Reading and Writing

Michael Lavers
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Read more. Write better. Check out my new book of poems here: https://utampapress.org/product/the-inextinguishable Check out Claire’s music, art, and writing here: www.claireakebrandart.com

  1. 15/03/2023

    Adam Zagajewski

    We talk about the life-affirming poems of Adam Zagajewski.

    44 min

  2. 13/08/2022

    Frank Norris, McTeague

    Claire and I have one of my favorite discussions about a very under-read book. We talk about the relationship between America and money, love and money, obsession, greed, expectations vs. reality, imagination vs. fantasy, nature, beauty, truth, hoarse-voiced entertainers on sub-par cruises, and lots more.

    1 h y 3 min

  3. 09/08/2022

    Robert Frost, ”Home Burial”

    In this episode, I present a recording from a class in which students and I discuss Frost's masterpiece, "Home Burial."

    56 min

  4. 01/08/2022

    Don Quixote

    Claire and I talk about the strange wonderful pleasure of this book, focusing on the first 250 pages. More Cervantes discussions to come!

    44 min

  5. 02/04/2022

    James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

    "Everything that is is holy." Translation: CLAIRE IS BACK!!!!!!

    53 min

  6. 02/01/2022

    ”As Kingfishers Catch Fire...”, a poem by GM Hopkins

    Some students and I walk through Hopkins' poem, celebrating its particular pleasures and insights, as well as talking in general about how easy it is to access the strange mysterious power of a poem.

    52 min

  7. 03/11/2021

    Hamlet

    Who's there? Who are you? Why are you here? What is it all for? Are these the right questions? Can we even know?

    1 h y 2 min

  8. 27/10/2021

    How to Enjoy Poetry, and Why

    I yammer on for a while about how inadequate any theory of poetry is, and then I think I end up outlining a tentative theory of poetry. Oops.

    56 min
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Read more. Write better. Check out my new book of poems here: https://utampapress.org/product/the-inextinguishable Check out Claire’s music, art, and writing here: www.claireakebrandart.com

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  • Creador
    Michael Lavers
  • Años de actividad
    2020 - 2023
  • Episodios
    91
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