Michelle Reads Poems

In this episode of  Michelle Reads Poems , I read three original poems on the theme of reading and writing— Dear Poetry Book Inside Flap Writer ,  On Reading Frank Bidart After a Long Absence , and  Poets Reading Poetry to Poets —followed by “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley. These poems take a lighter, more humorous look at the strange, self-referential world of poetry—reading it, writing it,...

In this first episode of  Michelle Reads Poems , I read three original poems on the theme of family— Ophelia’s Opal ,  My Mother’s Attempted Slow Death by Refusing to Eat , and  Easter Portrait —followed by “The Children’s Hour” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A quiet, minimal poetry podcast—just voice, poems, and the complicated beauty of family. If you have poems you’d like me to read on a future...