Are you – Nobody – too?
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Our Poetry Bonanza has arrived! In this episode --titled to pay homage to Frank's favorite Emily Dickinson stanza-- he and Gwen get to read and hear poetry recommendations from their listeners.
Listener Poetry Recommendations:
"My Mother Says I am Sickening" in The New Kid On the Block: Poems by Jack Prelutsky
"Good Hot Dogs" by Sandra Cisneros in A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poems for Children by Caroline Kennedy
"Why I Am Not a Good Kisser" in Selected Poem by Mary Ruefle
"Kal" in If They Come for Us by Fatima Asghar
The title poem in What the Living Do: Poems by Marie Howe
"What Resembles the Grave But Isn't" by Anne Boyer
IRL by Tommy Pico
The title poem in Inventory by Dionne Brand
"I want a dyke for president" by Zoe Leonard
"Girls of the Wild" in Wild Embers by Nakita Gill
"Fold" in You & Yours by Naomi Shihab Nye
"Scientific Romance" by Tim Pratt
"Where the Mind is Without Fear" from Gitanjali (Song Offerings) by Rabindranath Tagore
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, listeners, just a heads up. |
| 0:01.7 | We talk about some really serious issues during this episode, so just be forewarned before you listen. |
| 0:06.6 | Thanks. |
| 0:20.4 | The New York Public Libr's podcast about books, |
| 0:24.3 | culture, and what to read next. I'm nobody. Who are you? I'm nobody too. Oh, you knew it. |
| 0:32.1 | I do. I love that poem. Poem by Emily Dickinson, which is, I was so clever, right, to introduce this podcast. |
| 0:41.3 | It's our poetry podcast, long awaited, and now here, it has arrived. |
| 0:46.1 | Yes. |
| 0:46.7 | The wait is over. |
| 0:47.9 | The wait is over, as I say. |
| 0:49.3 | The search is over. |
| 0:51.2 | You're with me all the while. |
| 0:53.7 | Okay. |
| 0:58.4 | Why are you singing? That's job um and it's poetry month all bets are off that's true and lyrics are poetry yeah i don't know that that song is but whatever |
| 1:03.7 | that would be fun if we got someone who sang to us but we did get a lot of poems sent into us |
| 1:08.9 | yes people uh listeners have read them to us. |
| 1:13.5 | Yep. |
| 1:14.0 | So we have audio clips and some have sent them to us via email and didn't read them. |
| 1:19.9 | And we're going to do that. |
| 1:22.6 | We're really excited to share what you have sent in with each other. |
| 1:27.3 | We're really excited to read some of it out of our selves. We just can each other. We're really excited to read some of it |
| 1:28.7 | out loud ourselves. We just can't wait. We're really excited. Have I mentioned we're excited? |
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