HeyJaredHuman Voices Wake Us
The poem says, "Human voices wake us, and we drown." But I’ve made this podcast with the belief that human voices are what we need.
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#242 - Anthology: poems on being a parent (opens the original)
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An episode from 1/31/24: Tonight, as a companion to last episode of poems on being a child, I read a handful of poems about being a parent: “Morning Song,” by Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) “Child Crying Out,” by Louise Glück (1943-2023) “First Snow” read by Louise Glück ( audio from here ) “This Be the Verse,” by Philip Larkin (1922-1985) “Lucinda Matlock,” by Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) “On My First Sonne” (Epigrammes XLV), by Ben Jonson (1572-1637) “The Pomegranate,” by Eavan Bola
#241 - London, Cleveland, Poland: Some new poems (opens the original)
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An episode from 9/22/26: Tonight, I read three new poems that were just published over at The Brazen Head: “London, 1943,” “Shtetl, 1803,” and “Cleveland, 1988.” You can read the poems here . Since I’ve spent so much time writing longer narrative poems, earlier this year I suddenly wanted to see what it would be like writing smaller narratives—anything from fifty to a few hundred lines. These three poems are each attempts, in their own way—stories about love, war, childhood, religion and lonelin
#240 - Reading Kafka's Diaries (opens the original)
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An episode from 9/14/26: Tonight, I read my favorite passages from the Diaries of Franz Kafka . (The edition of his diaries that I read has since been replaced by this one ). When you approach these passages, as I do here, with almost no comment or connecting links to his life or his work, let alone to the library of Kafka scholarship that has developed in the last century, he suddenly appears very familiar. He sounds like you, or somebody you know, struggling by themselves with whatever it is.
#239 - What I found in Amsterdam (opens the original)
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An episode from 9/7/26: Tonight, I talk about a recent trip to Amsterdam. At the great art museums there I suddenly found myself wondering if the overcrowding in them didn’t suggest what I’ve been saying for a long time on this podcast: that great meaning and intensity is usually found in private experiences. In this case, in the memory of having seen so many great works in person, or actually just in reproduction, even on postcards or t-shirts. The paintings I mention are: Vermeer’s Milkmaid an
#238 - Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico (opens the original)
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An episode from 8/17/26: Tonight, we look at the years of intense simplicity that the American artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) spent in New Mexico. Attached to the area from her first visit to Taos in 1929, over the next fifteen years she continued to travel and paint there. In 1949 she moved to New Mexico permanently and achieved the kind of bare-bones life, seclusion from the wider world, and level of intimacy with the natural world she had long sought. The books I read from are Laurie Lis
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