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Episode 314: “Best of” – Our Favorite Poems
Listen to The Literary Life: On this “Best of The Literary Life” episode from the vault, our hosts discuss their favorite poems and poets. Cindy starts off by sharing the early influences on…
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Episode 309: Our Literary Lives of 2025
Listen to The Literary Life: For this final episode of the 2025 season on The Literary Life Podcast, we bring you a special year-end conversation with Angelina Stanford, Cindy Rollins, and Thomas Banks…
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Episode 295: “Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti, Part 2
Listen to The Literary Life: Today on The Literary Life podcast Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks continue their two-part series on Christina Rossetti’s narrative poem “Goblin Market.” They begin discussing this poem by…
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Episode 294: “Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti, Part 1
Listen to The Literary Life: Welcome back to The Literary Life Podcast! This week we begin a brief, two-episode series covering Christina Rossetti’s narrative poem “Goblin Market.” Our hosts, Angelina Stanford and Thomas…
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Episode 283: Catching Up with Jason Baxter – Dante, Teacher as Translator, Learning to Read Poetry Like C.S. Lewis, and Hot Takes
This week on The Literary Life Podcast, Angelina and Thomas are once again joined Dr. Jason Baxter, author of Why Literature Still Matters. In this episode, our hosts sit down with Dr. Baxter…
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Episode 259: “Best of” Series – The Literary Life of Thomas Banks (Ep. 78)
On The Literary Life Podcast this week, due to unforeseen interruptions to the recording schedule, we are bringing you another episode from the vault. We hope you will enjoy this replay of The…
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Episode 247: Introduction to “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
On The Literary Life podcast this week, Angelina Stanford and Thomas Banks begin their newest series, this time discussing Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner. First, Thomas and Angelina speak to…
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Episode 218: “Best of” Series – Our Favorite Poems, Ep. 54
This week on The Literary Life, our hosts talk about their favorite poems and poets. Cindy starts off by sharing the early influences on her developing a love of poetry. Thomas also shares…
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Episode 158: Introduction to Aristotle’s “Poetics”
On this episode of The Literary Life podcast, our hosts Angelina Stanford, Cindy Rollins, and Thomas Banks open a new series of discussions about Aristotle’s work on story, Poetics. After sharing this week’s…
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Episode 95: An Introduction to Edmund Spenser with Kelly Cumbee
This week, your Literary Life podcast hosts, Angelina Stanford, Cindy Rollins and Thomas Banks are happy to be joined by Kelly Cumbee to talk about Edmund Spenser. They begin the conversation with Kelly…
