This episode, Marlon and Jake discuss a new subject for the podcast: poetry! From epic poems to sonnets to the Romantics poets to contemporary (dead) poets. They ponder over why people don’t read poetry as much as prose and recite, on the spot, lines of poetry that are forever engrained in their memories.

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• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
• War Music by Christopher Logue
• The Gift Outright by Robert Frost
• Emily Dickinson
• W.H. Auden
• T.S. Eliot
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• William Wordsworth
• Rupert Brooke
• John Dunn
• The Spanish Needle by Claude McKay
• The Iliad by Homer
• The Aeneid by Virgil
• Omeros by Derek Walcott
• The Arrivants by Kamau Brathwaite
• Riddyn Ravings (The Mad Woman's Poem) by Jean “Binta” Breeze
• Anne Sexton
• Dr. Maya Angelou
• The Tyger by William Blake
• Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• June Jordan
• Audre Lorde
• Toni Morrison
• Ogden Nash
• Dorothy Parker
• Tales From Ovid by Ted Hughes
• Inferno from Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri