Poetry Podcast with Paula and Sally

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“Poetry Podcast with Paula and Sally” is a unique podcast devoted to the written and spoken-word. Celebrating history, humor and language, this spoken-word roundtable is hosted by Paula Giaquinto and Sally Cragin, with special guests who read and discuss great poems of the past and present.

  1. Apr 5

    Poetry Podcast with Paula & Sally - Ep. 21 - ABCdarian Poems

    Works by Geoffrey Chaucer, Brian Bilston and others. Sally and Paula do their best with Middle English and discuss a popular form. Can you write a poem in which line 1 starts with “A,” line 2 with “B” and so on?

    30 min

  2. Apr 5

    Poetry Podcast with Paula & Sally - Ep. 20 - Poetry, Patriotism, and Democracy, Part 2

    Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride” is read and discussed, along with work by Whitman and Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus” (Statue of Liberty poem)

    28 min

  3. 11/06/2025

    Poetry Podcast with Paula & Sally - Ep. 19 - Tribute to Armenian poet Diana Der-Hovanessian

    The late Fulbright Scholar, poet/translator Diana Der-Hovanessian’s work and career is discussed, and many of her poems about her family and heritage are read.

    30 min

  4. 11/06/2025

    Poetry Podcast with Paula & Sally - Ep. 18 - Poetry, Patriotism and Democracy

    Paula and Sally explore how poetic language is an under-appreciated aspect of our Democratic tradition and read work by Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes and “In Flanders’ Field.”

    30 min

  5. 09/18/2025

    Poetry Podcast with Paula & Sally - Ep. 17 - Fernando Pessoa

    Fernando Pessoa, brilliant and under-appreciated Portuguese poet and master of the “heteronym” (identical words with different definitions extended to personnas as poets). Paula and Sally read aloud from his work, including “The Tobacco Shop.”

    30 min

  6. 09/18/2025

    Poetry Podcast with Paula & Sally - Ep. 16 - Yona Vaughan

    Yona Vaughan, writer, artist, filmmaker, and Lieutenant in the Fitchburg Fire Department shares his work.

    57 min

  7. 03/21/2025

    Poetry Podcast with Paula and Sally - Ep. 15 - Lewis Carroll

    Paula and Sally read poems by Oxford mathematician Lewis Carroll and discuss including early work and Jabberwocky.

    29 min

  8. 02/13/2025

    Poetry Podcast with Paula & Sally - Ep.13 - Calendars

    Poems inspired by months, written in the past two centuries, including William Moore, Philip Freneau, Edgar Guest and Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

    30 min
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“Poetry Podcast with Paula and Sally” is a unique podcast devoted to the written and spoken-word. Celebrating history, humor and language, this spoken-word roundtable is hosted by Paula Giaquinto and Sally Cragin, with special guests who read and discuss great poems of the past and present.

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