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	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; April 27, 2026</title>
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	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; March 16th, 2026</title>
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	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; January 26th, 2026</title>
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	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; November 24th, 2025</title>
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	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; October 27th, 2025</title>
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	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; September 22nd, 2025</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Unrequited Love (Part Two)&#8221;: A previous episode in March &#8217;23 dealt with this same theme and featured poems by both men and women.  This episode considers unrequited love primarily from the woman&#8217;s point of view.  Guys in my audience may need to listen in.  Ellen Bass, &#8220;Can&#8217;t Get Over Her,&#8221; from Mules of Love (BOA Editions, 2002).  Sappho,...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Unrequited Love (Part Two)&#8221;: A previous episode in March &#8217;23 dealt with this same theme and featured poems by both men and women.  This episode considers unrequited love primarily from the woman&#8217;s point of view.  Guys in my audie]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Unrequited Love (Part Two)&#8221;: A previous episode in March &#8217;23 dealt with this same theme and featured poems by both men and women.  This episode considers unrequited love primarily from the woman&#8217;s point of view.  Guys in my audience may need to listen in.  Ellen Bass, &#8220;Can&#8217;t Get Over Her,&#8221; from Mules of Love (BOA Editions, 2002).  Sappho,...]]></content:encoded>
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<item>
	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; August 25th, 2025</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-august-25th-2025/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-august-25th-2025</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Wandering and Roving&#8221;: When you wander in the woods, how do you decide which way to go when you arrive at a fork in your path?  The first of today&#8217;s poems offers a playful response to that question, and the other poems also reflect in various ways on the act of wandering.  Robert Frost, &#8220;The...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Wandering and Roving&#8221;: When you wander in the woods, how do you decide which way to go when you arrive at a fork in your path?  The first of today&#8217;s poems offers a playful response to that question, and the other poems also reflect in ]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Wandering and Roving&#8221;: When you wander in the woods, how do you decide which way to go when you arrive at a fork in your path?  The first of today&#8217;s poems offers a playful response to that question, and the other poems also reflect in various ways on the act of wandering.  Robert Frost, &#8220;The...]]></content:encoded>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; July 28th, 2025</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-july-28th-2025/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-july-28th-2025</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Exile and Return&#8221;: What is it like to try to enter and exit Middle Eastern countries, especially Palestine?  Today&#8217;s poems offer glimpses, even before the most recent spasm of violence that ripped it apart in October 2023.  Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, &#8220;Upon Arrival&#8221; and &#8220;Immigrant,&#8221; from Water and Salt (Red Hen Press, 2017).  Mosab Abu Toha, &#8220;Things You...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Exile and Return&#8221;: What is it like to try to enter and exit Middle Eastern countries, especially Palestine?  Today&#8217;s poems offer glimpses, even before the most recent spasm of violence that ripped it apart in October 2023.  Lena Khalaf]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Exile and Return&#8221;: What is it like to try to enter and exit Middle Eastern countries, especially Palestine?  Today&#8217;s poems offer glimpses, even before the most recent spasm of violence that ripped it apart in October 2023.  Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, &#8220;Upon Arrival&#8221; and &#8220;Immigrant,&#8221; from Water and Salt (Red Hen Press, 2017).  Mosab Abu Toha, &#8220;Things You...]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[&#8220;Exile and Return&#8221;: What is it like to try to enter and exit Middle Eastern countries, especially Palestine?  Today&#8217;s poems offer glimpses, even before the most recent spasm of violence that ripped it apart in October 2023.  Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, &#8220;Upon Arrival&#8221; and &#8220;Immigrant,&#8221; from Water and Salt (Red Hen Press, 2017).  Mosab Abu Toha, &#8220;Things You...]]></itunes:summary>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
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<item>
	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; June 23rd, 2025</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-june-23rd-2025/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-june-23rd-2025</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 16:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;One Word&#8221;: The poems on today&#8217;s show implicitly urge us to consider how strange language is when we examine it up close.  Each of today&#8217;s poems puzzle over an individual word.  Billy Collins, &#8220;Tension,&#8221; from Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (Random House, 2013).  Shakespeare, &#8220;Sonnet 135.&#8221;  Robert Wrigley, &#8220;Lovely,&#8221; from The True Account of Myself as a...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;One Word&#8221;: The poems on today&#8217;s show implicitly urge us to consider how strange language is when we examine it up close.  Each of today&#8217;s poems puzzle over an individual word.  Billy Collins, &#8220;Tension,&#8221; from Aimless L]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;One Word&#8221;: The poems on today&#8217;s show implicitly urge us to consider how strange language is when we examine it up close.  Each of today&#8217;s poems puzzle over an individual word.  Billy Collins, &#8220;Tension,&#8221; from Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (Random House, 2013).  Shakespeare, &#8220;Sonnet 135.&#8221;  Robert Wrigley, &#8220;Lovely,&#8221; from The True Account of Myself as a...]]></content:encoded>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
