Human Voices Wake Us
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The poem says, "Human voices wake us, and we drown." But I’ve made this podcast with the belief that human voices are what we need. And so, whether from a year or three thousand years ago, whether poetry or prose, whether fiction or diary or biography, here are the best things we have ever thought, written, or said.
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#231: The mythology of the moon
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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#230 - The mythology of the bear, and Byron gets apocalyptic
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May 18, 2026 |
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#229 : Mother Earth and myths of mining and agriculture
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May 11, 2026 |
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#228 - What Ted Bundy did on July 14, 1974
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May 04, 2026 |
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#227 - The Great Fire of London and the destruction of Jerusalem
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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#226: The Vitality and terror of cities
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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#225 - The invention of the wheel, and the power of storytelling
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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#224: Let's talk about William Blake
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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#223 - How to write two novels at the same time, with Charles Dickens
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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#222: Seamus Heaney - 10 Essential Poems
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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#221: Volcanoes, Plagues & the Childhood of a Kabbalist
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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#220: The working poor and a so-so murder show
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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#219: When a paragraph changes your life
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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#218: Poetry to Live By
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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#217: Voices from 1900-1914
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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#216: Poets, Prophets, Seeresses & Goddesses from Time & the River
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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#215: 8 Favorite Poems from "Time and the River"
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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#214: Two of the Best Poems You've Never Heard of (by William Cullen Bryant)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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#213: Van Gogh's Early Years
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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#212: The Most Popular Story in Ancient India
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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#211: Who Was William Cullen Bryant?
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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#210: Memories & Legends of William Shakespeare
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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#209 - Being a Jew in 1900, Being a Jew Now
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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#208: Bach & God
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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#207 - Death, the Gods, and Endless Life in Ancient Egypt
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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#206 - The Discovery of Indo-European Languages - 1876
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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#205: Learning to Read, c. 2000 BCE
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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#204: Walt Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," 1856
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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#203: Bruce Springsteen Talks About "Nebraska" - 1984
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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#202 - A Death at Sea, 1834
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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#201 - Gillian Anderson, & What Women Want, 2024
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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#200: The Last Days of Walter Benjamin, 1940
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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#199: The Protestant Reformation Gets Going, c. 1517
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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#198: Georgia O'Keeffe Finds Herself in the Fall of 1915
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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#197: A Honeymoon in the House of the Dead in Ancient Mesopotamia, c. 2300 BCE
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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#196: Morning at the London Docks, c. 1850
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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First Person: Oppenheimer & the Bomb (from the archive)
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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"The One Who Sang So Well" (new story)
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Notes from the Grid: Rediscovering the Hidden Life
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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Shakespeare: The Life & Times (from the archive)
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Anthology: Poems for Spring (from the archive)
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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The Great Myths #24: Sigurd & the Dragon (from the archive)
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Patti Smith / Mazzy Star & Living Colour / Philip Glass (from the archive)
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Great Poems: Shakespeare's "To Be or Not to Be" (from the archive)
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Anthology: Visionary Poems from Yeats, Whitman, Blake & Myth (from the archive)
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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First Person: Voices from 1900-1914 (from the archive)
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Van Gogh's Early Years (from the archive)
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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William Blake (new episode)
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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John Keats: "The poet has no identity" (from the archive)
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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The Great Myths #2: Gilgamesh, Enkidu, & the Underworld (from the archive)
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Bruce Springsteen / Simon Schama / The Iliad (from the archive)
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Notes from the Grid: All Things Can Console (from the archive)
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Advice from Walt Whitman & W. B. Yeats (from the archive)
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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The Great Myths #1: Gilgamesh Begins (from the archive)
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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A Farewell to the Podcast with Theodore Roethke's "The Rose"
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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7 Poems by H. D. (new episode)
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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6 Poems by R. S. Thomas (new episode)
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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4 Poems by Kenneth Rexroth (new episode)
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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Advice from Robert Pinsky (new episode)
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Seamus Heaney: 7 Poems from "North"
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Little Biographies
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Nostalgia (new episode)
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Walt Whitman's Life #7: His Notebooks & the Publication of "Leaves of Grass" (new episode)
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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The Most Brutal Scenes (new episode)
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Ted Hughes: 14 Poems from "Crow" (new episode)
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May 09, 2024 |
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Robinson Jeffers: Selected Poems
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May 01, 2024 |
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Anthology: Poems on Modern Life (new episode)
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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An Interview with Amit Majmudar (new episode)
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Ted Hughes: 11 Poems from "Remains of Elmet" (new episode)
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Wallace Stevens: 11 Essential Poems
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Ted Hughes: 6 Poems from "River"
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Anthology: Poems on Being a Parent
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Anthology: Poems About Childhood & Youth
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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Ted Hughes: 7 Poems from "Moortown Diary"
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Britain: September 3, 1939
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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The new movie "Maestro," & what happens to our earliest dreams
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Us Weird Geeks
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Anthology: Poems for Autumn
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Seamus Heaney: Selected Poems
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Anthology: Poetry Friday with The Great Year, Shakespeare, Eliot, Blake, Poems on Work & Poems on Mythology
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Caravaggio's Severed Heads / Herodotus Among the Scythians / Ian McKellen on Macbeth
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Raising a Musical Prodigy / God's Response to Job
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Seamus Heaney: 10 Essential Poems
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Psalm 23 / Mary, Queen of Scots is Executed / 3 Poems by Mary Oliver
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's Library / Ancient Egypt's Temple Libraries / Seamus Heaney Goes to School
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Notes from the Grid: The Perpetual Adolescent
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Cities Under Siege: The Gauls Sack Rome / Occupied Paris / William Blake's London
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Rachel Carson on the Deep History of the Sea
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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American Shaman
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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The Spiritual Significance of Everyday Work
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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The Midsummer Fire Festivals of Old Europe
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Van Gogh: Starry Nights & Sunflowers
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Pythagoras: The Life & Times
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May 28, 2023 |
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The Great Myths #23: Odin
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May 15, 2023 |
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Is There Anybody Out There?
