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.
Sharpen Your Tongue
Episode One: Owed to Pedagogy by Joshua Bennett
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Francesca Capossela and Tory Dickerson
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Season 1
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Episode 1
On our first ever episode, we discuss Joshua Bennett's poem "Owed to Pedagogy", his playful take on an ode, the amazing sounds at work in this poem, and the math terms we don't quite understand... Join us as we sip cocktails and talk about this stunning poem.