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 Five: Another Elegy by Jericho Brown
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Francesca Capossela and Tory Dickerson
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Season 1
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Episode 5
"Always be closing,
Said our favorite professor before
He 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, mountains, and idioms, as well as the form of the elegy and the poem's motto: "always be closing."