Department of English

Al Filreis brought together Assistant Professor Abdulhamit Arvas, Ahuja Family Presidential Associate Professor of English and Associate Chair Dagmawi Woubshet (both from Penn English), and Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Chair of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies Carlos Decena (from Rutgers University) to talk about John Ashbery's early poem "Some Trees."

Links:

• https://jacket2.org/podcasts/touch-love-then-explain-poemtalk-176
• https://www.poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/158697/touch-love-then-explain

Here is a recording, from PennSound, of Ashbery performing the poem in 1988.