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Poems for Company

Poems for Company

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On this theme-based show, host Brian Dillon reads and comments on poems from the ancient world to the present. Topics include Unlived Lives, Inanimate Objects, Swimming, Advice, and Unrequited love, among many others.© 2024 KMUN アート エンターテインメント・舞台芸術 文学史・文学批評 社会科学
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  • Poems for Company - July 27, 2026

    Poems for Company - July 27, 2026
    2026/07/27
    “Stephen Dunn’s Dilemmas”: All three poems are by the late contemporary poet Stephen Dunn. In each poem, the speaker faces a concern that challenges his sense of who he is and what he thinks he knows. The circumstance may seem mundane, but the concern is profound. If, that is, we are inclined to empathize with the speaker. “At the Smithville Methodist Church,” “Ambush at Five O’Clock,” “On the Death of a Colleague,” all from Stephen Dunn, The Not Yet Fallen World: New and Selected Poems (Norton, 2022). Our show’s theme music is Philip Aaberg’s “Going-to-the-Sun,” from Live from Montana (available at sweetgrassmusic.com) and used with the kind permission of Mr. Aaberg.
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  • Poems for Company - June 22, 2026

    Poems for Company - June 22, 2026
    2026/06/22
    “Gone Parents“: Poets featured today consider deceased parents, somewhat sentimentally or as mysterious dream figures. Ted Kooser, “Mother” and “Father,” from Delights & Shadows (Copper Canyon Press, 2004). Seamus Heaney, “Uncoupled,” from Selected Poems 1988-2013 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014; originally published in Human Chain (2010). Kathleen Flenniken, “The Sound of a Train,” from Famous (U. of Nebraska Press, 2006), used with the kind permission of the author. I am sorry to report that Philip Aaberg died in late May of this year. When I reached out to him years ago and requested to use his music on my show, he was spontaneously generous. Compelling in concert, he continues to be...
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  • Poems for Company - May 25, 2026

    Poems for Company - May 25, 2026
    2026/05/25
    “What’s So Funny?”: Will any of today’s poems make you laugh? Billy Collins, “To My Favorite 17-Year-Old High School Girl,” from Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (Random House, 2013). Stephen Dunn, “John & Mary,” from The Not Yet Fallen World: New and Selected Poems (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022). Caroline Bird, “Little Children,” from The Air Year (Carcanet, 2020), https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781784109028/the-air-year/ Would you like to share with me a favorite poem that makes you laugh? If so, please contact me, Brian Dillon, at feedback@kmun,org. The show’s theme music is Philip Aaberg’s “Going-to-the-Sun,” from Live from Montana (available at sweetgrassmusic.com) and used with the kind permission of Mr. Aaberg.
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