W.B. Yeats

In this episode, Lisa Buggy, Jenny Coughlan and Mark Molloy explore the poetry of Emily Dickinson.  

In Season 2 of the English Pod, teachers Lisa Buggy, Jenny Coughlan and Mark Molloy  explore the poetry of Derek Mahon.  

In this episode, Israeli poet Tahel Frosh talks to us about her debut poetry collection Betsa (Avarice, 2014), financial crisis, and the value of culture. We revisit the summer of 2011, when a series of protests spread across Israel sparked by rising housing costs, the increased ...  Show more

Today’s poem is Horse by TR Brady.

The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host Leslie Sainz writes… “Today’s deceptively simple poem is as provoking as it is spare. With parallel syntax and capacious anticipation, we witness the unbridgeab ...

Roses are red, violets are blue, has poetry ever been intimidating for you? For many people, this art form can feel unapproachable, but poet and educator Sarah Kay, suggests that people who don’t like poetry just maybe haven’t found a poem that really speaks to them. Sarah pro ...

We're back this week for a new episode, this time covering chapters 27-30 of The Ink Black Heart. In this episode, we discuss Robin's heart-to-heart with Ilsa, the hypocrisy shown by the Pen of Justice blog, and venture down a music-related rabbit hole.

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