https://stonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Poetry-Soup-Ep.-16-Take-2.MP3.mp3 Hello, and welcome to Poetry Soup! I’m your host, Emma Catherine Hoff. Today, I’ll be talking about the poem, “Kids Who Die,” by Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1901, in Joplin, Missouri. As an African American alive at the time of the Harlem Renaissance, Hughes wrote influential poetry, prose, and […]
Poetry Soup – Ep. 15: “Witchgrass” by Louise Gluck
https://stonesoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Poetry-Soup-Ep.-15-copy.MP3.mp3 Transcript: Hello, and welcome to Poetry Soup. I’m your host, Emma Catherine Hoff. There’s been a short break, but Poetry Soup is back, with “Witchgrass,” by the late Louise Gluck. Louise Gluck was born on April 22, 1943 in New York City. She wrote 12 books of poetry, including The Wild Iris, which I […]
Poetry Soup – Ep. 14: “Dreamocracy” by Matthew Rohrer
Poetry Soup – Ep. 14 Hello, and welcome to Poetry Soup! I’m your host, Emma Catherine Hoff. Have you ever been halfway between being awake and dreaming? If so, you’ll like “Dreamocracy,” by Matthew Rohrer. Matthew Rohrer was born in 1970, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His first book of poetry was “A Hummock in the […]
