Episodes — The Poetry Tavern

Episode 14

Looking at the Beat Generation, with poetry examples from Amiri Baraka and Gary Snyder.

Episode 13

This week we are talking about various different rhyme schemes, with examples from Abbie Farwell Brown and Francis Dugga...

Episode 12

This week we are talking about poems that use personification, looking at examples from Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath...

Episode 11

We're covering lyric poems in this episode, looking at examples of this classic form from Clive Staples Lewis and Nikki...

Episode 10

In this episode, we talk about extended metaphors within poetry, with examples from Elizabeth Bishop and Jose A Alcantar...

Episode 9

This episode, we are looking at poems that contain puns and word play, exploring the different ways it can be used in po...

Episode 8

In this episode, we are talking about anthropomorphism, giving animals human characteristics, looking at poems by Vachel...

Episode 7

In this episode, we are talking about anthropomorphism, giving animals human characteristics, looking at poems by Vachel...

Episode 5

This week, we cover haikus, both those translated from Japanese and those written in the English language, covering a ra...

Episode 4

This week is all about acrostic poems, looking at poems from both Lewis Carroll and Edgar Allan Poe, seeing poems that e...

Episode 3

This week, we are talking all about Sonnets, both what they are and discussing specific examples, with poems by Christin...

Episode 2

In this episode, we talk about the different ways in which repetition can be used within poetry, looking at examples fro...