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April 7, 2025
Wes Lydon
"In a Grain of Sand" - Jesús Papoleto Meléndez

We are Starseeds  
                   every one of us –  
                                                     you & me,

"In a Grain of Sand" -  Jesús Papoleto Meléndez
January 13, 2025
Wes Lydon
"Driving Upstate with My Father" - C.L. O'Dell

at the end of a bad year. Trees begin
to outnumber houses. Rain turns to snow
as fields hang like paintings.

"Driving Upstate with My Father" -  C.L. O'Dell
October 21, 2024
Wes Lydon
"That Part in the Music" - Carl Phillips

Once loyal to a cruel master,
the dog moves like a man who
not so long ago weighed a lot less

"That Part in the Music" -  Carl Phillips
September 16, 2024
Wes Lydon
"Why I Respect the Dog" - Catherine Pierce

The dog weighs twelve pounds
and uses them as she pleases.
The king-size bed is not big enough.

"Why I Respect the Dog" -  Catherine Pierce
August 20, 2024
Wes Lydon
"The Orange" - Wendy Cope

At lunchtime I bought a huge orange—
The size of it made us all laugh.
I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave—

"The Orange" -  Wendy Cope
Wes Lydon
February 1, 2021

Episode 043 - The Poem Where I Lie About Everything

Wes Lydon
February 1, 2021
Episode 043 - The Poem Where I Lie About Everything

I'm 6'2,
I weigh 225 lbs. and
I know what you're thinking. The answer's no, I don't

Tagged: Poetry, Education, Rudy Francisco, I'll Fly Away

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Wes Lydon
January 25, 2021

Episode 042 - The Hill We Climb

Wes Lydon
January 25, 2021
Episode 042 - The Hill We Climb

When day comes we ask ourselves,
where can we find light in this never-ending shade?
The loss we carry,

Tagged: Poetry, Education, Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb

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Wes Lydon
January 19, 2021

Episode 041 - The Land of Story-Books

Wes Lydon
January 19, 2021
Episode 041 - The Land of Story-Books

At evening when the lamp is lit,
Around the fire my parents sit;
They sit at home and talk and sing,

Tagged: Poetry, Education, A Poem for Every Night of the Year, Robert Louis Stevenson

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Wes Lydon
January 11, 2021

Episode 040 - Not Waving But Drowning

Wes Lydon
January 11, 2021
Episode 040 - Not Waving But Drowning

Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought

Tagged: Poetry, Education, Stevie Smith

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Wes Lydon
December 7, 2020

Episode 039 - Please

Wes Lydon
December 7, 2020
Episode 039 - Please

Stay in this world with me.

There go the ships.
The little buses.

Tagged: Poetry, Education, Laura Kasischke, Don't Read Poetry

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Wes Lydon
November 30, 2020

Episode 038 - say it with your whole black mouth

Wes Lydon
November 30, 2020
Episode 038 - say it with your whole black mouth

say it with your whole black mouth: i am innocent.
& if you are not innocent, say this: i am worthy

of forgiveness, of breath after breath.

Tagged: Poetry, Education, Danez Smith, Homie

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Wes Lydon
November 16, 2020

Episode 037 - Harlem

Wes Lydon
November 16, 2020
Episode 037 - Harlem

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?

Tagged: Poetry, Education, Langston Hughes, The Seagull Book of Poems

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Wes Lydon
November 9, 2020

Episode 036 - The Promise

Wes Lydon
November 9, 2020
Episode 036 - The Promise

Stay, I said
to the cut flowers.
They bowed

Tagged: Poetry, Education, Jane Hirshfield, Come Thief

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Wes Lydon
November 2, 2020

Episode 035 - despecho hour at the casa azul restaurante y cantina

Wes Lydon
November 2, 2020
Episode 035 - despecho hour at the casa azul restaurante y cantina

despecho rhymes with espejo—

translation: my sibs could be

my twins if

Tagged: Poetry, Education, Poetry Magazine, José Olivarez

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Wes Lydon
October 26, 2020

Episode 034 - Did I Miss Anything? (Again)

Wes Lydon
October 26, 2020
Episode 034 - Did I Miss Anything? (Again)

Nothing. When we realized you weren’t here

we sat with our hands folded on our desks

in silence, for the full two hours

Tagged: Poetry, Education, Poetry 180, Tom Wayman

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Wes Lydon
October 19, 2020

Episode 033 - The End

Wes Lydon
October 19, 2020
Episode 033 - The End

When I was One,
I had just begun.

When I was Two,

Tagged: Poetry, Education, A Poem for Every Day of the Year, A.A. Milne

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Wes Lydon
October 12, 2020

Episode 032 - Ode to my Suit

Wes Lydon
October 12, 2020
Episode 032 - Ode to my Suit

Every morning, suit,
you are waiting on a chair
to be filled

Tagged: Poetry, Education, Pablo Neruda, The Seagull Book of Poems

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Wes Lydon
September 28, 2020

Episode 031 - defining the magic

Wes Lydon
September 28, 2020
Episode 031 - defining the magic

a good poem is like a cold beer
when you need it,
a good poem is a hot turkey

Tagged: Poetry, Education, Charles Bukowski, Betting on the Muse

1 Comment
Wes Lydon
September 21, 2020

Episode 030 - Not Bad, Dad, Not Bad

Wes Lydon
September 21, 2020
Episode 030 - Not Bad, Dad, Not Bad

I think you are most yourself when you are swimming;
slicing the water with each stroke,
the funny way you breathe, your mouth cocked
as though you're yawning.

Tagged: Poetry, Education, Poetry 180, Jan Heller Levi

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Wes Lydon
September 14, 2020

Episode 029 - School Prayer

Wes Lydon
September 14, 2020
Episode 029 - School Prayer

In the name of the daybreak
and the eyelids of morning
and the wayfaring moon

Tagged: Poetry, Education, Seagull Book of Poems (4th Ed), Diane Ackerman

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Wes Lydon
September 7, 2020

Episode 028 - A Song About Myself

Wes Lydon
September 7, 2020
Episode 028 - A Song About Myself

There was a naughty boy,
And a naughty boy was he,
He ran away to Scotland

Tagged: Poetry, Education, A Poem for Every Day of the Year, John Keats

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Wes Lydon
August 31, 2020

Episode 027 - The Fairy School Under the Loch

Wes Lydon
August 31, 2020
Episode 027 - The Fairy School Under the Loch

The wind sings its gusty song.
The bell rings its rusty ring.
The underwater fairy children

Tagged: Poetry, Education, A Poem for Every Day of the Year, John Rice

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Wes Lydon
May 18, 2020

Quite Excellent Episode 026 - Today

Wes Lydon
May 18, 2020
Quite Excellent Episode 026 - Today

If ever there were a spring day so perfect,
so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze

that it made you want to throw

Tagged: Poetry, Education, Billy Collins, A Poem for Every Day of the Year

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Wes Lydon
May 9, 2020

Quite Excellent Episode 025 - Toad Circus

Wes Lydon
May 9, 2020
Quite Excellent Episode 025 - Toad Circus

The day after my toad circus the toads were all dead, crunchy and silent in their window well. I wanted to draw a doorway to walk through to get to the world of lilacs: purple, contagious green leaves and no movement but the steady invisible breathing of flowers.

Tagged: Poetry, Education, Julia Story, The New Yorker

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Wes Lydon
May 4, 2020

Quite Excellent Episode 024 - The Yawn

Wes Lydon
May 4, 2020
Quite Excellent Episode 024 - The Yawn

The black-haired girl

with the big

brown

eyes

Tagged: Poetry, Education, Paul Blackburn, Poetry 180

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