Multi-Verse: A Perspective on Poetry
When was the last time you wrote a poem? Or studied a poem, or read one? Or even thought about poetry at all? Chances are, more recently than you think, particularly if you listen to popular music, if you read, or even watch Netflix. If this podcast has a central idea, it is that poetry still has a place in connecting humans to a shared experience, and that exploring the ideas of poetry outside of university and high school classroom yields something more rich and meaningful. Let’s take poetry off the page and give you something to think, rather than just read.
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Monday Jul 10, 2023
Monday Jul 10, 2023
The liminal space at the beach, where lands meet sea and vice versa, also brings us to a liminal space in our pysche as well, where we can be both alive in moment, flush with memories of the past, and sober about our mortality. Join for a brief exploration of this theme in Sarah Dickenson Snyder's poem 'Eve at the Beach.'
Thursday Jun 15, 2023
Thursday Jun 15, 2023
Where to find meaning in this muddle of confusion, in the way our brain clings to binary reasoning and heuristics and paradoxes? This week's poem points us towards a conclusion that perhaps meaning is in the act of merely existing.
Tuesday May 30, 2023
Tuesday May 30, 2023
Authority, identity, causality, being able to view your role and privilege through the lens of another - these all feels like very modern, very meta concerns. But are they? Around roughly 800 CE, in China's Tang dynasty, Bao Juyi wrestled with these same concerns, with both an incisiveness and lightness that might be instructiveness for our modern, digitally fractured culture.
Wednesday May 17, 2023
Wednesday May 17, 2023
Yeats and the important of voice, or how to turn a quiet moment of reflection into a journey through time and space, and yet you never feel like you left your rocking chair.
Wednesday May 03, 2023
Wednesday May 03, 2023
What is the power of symbolic language, particularly about so old a topic as love and heartbreak?
Passent les jours et passent les semaines Ni temps passé Ni les amours reviennentSous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure Les jours s'en vont je demeure
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Friday Apr 21, 2023
For the inaugural episode of the Multi-Verse podcast, we look at poem 1263 by the inimitable Emily Dickinson, and ask about our relationship to the truth.
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