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	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; May 26th, 2025</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-may-26th-2025/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-may-26th-2025</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 16:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Three Controversial Musicians&#8221;: Today&#8217;s three poems spotlight three individuals known for their musical talents, as well as the controversy they provoked.  Naomi Shihab Nye, &#8220;Cross That Line,&#8221; from You and Yours (BOA Editions, 2011), used by kind permission of the author.  Frank O&#8217;Hara, &#8220;The Day Lady Died,&#8221; from Lunch Poems (City Lights Books, 1964).  William Matthews, &#8220;Mingus at the...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Three Controversial Musicians&#8221;: Today&#8217;s three poems spotlight three individuals known for their musical talents, as well as the controversy they provoked.  Naomi Shihab Nye, &#8220;Cross That Line,&#8221; from You and Yours (BOA Editio]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Three Controversial Musicians&#8221;: Today&#8217;s three poems spotlight three individuals known for their musical talents, as well as the controversy they provoked.  Naomi Shihab Nye, &#8220;Cross That Line,&#8221; from You and Yours (BOA Editions, 2011), used by kind permission of the author.  Frank O&#8217;Hara, &#8220;The Day Lady Died,&#8221; from Lunch Poems (City Lights Books, 1964).  William Matthews, &#8220;Mingus at the...]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[&#8220;Three Controversial Musicians&#8221;: Today&#8217;s three poems spotlight three individuals known for their musical talents, as well as the controversy they provoked.  Naomi Shihab Nye, &#8220;Cross That Line,&#8221; from You and Yours (BOA Editions, 2011), used by kind permission of the author.  Frank O&#8217;Hara, &#8220;The Day Lady Died,&#8221; from Lunch Poems (City Lights Books, 1964).  William Matthews, &#8220;Mingus at the...]]></itunes:summary>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; April 28th, 2025</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-april-28th-2025/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-april-28th-2025</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Gifts&#8221;: One poet recalls her complex strategies as a teen gift-giver, a second recalls the gift his parents bestowed on him when he was eleven and about to move away from home, and the third imagines the circumstances in which her father gave a gift to her mother before they were married, before they became her...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Gifts&#8221;: One poet recalls her complex strategies as a teen gift-giver, a second recalls the gift his parents bestowed on him when he was eleven and about to move away from home, and the third imagines the circumstances in which her father gav]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Gifts&#8221;: One poet recalls her complex strategies as a teen gift-giver, a second recalls the gift his parents bestowed on him when he was eleven and about to move away from home, and the third imagines the circumstances in which her father gave a gift to her mother before they were married, before they became her...]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[&#8220;Gifts&#8221;: One poet recalls her complex strategies as a teen gift-giver, a second recalls the gift his parents bestowed on him when he was eleven and about to move away from home, and the third imagines the circumstances in which her father gave a gift to her mother before they were married, before they became her...]]></itunes:summary>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; March 24th, 2025</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-march-24th-2025/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-march-24th-2025</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 16:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A Redwood, an Ancient Orchard, a Sequoia&#8221;: Do you have a favorite tree you pay special attention to when you take a routine walk?  Is it older than you?  We project so many attributes on to trees, including longevity and strength.  We develop an emotional attachment to trees.  Today&#8217;s episode considers such attachments and features two...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;A Redwood, an Ancient Orchard, a Sequoia&#8221;: Do you have a favorite tree you pay special attention to when you take a routine walk?  Is it older than you?  We project so many attributes on to trees, including longevity and strength.  We develo]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;A Redwood, an Ancient Orchard, a Sequoia&#8221;: Do you have a favorite tree you pay special attention to when you take a routine walk?  Is it older than you?  We project so many attributes on to trees, including longevity and strength.  We develop an emotional attachment to trees.  Today&#8217;s episode considers such attachments and features two...]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[&#8220;A Redwood, an Ancient Orchard, a Sequoia&#8221;: Do you have a favorite tree you pay special attention to when you take a routine walk?  Is it older than you?  We project so many attributes on to trees, including longevity and strength.  We develop an emotional attachment to trees.  Today&#8217;s episode considers such attachments and features two...]]></itunes:summary>
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	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>00:28:59</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[KMUN]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[&#8220;A Redwood, an Ancient Orchard, a Sequoia&#8221;: Do you have a favorite tree you pay special attention to when you take a routine walk?  Is it older than you?  We project so many attributes on to trees, including longevity and strength.  We develop an emotional attachment to trees.  Today&#8217;s episode considers such attachments and features two...]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; February 24th, 2025</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-february-24th-2025/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-february-24th-2025</link>
	<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 20:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[KMUN]]></dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Running on Empathy&#8221;: Three authors display various degrees of empathy in their depictions of Abraham Lincoln.  Walt Whitman, prose passages from Specimen Days, and &#8220;O Captain! My Captain.&#8221;  Kathleen Flenniken, &#8220;To Ease My Mind,&#8221; from Famous (U. of Nebraska Press, 2006), and used with kind permission of the author.  Leigh Stein, &#8220;Lincoln, Abraham, Melancholy Of,&#8221; from What To Miss When (New...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Running on Empathy&#8221;: Three authors display various degrees of empathy in their depictions of Abraham Lincoln.  Walt Whitman, prose passages from Specimen Days, and &#8220;O Captain! My Captain.&#8221;  Kathleen Flenniken, &#8220;To Ease My M]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Running on Empathy&#8221;: Three authors display various degrees of empathy in their depictions of Abraham Lincoln.  Walt Whitman, prose passages from Specimen Days, and &#8220;O Captain! My Captain.&#8221;  Kathleen Flenniken, &#8220;To Ease My Mind,&#8221; from Famous (U. of Nebraska Press, 2006), and used with kind permission of the author.  Leigh Stein, &#8220;Lincoln, Abraham, Melancholy Of,&#8221; from What To Miss When (New...]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[&#8220;Running on Empathy&#8221;: Three authors display various degrees of empathy in their depictions of Abraham Lincoln.  Walt Whitman, prose passages from Specimen Days, and &#8220;O Captain! My Captain.&#8221;  Kathleen Flenniken, &#8220;To Ease My Mind,&#8221; from Famous (U. of Nebraska Press, 2006), and used with kind permission of the author.  Leigh Stein, &#8220;Lincoln, Abraham, Melancholy Of,&#8221; from What To Miss When (New...]]></itunes:summary>
