Poems for Company August 26, 2024

August 26, 2024 • 00:29:02
Poems for Company August 26, 2024
Poems for Company
Poems for Company August 26, 2024

Aug 26 2024 | 00:29:02

/

Show Notes

“Manual Labor”: What do you remember from your first paid job? Did you develop any work-habits that you carried into adulthood? From your twenties on, has much of your identity been shaped by your work? Poems on this and next month’s episodes offer a variety of perspectives on work. Three poems are featured: Jericho Brown’s “Labor”, from The New Testament (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). Seamus Heaney’s “Thatcher,” from  Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998). Mary Robinson, “London’s Summer Morning.” The show’s theme music is Philip Aaberg’s “Going-to-the-Sun,” from his CD Live from Montana (available at sweetgrassmusic.com) and used...

Other Episodes

Episode 0

June 26, 2023 • 00:28:59
Episode Cover

Poems for Company - June 26th, 2023

"Lust or Love": In your own life, have you always been able to distinguish which powerful emotional response to another person grips you?  In...

Listen

Episode

March 16, 2026 • 00:29:00
Episode Cover

Poems for Company - March 16th, 2026

“Neighbors”: When you recall the places where you lived, do you inevitably reflect on who else was in close proximity?  This episode presents three...

Listen

Episode

September 28, 2026 • 00:29:02
Episode Cover

Poems for Company - September 28, 2026

“Unrequited Love (Part Three)”: Three poems written by men reveal curious responses to the phenomenon of being rejected in love.  Then we close with...

Listen