Poetry is for everybody.

In every episode, Preston leads you through a poem to break through that intimidation of poetry. Dive into concepts, techniques, and insights that unlock new doors of understanding what's going on with poetry. Discover poetics, sounds, and emotions through close readings of selected poems.If you've ever felt lost in the maze of stanzas or craved insight into intricate lines, this is the perfect space.

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Episode	Date
(Not an) Exam Special - "The Waste Land" by TS Eliot ft. Arjan Hut Read the full episode description	Apr 30, 2025
26. Villlanelles pt 2. - Michael Luis Medrano "Villanelle" Read the full episode description	Mar 11, 2025
25. Villanelles pt 1 - Dylan Thomas "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" Read the full episode description	Mar 11, 2025
24. Couplets suck! (a Rant) - Robert Louis Stevenson "Land of Nod", Basil Bunting "Briggflatts", and Robert Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay" Read the full episode description	Dec 20, 2024
23. Free Verse Form - "Small Kindnesses" by Danusha Lameris Read the full episode description	Dec 06, 2024
22. Censorship & Controversy - "the mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks Read the full episode description	Nov 22, 2024
21. Tradition (and its limits) - "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks Read the full episode description	Nov 16, 2024
20. Haiku with Bashō and Ezra Pound Read the full episode description	May 12, 2024
19. Ekphrasis 2.2 - "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus", William Carlos Williams Read the full episode description	Apr 28, 2024
18. Ekphrasis 2.1- "Musee des Beaux Arts" by WH Auden Read the full episode description	Apr 28, 2024
17. Ekphrastic Poems - "Cloud Study" by (and featuring!) Donald Platt Read the full episode description	Apr 18, 2024
16. Form Follows Function 2 - "Miniver Cheevy" by Edwin Arlington Robinson Read the full episode description	Apr 08, 2024
15. Form Follows Function - "My Own Heart" by Gerard Manley Hopkins Read the full episode description	Apr 08, 2024
(Not an) Exam LIVE Special - "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman ft. Tsead Bruinja Read the full episode description	Mar 12, 2024
14. Romanticism 2 - "The Good, Great Man" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Read the full episode description	Jan 31, 2024
13. Romanticism - "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (aka the 'Daffodils' poem) by William Wordsworth Read the full episode description	Dec 12, 2023
Halloween Special - Uncanny Valley & "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe Read the full episode description	Oct 31, 2023
12. Aubade 2 - "aubade beginning in handcuffs" by torrin a. greathouse Read the full episode description	Oct 21, 2023
11. Aubade 1 - "The Sun Rising" by John Donne Read the full episode description	Oct 21, 2023
10. What's Art for? - "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley [cameo by Pres. John F. Kennedy] Read the full episode description	Oct 13, 2023
09. Sound - "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll Read the full episode description	Oct 06, 2023
08. Free Verse - "In The Desert" by Stephen Crane Read the full episode description	Oct 04, 2023
07. Conceit - "To A Locomotive in Winter" by Walt Whitman Read the full episode description	Sep 29, 2023
06. Silence - "I'm Nobody! - Who are you?" by Emily Dickinson Read the full episode description	Sep 27, 2023
05. Enjambment - Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare Read the full episode description	Sep 22, 2023
04. Sonnets - "Pied Beauty" by Gerard Manley Hopkins Read the full episode description	Sep 22, 2023
03. Rhyme - "Recuerdo" by Edna St. Vincent Millay Read the full episode description	Sep 22, 2023
02. Syntax - "Everything good between men and women" by C.D. Wright Read the full episode description	Sep 22, 2023
01. Concentration - "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams Read the full episode description	Sep 22, 2023
00. Trailer - What's this all about? Read the full episode description	Sep 13, 2023