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From the Karp sisters three we have a wonderful reading of Shakespeare’s sonnets for Valentine’s Day. By design we have avoided the better known poems, and each reads ten. We begin with Ariana,
Rita Mae Reese is the author of The Alphabet Conspiracy and The Book of Hulga, which was selected by Denise Duhamel for the Felix Pollak Prize. She is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Stegner
Ely Phan is a Chicago-based maker of theatre, music, & lattes, with deep roots in Madison, Wisconsin. In work, Phan tries to center the stories and voices of unlikely heroes with complex intersections of identity. These songs are a
Meet the Macbeths! Odd though it may seem, we actually see more of their shared, private, married lives than perhaps any other couple in all of Shakespeare’s work. Mrs. Lear? No mention. Othello & Desdemona? They spend one night together.
Emily Dickinson is one of America’s most widely read and beloved poets. Her letters are not as well known, but equally astonishing. In this September 2017 podcast, Fermat’s board member Ayeshah Emon reads a selection of Dickinson’s letters to Thomas
Poetry reading by Katrin Talbot.