Poetry Podcast with Paula and Sally

Works by Geoffrey Chaucer, Brian Bilston and others. Sally and Paula do their best with Middle English and discuss a popular form. Can you write a poem in which line 1 starts with “A,” line 2 with “B” and so on?

Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride” is read and discussed, along with work by Whitman and Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus” (Statue of Liberty poem)

The late Fulbright Scholar, poet/translator Diana Der-Hovanessian’s work and career is discussed, and many of her poems about her family and heritage are read.

Paula and Sally explore how poetic language is an under-appreciated aspect of our Democratic tradition and read work by Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes and “In Flanders’ Field.”

Fernando Pessoa, brilliant and under-appreciated Portuguese poet and master of the “heteronym” (identical words with different definitions extended to personnas as poets). Paula and Sally read aloud from his work, including “The Tobacco Shop.”

Yona Vaughan, writer, artist, filmmaker, and Lieutenant in the Fitchburg Fire Department shares his work.

Paula and Sally read poems by Oxford mathematician Lewis Carroll and discuss including early work and Jabberwocky.

Poems inspired by months, written in the past two centuries, including William Moore, Philip Freneau, Edgar Guest and Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Paula and Sally speak about the poetry they enjoy writing, and read some of their own verse.

Paula and Sally read poems inspired by home, and homecoming, beginning with Homer’s “Odyssey” - Episode 12

Paula and Sally read poetry about pets including work by DH Lawrence. - Episode 11

Poetry Podcast with Paula & Sally "Our Own Words" Ep10 July 2024

Poetry Podcast with Paula & Sally "Translation with George Mirijanian" Ep 9 July 2024

Water – According to the Ancient Mariner, it is, indeed, everywhere. Paula and Sally get back to elementals with work by Virginia Woolf, Robert Louis Stevenson (who loved his boats), John Masefield and Frost.  July 2024

 A garden shed, a palace, or a set of stairs, such as Langston Hughes wrote about. Paula and Sally read the work of Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost and discuss the variety of structures that captivate poets. Ep#7 July 2024

Poetry Podcast with Paula & Sally “Prodigies in Poetry” Paula and Sally read work by Thomas Chatterton, John Keats, Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen, and Amanda Gorman. Ep.6

Poetry Podcast with Paula & Sally Paula and Sally welcome poet/musician Pat Frederick of Ashburnham, MA who writes humorous light verse about dogs, cats, and domestic events. Ep.5

Poetry with Paula & Sally Potpourri – Caroline Atherton Mason, Sarah Orne Jewett, and poems about seasons. Ep.4

Poetry Podcast with Paula & Sally Paula and Sally share poetry of winter. Sonnet 97, William Shakespeare, Josephine Cragin (Sally’s distant cousin), Claude McKay, and “Sunday in the Burg” by Paula Ep.3

Poetry Podcast with Paula and Sally Victorian poets beloved by Paula and Sally include Robert Louis Stevenson (“My Shadow” and “To Any Reader”) and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Sonnet 43, “How do I love thee” and “A Musical Instrument” Ep.2

Sally and Paula Poetry Ep.1