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Poems for Company

Poems for Company

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On this theme-based show, host Brian Dillon reads and comments on poems from the ancient world to the present. Topics include Unlived Lives, Inanimate Objects, Swimming, Advice, and Unrequited love, among many others.© 2024 KMUN Kunst Sozialwissenschaften Unterhaltung & Darstellende Künste
  • Poems for Company - May 25, 2026
    May 25 2026
    “What’s So Funny?”: Will any of today’s poems make you laugh? Billy Collins, “To My Favorite 17-Year-Old High School Girl,” from Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (Random House, 2013). Stephen Dunn, “John & Mary,” from The Not Yet Fallen World: New and Selected Poems (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022). Caroline Bird, “Little Children,” from The Air Year (Carcanet, 2020), https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781784109028/the-air-year/ Would you like to share with me a favorite poem that makes you laugh? If so, please contact me, Brian Dillon, at feedback@kmun,org. The show’s theme music is Philip Aaberg’s “Going-to-the-Sun,” from Live from Montana (available at sweetgrassmusic.com) and used with the kind permission of Mr. Aaberg.
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    29 Min.
  • Poems for Company - April 27, 2026
    Apr 27 2026
    “Wake Up: Modern Aubades”: Traditionally, aubades are lyrics announcing the arrival of dawn all too soon for lovers who want the night to be prolonged. The twentieth-century poems featured here take some liberties with that tradition. After an excerpt from John Donne’s “The Sun Rising” (1633), Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, “Aubade,” from Pharaoh’s Daughter (Wake Forest U. Press, 1993; Pharaoh’s Daughter by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill | WFU Press ). Philip Larkin, “Aubade,” from Collected Poems (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2001). The show’s theme music is Philip Aaberg’s “Going-to-the-Sun,” from Live from Montana (available at sweetgrassmusic.com) and used with the kind permission of Mr. Aaberg.
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    29 Min.
  • Poems for Company - March 16th, 2026
    Mar 16 2026
    “Neighbors”: When you recall the places where you lived, do you inevitably reflect on who else was in close proximity? This episode presents three distinct ways of thinking about one’s neighbors. Robert Frost, “Mending Wall.” John Heywood, “A Quiet Neighbour.” Robert Wrigley, “Praise Bob,” from The True Account of Myself as a Bird (Penguin Books, 2022), used with the kind permission of the author. The show’s theme music is Philip Aaberg’s “Going-to-the-Sun” from Live from Montana (available at sweetgrassmusic.com) and used with the kind permission of Mr. Aaberg.
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    29 Min.
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