HeyJaredPoems for Company
On this theme-based show, host Brian Dillon reads and comments on poems from the ancient world to the present. Topics include Unlived Lives, Inanimate Objects, Swimming, Advice, and Unrequited love, among many others.
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Poems for Company – September 28, 2026 (opens the original)
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“Unrequited Love (Part Three)”: Three poems written by men reveal curious responses to the phenomenon of being rejected in love. Then we close with a female poet witnessing the consequences of romantic rejection for various men she knows. Michael Drayton, Sonnet #61–“Since there’s no help” (1619). Ben Jonson, “My PIcture Left in Scotland” (1640-41). Sir...
Poems for Company – August 24, 2026 (opens the original)
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“Insects Among Us”: All four poems place insects on center stage. Our first opens with a question: “Don’t you remember them?” These are poems of memory and poems of the present, with speakers who are descriptive and very curious. Danusha Lameris, “The Bugs of Childhood,” from Blade By Blade (Copper Canyon Press, 2024). Robert Wrigley, “I Want...
Poems for Company – July 27, 2026 (opens the original)
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“Stephen Dunn’s Dilemmas”: All three poems are by the late contemporary poet Stephen Dunn. In each poem, the speaker faces a concern that challenges his sense of who he is and what he thinks he knows. The circumstance may seem mundane, but the concern is profound. If, that is, we are inclined to empathize with the speaker. “At...
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