• The Pencil and the Pipe Organ
    Feb 28 2025

    In this episode, I talk about pens and pipe organs both being used to create beauty out of chaos.

    The Eagle quote was found on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Bish

    Video of pipe organ: https://youtu.be/0APq5bB_3nQ

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    5 mins
  • Build Dams and Tear Down Walls, Milosz
    Feb 14 2025

    In this episode “Build Dams and Tear Down Walls, Milosz,” I tell the rare connection between Ronald Reagan Czeslaw Milosz and give a brief overview of his fight for freedom.

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    8 mins
  • FrankenPoetry: Is AI Poetry Truly Creative?
    Jan 31 2025

    Welcome to Poets' Pavilion, a pilgrimage thru poetry. I'm your host, helen renell. The title of this episode is “FrankenPoetry: Is AI Poetry Truly Creative?” In this episode, I talk about using AI generated poetry - is it really creative? I also tell why I don't use transcripts.

    https://www.listennotes.com/blog/notebook-lm-a-threat-to-the-podcasting-world-79/

    https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/can-ai-write-authentic-poetry/

    https://www.scijournal.org/articles/new-study-reveals-people-struggle-to-differentiate-between-human-and-ai-written-poetry-often-favoring-ai

    https://www.withallen.com/podcasts/

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    8 mins
  • Five American Poets
    Jan 25 2025

    The title of this episode is “Five American Poets.” I read one poem and add biographical tidbits of five American poets. I close with a few thoughts of the office of the American Poet Laureate, why I podcast the way I do, and views on my use of social media.

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    10 mins
  • An Unlikely Match: Doctor Poets
    Jan 18 2025

    In this episode, I give a brief history of doctor-poets and reasons why doctors practice poetry.

    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    https://podcast.helenrenell.me/holmes-battles-for-old-ironsides/

    “A Doctor, A Patient, and Their Poetry”
    https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-medicine/a-doctor-a-patient-and-their-poetry

    Audio version of Rafael Campo’s quote with transcript
    Harvard Medical Labcast July 16, 2015, Rx: Poetry
    https://hms.harvard.edu/news-events/multimedia/rx-poetry

    Hat Tip to WCW poem https://helenrenell.me/hat-tip-to-wcw/

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    6 mins
  • Masterpiece of Repentance
    Jan 11 2025

    In this episode, I talk about John Bunyan’s masterpiece written while in jail, and a podcast update.

    Footnotes

    1. Definition of allegory: Drury, the po·e·try dic·tion·ar·y, 12.

    2. Source for the verse count: Standard Ebooks The Pilgrim's Progress

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    7 mins
  • Safe From Harm
    Oct 31 2024

    Martin was excommunicated. And his life was at stake.

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    4 mins
  • Metaphorically Speaking
    Oct 25 2024

    Fantastical stories of cows eating other cows and stalk heads eating other stalk heads?

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    4 mins