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May 04, 2023 |
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Advice from the Beatles
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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On Seamus Heaney
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Advice from William Wordsworth
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Da Vinci & His Bodies
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Anthology: Poems on How to Live
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Advice from Charles Dickens & Alice Munro
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Anthology: Love Poems from the Last Four Centuries
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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The Great Myths #22: The Story of Ragnarok in the Norse Eddas
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Give Me Another Tarantula
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Robert Lowell: 10 Essential Poems
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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What Do Writers & Actors Have in Common?
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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True Horror
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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The Great Myths #21: The Story of Creation in the Norse Eddas
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Old Friends
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Ted Hughes: 12 Essential Poems
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Ted Hughes: Selected Poems
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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Robinson Jeffers: 10 Essential Poems
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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The Great Myths #20: Introducing Norse Myth & Reading the Voluspa
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Stephen King's Great Novel of Parenthood & Grief
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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William Carlos Williams: 11 Essential Poems
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Give Me a Tarantula
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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The Great Myths #19: Farewell to the Celtic Myths, & One Last Story
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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First Person: The Atomic Bomb
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Witches in America, Napoleon in Egypt, & the Invention of the Printed Book
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Emily Dickinson
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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The Voice of Toni Morrison
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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The Great Myths #18: Celtic Myth and Scholarship
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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Advice from Seamus Heaney // James Joyce's "Araby"
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Notes from the Grid: Simple Awareness
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May 25, 2022 |
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Notes from the Grid: To Criticize the Critic
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May 02, 2022 |
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Walt Whitman's Death Poetry
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Walt Whitman's Love Poetry // Whitman & Sex
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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Advice from Toni Morrison, Richard Wilbur, John Berryman, T. S. Eliot // Whitman's Earliest Critics
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Anthology: Poems by Lowell, Clare, Barbauld, Finch, Spenser // First Person: Eudora Welty & Helen Keller
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Loneliness, pt2 // Shakespeare, Sex & Sonnets
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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The Great Myths #17: Tales of the Elders of Ireland (Celtic)
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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"That Jane Goodall Tramp"
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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First Person: Funeral Home Director // Telemarketer
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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The Earliest Bookstores I Remember // Picasso's "Guernica"
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Advice from Joan Didion, Stanley Kunitz, Billy Collins & Alice Munro
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Jealousy, Part 2
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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The Great Myths #16: The Story of Taliesin (Celtic)
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Anthology: Poems by William Blake, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Louise Bogan, Anne Bradstreet, Henry Vaughan
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Anthology: Poems by Eavan Boland, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Wordsworth, Milton, Philip Sidney
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Walt Whitman's Mystical Poetry
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Standing on Two Feet & the Evolution of Language
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Seamus Heaney's Origin Story
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Anthology: Poems by William Carlos Williams, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Brontë, Alexander Pope, Roy Fisher
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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The Great Myths #15: The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne (Celtic)
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Jan 15, 2022 |
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First Person: Rome (AD 64) and America (1832)
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Anthology: Is Poetry Important?, & Poems by Emily Dickinson, Shakespeare, Virgil, R. S. Thomas
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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Anthology: Poems by Amy Lowell, Thomas Hardy, John Donne, Christopher Marlowe, William Cowper
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Dec 25, 2021 |
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Ted Hughes: 5 Last Poems
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Anthology: Poems by Edgar Lee Masters, Tennyson, Mary Robinson, Henry Wotton, and Walter Raleigh
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Dec 18, 2021 |
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Ted Hughes: A Handful of Short Poems from the 1970s
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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First Person: London, c. 1615
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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First Person: Pompeii (AD 79) & San Francisco (AD 1906)
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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How Did Picasso Do It?