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	<itunes:author><![CDATA[KMUN]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[&#8220;Running on Empathy&#8221;: Three authors display various degrees of empathy in their depictions of Abraham Lincoln.  Walt Whitman, prose passages from Specimen Days, and &#8220;O Captain! My Captain.&#8221;  Kathleen Flenniken, &#8220;To Ease My Mind,&#8221; from Famous (U. of Nebraska Press, 2006), and used with kind permission of the author.  Leigh Stein, &#8220;Lincoln, Abraham, Melancholy Of,&#8221; from What To Miss When (New...]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; January 27th, 2025</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-january-27th-2025/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-january-27th-2025</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[KMUN]]></dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Mysterious Encounters&#8221;: Three sing-songy poems are featured on today&#8217;s episode.  All three depict encounters between two individuals: all three resist our efforts to make total sense of their motives and actions.  We may think we know what happens between the couples, but the poems seem to run ahead of our ability to catch up to them...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Mysterious Encounters&#8221;: Three sing-songy poems are featured on today&#8217;s episode.  All three depict encounters between two individuals: all three resist our efforts to make total sense of their motives and actions.  We may think we know ]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Mysterious Encounters&#8221;: Three sing-songy poems are featured on today&#8217;s episode.  All three depict encounters between two individuals: all three resist our efforts to make total sense of their motives and actions.  We may think we know what happens between the couples, but the poems seem to run ahead of our ability to catch up to them...]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://kmun.org/podcast-download/53285/poems-for-company-january-27th-2025.mp3" length="27826885" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[&#8220;Mysterious Encounters&#8221;: Three sing-songy poems are featured on today&#8217;s episode.  All three depict encounters between two individuals: all three resist our efforts to make total sense of their motives and actions.  We may think we know what happens between the couples, but the poems seem to run ahead of our ability to catch up to them...]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>00:29:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[KMUN]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[&#8220;Mysterious Encounters&#8221;: Three sing-songy poems are featured on today&#8217;s episode.  All three depict encounters between two individuals: all three resist our efforts to make total sense of their motives and actions.  We may think we know what happens between the couples, but the poems seem to run ahead of our ability to catch up to them...]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; October 28th, 2024</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-october-28th-2024/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-october-28th-2024</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Children Thinking&#8221;: This episode features the voices of children&#8211;filtered through adult poets&#8211;in three poems that express a variety of insights.  These poems may prompt you to wonder, did you once think like these three children?  The poems are read in this order: William Wordsworth, &#8220;We Are Seven&#8221; (originally published in 1798).  Elizabeth Bishop, &#8220;In the Waiting Room,&#8221; from The...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Children Thinking&#8221;: This episode features the voices of children&#8211;filtered through adult poets&#8211;in three poems that express a variety of insights.  These poems may prompt you to wonder, did you once think like these three children?]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Children Thinking&#8221;: This episode features the voices of children&#8211;filtered through adult poets&#8211;in three poems that express a variety of insights.  These poems may prompt you to wonder, did you once think like these three children?  The poems are read in this order: William Wordsworth, &#8220;We Are Seven&#8221; (originally published in 1798).  Elizabeth Bishop, &#8220;In the Waiting Room,&#8221; from The...]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[&#8220;Children Thinking&#8221;: This episode features the voices of children&#8211;filtered through adult poets&#8211;in three poems that express a variety of insights.  These poems may prompt you to wonder, did you once think like these three children?  The poems are read in this order: William Wordsworth, &#8220;We Are Seven&#8221; (originally published in 1798).  Elizabeth Bishop, &#8220;In the Waiting Room,&#8221; from The...]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>00:29:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[KMUN]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[&#8220;Children Thinking&#8221;: This episode features the voices of children&#8211;filtered through adult poets&#8211;in three poems that express a variety of insights.  These poems may prompt you to wonder, did you once think like these three children?  The poems are read in this order: William Wordsworth, &#8220;We Are Seven&#8221; (originally published in 1798).  Elizabeth Bishop, &#8220;In the Waiting Room,&#8221; from The...]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; September 23rd, 2024</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-september-23rd-2024/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-september-23rd-2024</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2024 16:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[KMUN]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">https://kmun.org/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=51870</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Desk Jobs&#8221;: Did you ever have a job you abruptly quit soon after it began?  Why did you do that?  The first three lines of our first poem refer to a job the speaker quit after just one shift.  The next two poems feature office interactions between the speaker and a work colleague and boss. ...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Desk Jobs&#8221;: Did you ever have a job you abruptly quit soon after it began?  Why did you do that?  The first three lines of our first poem refer to a job the speaker quit after just one shift.  The next two poems feature office interactions b]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Desk Jobs&#8221;: Did you ever have a job you abruptly quit soon after it began?  Why did you do that?  The first three lines of our first poem refer to a job the speaker quit after just one shift.  The next two poems feature office interactions between the speaker and a work colleague and boss. ...]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[&#8220;Desk Jobs&#8221;: Did you ever have a job you abruptly quit soon after it began?  Why did you do that?  The first three lines of our first poem refer to a job the speaker quit after just one shift.  The next two poems feature office interactions between the speaker and a work colleague and boss. ...]]></itunes:summary>
