Whirled Through a Poem’s Eye

Brief essays on poetry: considering a poem and how it reveals the world and the human experience. Find the text of the poems featured and the podcast script on MarilynOnaRoll.wordpress.com.

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Episodes

Sep 23, 2025

Sally Van Doren's "1 Kings": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Sep 23, 2025

4 min

Building the self, in this poem by Sally Van Doren.

Sep 23, 2025

4 min

Sep 16, 2025

Oksana Maksymchuk's "The Stages of Ukrainian Futurism": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Sep 16, 2025

5 min

Considering the costs of war in this poem by Oksana Maksymchuk.

Sep 16, 2025

5 min

Sep 9, 2025

Antonio Machado's "Proverbios y cantares XXIX": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Sep 9, 2025

5 min

Finding a way, with this poem by Machado, and several different translations.

Sep 9, 2025

5 min

Sep 2, 2025

William Stafford's "You Reading This, Be Ready": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Sep 2, 2025

3 min

Taking a breath, with this poem by William Stafford.

Sep 2, 2025

3 min

Aug 26, 2025

Richard Siken's "Devonian Forest": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Aug 26, 2025

5 min

Strange tales in this prose poem by Richard Siken.

Aug 26, 2025

5 min

Aug 19, 2025

Jim Carns's "Tornado": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Aug 19, 2025

3 min

Questioning what we think we know in Jim Carns's poem.

Aug 19, 2025

3 min

Aug 12, 2025

Pablo Neruda's "Keeping Quiet" (tr. A. Reid): Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Aug 12, 2025

4 min

A little quiet sanity in the loud world with this Pablo Neruda poem.

Aug 12, 2025

4 min

Aug 5, 2025

Martha Silano's "Is This My Last Ferry Trip?": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Aug 5, 2025

4 min

Moving toward mortality in this poem by Martha Silano.

Aug 5, 2025

4 min

Jul 29, 2025

Anna Akhmatova's "White House": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Jul 29, 2025

3 min

The loss of the White House in this poem by Akhmatova.

Jul 29, 2025

3 min

Jul 22, 2025

Emily Adams-Aucoin's "Delay": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Jul 22, 2025

4 min

We're all in this together in this poem by Emily Adams-Aucoin.

Jul 22, 2025

4 min

Whirled Through a Poem's Eye

Poetry can be a lens through which our perspective on the world, on life, is sharpened. Poetry can startle, reveal, question, confirm. Each podcast will use one poem through which to view the world anew.