Old Blues Chapter and Verse | A Rambling Response: The Function of Poetry @OldBluesChapterandVerse | Uploaded June 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
In which I cast the net to the other side of the boat from which my friend Matt and I are fishing for the purposes of poetry.

This video is largely a response to his video that can be found here: youtube.com/watch?v=kmCsC6YdnUU

But also, more nominally, to this wonderful video from my favorite Booktuber on the subject of poetry, Emily Butler: youtube.com/watch?v=WNHGL6Ck2Ok&t=161s

Poems mentioned or discussed in this video include:

"Every Riven Thing" by Christian Wiman
"After the Diagnosis" by Christian Wiman
"Lesbos" by Sylvia Plath
"Awareness" by William Stafford
"At the Thirtieth Reunion" by William Stafford
"Not Writing" by Jane Kenyon