Recordings

Poem of the Week: Evan Hansen

by Adam Fitzgerald January 20, 2011 Poems of the Week

[He’s like those children who take apart a clock in order to find out what time is]

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Scattered Rhymes: Josh Bettinger

by Ben Pease January 15, 2011 Poetry and Poetics

He’s just a west-coast boy, living in New York City, he took the express train to where good poems reside.

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Poetry Fix, Episode 19: Thomas Lux

by Chris Robinson January 14, 2011 Poetry and Poetics

Mary Karr and Christopher Robinson discuss Thomas Lux’s poem “Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy.”

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Scattered Rhymes: Dawn Marie Knopf

by Ben Pease January 8, 2011 Poetry and Poetics

Dawn Marie Knopf’s poetry feeds off a particularly American mythos: old wives’ tales, Farmer’s Almanacs, the revered stories of American pop heroes before they made it big.

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Poetry Fix, Episode 18: More Milosz

by Chris Robinson January 5, 2011 Poetry and Poetics

Mary Karr and Christopher Robinson discuss Czeslaw Milosz’s poem “Late Ripeness.”

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Poetry Fix, Episode 17: Milosz

by Chris Robinson December 24, 2010 Poetry and Poetics

Mary Karr and Christopher Robinson discuss Czeslaw Milosz’s poems “On Prayer” and “And Yet the Books.”

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Scattered Rhymes: Evan Hansen

by Ben Pease December 24, 2010 Poetry and Poetics

I’ve never seen Evan Hansen wear a cowboy hat, but his pensive look in this picture displays the same concern he shows in his poetry for people and the tremendous, unspeakable burdens they carry on a daily basis.

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Scattered Rhymes is Coming! Josh Bell

by Ben Pease December 11, 2010 Poetry and Poetics

The Scattered Rhymes podcast was making itself a home at THEthe. In anticipation of the coming podcast, we are reposting the old episodes from the Scattered Rhymes website.

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