Recent Episodes
"Quatrain" by Gwendolyn Bennett
"All the World's a Stage" by William Shakespeare
"Song" by Christina Rossetti
"The Ship Starting" by Walt Whitman
"The Eagle" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Night" by Sara Teasdale
Recent Blog Posts
The Singing Silence: Gwendolyn Bennett’s "Quatrain"
Gwendolyn Bennett was a multi-talented artist and writer whose work helped define the aesthetic of the Harlem Renaissance. Her poem "Quatrain," first published in 1927, is a stunning example of her ability to capture complex sensory experiences in a…
The Great Performance: Shakespeare’s "All the World’s a Stage"
William Shakespeare, the definitive voice of English literature, had a profound gift for using theatrical metaphors to explain the human condition. Perhaps his most famous instance of this is the monologue delivered by the melancholy Jaques in the c…
A Quiet Acceptance: Christina Rossetti’s "Song" and the Art of Lettin…
Christina Rossetti, a titan of the Victorian era and a central figure in the Pre-Raphaelite movement, often explored the delicate intersections of love, faith, and mortality. Her poem "Song" (frequently known by its first line, "When I am dead, my d…