EPISODE · May 25, 2026 · 28 MIN
Poems for Company - May 25, 2026
from Poems for Company · host KMUN
“What’s So Funny?”: Will any of today’s poems make you laugh? Billy Collins, “To My Favorite 17-Year-Old High School Girl,” from Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (Random House, 2013). Stephen Dunn, “John & Mary,” from The Not Yet Fallen World: New and Selected Poems (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022). Caroline Bird, “Little Children,” from The Air Year (Carcanet, 2020), https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781784109028/the-air-year/ Would you like to share with me a favorite poem that makes you laugh? If so, please contact me, Brian Dillon, at feedback@kmun,org. The show’s theme music is Philip Aaberg’s “Going-to-the-Sun,” from Live from Montana (available at sweetgrassmusic.com) and used with the kind permission of Mr. Aaberg.
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“What’s So Funny?”: Will any of today’s poems make you laugh? Billy Collins, “To My Favorite 17-Year-Old High School Girl,” from Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (Random House, 2013). Stephen Dunn, “John & Mary,” from The Not Yet Fallen World: New and Selected Poems (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022). Caroline Bird, “Little Children,” from The Air Year (Carcanet, 2020), https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781784109028/the-air-year/ Would you like to share with me a favorite poem that makes you laugh? If so, please contact me, Brian Dillon, at feedback@kmun,org. The show’s theme music is Philip Aaberg’s “Going-to-the-Sun,” from Live from Montana (available at sweetgrassmusic.com) and used with the kind permission of Mr. Aaberg.
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