Anahid Nersessian [https://www.anahidnersessian.com/] joins Close Readings to talk about her favorite poem, John Keats's "Ode to Psyche [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44480/ode-to-psyche]." Anahid's most recent book, the extraordinary Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/K/bo77573957.html], is now available in a new edition [https://www.versobooks.com/books/4117-keats-s-odes]. Anahid is a professor of English at UCLA [https://english.ucla.edu/people-faculty/926/] and the author of two earlier books: Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment [https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674434578] (Harvard: 2015), and The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo50270960.html] (Chicago: 2020). She has published in a wide variety of academic journals and is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books [https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/anahid-nersessian/].  Please rate and subscribe to the podcast if you like what you hear, and sign up for my newsletter [https://kamranjavadizadeh.substack.com/] to stay up to date on our plans.