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Louise Glück: Poems from “The Wild Iris” & "Ararat"
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Nov 13, 2021 |
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William Wordsworth: Immortality Ode, and 3 Other Poems
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Ted Hughes Responds to Fame
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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The Great Myths #14: The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel (Celtic)
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Oct 30, 2021 |
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Ted Hughes's Origin Story
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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Beethoven on His Deathbed
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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Poetry & Education in Eighth Century England
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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Working
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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First Person: A Waitress in Chicago in the 1960s
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Poem: Unfinished Michelangelo
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Loneliness
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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Walt Whitman: “Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun”
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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2 Poems for the Holocaust
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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Walt Whitman Affirms the World
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Poems from "Bone Antler Stone"
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Sep 12, 2021 |
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The Great Myths #13: Oisin in the Otherworld
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Sep 11, 2021 |
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First Person: Vermont, 1940
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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The Great Myths #12: Queen Medb of Connacht
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Sep 04, 2021 |
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First Person: Visiting a Poor Poet in Paris, 1895
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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The Great Myths #11: How Cuchulainn Got His Name
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Aug 27, 2021 |
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First Person: Paris, 1785
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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James Garbarino on Violent Young Men
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Seamus Heaney: On "Seeing Things"
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Jul 25, 2021 |
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Seamus Heaney: 13 Poems from "Seeing Things"
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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The Great Myths #10: The Book of Invasions (Celtic)
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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Advice from Beethoven, Joseph Campbell, W. S. Merwin, W. D. Snodgrass
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Jul 04, 2021 |
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Advice from Flannery O'Connor, Jacques Barzun, Jean Guéhenno
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Jun 27, 2021 |
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Seamus Heaney: 3 Poems from "Wintering Out," & Interviews with Heaney
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Jun 12, 2021 |
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Seamus Heaney: 3 Poems from "Door into the Dark" & Interviews with Heaney
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May 30, 2021 |
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Seamus Heaney: 3 Poems from "Death of a Naturalist" & Interviews with Heaney
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May 16, 2021 |
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Hart Crane to His Father
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May 04, 2021 |
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Advice from Leonardo da Vinci, Conrad Aiken, & Others
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Apr 25, 2021 |
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Four Columbine Poems
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Advice from Shakespeare, Robert Lowell, Philip Larkin, & Others
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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Jealousy
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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Episode #100: A Belated Manifesto
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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The Greath Myths #9: The Many Metamorphoses of the Pig Keepers (Celtic)
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Walt Whitman's Life #6: The Books He Read & the Scraps He Saved
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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Walt Whitman's Life #5: Building Houses & Writing Poems
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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Walt Whitman's Life #4: Whitman in 1849
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Stubbornness
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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Walt Whitman's Life #3: Whitman & Sex
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Walt Whitman's Life #2: Early Politics, the Opera & Theater
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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The Great Myths #8: The Dream of Óengus (Celtic)
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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Walt Whitman's Life #1: Whitman's Long Foreground
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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George Orwell on War
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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The Great Myths #7: Herodotus on Egypt
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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So Long, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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The Great Myths #6: The Egyptian Book of the Dead
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Walt Whitman: "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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George Orwell on Poverty
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Feb 13, 2021 |
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The Great Myths #5: Osiris
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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Laurie Sheck: 13 Poems from "The Willow Grove"
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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The Great Myths #4: The Pyramid Texts of Ancient Egypt
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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The Great Myths #3: Gilgamesh & the Flood
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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T. S. Eliot: “Preludes”
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Dec 27, 2020 |
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Andrew Solomon on Growing Up Deaf
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Nov 28, 2020 |
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First Person: Minnesota at the Turn of the 20th Century
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Nov 28, 2020 |
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Vermeer in Bosnia
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Walt Whitman’s Letter to the Parents of the Soldier Erastus Haskell
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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George Orwell Down in the Mines
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Robinson Jeffers: Poems from “Hungerfield”
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Two Bits of Kafka's "Trial" for the Election
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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"It is so hard to die" - A Story of Depression from 1809
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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Robinson Jeffers: Six Last Poems
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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Ezra Pound’s Advice to a Young Poet
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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Rereading “The English Patient”
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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Poems for the Lonely & Creative Night
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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Jung’s Great Dream
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Mary Pipher’s “Reviving Ophelia”
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Oct 10, 2020 |
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Louise Gluck: “Messengers”
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Oct 08, 2020 |