(Not an) Exam Special - "The Waste Land" by TS Eliot ft. Arjan Hut
It's a big special episode! Poet Arjan Hut and I sit down in front of a tin can to talk TS Eltiot's the Waste Land. It's a mixed language interview, and I'm leaving it that way because The Waste Land ...
30 Huhti 20251h 40min
26. Villlanelles pt 2. - Michael Luis Medrano "Villanelle"
Part 2 of 2 on Villanelles, I'll be going stanza by stanza to show how the repetition of Villanelles can be used to create richer emotions. Using a living poet's Villanelle, Michael Luis Medrano harn...
11 Maalis 202517min
25. Villanelles pt 1 - Dylan Thomas "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"
In this episode, I'll be talking about how we can look at poetic forms and discover their internal benefits -- through a difficult form to write called a Villanelle. I'll discuss harnessing the power ...
11 Maalis 202527min
24. Couplets suck! (a Rant) - Robert Louis Stevenson "Land of Nod", Basil Bunting "Briggflatts", and Robert Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
In this episode of Preston's Poetry Podcast ----- I'm wasting your time with a rant about why I (usually) hate couplets. It's also another "screw you" to some 19th-century poets, which is always nice....
20 Joulu 202415min
23. Free Verse Form - "Small Kindnesses" by Danusha Lameris
We’ve also previously been talking about this dynamic interchange – what Hopkins calls counterpoint — between Form and Function, how truly great poems take on a form not because the form is important ...
6 Joulu 202421min
22. Censorship & Controversy - "the mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks
CONTENT WARNING: AbortionToday I'll be addressing a heavy but beautiful poem by Gwendolyn Brooks, "the mother." Some say it's a pro-, some say it's an anti-abortion poem. It's actually neither -- rath...
22 Marras 202430min
21. Tradition (and its limits) - "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks
In this episode, I will have the immense pleasure of introducing you to one of my all-time favorite poets, Gwendolyn Brooks. We'll be talking about "THE CANON" and how we can look to poets like Gwendo...
16 Marras 202425min
20. Haiku with Bashō and Ezra Pound
I'll be rapid-firing haiku! We'll talk about the history of Haiku (Hoku + Haikai) and how to read them! If you wanna check out more on Haiku, check out this great youtube video by Kent Morita and Tak...
12 Touko 202416min
