Nursery Rhyme by W.H. Auden A World Without Cats for Cats Without a World Have you ever wondered what would happen if we picked a poem about which we could provide very little meaningful analysis? Well, wonder no more! After a promising preliminary formal analysis (try to keep track of how many times Keir says "Chiasmus" over the course of the epis…

The Visible The Untrue by Hart Crane Apollo, The Blimp, and the Window Who Loved Him Ok, so this episode's a bit of a thing. The poem we picked ended up having some relatively strong sexual elements. Those sexual elements are also dealing in particular with gay male sexuality. I do, however, want to stress that we would be expressing the same disco…

Episode 2: The Adventures of Tricky Dickieson This poem was a tough one, but I believe we perservered through some delightfully arcane syntax. That said, I do feel compelled to give a "head's up" about the nature of some of the subject matter in this week's episode. Probably Unnecessary Warning So, the poem we picked this week ended up relying on s…

Ye Olde Showe Notees Oh! Hello there! I didn’t see you come in. This is the first episode of E.E. Phone Poem (as indicated by the fact that there are no previous episodes). This initial episode is a little rough, but I do hope you’ll bear with us as we iron out all the little bumps and bleeps in our newborn symphoniad* of podcastreation*. I’m not q…