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	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>00:28:59</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[KMUN]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[&#8220;Desk Jobs&#8221;: Did you ever have a job you abruptly quit soon after it began?  Why did you do that?  The first three lines of our first poem refer to a job the speaker quit after just one shift.  The next two poems feature office interactions between the speaker and a work colleague and boss. ...]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Poems for Company August 26, 2024</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-august-26-2024/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-august-26-2024</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2024 16:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[KMUN]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">https://kmun.org/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=51564</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Manual Labor&#8221;: What do you remember from your first paid job? Did you develop any work-habits that you carried into adulthood? From your twenties on, has much of your identity been shaped by your work? Poems on this and next month&#8217;s episodes offer a variety of perspectives on work. Three poems are featured: Jericho Brown&#8217;s...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Manual Labor&#8221;: What do you remember from your first paid job? Did you develop any work-habits that you carried into adulthood? From your twenties on, has much of your identity been shaped by your work? Poems on this and next month&#8217;s ep]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Manual Labor&#8221;: What do you remember from your first paid job? Did you develop any work-habits that you carried into adulthood? From your twenties on, has much of your identity been shaped by your work? Poems on this and next month&#8217;s episodes offer a variety of perspectives on work. Three poems are featured: Jericho Brown&#8217;s...]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[&#8220;Manual Labor&#8221;: What do you remember from your first paid job? Did you develop any work-habits that you carried into adulthood? From your twenties on, has much of your identity been shaped by your work? Poems on this and next month&#8217;s episodes offer a variety of perspectives on work. Three poems are featured: Jericho Brown&#8217;s...]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>00:29:02</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[KMUN]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[&#8220;Manual Labor&#8221;: What do you remember from your first paid job? Did you develop any work-habits that you carried into adulthood? From your twenties on, has much of your identity been shaped by your work? Poems on this and next month&#8217;s episodes offer a variety of perspectives on work. Three poems are featured: Jericho Brown&#8217;s...]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; July 22nd, 2024</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-july-22nd-2024/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-july-22nd-2024</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 16:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[KMUN]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">https://kmun.org/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=51211</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Swimming&#8221;: We dive in with two action-packed excerpts from ancient poetic narratives. Both depict heroic swimmers moving through dangerous waters. This episode concludes with a contemporary American poet&#8217;s solitary naked swim in a pond in the early morning mist. Homer, The Odyssey (trans. Robert Fitzgerald), from Book V, lines 403-408, 415-437, 441-486. Beowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney), lines 506-510, 515-518, 532-581...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Swimming&#8221;: We dive in with two action-packed excerpts from ancient poetic narratives. Both depict heroic swimmers moving through dangerous waters. This episode concludes with a contemporary American poet&#8217;s solitary naked swim in a pond]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Swimming&#8221;: We dive in with two action-packed excerpts from ancient poetic narratives. Both depict heroic swimmers moving through dangerous waters. This episode concludes with a contemporary American poet&#8217;s solitary naked swim in a pond in the early morning mist. Homer, The Odyssey (trans. Robert Fitzgerald), from Book V, lines 403-408, 415-437, 441-486. Beowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney), lines 506-510, 515-518, 532-581...]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[&#8220;Swimming&#8221;: We dive in with two action-packed excerpts from ancient poetic narratives. Both depict heroic swimmers moving through dangerous waters. This episode concludes with a contemporary American poet&#8217;s solitary naked swim in a pond in the early morning mist. Homer, The Odyssey (trans. Robert Fitzgerald), from Book V, lines 403-408, 415-437, 441-486. Beowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney), lines 506-510, 515-518, 532-581...]]></itunes:summary>
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	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>00:28:59</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[KMUN]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[&#8220;Swimming&#8221;: We dive in with two action-packed excerpts from ancient poetic narratives. Both depict heroic swimmers moving through dangerous waters. This episode concludes with a contemporary American poet&#8217;s solitary naked swim in a pond in the early morning mist. Homer, The Odyssey (trans. Robert Fitzgerald), from Book V, lines 403-408, 415-437, 441-486. Beowulf (trans. Seamus Heaney), lines 506-510, 515-518, 532-581...]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
</item>

<item>
	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; June 24th, 2024</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-june-24th-2024/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-june-24th-2024</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2024 16:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[KMUN]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">https://kmun.org/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=50788</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Meta-Verse&#8221;: The four poems on this episode make a virtue out of being self-conscious.  Each poem comments on the very poem we&#8217;re reading.  The poem pulls back the curtain and reveals the composing process.  Or at least that&#8217;s what the poem pretends to do.  Billy Collins, &#8220;The Suggestion Box,&#8221; from Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (Random...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Meta-Verse&#8221;: The four poems on this episode make a virtue out of being self-conscious.  Each poem comments on the very poem we&#8217;re reading.  The poem pulls back the curtain and reveals the composing process.  Or at least that&#8217;s wh]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Meta-Verse&#8221;: The four poems on this episode make a virtue out of being self-conscious.  Each poem comments on the very poem we&#8217;re reading.  The poem pulls back the curtain and reveals the composing process.  Or at least that&#8217;s what the poem pretends to do.  Billy Collins, &#8220;The Suggestion Box,&#8221; from Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (Random...]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[&#8220;Meta-Verse&#8221;: The four poems on this episode make a virtue out of being self-conscious.  Each poem comments on the very poem we&#8217;re reading.  The poem pulls back the curtain and reveals the composing process.  Or at least that&#8217;s what the poem pretends to do.  Billy Collins, &#8220;The Suggestion Box,&#8221; from Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (Random...]]></itunes:summary>
