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Poems for Company

Poems for Company

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On this theme-based show, host Brian Dillon reads and comments on poems from the ancient world to the present. Topics include Unlived Lives, Inanimate Objects, Swimming, Advice, and Unrequited love, among many others.© 2024 KMUN Arte Ciencias Sociales Entretenimiento y Artes Escénicas Historia y Crítica Literaria
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  • Poems for Company - February 23rd, 2026
    Feb 23 2026
    “Revised Bible Stories”: Poets give voice to characters who are silent in the Bible, and they speculate on what the Bible left out. They allow us to imagine less conventional roles for certain characters, as these three poems suggest. Molly Twomey, “Noah’s Wife,” from Raised Among Vultures, and used by kind permission of the author and The Gallery Press, 2022 (www.gallerypress.com). J. Estanislao Lopez, “Alternate Ending: The Escape of Jephthah’s Daughter,” from We Borrowed Gentleness (Alice James Books, 2022). Brian Doyle, “The Second Letter of Lazarus to His Sisters,” from A Shimmer of Something, copyright by Brian Doyle (Liturgical Press, Collegeville, Minnesota, 2014), and...
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    29 m
  • Poems for Company - January 26th, 2026
    Jan 26 2026
    “Parents Viewed Unconventionally”: Three contemporary female poets comment on one or more parents in somewhat unexpected ways. Molly Twomey, “The Drop Off,” from Raised Among Vultures, and used by kind permission of the author and The Gallery Press, 2022 (www.gallerypress.com). Kathleen Flenniken, “Married Love,” from Post Romantic, used by kind permission of the author (U. of Washington Press, 2020). Ada Limon, “Joint Custody,” from The Hurting Kind (Milkweed, 2022). Our theme music is Philip Aaberg’s “Going-to-the-Sun” from Live from Montana (available at sweetgrassmusic.com) and used with the kind permission of Mr. Aaberg.
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    29 m
  • Poems for Company - December 22nd, 2025
    Dec 22 2025
    “Friendship”: Three poems consider the shared activities, the camaraderie, the tensions, and the goofiness of friendships. Ada Limon, “Blowing on the Wheel,” from The Hurting Kind (Milkweed, 2022). Delmore Schwartz, “Do the Others Speak of Me Mockingly, Maliciously?” from Selected Poems, copyright 1959 by Delmore Schwartz. Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. Sharon Olds, “Best Friends,” from The Dead and the Living (Knopf, 1991), and used with the kind permission of the poet. Our theme music is Philip Aaberg’s “Going-to-the-Sun” from Live from Montana (available at sweetgrassmusic.com) and used with the kind permission of Mr. Aaberg.
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    29 m
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