Wordplay

This is Wordplay with George Bilgere and John Donoghue! Goerge and John are looking for some ideal listeners for the latest episode of Wordplay, Ideal Reader. The show includes these seven poems… – Outline for Memoir, Thomas Lux – My Ideal Reader, Ted Kooser – Two Visits in One Day, Hal Sirowitz – High School […]

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This is Wordplay with George Bilgere and John Donoghue! This week’s episode Lawn Mower features these six poems… – Intrigue in the Trees, by John Martin – Red Never Lasts, by Anna Kugelvey – To My Favorite 17 Year Old High School Girl, by Billy Collins – Know Something, by Ron Padgett – Ordinance Upon […]

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This is Wordplay with George Bilgere and John Donoghue! Camembert is more than a type of cheese in this week’s wordplay. Here’s the playlist… – Happiness, by Paul Hostovsky – Refrigerator Poem, by Paul Hostovsky – Pickles, by Connie Wanek – Oh, Camembert, by Alison Woods – Molecules, by Ron Padgett – Chocolate Milk, by […]

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This is Wordplay with George Bilgere and John Donoghue! Check out the first episode for the fall of 2018, Priest Turns Therapist, featuring these seven poems… -Football, by Louis Jenkins -Playboy, by Tony Hoagland -The People of the Other Village, by Thomas Lux -Dinner Guest, by Tony Hoagland -Good Bones, by Kay Ryan -The Poem […]

Welcome to Wordplay with George Bilgere and John Donoghue! This week’s episode, Haint, features a solid list of six poems for your listening pleasure. Sit back relax and enjoy! – Crait, by Thomas Lux – Ithaka, by C.P. Cavafy – The Trees, by Philip Larkin – Akron at Night, by Terry Ellen Cross Davis – […]

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Welcome to Wordplay with George Bilgere and John Donoghue! Enjoy these seven poems in this week’s episode titled, Counterman. – Counterman, by Paul Violi – Poetry Reading, by Szymborska – Interiors, by Stephen Dunn – Cat in an Empty Apartment, by Szymborska – Appeal to the Grammarians, by Violi – Some Like Poetry, by Szymborska […]

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Welcome to Wordplay with George Bilgere and John Donoghue! In honor of St. Patrick’s Say, this week’s episode is named after one of the holiday’s staple foods: corned beef. – Genetics, by Sinead Morrissey – When You Are Old, by Yeats – Genealogy, by Gail Mazur – The Lake Isle of Innisfree, by Yeats – […]

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This is Wordplay with George Bilgere and John Donoghue! This week’s episode titles “Helicon” features these six poems:  - Helicon, by Seamus Heaney – Abandoned Farmhouse, by Ted Kooser – No Angel, Dorianne Laux – Book Signing, James Tate – Thirty Five, Sharon Olds – The Statue, Billy Collins

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This is Wordplay with George Bilgere and John Donoghue! Haggis isn’t just the name of this weeks’ Wordplay. Find out exactly what it is and enjoy these poems: – Haggis Poem, by Monty Python – Monet Refuses the Operation, by Lisel Mueller – Highway Hypothesis, by Maxine Kumin – Litany, by Billy Collins – A […]

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This is Wordplay with George Bilgere and John Donoghue! This week’s episode is titled Small Malibus and features these six poems: – Moving to Malibu, by Mary Stilwell – What I Gave the 20th Century, by Kevin Prufer – The Flower – Fed Buffaloes, by Vachel Lindsay – The Imagined, by Stephen Dunn – Number […]

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