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	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>00:28:58</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[KMUN]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[&#8220;Meta-Verse&#8221;: The four poems on this episode make a virtue out of being self-conscious.  Each poem comments on the very poem we&#8217;re reading.  The poem pulls back the curtain and reveals the composing process.  Or at least that&#8217;s what the poem pretends to do.  Billy Collins, &#8220;The Suggestion Box,&#8221; from Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (Random...]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
</item>

<item>
	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; May 27th, 2024</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-may-27th-2024/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-may-27th-2024</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2024 16:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[KMUN]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">https://kmun.org/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=50555</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Where Is My Home?&#8221; (Part 2): The four poems on this episode address this question from a variety of perspectives: home as an imaginary place; home valued for the quality of one&#8217;s neighbors; home as a portable existence, a van; and home as the indoor / outdoor zone where multiple generations in a family live...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Where Is My Home?&#8221; (Part 2): The four poems on this episode address this question from a variety of perspectives: home as an imaginary place; home valued for the quality of one&#8217;s neighbors; home as a portable existence, a van; and home]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Where Is My Home?&#8221; (Part 2): The four poems on this episode address this question from a variety of perspectives: home as an imaginary place; home valued for the quality of one&#8217;s neighbors; home as a portable existence, a van; and home as the indoor / outdoor zone where multiple generations in a family live...]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://kmun.org/podcast-download/50555/poems-for-company-may-27th-2024.mp3" length="27819780" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[&#8220;Where Is My Home?&#8221; (Part 2): The four poems on this episode address this question from a variety of perspectives: home as an imaginary place; home valued for the quality of one&#8217;s neighbors; home as a portable existence, a van; and home as the indoor / outdoor zone where multiple generations in a family live...]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>00:28:59</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[KMUN]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[&#8220;Where Is My Home?&#8221; (Part 2): The four poems on this episode address this question from a variety of perspectives: home as an imaginary place; home valued for the quality of one&#8217;s neighbors; home as a portable existence, a van; and home as the indoor / outdoor zone where multiple generations in a family live...]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; April 22nd, 2024</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-april-22nd-2024/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-april-22nd-2024</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[KMUN]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">https://kmun.org/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=50004</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Where Is My Home?&#8221;: Do you carry in your mind images of a former landscape you lived in, an extended area you called home?  The first poem is spoken in the voice of Robinson Crusoe as a old man back in England, wondering if this island of his origin, the place where his life will...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Where Is My Home?&#8221;: Do you carry in your mind images of a former landscape you lived in, an extended area you called home?  The first poem is spoken in the voice of Robinson Crusoe as a old man back in England, wondering if this island of hi]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Where Is My Home?&#8221;: Do you carry in your mind images of a former landscape you lived in, an extended area you called home?  The first poem is spoken in the voice of Robinson Crusoe as a old man back in England, wondering if this island of his origin, the place where his life will...]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://kmun.org/podcast-download/50004/poems-for-company-april-22nd-2024.mp3" length="27833154" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[&#8220;Where Is My Home?&#8221;: Do you carry in your mind images of a former landscape you lived in, an extended area you called home?  The first poem is spoken in the voice of Robinson Crusoe as a old man back in England, wondering if this island of his origin, the place where his life will...]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>00:29:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[KMUN]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[&#8220;Where Is My Home?&#8221;: Do you carry in your mind images of a former landscape you lived in, an extended area you called home?  The first poem is spoken in the voice of Robinson Crusoe as a old man back in England, wondering if this island of his origin, the place where his life will...]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; February 26th, 2024</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-february-26th-2024/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-february-26th-2024</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[KMUN]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">https://kmun.org/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=49428</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Frederick and Anna Murray Douglass&#8221;: Though Frederick Douglass grew up not knowing his exact birthdate and even uncertain just how old he was, historians presume he was born in February 1818.  Douglass wrote, &#8220;I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday.&#8221;  His master &#8220;deemed all such inquiries...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Frederick and Anna Murray Douglass&#8221;: Though Frederick Douglass grew up not knowing his exact birthdate and even uncertain just how old he was, historians presume he was born in February 1818.  Douglass wrote, &#8220;I do not remember to have]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Frederick and Anna Murray Douglass&#8221;: Though Frederick Douglass grew up not knowing his exact birthdate and even uncertain just how old he was, historians presume he was born in February 1818.  Douglass wrote, &#8220;I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday.&#8221;  His master &#8220;deemed all such inquiries...]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://kmun.org/podcast-download/49428/poems-for-company-february-26th-2024.mp3" length="27828139" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[&#8220;Frederick and Anna Murray Douglass&#8221;: Though Frederick Douglass grew up not knowing his exact birthdate and even uncertain just how old he was, historians presume he was born in February 1818.  Douglass wrote, &#8220;I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday.&#8221;  His master &#8220;deemed all such inquiries...]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>00:29:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[KMUN]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[&#8220;Frederick and Anna Murray Douglass&#8221;: Though Frederick Douglass grew up not knowing his exact birthdate and even uncertain just how old he was, historians presume he was born in February 1818.  Douglass wrote, &#8220;I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday.&#8221;  His master &#8220;deemed all such inquiries...]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
