Poetry for Children and Slobs

Poetry can be really delightful, but it can also feel really inaccessible. In this episode, we talked about our favorite poems, how to discover poems you love (and disregard everything else tbh), and then how to find poems that fit your specs. Stick around after the outro to hear our editor Lucas reading some selections.

This episode was produced by Rachel and Sally and edited by Lucas Nguyen. Our logo was designed by Amber Seger (@rocketorca). Our theme music is by Tiny Music. MJ Brodie transcribed this episode. Follow us on Twitter @OhILikeThatPod.

Things we talked about: 

• The Anti-Sleep Routine That’s Actually Helped My Insomnia by Terri Pous for Apartment Therapy 
• The mockingbird that humiliated Sally on her own front porch
• Verse Daily
• r/Poetry
• PoetryFoundation.org
• Matthew Ogle’s poetry newsletter Pome
• stacy-marie ishmael, whose newsletter The Main Event, often includes poetry 
• Poetry Rx: There Are Enough Ballrooms in You by Sarah Kay for the Paris Review
• The Ultimate List of (Non-Cheesy) Wedding Poems by Najva Sol for A Practical Wedding
• Are You Using a Poem in Your Wedding? by Emily Threlkeld for A Practical Wedding
• Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death by Yoel Hoffmann
• Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver
• Dew point versus humidity
• Weather Time Machine: Old ships' logs are giving scientists new insights into the past and future of the earth's changing climate by Feilding Cage for Reuters

Rachel’s favorite poems:

• The Orange by Wendy Cope
• Differences of Opinions by Wendy Cope
• Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell by Marty McConnell
• On This the 100th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Titanic, We Reconsider the Buoyancy of the Human Heart by Laura Lamb Brown-Lavoie

Sally’s favorite poems:

• Por que cantamos/Why We Sing by Mario Benedetti
• Poem (The day gets slowly started) by James Schuyler
• Resolution # 1,003​ by June Jordan

Poems read by Lucas after the outro:

• Banyan by Mary Oliver
• A selection of Japanese death poems from here