The Poetry Fix

Erika Kyba
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  1. 12/11/2025

    Architect's Watercolor: Each Minute is Encounter

    Today, Erika Kyba reads Arthur Sze's "Architect's Watercolor." This is a poem that toes the line between potentiality and reality.

    4 min

  2. 12/04/2025

    Comus: To Quench the Draught of Pheobus

    Today, Erika Kyba continues to analyze Milton's "Comus," and we learn what makes the wicked spirit, Comus so dangerous: he menaces the rational faculties of men, and tempts them, through inordinate pleasure, to animality and indignity. Alexandra Comus joins us once again to narrate the part of the Attendant Spirit.

    5 min

  3. 11/20/2025

    Comus: The Rank Vapors of this Sin-Worn Mold

    Today, Erika Kyba introduces Milton's "Comus," a purported morality masque which is perhaps not what it seems to be. Alexandra Comus narrates the part of the Attendant Spirit.

    5 min

  4. 11/13/2025

    Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Accept this "Bonnie Doon"

    Today, Erika Kyba reads through the end of "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi," by Emily Dickinson. We begin to tie together the themes of moral bankruptcy, surface versus substance, and modernity, served with a slice of devilry.

    7 min

  5. 11/06/2025

    Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Insolvency, Sublime!

    Today, Erika Kyba reads "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi," by Emily Dickinson, a witty societal critique dashed with a commentary how certain astronomical discoveries have altered the way we understand and behave towards the universe around us.

    5 min

  6. 10/30/2025

    The Abyss: Above, Below, On Every Side

    Today, Erika Kyba reads "The Abyss," by Baudelaire, and attempts to explore the poet's terror of the infinite.

    5 min

  7. 10/23/2025

    The Benefactors: The Pinch of Pain and Fear

    Today, Erika Kyba reads "The Benefactors" by Rudyard Kipling. Kipling mediates on how all innovation springs from the "pinch of pain and fear" that drives man.

    4 min

  8. 10/16/2025

    Adam's Curse: As Weary-Hearted as that Hollow Moon

    Today, Erika Kyba reads "Adam's Curse" by William Butler Yeats. Yeats muses on how all beautiful and lovely things require labor...and how this laboring after the beautiful has become an "idle trade" in the hollow age of modernity.

    5 min
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  • Creator
    Erika Kyba
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodes
    68
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Erika Kyba