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Yehuda Amichai — Poems as Teachers | Ep 6

Season 8

Being right may feel good, but what human price do we pay for this feeling of rightness? Yehuda Amichai’s poem “The Place Where We Are Right,” transl…

1 year, 8 months ago

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Jericho Brown — Poems as Teachers | Ep 5

Season 8

In “Hebrews 13” by Jericho Brown, a narrator says: “my lover and my brother both knocked at my door.” The heat is turned on, scalding coffee is offer…

1 year, 8 months ago

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Mosab Abu Toha — Poems as Teachers | Ep 4

Season 8

In Mosab Abu Toha’s “Ibrahim Abu Lughod and brother in Yaffa,” two barefoot siblings on a beach sketch out a map of their former home in the sand and…

1 year, 8 months ago

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Constantine P. Cavafy — Poems as Teachers | Ep 3

Season 8

We ask questions to find out the facts, but what if you can’t trust the answers, the questions, or the person who's asking the questions? In Constant…

1 year, 8 months ago

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Joy Harjo — Poems as Teachers | Ep 2

Season 8

As appealing as it may sound, is it really possible to live in a world completely free of conflict? No. And since differences and disagreements are i…

1 year, 8 months ago

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Introducing: Poems as Teachers (ft. Wisława Szymborska) | Ep 1

Season 8

Host Pádraig Ó Tuama gives an overview of this Poetry Unbound mini season that's devoted to poems with wisdom to offer about conflict and humanity. H…

1 year, 8 months ago

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Thomas Lux — Refrigerator, 1957

Season 8 Episode 16

If your home were a museum — and they all are, in a way — what would the contents of your refrigerator say about you and those you live with? In his …

1 year, 10 months ago

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Rita Wong — flush

Season 8 Episode 15

The word “flush” is a verb, as in an activity that we do umpteen times a day. It’s also an adjective that conveys abundance. Fittingly, Rita Wong’s p…

1 year, 10 months ago

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Maria Dahvana Headley — Beowulf

Season 8 Episode 14

Bro — this is definitely not the “Beowulf” that you read back in school. Maria Dahvana Headley’s gutsy, swaggering translation brings the Old English…

1 year, 11 months ago

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Michael Klein — Swale

Season 8 Episode 13

A horse race from the 1980s may not seem like the obvious inspiration for a poem that celebrates so many of the things that make our lives worth livi…

1 year, 11 months ago

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