Category: Poetry
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Episode 34: Dirty Dancing
View on Zencastr The Poet Laureate of Prince Edward Island (PEI), Tanya Davis, joins the lads to talk about the 1987 musical romance, Dirty Dancing. They open the conversation by talking about PEI, where both Tanya and Joe grew up. Mark was curious to know if they liked the bridge that connects the island province…
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Episode 29: Machines of Loving Grace
View on Zencastr In 1969, an undergraduate astronomy student at Caltech had the chance to hear the iconic American poet Richard Brautigan read “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.” [see poem below] That student was David Brin, and the utopian poem foretold a future in which artificial intelligence (AI) was a boon to…
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Episode 25: Poets in Collaboration
View on Zencastr Penn Kemp, the former poet laureate of London, Ontario, joins Joe and Mark to discuss collaboration and poetry. They start with Penn’s roots in visual arts – her father was the well-regarded London painter Jim Kemp – and how it became poetry, not painting, that sparked her muse. Though it’s often seen…