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Breakdown of poems on multiple reading levels.

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3 Episodes

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Poetry Lives Here

03/04/2021 1 min 48 sec

An expressive reading of Broken Wing by writtenbywill

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American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin Analytic Podcast

01/28/2021 5 min 2 sec

Here I breakdown Terrance Haye's poem, "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin ["I lock you in an American sonnet that is part prison"], between both figurative and visual language.

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For the Boys Who Never Learned How to Swim Linguistic Breakdown

01/26/2021 5 min 32 sec

This recording is a linguistic breakdown of the poem by Clint Smith in his book Counting Descent. It goes over how the poem is built, the formations it has, along with the diction and effects it has to both the reader and the poem itself.