Fall 2025 OLLI Digital Catalog 

Poet Talk (H224)

H – Literature

Learn about contemporary and modern poetry through close reading and discussion of poems presented in the New Yorker Poetry Podcast archive. For each class, students listen at home to a selected episode. In class we continue the discussion begun by the host and guest poet, considering matters of craft and process. The New Yorker Poetry Podcast is free and easily available on the internet.

This offering meets for a total of 5 session(s).

INSTRUCTOR: Linda McMeniman

McMENIMAN, LINDA — B.A. New York University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, English, modern American literature. Retired professor of writing/communication. Researching genealogy for more than 15 years; other interests include poetry, gardening and grandparenting. (H224)

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