</item>

<item>
	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; January 22nd, 2024</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-january-22nd-2024/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-january-22nd-2024</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[KMUN]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">https://kmun.org/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=49028</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Imagining Our Parents Before We Were Born&#8221;: What do you know about the life of either of your parents before you were born?  The three contemporary poems featured on this episode suggest the poets knew just a few facts, perhaps derived from family lore.  Then they speculated or fabricated the rest to achieve some coherent...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Imagining Our Parents Before We Were Born&#8221;: What do you know about the life of either of your parents before you were born?  The three contemporary poems featured on this episode suggest the poets knew just a few facts, perhaps derived from ]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Imagining Our Parents Before We Were Born&#8221;: What do you know about the life of either of your parents before you were born?  The three contemporary poems featured on this episode suggest the poets knew just a few facts, perhaps derived from family lore.  Then they speculated or fabricated the rest to achieve some coherent...]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://kmun.org/podcast-download/49028/poems-for-company-january-22nd-2024.mp3" length="27813092" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[&#8220;Imagining Our Parents Before We Were Born&#8221;: What do you know about the life of either of your parents before you were born?  The three contemporary poems featured on this episode suggest the poets knew just a few facts, perhaps derived from family lore.  Then they speculated or fabricated the rest to achieve some coherent...]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>00:28:59</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[KMUN]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[&#8220;Imagining Our Parents Before We Were Born&#8221;: What do you know about the life of either of your parents before you were born?  The three contemporary poems featured on this episode suggest the poets knew just a few facts, perhaps derived from family lore.  Then they speculated or fabricated the rest to achieve some coherent...]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
</item>

<item>
	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; December 25th, 2023</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-december-25th-2023/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-december-25th-2023</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 25 Dec 2023 17:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[KMUN]]></dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Some Horses, Some Oxen&#8221;: Four poems are featured on this show, three about horses and one about oxen.  All of the horse poems tell us as much about the speaker as they do about the horses, and the final poem details a most curious Christmas folk belief.  What are all these animals thinking?  The poems...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Some Horses, Some Oxen&#8221;: Four poems are featured on this show, three about horses and one about oxen.  All of the horse poems tell us as much about the speaker as they do about the horses, and the final poem details a most curious Christmas ]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; November 27th, 2023</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Responding to Loss&#8221;: All three poems in this episode reflect on the loss of a person, when loss is final.  Perhaps one or more of these poems speak to feelings you have experienced but could not define quite like these poets do.  Are poems and songs useful for facing one&#8217;s own demise or for dealing...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Responding to Loss&#8221;: All three poems in this episode reflect on the loss of a person, when loss is final.  Perhaps one or more of these poems speak to feelings you have experienced but could not define quite like these poets do.  Are poems a]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Responding to Loss&#8221;: All three poems in this episode reflect on the loss of a person, when loss is final.  Perhaps one or more of these poems speak to feelings you have experienced but could not define quite like these poets do.  Are poems and songs useful for facing one&#8217;s own demise or for dealing...]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; October 23rd, 2023</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-october-23rd-2023/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-october-23rd-2023</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2023 16:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Civilians in the First World War&#8221;: All four poems on today&#8217;s episode focus on civilians in the First World War, particularly women: how were they affected?  Jessie Pope, &#8220;War Girls.&#8221;  Siegfried Sassoon, &#8220;Glory of Women.&#8221;  May Wedderburn Cannan, &#8220;Rouen.&#8221;  E. E. Cummings, &#8220;my sweet old etcetera.&#8221;  There are many fine anthologies that present poetry from...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Civilians in the First World War&#8221;: All four poems on today&#8217;s episode focus on civilians in the First World War, particularly women: how were they affected?  Jessie Pope, &#8220;War Girls.&#8221;  Siegfried Sassoon, &#8220;Glory of Wome]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Civilians in the First World War&#8221;: All four poems on today&#8217;s episode focus on civilians in the First World War, particularly women: how were they affected?  Jessie Pope, &#8220;War Girls.&#8221;  Siegfried Sassoon, &#8220;Glory of Women.&#8221;  May Wedderburn Cannan, &#8220;Rouen.&#8221;  E. E. Cummings, &#8220;my sweet old etcetera.&#8221;  There are many fine anthologies that present poetry from...]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; September 25th, 2023</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-september-25th-2023/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-september-25th-2023</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Advice&#8221;: Have you ever urged anyone to procreate?  If so, what motivated you to do that?  Today&#8217;s episode presents poems that offer direct advice, not only about when to have children and why, but also about what to eat, how to interact with others, and additional concerns.  Shakespeare, Sonnet # 3.  Catherine Tufariello, &#8220;Useful Advice,&#8221; from Keeping My...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Advice&#8221;: Have you ever urged anyone to procreate?  If so, what motivated you to do that?  Today&#8217;s episode presents poems that offer direct advice, not only about when to have children and why, but also about what to eat, how to interac]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Advice&#8221;: Have you ever urged anyone to procreate?  If so, what motivated you to do that?  Today&#8217;s episode presents poems that offer direct advice, not only about when to have children and why, but also about what to eat, how to interact with others, and additional concerns.  Shakespeare, Sonnet # 3.  Catherine Tufariello, &#8220;Useful Advice,&#8221; from Keeping My...]]></content:encoded>
