Preston's Poetry Podcast - Preston Losack

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(Not an) Exam Special - "The Waste Land" by TS Eliot ft. Arjan Hut

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 • Duration 01:40:46

It's a big special episode! Poet Arjan Hut and I sit down in front of a tin can to talk TS Eltiot's the Waste Land. It's a mixed language interview, and I'm leaving it that way because The Waste Land is too! If you listen on Apple Podcasts, you can get an automated translated transcript in the app.

We talk collage form, the world in shambles, mixed language poetry, and what we like about this deck-o-tarot-cards poem written in 1922. Enjoy!

Featuring Arjan Hut from Garbielle en Arjan bedoele it net ferkeard

Producer Gustav Worm-Leth

Outro Yentl Tijssens

Recording - Abel

Photo: Niels Westra

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26. Villlanelles pt 2. - Michael Luis Medrano "Villanelle"

Episode 26

Tuesday, March 11, 2025 • Duration 17:10

Part 2 of 2 on Villanelles, I'll be going stanza by stanza to show how the repetition of Villanelles can be used to create richer emotions. Using a living poet's Villanelle, Michael Luis Medrano harnesses the power of repetition to shed light on Chicano fatherhood.

Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe.

Production Gustav Worm-Leth

Outro Yentl Tijssens

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17. Ekphrastic Poems - "Cloud Study" by (and featuring!) Donald Platt

Episode 17

Thursday, April 18, 2024 • Duration 24:00

We've got a very special episode today by living poet Dr. Donald Platt (Purdue Univ.). We'll be discussing Ekphrastic poems, which are poems written about a work of art. Today's poem, called Cloud Study after John Constable's 1820s Study of Clouds, will be read by the poet himself!

You can purchase Platt's Swansdown from the publisher, Grid Books here!

Audio and Poem used by Author's permission.

Production Gustav Worm-Leth

Outro Yentl Tijssens

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16. Form Follows Function 2 - "Miniver Cheevy" by Edwin Arlington Robinson

Episode 16

Monday, April 8, 2024 • Duration 23:06

In this episode, I'll be revisiting my grand idea that poetic form follows function. We'll be looking at Edwin Arlington Robinson's great loser, Miniver Cheevy, to address how he uses a system of sound in poetry called prosody to make his point. By the end of this episode, you should have a clearer idea of how I think the form of a poem out to match the content, even enhance it!

NOTE: This episode was recorded on different equipment than usual. Let me know if you love it or hate it.

Production Gustav Worm-Leth

Outro Yentl Tijssens

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15. Form Follows Function - "My Own Heart" by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Episode 15

Monday, April 8, 2024 • Duration 16:34

We'll be looking at a poem I revisit often. It has stuck with me through the years, and still to this day delivers. I quote it all the time. It's a poem that will enrich your life -- but poetically speaking, it's a good introduction to poetic form(s) because many of Hopkins' works have a kind of congruence and synchronicity between the content and the form. It's My Own Heart Let Me More Have Pity On.

NOTE: This episode was recorded on different equipment than usual. Let me know if you love it or hate it.

Production Gustav Worm-Leth

Outro Yentl Tijssens

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(Not an) Exam LIVE Special - "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman ft. Tsead Bruinja

Tuesday, March 12, 2024 • Duration 01:12:26

What is so special about the work of the American poet and luminary Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), also known as 'The National Poet of the United States'? And how does his literature provide an answer to complex issues? In this special live edition of Preston's Poetry Podcast, poet and writer Preston Losack (originating from Dallas, Texas) welcomes poet Tsead Bruinja, and together they dive into the world of poetry while exploring his monumental work, Leaves of Grass. Tsead and Preston will read excerpts from this timeless masterpiece, share their insights, and discuss Tsead's experience translating America's Bard. Immerse yourself in a sensory journey that is just as captivating, sensual, and inspiring today as it was in 1855.

Grasbladen vertaald door 21 dichters (Querido, 2005)

Sponsored by: Explore the North, Leeuwarden UNESCO City of Literature, Culturele Apotheek

Featuring (former) Dichter des Vaderlands (2019-2020), Tsead Bruinja

Outro composed: Yentl Tijssens

Producer: Gustav Worm-Leth

And Nicole.

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14. Romanticism 2 - "The Good, Great Man" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Episode 14

Wednesday, January 31, 2024 • Duration 19:44

In this episode following the one on Wordsworth, I'll be looking at a not-favorite of mine, The Good Great Man by the giant Samuel Taylor Coleridge. I'll be talking about things I do not like about the poem, as well as some other features of Romantic ideas... ...to demystify them, I guess.

Production Gustav Worm-Leth

Outro Yentl Tijssens

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13. Romanticism - "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (aka the 'Daffodils' poem) by William Wordsworth

Episode 13

Tuesday, December 12, 2023 • Duration 15:50

In this episode, I'll be introducing you to what the Romanticism movement was through the Romantic poet of the English language, William Wordsworth, and his 'Daffodils' poem. We'll be talking about his famous definition of poetry, which lasts to this day. Like it or hate it (and if you're here, you probably aren't a big fan), Romanticism still forms the way we think today. Romantic poems are often where the stigma and stereotypes around poetry come from, so we'll be discussing some main ideas and conventions of the movement to put those scary romantics in context!

Outro composed by Yentl Tijssens

Produced by Gustav Leth

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*Halloween Special* - Uncanny Valley & "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe

Tuesday, October 31, 2023 • Duration 23:24

Happy Halloween from PPP with a very spooky reading of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" and guest intro from YouTube horror channel The Ghost of 94! I'll be talking about the way that pairing it with Tell-tale Heart often causes us to misinterpret the poem. Listen ... if you dare!

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12. Aubade 2 - "aubade beginning in handcuffs" by torrin a. greathouse

Episode 12

Saturday, October 21, 2023 • Duration 19:36

As a follow-up to last episode on Aubades with John Donne, I'll be featuring a modern Aubade, "aubade beginning in handcuffs", to show how contemporary poets like torrin a. greathouse press the Aubade form to be even steamier -- and yet much more tender and vulnerable -- than Donne's.

Visit torrin a greathouse's website or buy their latest collection, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed, 2020)

Content warning: Artistic use of homophobic pejoratives; sexual subject matter.

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