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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 83 ratings
I sit with it
Really enjoy this, excited for summer to turn to fall so I can burn through all the back episodes. Would like to share episodes to my Instagram story, I suppose I could do that from the app? Yada yada, thanks a bunch. Mammoth Lakes CA
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Recent Episodes
Published 05/13/24
What can a poem do in the face of calamity? This was an extraordinary conversation. Huda Fakhreddine [https://nelc.sas.upenn.edu/people/huda-fakhreddine] joins the podcast to discuss "Pull Yourself Together...
Published 05/13/24
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
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