For a very special seventh episode, we are joined by Galway writer Caileigh Ryan to discuss Philip Larkin's famous meditation on death, Aubade. Listen now as we drink hot whiskeys and consider how the poem treats death as a lover, whether Larkin should be read in an Irish accent, and why this...

Ada Limón's "Late Summer After a Panic Attack" is a poem rich in disquiet and suburban claustrophobia. Join us as we discuss Limón's mastery of stillness, and whether or not we should get these lines as a tattoo: "What if I want to go devil instead?/ Bow down to the madness that makes...

"Always be closing, Said our favorite professor before He let the gun go off in his mouth" In our fifth episode, join us for a discussion of "Another Elegy" by 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown.  We talk about sunsets, mountains, and idioms, as well as the form of the elegy and the poem's...