This episode, Marlon and Jake discuss a new subject for the podcast: poetry! From epic poems to sonnets to the Romantics poets to contemporary (dead) poets. They ponder over why people don’t read poetry as much as prose and recite, on the spot, lines of poetry that are forever engrained in their memories.

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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
War Music by Christopher Logue
The Gift Outright by Robert Frost
Emily Dickinson
W.H. Auden
T.S. Eliot
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Wordsworth
Rupert Brooke
John Dunn
The Spanish Needle by Claude McKay
The Iliad by Homer
The Aeneid by Virgil
Omeros by Derek Walcott
The Arrivants by Kamau Brathwaite
Riddyn Ravings (The Mad Woman's Poem) by Jean “Binta” Breeze
Anne Sexton
Dr. Maya Angelou
The Tyger by William Blake
Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
Gwendolyn Brooks
June Jordan
Audre Lorde
Toni Morrison
Ogden Nash
Dorothy Parker
Tales From Ovid by Ted Hughes
Inferno from Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

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