Poetry Podcast with Paula and Sally

Poetry Podcast with Paula & Sally - Ep. 21 - ABCdarian Poems

Works by Geoffrey Chaucer, Brian Bilston and others. Sally and Paula do their best with Middle English and discuss a popular form. Can you write a poem in which line 1 starts with “A,” line 2 with “B” and so on?

Poetry Podcast with Paula & Sally - Ep. 20 - Poetry, Patriotism, and Democracy, Part 2

Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride” is read and discussed, along with work by Whitman and Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus” (Statue of Liberty poem)

Poetry Podcast with Paula & Sally - Ep. 19 - Tribute to Armenian poet Diana Der-Hovanessian

The late Fulbright Scholar, poet/translator Diana Der-Hovanessian’s work and career is discussed, and many of her poems about her family and heritage are read.

Poetry Podcast with Paula & Sally - Ep. 18 - Poetry, Patriotism and Democracy

Paula and Sally explore how poetic language is an under-appreciated aspect of our Democratic tradition and read work by Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes and “In Flanders’ Field.”

Poetry Podcast with Paula & Sally - Ep. 17 - Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa, brilliant and under-appreciated Portuguese poet and master of the “heteronym” (identical words with different definitions extended to personnas as poets). Paula and Sally read aloud from his work, including “The Tobacco Shop.”