Go Poet Go - 019 - Summer Solstice, New York City - Sharon Olds
Summer Solstice, New York City Sharon Olds
10 Aug 2022
Go Poet Go - 018 - Life in Moments - Jack Gilbert and George Bilgere
Two poets see life through its moments.
How I Met Your Mother George Bilgere
Highlights and Interstices Jack Gilbert
5 Aug 2022
Go Poet Go - 017 - One more by Ryokan - Ryokan
One more by the poet Ryokan
Just This Ryokan
4 Aug 2022
Go Poet Go - 016 - Two by Ryokan - Ryokan
Two poems by the poet Ryokan
Day By Day Ryokan
This Ball in My Pocket Ryokan
15 Jul 2022
Go Poet Go - 015 - Truth about Truth - Emily Dickinson, Gwendolyn Brooks
Two poets tell us the truth about truth.
Tell all the truth but tell is slant Emily Dickinson
Truth Gwendolyn Brooks.
14 Jul 2022
Go Poet Go - 014 - Two by Rumi - Rumi
Two poems by the poet Rumi
Today Rumi
I am so small Rumi
translated by Coleman Barks
14 Jul 2022
Go Poet Go - 013 - Two Loaded Guns - Kabir, Emily Dickinson, W.H. Auden
Two loaded guns from the poets Kabir and Emily Dickinson, and a kind of smirk from the poet Auden.
I don't know what sort of God we have been talking about Kabir translated by Robert Bly
My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun Emily Dickinson
I have no gun W.H. Auden
12 Jul 2022
Go Poet Go - 012 - Find the beginning - Homer, William Shakespeare
Find the beginning. The poets Homer and Shakespeare. Both open an invitation to your imagination. Both ask you and the Muses to come create the story with them.
The Odyssey Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
Henry V William Shakespeare
11 Jul 2022
Go Poet Go - 011 - Which life to live, Part 2 - Mary Oliver, William Butler Yeats
Mary Oliver versus William Butler Yeats
The Summer Day Mary Oliver
Under Ben Bulben William Butler Yeats
11 Jul 2022
Go Poet Go - 010 - Which life to live, Part 1 - Cole Porter, Charles Dickens, Rainer Maria Rilke
The first poet is Cole Porter who asks which is the life to live. The poets Charles Dickens and Rainier Maria Rilke offer some answers.
Which Cole Porter
David Copperfield Charles Dickens
10 Jul 2022
Go Poet Go - 009 - The angel of history - William Butler Yeats and Laurie Anderson with Walter Benjamin
The Angel of History.
Two poets, Yeats and Laurie Anderson, sing about the arc of history.
The Second Coming William Butler Yeats
The Dream Before Laurie Anderson based on the writing of Walter Benjamin, The Angel of History
10 Jul 2022
Go Poet Go - 008 - One fine day when death comes - David Byrne with Brian Eno, Mary Oliver
One fine day when Death comes.
Two poets, David Byrne with Brian Eno and Mary Oliver. They tell us about the door they look forward to stepping through.
One Fine Day David Byrne and Brian Eno
When Death Comes Mary Oliver
8 Jul 2022
Go Poet Go - 007 - Tell me about a complicated man - Homer, Dante Alighieri
Tell me about a complicated man.
Two poets, Homer and Dante. Each open their stories to tell us about someone who is lost.
The Odyssey Homer. Translated by Emily Wilson.
The Inferno Dante Aligeri. Translated by Mark Musa.
7 Jul 2022
Go Poet Go - 006 - Are you looking for me? - Kabir, William Blake, Juan Ramon Jimenez
Are you looking for me? I am not I
This first poet is Kabir, from India in the 1400s.
The second poet will be William Blake, 400 years later
The third is Juan Ramón Jiménez, the Spanish poet who won a Nobel prize in the 1950s.
Are you looking for me Kabir, translated by Robert Bly
To see the world from William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence
I am not I or Yo No Soy Yo Juan Ramón Jiménez, also translated by Robert Bly
6 Jul 2022
Go Poet Go - 005 - Everything will change, will pass - Kobayashi Issa, William Shakespeare
This world of dew. Is melted into air, into thin air. Everything will change, will pass.
The first poet is Issa, writing haiku poems in Japan. The second poet is Shakespeare, from a speech given towards the end of The Tempest.
This World of Dew Kobayashi Issa
The Tempest William Shakespeare, Act 4 Scene 1, Prospero speaking
6 Jul 2022
Go Poet Go - 004 - How Grief Ends - Wendell Berry, Tomas Tranströmer
This is how grief ends. How despair can unfold.
The first poet is also a Farmer in Kentucky, the other poet was a psychologist in Sweden.
The Peace of Wild Things Wendell Berry
The Half-Finished Heaven Tomas Tranströmer from New Collected Poems, translated by Robin Fulton
4 Jul 2022
Go Poet Go - 003 - Three doors inside three poems - Bill Callahan, Derek Walcott, Rumi
Three doors inside three poems
Night Bill Callahan
Love After Love Derek Walcott
The Guest House Rumi translated by Coleman Barks
4 Jul 2022
Go Poet Go - 002 - Using Food - Jane Hirshfield
Using food.
Small purple artichokes. Vinegar and Oil. Using food the poet tells us about life.
My Species Jane Hirshfield. From the book The Beauty (https://amzn.to/3yGutuB).
Vinegar and Oil Jane Hirshfield. From the book Come, Thief (https://amzn.to/3P4F3AK).
4 Jul 2022
Go Poet Go - 001 - Writing about your father - Robert Hayden, Seamus Heaney
Writing about your father.
Two different poets. One raised in Detroit, one raised in rural Ireland. Two very different places. Looking back at their father, here’s what the poet can see today.
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden, 1962
Digging by Seamus Heaney, 1964
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