Soapbox Where I Can Shout It Podcast

About Soapbox Where I Can Shout It Podcast

Poems, interviews, and other short readings. More ideas about books, music, films. tonyisapoet.substack.com (https://tonyisapoet.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

tony dee

Category

music · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Jan 2025

Latest episode

16 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

88 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 Sept 2026

   Some Bicycle Thoughts for a Rainy Season

   Last month I shared a newsletter about Ben, Ben’s bicycle, and the Billy Collins poem “On Turning Ten.” You can read that here (https://tonyisapoet.substack.com/p/on-turning-four-and-a-half), but I thought it might be nice to share some summertime bicycle thoughts as, at least here in the midwest, we’re being pummeled by rain and thunderstorms as Fall wrestles humidity out of the skies. Enjoy. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com (https://tonyisapoet.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

2. 

   12 Sept 2026

   Livin’ on a Prayer: The Concert for New York City 25 Years Later

   Yesterday I published a newsletter about The Concert for New York, a fundraiser benefit show recorded in the immediate aftermath of the attacks on The World Trade Center in New York City. You can read that here (https://tonyisapoet.substack.com/p/livin-on-a-prayer-the-concert-for), but the piece is concerned with music, and this podcast includes the newsletter’s full text and some snippets from a few of the performances. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com (https://tonyisapoet.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

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   29 Jun 2026

   Introduction to Literature: Poetry Sampler

   I’m teaching an online asynchronous introduction to literature class this summer and - blessedly! - we have arrived at the poetry section of the course. I always encourage students, readers, friends, anybody who will listen to read poetry aloud. It is an oral tradition, a multisensory experience. You can’t get poetry speed reading it off the microscopic pages of some arduous anthology (shout out The Norton Introduction to Literature Portable 15th Edition though). You have to hear it to feel it. So join me, my students, in hearing what they are reading this week! Featured poems: * “I wandered lonely as a cloud” - Wordsworth (pg. 432) * “The sky is low” - Dickinson (pg. 436) * “I celebrate myself” - Whitman (pg. 461) * “Persimmons” - Li-Young Lee (pg. 478) * “I Invite My Parents to a dinner Party” - Chen Chen (pg. 480) * “Pilgrimage” - Natasha Trethewey (pg. 489) * “Down to my elbows” - Jose Olivarez (pg. 498) * “My Papa’s Waltz” - Theodore Roethke (pg. 512) * two poems by William Carlos Williams (pg. 516) * “Ode to the West Wind” - Percy Bysshe Shelley (pg. 577) * “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” - Dylan Thomas (pg. 591) * “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” - Robert Frost (pg. 643) * “I, Too” - Langston Hughes (pg. 647) * “The Raven” - Poe (pg. 657) * “Words Are Birds” (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91108/words-are-birds) - Francisco X. Alarcón (not in book, follow link) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tonyisapoet.substack.com (https://tonyisapoet.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)

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