Close Readings
Kamran JavadizadehOne poem. One guest. Each episode, Kamran Javadizadeh, a poetry critic and professor of English, talks to a different leading scholar of poetry about a single short poem that the guest has loved. You'll have a chance to see the poem from the expert's perspective—and also to think about some big questions: How do poems work? What can they make happen? How might they change our lives?
| Publishes | Twice weekly | Episodes | 55 | Founded | 3 years ago |
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| Categories | BooksArtsEducation | ||||
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"What is more precise than precision? Illusion." I talked with my friend, the scholar Siobhan Phillips, about Marianne Moore's poem "Armor's Undermining Modesty."
Siobhan Phillips is a professor of English at Dickinson College, where she teaches co... more
"Do I dare / Disturb the universe?" I've been waiting to record this episode for a long time: Megan Quigley, my dear friend and colleague, joins the podcast to talk about T. S. Eliot and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
Megan Quigley is an ass... more
How is a poem like a session of psychoanalysis? The scholar Daniel Katz joins the podcast to talk about a fascinating poem that poses that question, Jack Spicer's "Psychoanalysis: An Elegy."
Daniel Katz is Professor of English and Comparative Liter... more
The third in our series of conversations about the late Alice Notley. Lindsay Turner returns to the podcast to discuss a selection from Waltzing Matilda, "Dec. 12, 1980."
A poet, critic, and translator, Lindsay Turner is the author of the poetry co... more
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- I sit with it
Really enjoy this, excited for summer to turn to fall so I can burn through all the back episodes.
Would like to share episodes to my Instagram story, I suppose I could do that from the app?
Yada yada, thanks a bunch.
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Apple Podcasts5yourdailynate
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Apple Podcasts5blast3blur4gotUnited States2 years ago - guilty of dust tbh
The ‘interrupting’ discussed by other reviewers is interesting to me because it just reminds me of being in class in undergrad…it seems oriented around *me the listener* in a pedagogical kind of way. It’s like I think I hear the lesson plan undergirding the discussion; swbat. The only reason I can think of to explain why the episodes feel too much of a shortness for time is this feeling I have (while listening) that time’s almost up, class is almost over for today. this lonely (and precious) dre... more
Apple Podcasts5blast3blur4gotUnited States2 years ago - A Kitten in the Wilderness
a perfect podcast for we [who] can still love the world
Apple Podcasts5The Actual Rapper Cam'RonUnited States2 years ago - Wonderful material with one squabble
I very much enjoy the in depth discussions and wonderful selection of guests and poems on this podcast. It is a pleasure to learn from such close and well informed readings. My one note is that I agree with another reviewer that Kamran, who certainly has his own valuable insights to add, does tend to interrupt and talk over guests. This is the only thing that prevents me from coming back to this podcast more often. Otherwise, the content is marvelous!
Apple Podcasts3Poetry podcast listenerUnited States2 years ago
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