Podcasts

• Episode 8: The Lynching Postcard, Duluth, Minnesota

  2/10/2017

  Connor and Jack discuss the Ray Gonzalez poem "The Lynching Postcard, Duluth, Minnesota." Read the poem below or at this link. More about Ray…

• Episode 7: Kids Who Die

  1/27/2017

  Connor and Jack discuss the Langston Hughes poem "Kids Who Die" a work that, especially in light of the inauguration and recent protests, has an…

• Episode 6: Specimen Days [The Inauguration]

  1/20/2017

  In this special episode, Jack and Connor discuss "Specimen Days The Inauguration," Walt Whitman's poetic reflection on Abraham Lincoln's second…

• Episode 5: Excerpt from 'Life in a Box is a Pretty Life'

  1/13/2017

  Connor and Jack dig into an excerpt from Dawn Lundy Martin's work, Life in a Box is a Pretty Life. Their discussion delves into the questions the poem…

• Episode 4: Still I Rise

  12/23/2016

  Connor and Jack tackle a classic this week, discussing Maya Angelou's poem "Still I Rise." Always a popular work, it was referenced twice in popular…