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“Poetry is a voicing, a calling forth, and the lyric poem exists somewhere in the region–the register–between speech and song.” –Edward Hirsch<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I made it out of a mouthful of air,” –W.B. Yeats<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I”m very excited for this new series on the Podcast, where I will be reading you a poems out loud! It is important, I realized, not to just intellectualize and philosophize about the art of poetry and the mechanics of creativity: we must constantly come back to the poems themselves. To experience<\/em> what is it we talk about in the conceptual. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The poem I am starting with is a long poem. I chose a long poem because I was sitting on my porch reading poems, and I found I was skipping over the longer ones. Why, I mused, this laziness? I found myself reading the longer poem out loud, and was struck by its multifarious nature, and winding beauty, that I would never had the chance to experience without putting forth the effort to engage with it. I wanted to share that experience with you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Some advice for listening to a 18 minute poem…. try not reading along, and just submitting to the language, letting it surprise you. One minute you may be spacing out and bored, the next vividly hit by a line. <\/p>\n\n\n\n and\/or listen again <\/em>while reading the poem on the page. Besides seeing where I probably mess up, see what surprises you about the different experiences <\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m taking requests, if you have a poem you’d like me to read (a published poem, not your own please), make a note in the comments, or send to bianca@ruthstonehouse.org <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n PDF Of the poem for your pleasure <\/p>\n\n\n\n “Poetry is a voicing, a calling forth, and the lyric poem exists somewhere in the region–the register–between speech and song.” –Edward Hirsch “I made it out of a mouthful of air,” –W.B. Yeats I”m very excited for this new series on the Podcast, where I will be reading you a poems out loud! It is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":375,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"https:\/\/ruthstonepodcast.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/Mouthful+of+Air+Series+ASHBERY.m4a","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"36.1M","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"37849558"},"tags":[30,29,28],"series":[59,58],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/podcast.ruthstonehouse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/biancandjohn.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/podcast.ruthstonehouse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ode-and-psyche-podcast-logo-square.png?fit=2048%2C2048&ssl=1","download_link":"https:\/\/podcast.ruthstonehouse.org\/podcast-download\/374\/inhabiting-the-poem-clepsydra-by-john-ashbery.m4a","player_link":"https:\/\/podcast.ruthstonehouse.org\/podcast-player\/374\/inhabiting-the-poem-clepsydra-by-john-ashbery.m4a","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-ruth-stone-foundation-podcast\/id1432185166?mt=2","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9wb2RjYXN0LnJ1dGhzdG9uZWhvdXNlLm9yZy9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Q","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7dvQOPyfUAPicR1BhonwbR","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"stitcher":{"key":"stitcher","url":"","label":"Stitcher","class":"stitcher","icon":"stitcher.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/podcast.ruthstonehouse.org\/feed\/podcast\/ode-psyche-podcast","embedCode":"Inhabiting the Poem: Clepsydra, by John Ashbery<\/a><\/blockquote>