It's the last episode of the season and the last episode of your life. PoeTRY is over! We reflect back on three seasons of something no one asked to, and finally answer the mysterious question: why did we give our podcast such a stupid name? We PoeTried and now we've PoeSucceeded. It's another, it's the last, episode of PoeTRY!

Poetry RATS

It's the final poem and penultimate episode of the season! This week we are existing in the context of all in which we have lived as we read Kamau Braithwaite's "Shepherd" from Islands (1969). Go find the gods that lurk within you, it's another episode of PoeTRY! .

Listen to and read the poem here.

Kamau Braithwaite's bio was compiled from:

• Poetry Foundation
• Poetry Archive
• The recorded 1995 interview series from the University of Memphis and River City Writers Series (youtube link)
• The essay “Nation Language” from History of the Voice: The Development of Nation Langauge in Anglophone Caribbean Poetry

It's penultimate poem of season 3! This week we read one of Koya's favorite poems, Franz Wright's "To Myself," from his 1998 collection, Ill Lit. Go buy yourself a nice sandwich and then don't eat it so you can instead take a bite of this week's PoeTRY!

Read the poem here.

Franz Wright's Bio was compiled from:

LA Times

Pleiades Magazine

NYT

NPR

Image Journal