Episode 219 || Stuck in Your Head

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In honor of National Poetry Month, Chris and Annie are back to talk about their favorite poems, collections, and the words they've gotten stuck in their heads over the years. Poets, poems, books, and collections mentioned this week: + Mary Oliver + William Wordsworth + "If" by Rudyard Kipling + "Mine Own John Poins" by Thomas Wyatt the Elder + John Donne, including "Holy Sonnet 10" and "Holy Sonnet 14" + Percy Shelley, including "Ode to the West Wind" and "Ozymandias" + John Milton, including Paradise Lost and "Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint" + "The Lanyard" by Billy Collins + "Orion" by Adrienne Rich + Emily of New Moon by L. M. Montgomery + The End We Start From by Megan Hunter + T. S. Eliot, including "Little Gidding," "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and The Waste Land + Emily Dickinson + She Walks in Beauty by Caroline Kennedy + Robert Frost + Shel Silverstein + A Year of Nature Poems by Joseph Coelho and Kelly Louise Judd + A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood by Fred Rogers + Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong + On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (on sale in June) + Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar + Space Struck by Paige Lewis (on sale in October) + Millennial Roost by Dustin Pearson + A Family is a House by Dustin Pearson + Parse by Ruth Baumann + Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing + 1919 by Eve L. Ewing (on sale in June) + Rupi Kaur + Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander + Tracy K. Smith + Go Ahead in the Rain by Hanif Abdurraqib You can listen to Ruth Baumann's episode of From the Front Porch here. Thanks, as always, to Forlorn Strangers for the use of our theme music. Learn and listen more here. Listen to a full back catalogue of our show here, and, if you're interested in some exclusive content like Chris and Annie's Unpopular Opinions, consider supporting us on Patreon here.

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0:00.0	I am losing my mind.
0:03.0	It's the final countdown.
0:06.0	It's the final countdown.
0:07.0	Yeah, five days.
0:10.0	I submit my dissertation on April 21st.
0:13.0	I am almost done.
0:15.0	Like I have like really like two days of writing ahead of me and I will be done, done, done.
0:19.0	We just feel like we've been on this journey with you.
0:21.3	Yeah, yeah.
0:22.6	Well, and the thing is like, I've been talking about it for two years and writing it for six months.
0:28.2	It's like the honest truth of it.
0:31.9	Yeah.
0:33.5	Researching for the past year.
0:34.8	Yeah.
0:35.6	And writing for the past six months.
0:37.2	But it's been intensive writing.
0:39.1	I think in the past six weeks I've written something like 80 pages.
0:42.8	You need those blue light glasses. It's real serious. Something serious. So my document right now is like 200 pages
0:49.4	and 65,000 words long. I know. You've written a book. I have. And so, like, there's that. You've written a book in six months really puts things in perspective. I know. Don't tell my committee. I don't think they know about this. So it's fine. But then with Notre Dame yesterday, too. Which, like, it was an international tragedy and sad for everyone, but I think particularly for medievalists.
1:14.1	Yeah.
1:14.5	I can do that.
1:15.4	Yeah.
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