Whirled Through a Poem’s Eye

Christina Olivares's "Preserving an Ecosystem": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Small subversions and what poetry can do, seen at work in "Perserving an Ecosystem" by Christina Olivares.

Jane Hirshfield's "Counting, This New Year's Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Counting blessings, however mixed, under consideration and this Jane Hirshfield poem: "Counting, This New Year's Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me."

Li-Young Lee's "One Heart": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

All things connected in this Li-Young Lee poem, "One Heart."

Thomas Bailey Aldrich's "Memory": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Remembering and misremembering and an old poem: Thomas Bailey Aldrich, "Memory."

Wordsworth"s "To the Planet Venus": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Star-gazing with Wordsworth, and thinking about the notorious denizens of the planet Earth.

"Baptized" by Danielle Jones and "Mary Speaks" by Leila Chatti: Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Two poems on faith and doubt and the small voice inside.

Kweku Abimbola's "Burning Box Braid on East & 94th, Tulsa, Oklahoma": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

"Burning Box Braid on East & 94th, Tulsa, Oklahoma" by Kweku Abimbola explores the maintenance of old traditions in new lands, holding the "us" amid the "other," but understanding too that we are all "other" and "us" as well.

Deborah Digges's Vesper Sparrows: Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Reading "Vesper Sparrows" by Deborah Digges and thinking about humanity.

Anne Carson's "Getaway": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Going along to get along, and Anne Carson's short-short "Getaway" considered in this podcast.

That Nature Is a Heracletean Fire and Of the Comfort of the Resurrection by Gerard Manley Hopkins: Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Gerard Manley Hopkins and reveling in the death of some things and the birth of others in his poem "That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection."