Ep 51: On Being Asked to Write a Yoga Poem, ft. Alice Allan
NB: At one point in this episode I say that the infamous essay The Briar Patch opposed the racial integration of schools. It actually opposed several different forms of integration.
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Alice’s conversation with Cassandra Atherton
– Wendell Berry’s Advice for a Cataclysmic Age by Dorothy Wickenden
– Antilamentation by Dorianne Laux
– Antiblurb by A. E. Stallings
– A Brief for the Defense by Jack Gilbert
– We Lived Happily During the War by Ilya Kaminsky
– Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
– 32 Poems
– A Poem (and a Painting) About the Suffering That Hides in Plain Sight by Elisa Gabbert
– Horace
– On Being Asked for a War Poem by W. B. Yeats
– Easter, 1916 by W. B. Yeats
– Among School Children by W. B. Yeats
– Kathleen’s William Goldman story (I make a dumb joke in this episode about the Make-A-Wish Foundation. As it happens, former guest Kathleen Jones was once a Make-A-Wish kid, and her wish was to meet William Goldman, a meeting that led to a rich and decades-long relationship.)
– The London Review of Books podcast
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Music by ETRNL
Art by Daniel Alexander Smith
