EPISODE · Nov 9, 2021 · 12 MIN
Episode 50: There‘s a Poem About That
from Take this poem · host Mary Giudice
This episode includes a poem about preferring pencils to pens, a poem about two people who never meet, and a poem about writing a poem. There's nothing too small or obscure to be pondered in poetry... and in the jeweler's glass of the poem small things aren't so small after all. "The Pencil" by AE Stallings https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/pencil/513860/ "On The Way to Work" by Stephen Dunn https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2004%252F06%252F24.html "Who" by Jane Kenyon
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This episode includes a poem about preferring pencils to pens, a poem about two people who never meet, and a poem about writing a poem. There's nothing too small or obscure to be pondered in poetry... and in the jeweler's glass of the poem small things aren't so small after all. "The Pencil" by AE Stallings https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/pencil/513860/ "On The Way to Work" by Stephen Dunn https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2004%252F06%252F24.html "Who" by Jane Kenyon
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