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5 days ago · Walela Nehanda. Audio recordings of classic and contemporary poems read by poets and actors, delivered every day. Subscribe. More Episodes from Audio Poem of the Day. Showing 1 to 20 of 5,090 Podcasts. Saturday, June 1, 2024.
- First Rites by Micah Ballard
One day we went on a retreat that turned out to be a rented...
- The Demon by Jennifer Firestone
Jennifer Firestone's books include TEN (BlazeVOX, 2018),...
- A Story About Chicken Soup by Louis Simpson
We had killed her mechanical brothers, So we forgave her. *...
- First Rites by Micah Ballard
May 20, 2024 · Siegfried Sassoon, a British war poet famous for his poetry written during the First World War.. War poetry is poetry on the topic of war. While the term is applied especially to works of the First World War, the term can be applied to poetry about any war, including Homer's Iliad, from around the 8th century BC as well as poetry of the American Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, the Crimean ...
May 25, 2024 · THEY WERE SO YOUNG. Memorial Day and the old folks come. And stand in the sun feeling sad and dumb. The boys in the ground—there are so many, They’re eighteen, nineteen, maybe twenty—. They just moved out of a boy’s bedroom. And went to war, now they lie in a tomb.
May 26, 2024 · Conflict poems about relationship arguments, family feuds and conflict in society. Here you'll find poems exploring the emotions behind conflict situations, including internal conflict over difficult life decisions.
6 days ago · Odyssey, epic poem in 24 books traditionally attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer. The poem is the story of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, who wanders for 10 years (although the action of the poem covers only the final six weeks) trying to get home after the Trojan War.
- The Odyssey is an epic poem in 24 books traditionally attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer. The poem is the story of Odysseus, king of Ithaca...
- The majority of the Odyssey takes place on and around the Aegean Sea before concluding in Odysseus’s kingdom of Ithaca.
- The Odyssey was intended for oral performance. The poem was likely transmitted through generations of oral poets well before it was written down. I...
- Among the most notable English-language translations of the Odyssey produced in the 20th century were those by Robert Fitzgerald (1961), Richmond L...
- While there is no conclusive evidence supporting the historicity of the Odyssey’s story and its characters, it has been proposed that geographic el...
6 days ago · Let us first consider the poem’s structure, which I believe reveals its intent. The poem’s thirteen verses fall into two main parts: the first, a conventional opening in Bedouin poetry (in Arabic riḥlah) comprising ten verses, adopts a present perspective, and this present is entirely positive in Bedouin cultural terms; the second part, the poet’s message delivered by a rider of a she ...
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2 days ago · Now all the world is Anarchy, the Commons is the air, The water and the soil. These, all of these, we share. And every smokestack that we add is just another cow, And this is not a fable, friends — this is happening now. The Tragedy of the Commons, let’s give it its real name, Is that this isn’t funny. It is our species’ shame.
