Dear Poetry
Snap Judgment
Snap Judgment and PRX
4.8 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
A person with a "situation" turns to poetry for some advice. This week on Snap, we dive into an epic poem to solve a problem with Luisa Beck from Audible’s “Dear Poetry” podcast.
This episode is uncensored and contains strong language, sensitive listeners & young Snappers please be advised.
BIG love and thanks to Luisa Beck for this segment of “Dear Poetry”! Thank you also to poet Luther Hughes as well as the OG poet Paul Tran who actually wrote the poem featured in this episode (“Like Judith Slaying Holofernes”).
“Dear Poetry” has even more callers with more dilemmas – and a lot more poetry on their podcast – you can listen at adbl.co/DearPoetry!
If you like what you hear - Audible has a free trial. Listen to the entire season of “Dear Poetry” with that free trial and leave a review… it helps in so many ways! You can also follow @luibeck on Twitter for show updates.
Season 13 - Episode 46
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| 0:00.0 | Snap Judgment Studios |
| 0:18.0 | Today on Snap Judgment, we're doing something a bit different. |
| 0:22.0 | Have you ever had a problem? |
| 0:24.0 | And looked everywhere for a solution, then tripped across some random, |
| 0:28.0 | absolutely spoke to you? |
| 0:30.0 | Today, we proudly present a special presentation of a podcast called Dear Poetry. |
| 0:36.0 | It's a show from Audible, and it's hosted by Louisa Beck and Emmett. |
| 0:40.0 | She gets a call from a person with a situation, and they turn the poetry to figure out some advice. |
| 0:46.0 | And that's a simplified version. |
| 0:49.0 | The real version is like poetry itself. It's complicated. |
| 0:53.0 | It's rich with story, full of stakes, beauty, tragedy, love. |
| 0:56.0 | And the following piece, it does reference sexuality, war, an epic poem, |
| 1:02.0 | and an even more epic painting. |
| 1:04.0 | And it's going to use some language that is frank and real, and like all epic poems, |
| 1:08.0 | it's going to have some graphic scenes. |
| 1:10.0 | Listen to discretion is advised. |
| 1:12.0 | We begin with the host of Dear Poetry. |
| 1:16.0 | We sub back, telling her story. |
| 1:20.0 | To know why poetry can offer some of the best advice, |
| 1:26.0 | I want to tell you about this one German book that was mailed to me by my godfather when I was 14. |
| 1:32.0 | He was a minister and former communist East Germany, |
| 1:36.0 | but he didn't look like how you might expect a minister to look. |
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