Podcasts Are Providing A New Way Into Poetry : NPR

A podcast allows you to do things outside of a poem by making the world of poetry itself more approachable. In most poetry podcasts, there's a discussion about the context of the work and the poet that goes beyond just reading a poem out loud.

We think that poetry is old ... that it's about dead men walking by a pond in the 19th century ... but poetry is more vast than that and podcasts ... allow you to access that vastness through conversation.

"We think that poetry is old ... that it's about dead men walking by a pond in the 19th century," says Ydalmi Noriega, of the Poetry Foundation. "Sure, that's one version of poetry, and perhaps that's what we are presented with in classrooms, but poetry is more vast than that and podcasts ... allow you to access that vastness through conversation."