Siobhan Phillips on Marianne Moore ("Armor's Undermining Modesty")

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Megan Quigley on T. S. Eliot ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock")

"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 associate professor of English at V ...  Show more

Daniel Katz on Jack Spicer ("Psychoanalysis: An Elegy")

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 Literary Studies at the University of ...  Show more

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