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Mary Giudice
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A poetry podcast

  1. May 13

    (Archive) Episode 14: "These Days" by Sharon Olds

    I'm digging this one back up out of the archives, because over the years a few folks have told me that they enjoyed it. No one has admitted this without their cheeks turning at least a little pink. I like this one too! Enjoy.     What do you want? It can be difficult to articulate an answer to that question, and even more difficult to find the courage to tell the truth about it to someone else. But Sharon Olds has the guts of ten regular people and the brilliant words to back them up. Enjoy the ride!

    11 min

  2. Apr 6

    Episode 126: "A, a, a, Domine Deus"

    A poem by David Jones, 20th century Welsh poet.  I've found all his other work unreadable thus far, but I'm not giving up.  Look at some of his paintings, if you can.    Color of Dust interview where I first heard this poem: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-zraw9-25684ab3 Two recitations of this poem for Poetry By Heart: https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/a-a-a-domine-deus   "...Last season's fruit is eaten And the fullfed beast shall kick the empty pail. For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice." TS Eliot "Little Gidding"

    18 min

  3. Mar 23

    (Archive) Episode 3: My Mother's Body

    Sometimes you're just minding your own business and a poem jumps out from the bushes and surprises you. In this episode I share a poem that did that to me: "My Mother's Body" by Marie Howe.

    9 min

  4. Feb 26

    Episode 125: Worry

    Keith Hansen returns to the show with two poems by Stephen Dunn (on a very human theme) and some questions to guide your listening. "The Worrier"  "Worry" Enjoy!

    8 min

  5. Feb 12

    Episode 124: Two Snow Poems by Robert Frost

    Is a solitary walk in the snow desolate or cheering? These poems offer the answer: yes. "Desert Places" "Dust of Snow" Both by the national treasure, Robert Frost.

    16 min

  6. 12/29/2025

    Episode 123: Little Gidding

    I offer you “Little Gidding” by T.S. Eliot. This is far side of the deep end, dear listeners! Come on in. The best part of creating this series was sitting down with others whose lives have been amended by going into that deep. Joining me at the mic for this last quartet is the generous, intuitive reader and friend Colleen Jeffrey. The end is where we start from... We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

    1h 37m

  7. 11/06/2025

    Episode 122: The Dry Salvages

    I offer you "The Dry Salvages" by T.S. Eliot. This is deep ocean, dear listeners! Come on in.  The best part of creating this series was sitting down with others whose lives have been amended by going into that deep. Joining me at the mic this time is the convivial and keen-minded David Miller. Enjoy!   The bitter apple and the bite in the apple. And the ragged rock in the restless waters, Waves wash over it, fogs conceal it; On a halcyon day it is merely a monument, In navigable weather it is always a seamark To lay a course by: but in the sombre season Or the sudden fury, it is what it always was.

    1h 37m

  8. 10/09/2025

    Episode 121: East Coker

    I offer you "East Coker" by T.S. Eliot. This is the deep end, dear listeners! Come on in.  The best part of creating this series was sitting down with others whose lives have been amended by going into that deep. Joining me at the mic this time is the bright, adventuresome, insightful Anna Danese. Enjoy.   I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. As, in a theatre, The lights are extinguished, for the scene to be changed With a hollow rumble of wings, with a movement of darkness on darkness, And we know that the hills and the trees, the distant panorama And the bold imposing façade are all being rolled away—

    1h 39m
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A poetry podcast

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  • Creator
    Mary Giudice
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    100
  • Rating
    Clean
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