The Books We Loved

taking small bites - a poetry primer

April 15 · 27 min · Episode 117 · 29.9 MB
0:00-27:33

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Today the gals celebrate National Poetry Month by sharing bits and bobs from some of their favs. 

Poetry titles shared today:

  • “Wild Geese” – Mary Oliver
  • “Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem” – Matthew Olzmann
  • “A Primer” – Bob Hicock
  • “Dirtbag” – Leigh Lucas
  • “How to Like It” – Stephen Dobyns
  • “What I Didn’t Know Before” – Ada Limon
  • “Unchopping a Tree” – W.S. Merwin
  • “Digging” – Seamus Heaney
  • “I Sing the Body Electric” – Walt Whitman
  • “Darkling I Listen” – Adam Clay
  • “Funeral Blues” – W.H. Auden
  • “Try to Praise the Mutilated World” – Adam Zagajewski
  • “Nostalgia” – Billy Collins
  • “Feet” – Ross Gay
  • “Maple Valley Branch Library, 1967”