Poetry for the People

About Poetry for the People

For centuries, poetry was a unifying force in society: farmers and aristocrats alike shared a common knowledge and participated, to a large extent, in a common poetic story. Nowadays, things have changed. Poetry has been pigeon-holed to the classroom or the academy, and therefore become less approachable. Our project is to reclaim poetry one poem at a time, placing it back in the rightful hands of the people!

Publisher

Clinton and Sarah Collister

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Jul 2019

Latest episode

9 Feb 2021

Latest episodes

10 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Feb 2021

   S1: Episode 9

   In this episode, we consider the poems by two Johns of two different eras; John Clegg and John Heath-Stubbs.

2. 

   2 Sept 2020

   S1: Episode 8

   In this episode, we discuss a grand poem by Mary Jo Salter and a classic by the Bard, William Shakespeare.

3. 

   14 Jun 2020

   S1: Episode 7

   In this episode, we explore the lovely poetry of Catharine Savage Brosman and Paul Valery.

4. 

   18 Feb 2020

   S1: Episode 6

   In this episode, we explore a poem by Brett Foster and one of his influences, Cecco Angiolieri (who was a contemporary of Dante!).

5. 

   23 Dec 2019

   S1: Episode 5

   In this episode, we discuss the poetry of two distinct poets: T.S. Eliot and Robert Crawford.

6. 

   12 Nov 2019

   S1: Episode 4

   In this episode, we discuss two poems: "The Angel with the Broken Wing" by Dana Gioia and "October Maples" by Richard Wilbur.

7. 

   19 Sept 2019

   S1: Episode 3

   In this special episode, we discuss the poem "The Sugar Shack" by Daniel Rattelle. We also consider one of the poets who influenced him, Alfred Lord Tennyson.

8. 

   27 Aug 2019

   S1: Episode 2

   In this episode, we read and discuss 2 poems related to the great country of Ireland: "From a Bench in St. Stephen's Green" by James Matthew Wilson and "Adam's Curse" William Butler Yeats.

9. 

   6 Aug 2019

   S1: Episode 1

   This week, the Collisters consider an unlikely connection between 2 unique poems: "Los Periquitos" by A.M. Juster and "Book I, Ode IX of Horace," translated by John Dryden.

10. 

    23 Jul 2019

    S1: Pilot

    The Collisters kick off their first podcast with 2 great poems: "Like" by A.E. Stallings and "Sestina" by Elizabeth Bishop.

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