Poems for Company - December 22nd, 2025

Poems for Company

Dec 22 2025 | 00:28:59

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Show Notes

“Friendship”: Three poems consider the shared activities, the camaraderie, the tensions, and the goofiness of friendships. Ada Limon, “Blowing on the Wheel,” from The Hurting Kind (Milkweed, 2022). Delmore Schwartz, “Do the Others Speak of Me Mockingly, Maliciously?” from Selected Poems, copyright 1959 by Delmore Schwartz. Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. Sharon Olds, “Best Friends,” from The Dead and the Living (Knopf, 1991), and used with the kind permission of the poet. Our theme music is Philip Aaberg’s “Going-to-the-Sun” from Live from Montana (available at sweetgrassmusic.com) and used with the kind permission of Mr. Aaberg.

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