, 195–205 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-020-00465-8 (access required)
K’s article: The Journal of Adolesce...2021-02-021h 21