About this episode

This episode features the poem 'Something there is that doesn’t love' by Armen Davoudian, exploring themes of boundaries and human-made structures.

Today’s poem is Something there is that doesn’t love by Armen Davoudian. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Maggie writes… “Fences and walls are human-made structures, and they are inevitably eroded by the landscape itself: the rocks fall or are worn down by wind and rain; the wood rots or topples. And what happens when the boundary between what one person owns and what another person owns falls, or fails? Then what?” We’re asking you, our community of listeners, to help us select poems to share on the show in an upcoming week of special programming. What poems have you sent friends and loved ones to encourage them to slow down? Send in your own selection, we’ll mail you a special Slowdown postcard and sticker as a thank you. Submit here: https://bit.ly/slowdownsubmissions

People in this episode

Host: Maggie

Guest: Armen Davoudian

Topics covered

• poetry
• human-made structures
• boundaries
• landscape
• community engagement

Keywords

• poem
• fences
• walls
• landscape
• community
• submission

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