In this episode, Isaac, Sean, and Anastasia talk about sonnets! 

In talking about Shakespeare's sonnet 9, Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias." and Terrance Hayes's "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin," the team chats about how tracing the development of the sonnet helps us to trace the history of lyric poetry.

https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/sonnets/sonnet_view.php?Sonnet=9

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/143917/american-sonnet-for-my-past-and-future-assassin-598dc83c976f1

Long Poem: "The Undressing" by Li-Young Lee

Anastasia Nikolis, Isaac Wheeler, and Sean C. Hughes started talking about poetry a decade ago at Haverford College and never stopped. Now they talk about poems they love and explain how they work to each other and their podcast audience.

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Black Box Poetry (n.): A podcast which performs intricate functions to explain a poem's internal mechanisms that may not readily be inspected or understood; poetry elucidation machine.