Dao Strom : You Will Always Be Someone From S...

Lisa Robertson’s Riverwork twins the mysterious disappearance of the great aunt of our protagonist, Lucy Frost, and that same aunt’s interest in a long-disappeared river, buried under the streets of Paris. As Lucy searches for traces of her aunt, by attempting to inhabit and comp ...  Show more

Today’s archival episode with Richard Powers, about The Overstory, was recorded in 2019 in the studios of KBOO community radio in Portland, Oregon. Unusually, that same night I appeared with Richard at a live ticketed event at Revolution Hall to discuss the same book. Beyond the ...  Show more

Sometimes leaving feels like you’re splitting yourself in two, but you leave anyway. What compels us? What holds us together even as we look back? David Whyte’s poem combines pain and promise as someone is both departing and venturing at the same time. David Whyte is the author o ...  Show more

Au bout de l'arme il y a des gens ;

Qu'elle dépeins si bien au travers de sa voix ;

Au bout de l'âme une poésie sans précédent.

Champagne ! Aujourd'hui, Lucie Joy nous mets en joie...

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‏In this episode, we recite Mahmoud Darwish's powerful poem "In Jerusalem." After discussing and analyzing our interpretation in the previous episode, we now invite you to enjoy a captivating recitation of the poem itself. Poetry goes beyond all borders, a language unto itself. I ...  Show more