Poet’s Table
with Austin Smith
Fridays at 9:30AM
Poets’ Table is a show devoted to discovering the world of poetry. Each episode is focused on one poet, as host Austin Smith discusses their life and their work.
The show also offers tips on writing poems of our own. The idea is to sit down at the table every Friday morning, have another cup of coffee, and enjoy the work of a great poet, guided by a teacher and practitioner of the craft.
Poet’s Table
with Austin Smith
Fridays at 9:30AM
Poets’ Table is a show devoted to discovering the world of poetry. Each episode is focused on one poet, as host Austin Smith discusses their life and their work. The show also offers tips on writing poems of our own. The idea is to sit down at the table every Friday morning, have another cup of coffee, and enjoy the work of a great poet, guided by a teacher and practitioner of the craft.
Friday November 11: Austin Smith
The conclusion on the Poet’s Table Podcast with the writer in his own words of poetry. Goodbye for now, friend.
Friday November 4: Elizabeth Bishop
Austin shares the poetry of Nova Scotia born poet Elizabeth Bishop who won the Pullitzer Prize for Poetry in 1956. Dwight Garner argued that she was perhaps “the most purely gifted poet of the 20th century”.
Friday October 28: Robert Bly
Austin explores the work of Minneosta born writer Robert Bly
Friday October 21: James Hansen
Austin discusses the “land based” poetry of this contemporary writer.
Friday October 14: Larry Levis
Austin looks at the writing of Levis who often employed an imagist or surrealist approach in his work
Friday October 7: Eavan Boland
Austin discusses the work of Irish-American poet Eavan Boland. Her work deals with the Irish national identity, and the role of women in Irish history.
Friday September 30: Jane Kenyon
Like Keats, she attempts to redeem morbidity with a peculiar kind of gusto, one which seeks a quiet annihilation of self-identity through identification with benign things.”
Friday September 23: Daniel Smith
Austin shares time with his father, the land based poet Dan Smith
Friday September 16: W.S. Merwin
Exploring the writings of Pullitzer Prize winning poet W.S. merwin
Friday, September 9th: Ted Kooser
Ted Kooser is one of our country’s great poetic voices, writing of universal themes from a very particular place – the center of Nebraska.
Friday, September 2: Jared Carter
We spend some time with the great Indiana poet Jared Carter, whose magical work transcends time and space to make the familiar strange.