Emily Reads Podcast
1) The graduate leaving college
Recited while waiting in Pound Hall at the Harvard Law School waiting for someone to graduate after school-specific ceremonies have gone awry due to torrential downpour ...
2) Three poems (Czesław Miłosz, Robert Pinsky)
Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, Adam Zagajewski: Poetry and Empire https://www.bu.edu/european/files/2014/12/Chapter1_Layout-1.pdf https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/czeslaw-milosz https://poets.o...Show More
3) To friends behind a border
By Tomas Transömer
4) The Widow's Lament in Springtime by William Carlos Williams
https://poets.org/poem/widows-lament-springtime https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-carlos-williams
5) Bottled water by Kim Dower
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56508/bottled-water https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kim-dower
6) Childhood's retreat and Often I am permitted to return to a meadow by Robert Duncan
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-duncan https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46321/childhoods-retreat https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46317/often-i-am-permitted-to-return-to-a-me...Show More
7) poems from the wild iris by louise gluck
Gluck, L. (1996). The Wild Iris. ECCO Press.https://pankmagazine.com/2013/02/12/books-we-cant-quit-the-wild-iris-by-louise-gluck-a-review-by-rachel-mennies/
8) Father's old blue cardigan by Anne Carson
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/11/10/fathers-old-blue-cardigan
9) "Moon" by Kathleen Jamie
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/55799/moon-56d237b984e78 https://kathleenjamie.com/ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kathleen-jamie
10) "Elegy for a mother still living" by Elana Bell
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/154631/elegy-for-mother-still-living https://www.elanabell.com/about