MashReads podcast: So, like, what even is a poem?

It's finally April, and you know what that means: National Poetry Month is here!

Founded by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month is yearly celebration of poetry and its impact.

In honor of the month, the latest episode of our MashReads Podcast is devoted to all things poetry.

Join us as we chat about how to read poems, ways to find new poetry, our favorite poets and, of course, the big question: What even is a poem?

Links to works discussed in this episode:

• The hidden Walt Whitman and Frank O'Hara poem hiding in Battery Park City. (Great explainer by 99% Invisible here.)
  

• 'Because I Could Not Stop for Death' by Emily Dickinson
  

• Matt chats about the linguistics behind insufferably annoying 'poet voice'
  

• '99 Problems' by Morgan Parker
  

• 'The Lady of Shalott' by Lord Alfred Tennyson
  

• 'Mushrooms' by Sylvia Plath
  

• 'Sound & Fury' by Claudia Rankine
  

• Peter shares some of his favorite poets and poems including Nicki Giovanni, 'The Pulley' by George Herbert, Archaic Torso of Apollo by Rainer Marie Rilke, and The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams.
  

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And join us next week on The MashReads Podcast when we talk about Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit.

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