{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/64dea0c3156644001135fc74/64f3b6e3846a1300113b40de?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"17. Ekphrastic Poems - \"Cloud Study\" by (and featuring!) Donald Platt","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/64dea0c3156644001135fc74/1713434674527-57604de1052a382c0f64a7d29a382a6f.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>We've got a very special episode today by living poet Dr. Donald Platt (Purdue Univ.). We'll be discussing Ekphrastic poems, which are poems written about a work of art. Today's poem, called <a href=\"https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/144649/cloud-study\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Cloud Study</em></a> after John Constable's 1820s <a href=\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Constable_-_Study_of_Clouds%2C_1825%2C_Reg._538.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Study of Clouds</em></a><em>,</em> will be read by the poet himself!</p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>You can purchase Platt's Swansdown from the publisher, Grid Books </em></strong><a href=\"https://www.grid-books.org/swansdown\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>here</em></strong></a><strong><em>!</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><em>Audio and Poem used by Author's permission.</em></p><p>Production Gustav Worm-Leth</p><p>Outro Yentl Tijssens</p>","author_name":"Preston Losack"}