#136: Read Me A Poem, Wont You?
For the past year and a half, Amanda Holmes has been delighting readers around the world with The American Scholar \u2019s podcast Read Me A Poem. She has recited poems ranging from English classics by W. B. Yeats and Maya Angelou to works in translation by Kamala Das and Wislawa Szymborska to mournful sonnets by Rupert Brooke and lighthearted romps by Kenneth Patchen and Laura Riding. Holmes\u2019s gift lies in treating each poem with equal attention, whether it\u2019s by a new poet she\u2019s just encountered or a canonical master. These days, with listener requests flooding in during the pandemic, the show\u2019s tagline seems truer than ever: we all need more poetry in our lives. So this week, we peer behind the curtain of our sister show, speaking with that voice that has been brightening all our lives with weekly poems.
Go beyond the episode:\ufeff
- View the Read Me A Poem archives on our website
- Subscribe to Read Me A Poem: iTunes \u2022 Feedburner \u2022 Google Play \u2022 Acast
- Read Amanda Holmes\u2019s book reviews and feature column at the Washington Independent Review of Books
Poems mentioned:
- Robert Browning, \u201cThe Pied Piper of Hamelin\u201d
- Jane Hirshfield, \u201cFor What Binds Us\u201d
- W. H. Auden\u2019s \u201cFuneral Blues\u201d
- Rabindranath Tagore, \u201cDungeon\u201d and an excerpt from Gitanjali
- Walt Whitman, \u201cO Captain! My Captain!\u201d
- Emily Dickinson,\u201cI felt a Funeral, in my Brain\u201d
- Kamala Das, \u201cSummer in Calcutta\u201d
- Toru Dutt, \u201cOur Casuarina Tree\u201d
- Leonardo Sinisgalli, \u201cElderly Tears\u201d
- Rainer Maria Rilke, \u201cArchaic Torso of Apollo\u201d
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