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 | Weekly | Episodes | 48 | Founded | a year ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | BooksArtsEducation | |||
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This is the kind of conversation I dreamed about having when I began this podcast. Emily Wilson [https://www.emilyrcwilson.com/] joins Close Readings to talk about Sappho's "Ode to Aphrodite [https://public.websites.umich.edu/~celueb/sappho-poems/sin... more
"Poetry," according to this episode's poem, "makes nothing happen." But as our guest, Robert Volpicelli [https://www.rmc.edu/profile/robert-a-volpicelli/], makes clear, that poem, W. H. Auden's "In Memory of W. B. Yeats [https://poets.org/poem/memory... more
How does life grow from death? When we taste a fruit, are we, in some sense, ingesting everything the soil contains? Margaret Ronda [https://english.ucdavis.edu/people/mronda] joins the podcast to discuss a poem that poses these questions in harrowin... more
What is a poem worth? What does beauty do to the person who wants it, or to the person who makes it? Michelle A. Taylor [https://twitter.com/scriblerian] joins the pod to talk about Patricia Lockwood's poem "The Ode on a Grecian Urn [https://www.poet... more
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Apple Podcasts5blast3blur4got
United States25 days 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 months ago - A Kitten in the Wilderness
a perfect podcast for we [who] can still love the world
Apple Podcasts5The Actual Rapper Cam'RonUnited States5 months 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 States6 months ago - So Good
I love this podcast. For listeners looking to find an approachable way to begin accessing conversations around poetry, this is the perfect program. Its host is insightful and his voice is very sexy. I would love for Kamran to do an episode based on a poem of his own choosing. Poetry fan been waiting for an H.D. episode!
Apple Podcasts5poetryfan13United States8 months ago
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