Comments on: Books on the Nightstand Podcast, Episode #27: National Poetry Month

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:02:21 +0000

Thanks so much for reading and commenting Ruth… welcome!

By: Ruth

Ruth — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:59:39 +0000

I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

Ruth

http://ramupgrade.info

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:15:45 +0000

Michael was supposed to put up his list of recommended poets on his site. I’ll remind him… thanks!

By: Jeff Rutherford

Jeff Rutherford — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:57:16 +0000

Ann, Michael,

Have you considered adding the extensive list of poets that Michael Schiavo recommended to the show notes?

If you trade emails with Michael, he could probably easily email you the list – and save you time transcribing all those names.

Jeff Rutherford

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:44:50 +0000

Thanks for another great podcast. I’ve haven’t read any poetry since college. I remember reading William Carlos Williams in high school. My favorite poems were the long epics like The Odyssey, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Paradise Lost, and Inferno.

By: Alexa

Alexa — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:25:22 +0000

As someone who is kind of scared of poetry I really loved this episode. Thanks, I’ll be signing up for a poem a day.

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:13:33 +0000

Wonderful podcast! Loved this episode. Thanks for all the author recommendations/shout-outs this week!

By: Graceann

Graceann — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:08:22 +0000

Michael, it sounds as if you and I had the same teacher – I didn’t know you grew up in Milwaukee

Mine told me my interpretation was “icky” and “wrong” and gave me a C. Almost 25 years later, I’d still like to give her a slap. I dismissed her as the fool she was (my mother was a great help in that regard) and went back to my beloved Maya Angelou and Edna St. Vincent Millay undeterred. Every time I read the poem in which she gave me a C (Emily Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died”) I mutter “perfectly valid interpretation.” I didn’t realize that my answer was supposed to be “what is Ms. _______’s interpretation of this sequence?”

By: Marie Gauthier

Marie Gauthier — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:57:31 +0000

Thanks for including me in your special NPM podcast–it was fun! And I hope you both discovered the poetry bug in the process!

Marie