Welcome to Multi-Verse, a podcast that offers a listening space for poems usually confined to the page.
Who
Multi-Verse is hosted, written, and produced by Evangeline Riddiford Graham.
What
Join me once a month to hear poets discuss the poems they don’t usually read aloud. We’ll take time to listen closely to these poems and unwind the multitude of meanings contained in every verse.
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16. Devon Walker-Figueroa: Private Lessons – Multi-Verse Poetry Podcast
In Episode 16 of Multi-Verse, poet Devon Walker-Figueroa reads "Private Lessons," in which a dying man determines that his young pupil must become a prima ballerina, and chats with host Evangeline Riddiford Graham about the uses of silence, breaking Dante's rhyme scheme, and what it means to be haunted by lessons long since over. What use?" her dancer wonders, "in maligning his methods now?" This is not your grandfather's ghost story. "Private Lessons" can be found in Walker-Figueroa's collection Philomath (Milkweed Editions, 2021).
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