Lit from the Basement
This is a podcast in which Professor Deulen introduces poetry to her irreverent husband, Max. Each show is a close reading of a single poem. They discuss it for a bit, allowing the conversation to take on a life of its own.
Podcasting since 2018 • 53 episodes
Lit from the Basement
Latest Episodes
Show 052 KMUZ Interview as Our Last Episode for a While
With the boys old enough for school, Max went and got himself a job, and now we just do not have enough time to do the show proper. We hope to drop the occasional show in the future, but are uncertain if it will be back with the release frequen...
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Episode 52
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Show 051 "To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian" by Ross Gay
We are back from our sickness hiatus with “To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian” by Ross Gay. Topics include: gratitude, single-scene poem, short line breaks, and figs in myth.
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Episode 51
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Show 050 "Autobiographical: Another Draft" by Jacqueline Osherow
For their 50th show, Danielle goes big with a long, long, powerful poem by Jacqueline Osherow. Topics include: terza rima, formalism, Willa Cather, interruptive syntax, and your present self admonishing your past self.
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Episode 50
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Show 049 "Yours" by Mary Robison
Owing to a house-wide plague, we are forced to pull a show from our reject pile. Please join us as we deviate from poetry to flash fiction with Mary Robison's "Yours" and as we go on way too long about personal ghost stories. Topics include: Ha...
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Episode 49
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Show 048 "Photo of a Girl, 1988: Cyborg" by Faylita Hicks
We discuss the poem "Photo of a Girl, 1988: Cyborg" from Faylita Hicks's debut collection Hoodwitch. Topics include: the mother figure in literature, enjambment, end-stopped lines, Afrofuturism, and the ampersand.
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Episode 48
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