Front Porch Republic article source: https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2025/03/it-is-not-good-to-read-only-alone/

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Ranging from despair to hope, five public domain religious poems are read with a few biographical bullet points.

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In this episode, I talk about pens and pipe organs both being used to create beauty out of chaos.

The Eagle quote was found on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Bish

Video of pipe organ: https://youtu.be/0APq5bB_3nQ

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In this episode “Build Dams and Tear Down Walls, Milosz,” I tell the rare connection between Ronald Reagan Czeslaw Milosz and give a brief overview of his fight for freedom.

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Welcome to Poets' Pavilion, a pilgrimage thru poetry. I'm your host, helen renell. The title of this episode is “FrankenPoetry: Is AI Poetry Truly Creative?” In this episode, I talk about using AI generated poetry - is it really creative? I also tell why I don't use transcripts.

https://www.listennotes.com/blog/notebook-lm-a-threat-to-the-podcasting-world-79/

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/can-ai-write-authentic-poetry/

https://www.scijournal.org/articles/new-study-reveals-people-struggle-to-differentiate-between-human-and-ai-written-poetry-often-favoring-ai

https://www.withallen.com/podcasts/

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The title of this episode is “Five American Poets.” I read one poem and add biographical tidbits of five American poets. I close with a few thoughts of the office of the American Poet Laureate, why I podcast the way I do, and views on my use of social media.

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In this episode, I give a brief history of doctor-poets and reasons why doctors practice poetry.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
https://podcast.helenrenell.me/holmes-battles-for-old-ironsides/

“A Doctor, A Patient, and Their Poetry”
https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-medicine/a-doctor-a-patient-and-their-poetry

Audio version of Rafael Campo’s quote with transcript
Harvard Medical Labcast July 16, 2015, Rx: Poetry
https://hms.harvard.edu/news-events/multimedia/rx-poetry

Hat Tip to WCW poem https://helenrenell.me/hat-tip-to-wcw/

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In this episode, I talk about John Bunyan’s masterpiece written while in jail, and a podcast update.

Footnotes

1. Definition of allegory: Drury, the po·e·try dic·tion·ar·y, 12.

2. Source for the verse count: Standard Ebooks The Pilgrim's Progress

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