Sharpen Your Tongue
Welcome to Sharpen Your Tongue, a podcast aimed at making poetry accessible and fun. Each episode, we’ll do a deep dive into a favorite poem, investigating its rhythm and imagery, and breaking down how and why that particular work enchants us.
Podcasting since 2021 • 7 episodes
Sharpen Your Tongue
Latest Episodes
Episode Seven: Aubade by Philip Larkin
For a very special seventh episode, we are joined by Galway writer Caileigh Ryan to discuss Philip Larkin's famous meditation on death, Aubade. Listen now as we drink hot whiskeys and consider how the poem treats death as a lover, whether Larki...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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34:28
Episode Six: Late Summer After a Panic Attack by Ada Limón
Ada Limón's "Late Summer After a Panic Attack" is a poem rich in disquiet and suburban claustrophobia. Join us as we discuss Limón's mastery of stillness, and whether or not we should get these lines as a tattoo: "What if I want to go devil ins...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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28:24
Episode Five: Another Elegy by Jericho Brown
"Always be closing,Said our favorite professor beforeHe let the gun go off in his mouth"In our fifth episode, join us for a discussion of "Another Elegy" by 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner Jericho Brown. We talk about sunsets, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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22:57
Episode Four: One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
With this episode, we hope to reintroduce you to the much-studied "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop. Tune in to hear us discuss poetic form (specifically villanelles), self-aware writing, and the art of losing.
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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28:00
Episode Three: They Don't Love You Like I Love You by Natalie Diaz
Today on Sharpen Your Tongue we talk about "They Don't Love You Like I Love You" from Natalie Diaz's Pulitzer-prize-winning collection, Postcolonial Love Poem. Join us for a cocktail recipe crafted by the poet herself as we discu...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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27:42