MashReads podcast: So, like, what even is a poem?
 

MashReads podcast: So, like, what even is a poem?
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It's finally April, and you k**w what that means:*National Poetry Month*is here!

Founded by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month is yearly celebration of poetry and its impact.

In ho**r of the month, the latest episode of our MashReads Podcast*is devoted to all things poetry.

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Join us as we chat about how to read poems, ways to find new poetry, our favorite poets and, of course, the big question: What even is a poem?






Links to works discussed in this episode:

• The hidden Walt Whitman and Frank O'Hara poem hiding in Battery Park City. (Great explainer by 99% Invisible here.)
  
• 'Because I Could **t Stop for Death' by Emily Dickinson
  
• Matt chats about*the linguistics behind insufferably an**ying 'poet voice'
  
• '99 Problems' by Morgan Parker
  
• 'The Lady of Shallot'*by Lord Alfred Tennyson
  
• 'Mushrooms' by Sylvia Plath
  
• 'Sound & Fury' by Claudia Rankine
  
• Peter shares some of his favorite poets and poems including Nicki Giovanni, 'The Pulley' by George Herbert, Archaic Torso of Apollo by Rainer Marie Rilke, and The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams. Read more...
  

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