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Take a quick break and relax with a poem. Pause for Poetry is a short poetry podcast with each episode featuring an out-of-copyright poem read over a bed of relaxing music. Individual music is written for each episode to capture the character or mood of the poem. New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.

  1. 08/05/2021

    The Rose and the Bee by Sara Teasdale | Pause for Poetry Season 1, Episode 19

    A short and sweet poem to end our first season of Pause For Poetry. Sara Teasdale was a leading female voice in American poetry at the beginning of the 20th Century, won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1917 and saw much critical and popular success. https://mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-30442 We're taking a little break over summer but will be back with more poetry very soon in Season 2. Find out more about Pause for Poetry at http://airglowaudio.com/pfp

    2 min

  2. 08/03/2021

    A Dead Rose by Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Pause for Poetry Season 1, Episode 19

    A sort of elegy written for a flower, this poem uses the image of the dead rose as a reflection of the fragiliy of life. Barrett Browning was an incredibly successful and talented poet who, through her marriage to poet Robert Browning, became very well-known in her lifetime. https://allpoetry.com/A-Dead-Rose Find out more about Pause for Poetry at http://airglowaudio.com/pfp

    3 min

  3. 07/29/2021

    Assurances by Walt Whitman | Pause for Poetry Season 1, Episode 18

    Whitman discusses the inevitabilty of death and finds peace in those assurances of the title. A hugely influential figure in American poetry and American culture, Whitman wrote mostly in free verse and much of his work addresses the ideals of humanism. Leaves of Grass, the collection from which Assurances is taken, was revised multiple times by Whitman throughout his life. https://www.bartleby.com/142/202.html Find out more about Pause for Poetry at http://airglowaudio.com/pfp

    4 min

  4. 07/27/2021

    A Birthday by Christina Georgina Rossetti | Pause for Poetry Season 1, Episode 17

    A wonderful example of a poem actually about being in love (rather than unrequited love or loss etc.), Rossetti uses the celebration of a birthday to celebrate her love with some glorious natural imagery in the second stanza. Rossetti wrote some incredible poetry - we'll definitely be featuring more soon. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44992/a-birthday Find out more about Pause for Poetry at http://airglowaudio.com/pfp

    2 min

  5. 07/22/2021

    Sonnet 1: To My Brother George by John Keats | Pause for Poetry Season 1, Episode 16

    Keats wrote this poem after his beloved brother George left England for America in 1818. The sonnet uses fantastical imagery of nature which Keats then undermines in the last couplet by implying that they mean little without George there with him to appreciate them. During this time Keats contracted tuberculosis and he died at the age of 25. George went on to outlive his brother for another 20 years and his eight children now have hundreds of descendents in the US.  https://www.bartleby.com/126/14.html Find out more about Pause for Poetry at http://airglowaudio.com/pfp

    3 min

  6. 07/20/2021

    The Two Trees by William Butler Yeats | Pause for Poetry Season 1, Episode 15

    The two long stanzas in this poem represent The Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life from the Garden of Eden. The sumptuous imagery in this poem seem to celebrate creativity and life, and the clever parallels between the two stanzas heighten the links Yeats is making between the joys and fragility of life.  https://www.poetry-archive.com/y/the_two_trees.html Find out more about Pause for Poetry at http://airglowaudio.com/pfp

    3 min

  7. 07/15/2021

    By The Sea by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson | Pause for Poetry Season 1, Episode 14

    Dickinson's work was never published in her lifetime but has come to be appreciated as some of the finest of American poetry. The very grounded initial image of walking a dog by the beach quickly morphs into a fantastical adventure with mermaids, pearls and personifiation of the sea itself.  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50976/i-started-early-took-my-dog-656 Find out more about Pause for Poetry at http://airglowaudio.com/pfp

    3 min

  8. 07/13/2021

    Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Pause for Poetry Season 1, Episode 13

    ... or A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment. This poem was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797 after a (possibly opium-influenced) dream and was published in 1816. Supposedly Coleridge woke up from his dream with th intention of writing hundreds of lines of poetry but was interrupted by an infamous 'person from Porlock' (Porlock is a small village in Somerset, UK). We'll never know if there really was a person that interrupted Coleridge, but 'Person from Porlock' has since become a term for someone that interrupts an artist's creativity. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43991/kubla-khan Find out more about Pause for Poetry at http://airglowaudio.com/pfp

    5 min
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Take a quick break and relax with a poem. Pause for Poetry is a short poetry podcast with each episode featuring an out-of-copyright poem read over a bed of relaxing music. Individual music is written for each episode to capture the character or mood of the poem. New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.

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    Airglow Audio
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