Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchComus: The Rank Vapors of this Sin-Worn Mold
Episode 66
Today, Erika Kyba introduces Milton's "Comus," a purported morality masque which is perhaps not what it seems to be. Alexandra Comus narrates the par…
11 months ago
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Accept this "Bonnie Doon"
Episode 65
Today, Erika Kyba reads through the end of "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi," by Emily Dickinson. We begin to tie together the themes of moral bankruptcy, s…
11 months, 1 week ago
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Insolvency, Sublime!
Episode 64
Today, Erika Kyba reads "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi," by Emily Dickinson, a witty societal critique dashed with a commentary how certain astronomical d…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
The Abyss: Above, Below, On Every Side
Episode 63
Today, Erika Kyba reads "The Abyss," by Baudelaire, and attempts to explore the poet's terror of the infinite.
11 months, 3 weeks ago
The Benefactors: The Pinch of Pain and Fear
Episode 62
Today, Erika Kyba reads "The Benefactors" by Rudyard Kipling. Kipling mediates on how all innovation springs from the "pinch of pain and fear" that d…
1 year ago
Adam's Curse: As Weary-Hearted as that Hollow Moon
Episode 61
Today, Erika Kyba reads "Adam's Curse" by William Butler Yeats. Yeats muses on how all beautiful and lovely things require labor...and how this labor…
1 year ago
The Boston Evening Transcript: Who Are You, When Evening Falls?
Episode 60
Today, Erika Kyba reads "The Boston Evening Transcript," by T. S. Eliot. Much in the same vein as Henry David Thoreau, Eliot mediates on our constant…
1 year ago
Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers: A Meditation on Legacy
Episode 59
Today, Erika Kyba reads "Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers," by Emily Dickinson. In this poem, Dickinson plays with the image of a tomb acting as a la…
1 year ago
As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Lovely in Eyes not His
Episode 58
Today, Erika Kyba reads "As Kingfishers Catch Fire," by Gerard Manley Hopkins. In this poem, Hopkins explores the natural image of kingfishers and dr…
1 year, 1 month ago
On Time: The Temporal and the Eternal
Episode 57
Today, Erika Kyba reads John Milton's "On Time." This is a poem that echoes the themes John Donne's "Holy Sonnet X," asserting the triumph of believe…
1 year, 1 month ago