Poems for Company - August 24, 2026

August 24, 2026 00:29:00
Poems for Company - August 24, 2026
Poems for Company
Poems for Company - August 24, 2026

Aug 24 2026 | 00:29:00

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Show Notes

“Insects Among Us”: All four poems place insects on center stage.  Our first opens with a question: “Don’t you remember them?”  These are poems of memory and poems of the present, with speakers who are descriptive and very curious.  Danusha Lameris, “The Bugs of Childhood,” from Blade By Blade (Copper Canyon Press, 2024).  Robert Wrigley, “I Want to Praise Her Parts,” from The True Account of Myself as a Bird (Penguin Books, 2022), and used with the kind permission of the poet.  Pedro Pietri, “Ode to a Grasshopper,” from Selected Poetry (City Lights Books, 2015), used with the permission of the Estate of Pedro Pietri.  Thomas...

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