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Go Poet Go - 019 - Summer Solstice, New York City - Sharon Olds
11-08-2022
Go Poet Go - 019 - Summer Solstice, New York City - Sharon Olds
Summer Solstice, New York City Sharon Olds

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Go Poet Go - 019 - Summer Solstice, New York City - Sharon Olds
11-08-2022
Go Poet Go - 019 - Summer Solstice, New York City - Sharon Olds
Summer Solstice, New York City Sharon Olds
Go Poet Go - 018 - Life in Moments - Jack Gilbert and George Bilgere
10-08-2022
Go Poet Go - 018 - Life in Moments - Jack Gilbert and George Bilgere
Two poets see life through its moments. How I Met Your Mother George Bilgere  Highlights and Interstices Jack Gilbert
Go Poet Go - 017 - One more by Ryokan - Ryokan
05-08-2022
Go Poet Go - 017 - One more by Ryokan - Ryokan
One more by the poet Ryokan Just This Ryokan
Go Poet Go - 016 - Two by Ryokan - Ryokan
04-08-2022
Go Poet Go - 016 - Two by Ryokan - Ryokan
Two poems by the poet Ryokan  Day By Day Ryokan This Ball in My Pocket Ryokan
Go Poet Go - 015 - Truth about Truth - Emily Dickinson, Gwendolyn Brooks
15-07-2022
Go Poet Go - 015 - Truth about Truth - Emily Dickinson, Gwendolyn Brooks
Two poets tell us the truth about truth.  Tell all the truth but tell is slant Emily Dickinson Truth Gwendolyn Brooks.
Go Poet Go - 014 - Two by Rumi - Rumi
14-07-2022
Go Poet Go - 014 - Two by Rumi - Rumi
Two poems by the poet Rumi  Today Rumi I am so small Rumi translated by Coleman Barks
Go Poet Go - 013 - Two Loaded Guns - Kabir, Emily Dickinson, W.H. Auden
14-07-2022
Go Poet Go - 013 - Two Loaded Guns - Kabir, Emily Dickinson, W.H. Auden
Two loaded guns from the poets Kabir and Emily Dickinson, and a kind of smirk from the poet Auden.  I don't know what sort of God we have been talking about Kabir translated by Robert Bly My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun Emily Dickinson I have no gun W.H. Auden
Go Poet Go - 012 - Find the beginning - Homer, William Shakespeare
12-07-2022
Go Poet Go - 012 - Find the beginning - Homer, William Shakespeare
Find the beginning. The poets Homer and Shakespeare. Both open an invitation to your imagination. Both ask you and the Muses to come create the story with them. The Odyssey Homer, translated by Emily Wilson Henry V William Shakespeare
Go Poet Go - 011 - Which life to live, Part 2 - Mary Oliver, William Butler Yeats
11-07-2022
Go Poet Go - 011 - Which life to live, Part 2 - Mary Oliver, William Butler Yeats
Mary Oliver versus William Butler Yeats The Summer Day Mary Oliver Under Ben Bulben William Butler Yeats
Go Poet Go - 010 - Which life to live, Part 1 - Cole Porter, Charles Dickens, Rainer Maria Rilke
11-07-2022
Go Poet Go - 010 - Which life to live, Part 1 - Cole Porter, Charles Dickens, Rainer Maria Rilke
The first poet is Cole Porter who asks which is the life to live. The poets Charles Dickens and Rainier Maria Rilke offer some answers. Which Cole Porter David Copperfield Charles Dickens
Go Poet Go - 009 - The angel of history - William Butler Yeats and Laurie Anderson with Walter Benjamin
10-07-2022
Go Poet Go - 009 - The angel of history - William Butler Yeats and Laurie Anderson with Walter Benjamin
The Angel of History.    Two poets, Yeats and Laurie Anderson, sing about the arc of history.     The Second Coming William Butler Yeats The Dream Before Laurie Anderson based on the writing of Walter Benjamin, The Angel of History
Go Poet Go - 008 - One fine day when death comes - David Byrne with Brian Eno, Mary Oliver
10-07-2022
Go Poet Go - 008 - One fine day when death comes - David Byrne with Brian Eno, Mary Oliver
One fine day when Death comes. Two poets, David Byrne with Brian Eno and Mary Oliver. They tell us about the door they look forward to stepping through.  One Fine Day David Byrne and Brian Eno When Death Comes Mary Oliver
Go Poet Go - 007 - Tell me about a complicated man - Homer, Dante Alighieri
08-07-2022
Go Poet Go - 007 - Tell me about a complicated man - Homer, Dante Alighieri
Tell me about a complicated man.  Two poets, Homer and Dante. Each open their stories  to tell us about someone who is lost.  The Odyssey Homer. Translated by Emily Wilson. The Inferno Dante Aligeri. Translated by Mark Musa.
Go Poet Go - 006 - Are you looking for me? - Kabir, William Blake, Juan Ramon Jimenez
07-07-2022
Go Poet Go - 006 - Are you looking for me? - Kabir, William Blake, Juan Ramon Jimenez
Are you looking for me? I am not I  This first poet is Kabir, from India in the 1400s.  The second poet will be William Blake, 400 years later The third is Juan Ramón Jiménez, the Spanish poet who won a Nobel prize in the 1950s.     Are you looking for me Kabir, translated by Robert Bly To see the world from William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence I am not I or Yo No Soy Yo Juan Ramón Jiménez, also translated by Robert Bly
Go Poet Go - 005 - Everything will change, will pass - Kobayashi Issa, William Shakespeare
06-07-2022
Go Poet Go - 005 - Everything will change, will pass - Kobayashi Issa, William Shakespeare
This world of dew. Is melted into air, into thin air. Everything will change, will pass.      The first poet is Issa, writing haiku poems in Japan. The second poet is Shakespeare, from a speech given towards the end of The Tempest. This World of Dew Kobayashi Issa   The Tempest William Shakespeare, Act 4 Scene 1, Prospero speaking
Go Poet Go - 004 - How Grief Ends - Wendell Berry, Tomas Tranströmer
06-07-2022
Go Poet Go - 004 - How Grief Ends - Wendell Berry, Tomas Tranströmer
This is how grief ends. How despair can unfold.   The first poet is also a Farmer in Kentucky, the other poet was a psychologist in Sweden.     The Peace of Wild Things Wendell Berry The Half-Finished Heaven Tomas Tranströmer from New Collected Poems, translated by Robin Fulton
Go Poet Go - 003 - Three doors inside three poems - Bill Callahan, Derek Walcott, Rumi
04-07-2022
Go Poet Go - 003 - Three doors inside three poems - Bill Callahan, Derek Walcott, Rumi
Three doors inside three poems Night Bill Callahan Love After Love Derek Walcott The Guest House Rumi translated by Coleman Barks
Go Poet Go - 002 - Using Food - Jane Hirshfield
04-07-2022
Go Poet Go - 002 - Using Food - Jane Hirshfield
Using food. Small purple artichokes. Vinegar and Oil. Using food the poet tells us about life. My Species Jane Hirshfield. From the book The Beauty.    Vinegar and Oil Jane Hirshfield. From the book Come, Thief.
Go Poet Go - 001 - Writing about your father - Robert Hayden, Seamus Heaney
04-07-2022
Go Poet Go - 001 - Writing about your father - Robert Hayden, Seamus Heaney
Writing about your father. Two different poets. One raised in Detroit, one raised in rural Ireland. Two very different places. Looking back at their father, here’s what the poet can see today. Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden, 1962 Digging by Seamus Heaney, 1964