Poems for Company
On this theme-based show, host Brian Dillon reads and comments on poems from the ancient world to the present. Topics include Unlived Lives, Inanimate Objects, Swimming, Advice, and Unrequited love, among many others.
- Update frequency
- every 30 days
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 32
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Poems for Company – September 25th, 2023
“Advice”: Have you ever urged anyone to procreate? If so, what motivated you to do that? Today’s episode presents poems that offer direct advice, not only about when to have children and why, but a…
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Mon 25 Sep 2023
Poems for Company – August 28th, 2023
Ancient Chinese Poetry: This show features the work of two poets. Do they express concerns many of us think about in the 21st century? Do they suggest how to adjust certain of our attitudes? All t…
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Mon 28 Aug 2023
Poems for Company – July 24th, 2023
“Inanimate Objects”: Have you inherited an inanimate object that carries emotional weight? Have you bestowed a name on your bicycle or your car? The poems featured in this episode respond in a vari…
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Mon 24 Jul 2023
Poems for Company – June 26th, 2023
“Lust or Love”: In your own life, have you always been able to distinguish which powerful emotional response to another person grips you? In the four poems featured on this episode, can you determin…
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Mon 26 Jun 2023
Poems for Company – May 22nd, 2023
“Posing Questions”: “Who hangs a birdhouse from a sapling?” How would you answer that question? One poem featured on today’s episode places that question in a startling context. Questions shape al…
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Mon 22 May 2023
Poems for Company – April 24th, 2023
“Poems About Writing”: When you were a student, did you find joy in the writing tasks required of you? Did self-disclosure make you uncomfortable, or did you welcome the opportunity to express your …
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Mon 24 Apr 2023
Poems for Company – March 27th, 2023
“Unrequited Love,” Part One: Poets respond in a variety of ways when their strong desires for another are not returned: from anger to bewilderment to resignation. Over time, a number of episodes of …
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Mon 27 Mar 2023
Poems for Company, February 27 2023
“Unlived Lives”: What prompted you to make personal life-altering choices? Do you believe a sky-god or some other cosmic force oversees your personal choices? Has your life unfolded due to random e…
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Mon 27 Feb 2023
Poems For Company, January 23 2023
“Dogs in Homer, Homer’s Dog, Other Dogs.” What truths about dogs did Homer know nearly 3000 years ago? If Homer lived with a dog, what did this dog think of the epic poet? The poems in this episod…
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Mon 23 Jan 2023
Poems For Company, December 26 2022
What do you think of the remarks by the old people you know? Do they offer wisdom? Do they complain? Are they forward-looking? Are they funny? The seven poems featured on this episode offer a va…
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Mon 26 Dec 2022
Poems For Company, November 28 2022
How do we respond to the birds in our community? What do they tell us about ourselves? This show features eight poems: Emily Dickinson, “A Bird Came Down the Walk”; Isaac Rosenberg, “Returning, W…
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Mon 28 Nov 2022
Poems For Company, October 24 2022
Do we imagine the dead as content in their zone, or do they express anxieties about how the world of the living functions in their absence? Poems in this episode offer contrasting answers: Frederic …
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Mon 24 Oct 2022
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