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	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; August 28th, 2023</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-august-28th-2023/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-august-28th-2023</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2023 16:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Ancient Chinese Poetry: This show features the work of two poets.  Do they express concerns many of us think about in the 21st century?  Do they suggest how to adjust certain of our attitudes?  All the poems are from A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, translated by Arthur Waley (Knopf, 1919).  (Many poems by these same authors...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Ancient Chinese Poetry: This show features the work of two poets.  Do they express concerns many of us think about in the 21st century?  Do they suggest how to adjust certain of our attitudes?  All the poems are from A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, ]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Ancient Chinese Poetry: This show features the work of two poets.  Do they express concerns many of us think about in the 21st century?  Do they suggest how to adjust certain of our attitudes?  All the poems are from A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, translated by Arthur Waley (Knopf, 1919).  (Many poems by these same authors...]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Ancient Chinese Poetry: This show features the work of two poets.  Do they express concerns many of us think about in the 21st century?  Do they suggest how to adjust certain of our attitudes?  All the poems are from A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, translated by Arthur Waley (Knopf, 1919).  (Many poems by these same authors...]]></itunes:summary>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; July 24th, 2023</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-july-24th-2023/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-july-24th-2023</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2023 16:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
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	<guid isPermaLink="false">https://kmun.org/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=47220</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Inanimate Objects&#8221;: Have you inherited an inanimate object that carries emotional weight?  Have you bestowed a name on your bicycle or your car?  The poems featured in this episode respond in a variety of ways to inanimate objects.  Leigh Stein, &#8220;What Happens If You Click It,&#8221; from What To Miss When (NY: Soft Skull Press, 2021).  Richard...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Inanimate Objects&#8221;: Have you inherited an inanimate object that carries emotional weight?  Have you bestowed a name on your bicycle or your car?  The poems featured in this episode respond in a variety of ways to inanimate objects.  Leigh St]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Inanimate Objects&#8221;: Have you inherited an inanimate object that carries emotional weight?  Have you bestowed a name on your bicycle or your car?  The poems featured in this episode respond in a variety of ways to inanimate objects.  Leigh Stein, &#8220;What Happens If You Click It,&#8221; from What To Miss When (NY: Soft Skull Press, 2021).  Richard...]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[&#8220;Inanimate Objects&#8221;: Have you inherited an inanimate object that carries emotional weight?  Have you bestowed a name on your bicycle or your car?  The poems featured in this episode respond in a variety of ways to inanimate objects.  Leigh Stein, &#8220;What Happens If You Click It,&#8221; from What To Miss When (NY: Soft Skull Press, 2021).  Richard...]]></itunes:summary>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; June 26th, 2023</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-june-26th-2023/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-june-26th-2023</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2023 16:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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	<guid isPermaLink="false">https://kmun.org/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=47064</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Lust or Love&#8221;: In your own life, have you always been able to distinguish which powerful emotional response to another person grips you?  In the four poems featured on this episode, can you determine whether it&#8217;s lust or love that directs the poem&#8217;s speaker?  Ellen Bass, &#8220;Gate C22,&#8221; from The Human Line (Copper Canyon Press, 2007).  Frank...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Lust or Love&#8221;: In your own life, have you always been able to distinguish which powerful emotional response to another person grips you?  In the four poems featured on this episode, can you determine whether it&#8217;s lust or love that dire]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Lust or Love&#8221;: In your own life, have you always been able to distinguish which powerful emotional response to another person grips you?  In the four poems featured on this episode, can you determine whether it&#8217;s lust or love that directs the poem&#8217;s speaker?  Ellen Bass, &#8220;Gate C22,&#8221; from The Human Line (Copper Canyon Press, 2007).  Frank...]]></content:encoded>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; May 22nd, 2023</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-may-22nd-2023/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-may-22nd-2023</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2023 16:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Posing Questions&#8221;: &#8220;Who hangs a birdhouse from a sapling?&#8221;  How would you answer that question?  One poem featured on today&#8217;s episode places that question in a startling context.  Questions shape all of the poems on today&#8217;s episode.  Some are addressed; others are left for us to sort out.  Today&#8217;s episode features these poems: Christina Rossetti,...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Posing Questions&#8221;: &#8220;Who hangs a birdhouse from a sapling?&#8221;  How would you answer that question?  One poem featured on today&#8217;s episode places that question in a startling context.  Questions shape all of the poems on today&#]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Posing Questions&#8221;: &#8220;Who hangs a birdhouse from a sapling?&#8221;  How would you answer that question?  One poem featured on today&#8217;s episode places that question in a startling context.  Questions shape all of the poems on today&#8217;s episode.  Some are addressed; others are left for us to sort out.  Today&#8217;s episode features these poems: Christina Rossetti,...]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[&#8220;Posing Questions&#8221;: &#8220;Who hangs a birdhouse from a sapling?&#8221;  How would you answer that question?  One poem featured on today&#8217;s episode places that question in a startling context.  Questions shape all of the poems on today&#8217;s episode.  Some are addressed; others are left for us to sort out.  Today&#8217;s episode features these poems: Christina Rossetti,...]]