Poems for Company - July 28th, 2025

July 28, 2025 00:28:59
Poems for Company - July 28th, 2025
Poems for Company
Poems for Company - July 28th, 2025

Jul 28 2025 | 00:28:59

/

Show Notes

“Exile and Return”: What is it like to try to enter and exit Middle Eastern countries, especially Palestine?  Today’s poems offer glimpses, even before the most recent spasm of violence that ripped it apart in October 2023.  Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, “Upon Arrival” and “Immigrant,” from Water and Salt (Red Hen Press, 2017).  Mosab Abu Toha, “Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear” and “Forever Homeless,” from Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear (City Lights Books, 2022). The show’s theme music is Philip Aaberg’s “Going-to-the-Sun,” from his CD Live from Montana (sweetgrassmusic.com) and used with the kind permission of Philip Aaberg.  If you have any...

Other Episodes

Episode

March 12, 2025 00:29:00
Episode Cover

Poems for Company - February 24th, 2025

“Running on Empathy”: Three authors display various degrees of empathy in their depictions of Abraham Lincoln.  Walt Whitman, prose passages from Specimen Days, and...

Listen

Episode

October 28, 2024 00:29:00
Episode Cover

Poems for Company - October 28th, 2024

“Children Thinking”: This episode features the voices of children–filtered through adult poets–in three poems that express a variety of insights.  These poems may prompt...

Listen

Episode

January 22, 2024 00:28:59
Episode Cover

Poems for Company - January 22nd, 2024

"Imagining Our Parents Before We Were Born": What do you know about the life of either of your parents before you were born?  The...

Listen