Ep 51: On Being Asked to Write a Yoga Poem, ft. Alice Allan

 
 

NB: At one point in this episode I say that the infamous essay The Briar Patch opposed the racial integration of schools. It actually opposed several different forms of integration.

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– Alice’s conversation with Cassandra Atherton

Amit Majmudar

George David Clark

Wendell Berry’s Advice for a Cataclysmic Age by Dorothy Wickenden

I’ll Take My Stand

Antilamentation by Dorianne Laux

Antiblurb by A. E. Stallings

A Brief for the Defense by Jack Gilbert

We Lived Happily During the War by Ilya Kaminsky

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

32 Poems

A Poem (and a Painting) About the Suffering That Hides in Plain Sight by Elisa Gabbert

Carl Dennis

Horace

On Being Asked for a War Poem by W. B. Yeats

Easter, 1916 by W. B. Yeats

Among School Children by W. B. Yeats

Kathleen’s William Goldman story (I make a dumb joke in this episode about the Make-A-Wish Foundation. As it happens, former guest Kathleen Jones was once a Make-A-Wish kid, and her wish was to meet William Goldman, a meeting that led to a rich and decades-long relationship.)

The London Review of Books podcast

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Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

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