></itunes:summary>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; April 24th, 2023</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-april-24th-2023/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-april-24th-2023</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2023 16:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[KMUN]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">https://kmun.org/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=46408</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Poems About Writing&#8221;: When you were a student, did you find joy in the writing tasks required of you?  Did self-disclosure make you uncomfortable, or did you welcome the opportunity to express your individuality?  Poems in this episode may take you back to the classroom, with reflections from some students and instructors.  Today&#8217;s show features these poems:...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Poems About Writing&#8221;: When you were a student, did you find joy in the writing tasks required of you?  Did self-disclosure make you uncomfortable, or did you welcome the opportunity to express your individuality?  Poems in this episode may t]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Poems About Writing&#8221;: When you were a student, did you find joy in the writing tasks required of you?  Did self-disclosure make you uncomfortable, or did you welcome the opportunity to express your individuality?  Poems in this episode may take you back to the classroom, with reflections from some students and instructors.  Today&#8217;s show features these poems:...]]></content:encoded>
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	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>Poems for Company &#8211; March 27th, 2023</title>
	<link>https://kmun.org/podcast/poems-for-company-march-27th-2023/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=poems-for-company-march-27th-2023</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2023 16:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Unrequited Love,&#8221; Part One: Poets respond in a variety of ways when their strong desires for another are not returned: from anger to bewilderment to resignation.  Over time, a number of episodes of Poems for Company will focus on this theme.  Today&#8217;s show features these poems: Sappho, Poem # 94, translator Michael R. Burch (thehypertexts.com/Sappho Longer Poems in Translations by Michael R. Burch.htm), read with...]]></description>
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	<title>Poems for Company, February 27 2023</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2023 17:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Unlived Lives&#8221;: What prompted you to make personal life-altering choices?  Do you believe a sky-god or some other cosmic force oversees your personal choices?  Has your life unfolded due to random events?  The three contemporary poems in this episode reflect on our personal choices that at times lead us to fantasize about how it all could...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Unlived Lives&#8221;: What prompted you to make personal life-altering choices?  Do you believe a sky-god or some other cosmic force oversees your personal choices?  Has your life unfolded due to random events?  The three contemporary poems in thi]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<title>Poems For Company, January 23 2023</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2023 16:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Dogs in Homer, Homer&#8217;s Dog, Other Dogs.&#8221;  What truths about dogs did Homer know nearly 3000 years ago?  If Homer lived with a dog, what did this dog think of the epic poet?  The poems in this episode address these and other canine-related questions in intriguing ways.  Homer, snippets from The Iliad, Books 22 and 23; a passage...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[&#8220;Dogs in Homer, Homer&#8217;s Dog, Other Dogs.&#8221;  What truths about dogs did Homer know nearly 3000 years ago?  If Homer lived with a dog, what did this dog think of the epic poet?  The poems in this episode address these and other canine-rela]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
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	<title>Poems For Company, December 26 2022</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2022 17:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[What do you think of the remarks by the old people you know?  Do they offer wisdom?  Do they complain?  Are they forward-looking?  Are they funny?  The seven poems featured on this episode offer a variety of responses.  William Matthews, &#8220;Grandmother Talking,&#8221; from Search Party: Collected Poems, ed. by Sebastian Matthews and Stanley Plumly, Houghton Mifflin...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[What do you think of the remarks by the old people you know?  Do they offer wisdom?  Do they complain?  Are they forward-looking?  Are they funny?  The seven poems featured on this episode offer a variety of responses.  William Matthews, &#8220;Grandmoth]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<title>Poems For Company, November 28 2022</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2022 17:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[How do we respond to the birds in our community?  What do they tell us about ourselves?    This show features eight poems: Emily Dickinson, &#8220;A Bird Came Down the Walk&#8221;; Isaac Rosenberg, &#8220;Returning, We Hear the Larks&#8221;; Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, from the opening of 3.5; W. B. Yeats, &#8220;The Wild Swans at Coole&#8221;; Greg Delanty, &#8220;On...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[How do we respond to the birds in our community?  What do they tell us about ourselves?    This show features eight poems: Emily Dickinson, &#8220;A Bird Came Down the Walk&#8221;; Isaac Rosenberg, &#8220;Returning, We Hear the Larks&#8221;; Shakespeare,]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[How do we respond to the birds in our community?  What do they tell us about ourselves?    This show features eight poems: Emily Dickinson, &#8220;A Bird Came Down the Walk&#8221;; Isaac Rosenberg, &#8220;Returning, We Hear the Larks&#8221;; Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, from the opening of 3.5; W. B. Yeats, &#8220;The Wild Swans at Coole&#8221;; Greg Delanty, &#8220;On...]]></content:encoded>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
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	<title>Poems For Company, October 24 2022</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Do we imagine the dead as content in their zone, or do they express anxieties about how the world of the living functions in their absence?  Poems in this episode offer contrasting answers: Frederic Weatherly&#8217;s &#8220;Danny Boy&#8221;; A.E. Housman&#8217;s &#8220;Is My Team Ploughing?&#8221;; Thomas Hardy&#8217;s &#8220;Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?&#8221;; John McCrae&#8217;s &#8220;In...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Do we imagine the dead as content in their zone, or do they express anxieties about how the world of the living functions in their absence?  Poems in this episode offer contrasting answers: Frederic Weatherly&#8217;s &#8220;Danny Boy&#8221;; A.E. Housman]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Do we imagine the dead as content in their zone, or do they express anxieties about how the world of the living functions in their absence?  Poems in this episode offer contrasting answers: Frederic Weatherly&#8217;s &#8220;Danny Boy&#8221;; A.E. Housman&#8217;s &#8220;Is My Team Ploughing?&#8221;; Thomas Hardy&#8217;s &#8220;Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?&#8221;; John McCrae&#8217;s &#8220;In...]]></content:encoded>
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