W.S. Merwin he's marrying women, he's writing poetry, he may have written a dark version of the Lorax.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jacob-davies2/support

What's this? No scandal? A good man, writing good things who ends up in Greece (not exiled, just alone, but not alone at all) It's Robert Lax on What are Poems!  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jacob-davies2/support

He is on the pulse of Late-60's New York City.  A friend of all artist -- Frank O'Hara.  I discuss a harrowing tale of hammers I heard second hand.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jacob-davies2/support

Two men choke on grapes in this episode.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jacob-davies2/support

Marianne Moore was out there.  Another poet who's father has a psychotic break.  Another poet who was writing, and breathing and living and dying in times before our times. Also: She sums up what I've been trying to say in her poem "Poetry"  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jacob-davies2/support

NPR contributor, poet, and philosopher Baxter Black's poems are read.  I regret making fun of Ronald Reagan in a twist of fate I never saw coming.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jacob-davies2/support

It's everyone in England's biggest crush: Rupert Brooke.   --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jacob-davies2/support

It's a vivid, quick, important life on What Are Poems today. It's reaching back for inspiration and that inspiration reverberating for generations. Hey! Have you ever had a Rolling Rock Beer?  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jacob-davies2/support

Abraham Lincoln may or may not have written a poem about suicide in 1838.  A reading, an investigation, thoughts of Lizzie McGuire.   --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jacob-davies2/support

The sister of William Wordsworth gets some thoughts.  My buddy Phil reads a poem at around 4 AM in my home.  My buddy Noah says "May I?" A little taste of friendship and the friends we keep on WHAT ARE POEMS.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jacob-davies2/support

It's Ginsberg. He's just as I thought he would be.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jacob-davies2/support

Number 50! and it's Gerda Mayer (refugee, poet) OPERATION KINDERTRANSPORT.  What happened in Jim Thorpe?  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jacob-davies2/support

Quick holiday episode, folks! My thoughts on the top, Amy Lowell mentions a rabbit, we wish each other well.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jacob-davies2/support

The short story of American film actor James Stewart and the poem he wrote about his dog.  (A sort of Special What are POEMS). I read a poem and let you know about some exclusive merch (available at: https://www.bonfire.com/what-are-shirts/)  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jacob-davies2/support

Stumbled upon this Don Welch fella. Got into his poems, kept reading them throughout the whole podcast.  Neat one. Quiet one.  What are Poems.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jacob-davies2/support

It's Ovid on a LATE NIGHT EPISODE of WHAT ARE POEMS.  Hey! How about Ovid? He's not raised by horse people (I just haven't gone to bed yet) but he is writing erotic poems in Ancient Rome.  Here we go.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jacob-davies2/support

She's born when the only thing going on is shoeing horses. She founds Boston (James Brown saves it) She's writing poetry (All the men are shaking their heads) It's Anne Bradstreet. (The Queen of Clam Chowder) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jacob-davies2/support

You want to feel like you haven't done anything yet today? Get a load of the life and times of Pauli Murray (lawyer, priest, activist, author and poet)  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jacob-davies2/support

Stunned by Etheridge Knight.  New Favorite Poet.  He was doing it. Cursing, Swearing, Inspiring, Sir?! Hatin Regan, bringing people up into the light.  I continue to tease out what happened between me and Phil over soccer...  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jacob-davies2/support

Poet and Activist Amy King's poems are read.  I wonder about the fight at the Golden Corral Buffet.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jacob-davies2/support

Forget Yeats - let's do this.  Muses and Yeat's Muse herself, Maud Gonne, are the topic of discussion.  A poem about soup is read.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jacob-davies2/support