• Poems for Company

  • By: KMUN
  • Podcast

Poems for Company

By: KMUN
Listen for free

  • Summary

  • On this theme-based show, host Brian Dillon reads and comments on poems from the ancient world to the present. Topics include Unlived Lives, Inanimate Objects, Swimming, Advice, and Unrequited love, among many others.
    © 2024 KMUN
    Show more Show less
Art Entertainment & Performing Arts Literary History & Criticism Social Sciences
Show more Show less
Episodes
  • Poems for Company - March 24th, 2025

    Poems for Company - March 24th, 2025
    Mar 24 2025
    “A Redwood, an Ancient Orchard, a Sequoia”: Do you have a favorite tree you pay special attention to when you take a routine walk? Is it older than you? We project so many attributes on to trees, including longevity and strength. We develop an emotional attachment to trees. Today’s episode considers such attachments and features two poems by Dana Gioia: “Becoming a Redwood” and “Planting a Sequoia.” Both are included in Dana Gioia’s 99 Poems: New and Selected (Graywolf Press, 2016) and used with the kind permission of the author. Also included are brief passages from the final book of Homer’s Odyssey, translated by Robert...
    Show more Show less
    29 mins
  • Poems for Company - February 24th, 2025

    Poems for Company - February 24th, 2025
    Mar 12 2025
    “Running on Empathy”: Three authors display various degrees of empathy in their depictions of Abraham Lincoln. Walt Whitman, prose passages from Specimen Days, and “O Captain! My Captain.” Kathleen Flenniken, “To Ease My Mind,” from Famous (U. of Nebraska Press, 2006), and used with kind permission of the author. Leigh Stein, “Lincoln, Abraham, Melancholy Of,” from What To Miss When (New York: Soft Skull, 2021), and used with kind permission of the author. Some historical background information provided by Joshua Wolf Shenk, Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness (2005); David Reynolds, Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times (2020); Ron Chernow, Grant (2017). The show’s theme music is...
    Show more Show less
    29 mins
  • Poems for Company - January 27th, 2025

    Poems for Company - January 27th, 2025
    Jan 27 2025
    “Mysterious Encounters”: Three sing-songy poems are featured on today’s episode. All three depict encounters between two individuals: all three resist our efforts to make total sense of their motives and actions. We may think we know what happens between the couples, but the poems seem to run ahead of our ability to catch up to them and make complete sense of them. Robert Burns, “Coming Through the Rye.” John Keats, “La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad.” Padraic Colum: “She Moved Through the Fair.” The show’s theme music is Philip Aaberg’s “Going-to-the Sun,” from his CD Live from Montana, available at sweetgrassmusic.com and used with Mr. Aaberg’s...
    Show more Show less
    29 mins
adbl_web_global_use_to_activate_webcro768_stickypopup

What listeners say about Poems for Company

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.com reviews

Amazon reviews
No Reviews are Available