What Are Poems podcast

What Are Poems

Jacob Davies

A man living inside his own head searches for the meaning of poetry while reading works by real poets and writing poems himself. You can submit your own poems to the podcast at [email protected] (peace and love peace and love, beef jerky) Visit https://www.bonfire.com/what-are-shirts/ to purchase the official WHAT ARE POEMS T-Shirt.

63 Episodes

Djuna Barnes
5/2/2024
19:49
Djuna Barnes out here living
John Berryman
4/19/2024
20:43
It all goes around and around
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
4/12/2024
24:43
I’ve returned with my rich buddy Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Robert Lax
7/21/2022
33:21
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! 
Frank O'Hara
7/14/2022
27:25
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. 
The Star-Spangled Banner
7/3/2022
26:22
Two men choke on grapes in this episode. 
Marianne Moore
6/24/2022
27:52
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"
Baxter Black
6/20/2022
23:55
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. 
Rupert Brooke
6/13/2022
29:51
It's everyone in England's biggest crush: Rupert Brooke.  
John Gillespie Magee Jr.
5/21/2022
32:03
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?

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