• Poems for Company

  • By: KMUN
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Poems for Company

By: KMUN
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  • 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.
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Episodes
  • Poems for Company - October 28th, 2024

    Poems for Company - October 28th, 2024
    Oct 28 2024
    “Children Thinking”: This episode features the voices of children–filtered through adult poets–in three poems that express a variety of insights. These poems may prompt you to wonder, did you once think like these three children? The poems are read in this order: William Wordsworth, “We Are Seven” (originally published in 1798). Elizabeth Bishop, “In the Waiting Room,” from The Complete Poems 1927-1979 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979, 1983). Seamus Heaney, “Death of a Naturalist,” from Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998). 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 kind permission of Philip...
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    29 mins
  • Poems for Company - September 23rd, 2024

    Poems for Company - September 23rd, 2024
    Sep 23 2024
    “Desk Jobs”: Did you ever have a job you abruptly quit soon after it began? Why did you do that? The first three lines of our first poem refer to a job the speaker quit after just one shift. The next two poems feature office interactions between the speaker and a work colleague and boss. Dorianne Laux, “What I Wouldn’t Do,” from What We Carry (BOA Editions, 1994), and used with the kind permission of the author. Deborah Garrison, “Superior,” from A Working Girl Can’t Win (Random House, 1998), and used with kind permission of the author. Stephen Dunn, “The Last Hours,” from Different Hours (Norton,...
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    29 mins
  • Poems for Company August 26, 2024

    Poems for Company August 26, 2024
    Aug 26 2024
    “Manual Labor”: What do you remember from your first paid job? Did you develop any work-habits that you carried into adulthood? From your twenties on, has much of your identity been shaped by your work? Poems on this and next month’s episodes offer a variety of perspectives on work. Three poems are featured: Jericho Brown’s “Labor”, from The New Testament (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). Seamus Heaney’s “Thatcher,” from Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998). Mary Robinson, “London’s Summer Morning.” 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...
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    29 mins

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