Baxter Black

I’ve returned with my rich buddy Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jacob-davies2/support

W.S. Merwin he's marrying women, he's writing poetry, he may have written a dark version of the Lorax.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jacob-davies2/support

What's this? No scandal? A good man, writing good things who ends up in Greece (not exiled, just alone, but not alone at all) It's Robert Lax on What are Poems!  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jacob-davies2/support

He is on the pulse of Late-60's New York City.  A friend of all artist -- Frank O'Hara.  I discuss a harrowing tale of hammers I heard second hand.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jacob-davies2/support

Two men choke on grapes in this episode.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jacob-davies2/support

Marianne Moore was out there.  Another poet who's father has a psychotic break.  Another poet who was writing, and breathing and living and dying in times before our times. Also: She sums up what I've been trying to say in her poem "Poetry"  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jacob-davies2/support

NPR contributor, poet, and philosopher Baxter Black's poems are read.  I regret making fun of Ronald Reagan in a twist of fate I never saw coming.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jacob-davies2/support

It's everyone in England's biggest crush: Rupert Brooke.   --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jacob-davies2/support

It's a vivid, quick, important life on What Are Poems today. It's reaching back for inspiration and that inspiration reverberating for generations. Hey! Have you ever had a Rolling Rock Beer?  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jacob-davies2/support

Abraham Lincoln may or may not have written a poem about suicide in 1838.  A reading, an investigation, thoughts of Lizzie McGuire.   --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jacob-davies2/support