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Students from the Bard Sequence program Jentle Brown (Plainfield HS, NJ) , Donyjanae Weaver (Thurgood Marshall Academy PCS, DC) , and Aleeya White (Orange HS, NJ) discuss Sophocles' tragic play Antigone.

Between minutes 25:00 and 29:11 we discuss Antigone's choice of death over life including thinking about this as a form of suicide. While the discussion is not graphic, anyone not interested in engaging with this content should skip this section.

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Matt, Katherine Bergevin ( PhD candidate at Columbia University's Department of English and Comparative Literature), and Jehan Senai Worthy (Attorney at the Hudson Valley Justice Center) discuss two of the most influential vampire texts of all time: Bram Stoker's Dracula and Sheridan LeFanu's Carmilla.

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Matt, Allen Ascher (Osher Lifelong Learning Institue at Rutgers University), and Patrick Oray (Bard High School Early College Baltimore) discuss Shakespeare's historical tragedy depicting the assassination of the Roman leader and it's aftermath.

This podcast was recorded on August 20, 2025.

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Matt discusses Chinua Achebe's landmark novel Things Fall Apart with Yawa Agbemabiese (Bard Highschool Early College, DC) and Carla Stephens (Bard Queer Leadership Project, Borough of Brooklyn Chair for History and Culture at Bard Microcollege Brooklyn Public Library).

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Bard Sequence professors Rosie Jayde Uyola (BHSEC Bronx), Paul Gilmore (Plainfield High School, NJ), and Andrew Worthington (Orange High School, NJ) discuss Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto.

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Today, three students from the Bard Sequence program discuss Marx and Engels' seminal text: The Communist Manifesto.

Anderson Morocho is from Orange High School in Orange, NJ. Dominick Cruz attends Bronx Envision Academy in Bronx, NY. David Ixcuna hails from Plainfield High School in Plainfield, NJ.

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Bard Sequence students Tito Oshuntolu and Kimora James respond to Gilgamesh and to the Bard Sequence Podcast.

Tito Oshuntolu attends Orange High School in New Jersey and Kimora attends Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School in Washington DC.

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Matt and Shana Russell delve into the unlikely pairing of Gilgamesh and Roald Dahl's Matilda.

Shana Russell is a professor at Bard High School Early College, Newark where she teaches Seminar, literature, and electives in anything from Afrofuturism to the Literature of Newark.