National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month, and we've got episodes with poets (Louise Glück, Jane Hirshfield, Troy Jollimore) and about thinkers who also wrote poetry (Jorge Luis Borges, Im Yunjidang, Margaret Cavendish).

National Poetry Month

Episode Title Guest Related Content

Why Poetry Matters

Louise Glück, Winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature The Staying Power of Poetry

Poetry as a Way of Knowing

Award-winning Poet, Translator, and Essayist Jane Hirshfield

Poetry As a Way of Knowing

Love, Poetry and Philosophy

Troy Jollimore, Professor of Philosophy, California State University Chico

Poetry, Philosophy, Truth

The Philosophical Worlds of Borges

Héctor Hoyos, Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford University Borges as a Philosopher

Im Yunjidang

Hwa Yeong Wang, Professor of Philosophy, Duke Kunshan University The First Confucian Feminist

Margaret Cavendish

Karen Detlefsen, Professor of Philosophy and Education, University of Pennsylvania Margaret the First