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Poems for Company

Poems for Company

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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.© 2024 KMUN Art Entertainment & Performing Arts Literary History & Criticism Social Sciences
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  • Poems for Company - May 26th, 2025

    Poems for Company - May 26th, 2025
    May 26 2025
    “Three Controversial Musicians”: Today’s three poems spotlight three individuals known for their musical talents, as well as the controversy they provoked. Naomi Shihab Nye, “Cross That Line,” from You and Yours (BOA Editions, 2011), used by kind permission of the author. Frank O’Hara, “The Day Lady Died,” from Lunch Poems (City Lights Books, 1964). William Matthews, “Mingus at the Half Note,” from Search Party: Collected Poems, Sebastian Matthews and Stanley Plumly, eds. (Houghton Mifflin, 2004), read with kind permission of the William Matthews estate. The show’s theme music is Philip Aaberg’s “Going-to-the-Sun,” from his CD Live from Montana (sweetgrassmusic.com) and used with the kind permission of Philip Aaberg. ...
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    29 mins
  • Poems for Company - April 28th, 2025

    Poems for Company - April 28th, 2025
    Apr 28 2025
    “Gifts”: One poet recalls her complex strategies as a teen gift-giver, a second recalls the gift his parents bestowed on him when he was eleven and about to move away from home, and the third imagines the circumstances in which her father gave a gift to her mother before they were married, before they became her parents. Brenda Shaughnessy, “A Mix Tape: ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me),'” from So Much Synth (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). Seamus Heaney, “The Conway Stewart,” from Selected Poems 1988-2013 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014). Eavan Boland, “The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me,” from Outside History: Selected Poems 1980-1990 (W, W....
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    29 mins
  • 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...
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