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Kamran Javadizadeh
Close Readings
One poem. One guest. Each episode, Kamran Javadizadeh, a poetry critic and professor of English, talks to a different leading scholar of poetry about a single short poem that the guest has loved. You'll have a chance to see the poem from the expert's perspective—and also to think about some big questions: How do poems work? What can they make happen? How might they change our lives?
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Ratings & Reviews
4.9 stars from 77 ratings
blast3blur4got via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 04/01/24
guilty of dust tbh
The ‘interrupting’ discussed by other reviewers is interesting to me because it just reminds me of being in class in undergrad…it seems oriented around *me the listener* in a pedagogical kind of way. It’s like I think I hear the lesson plan undergirding the discussion; swbat. The only reason I...Read full review »
blast3blur4got via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 02/17/24
A Kitten in the Wilderness
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The Actual Rapper Cam'Ron via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 11/11/23
Recent Episodes
This is the kind of conversation I dreamed about having when I began this podcast. Emily Wilson [https://www.emilyrcwilson.com/] joins Close Readings to talk about Sappho's "Ode to Aphrodite [https://public.websites.umich.edu/~celueb/sappho-poems/single-page/]," a poet and poem at the root of the...
Published 03/25/24
Published 03/25/24
"Poetry," according to this episode's poem, "makes nothing happen." But as our guest, Robert Volpicelli [https://www.rmc.edu/profile/robert-a-volpicelli/], makes clear, that poem, W. H. Auden's "In Memory of W. B. Yeats [https://poets.org/poem/memory-w-b-yeats]," offers that statement not as...
Published 03/11/24
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