Mona Van Duyn

Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast

Avalon

Arts

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Frank is very moved by what the poet, Mona Van Duyn, can do with an eraser. The poem referenced is ‘The Creation’ by Mona Van Duyn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.3	Hello and welcome to Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast.
0:51.3	This week I'd like to talk about the work of the American poet Mona Van Dyn.
0:58.2	That's D-U-Y-N. I know. And I particularly want to look at a poem of hers, which was published in
1:07.5	Poetry Magazine in September 1968.
1:17.3	But before we begin, I should give you a bit of background on Mona Van Dine.
1:21.7	I might call it MVD for the purposes of this podcast.
1:33.1	MVD was born in 1921 and died in 2004, aged 83, during which time amongst the many achievements you won the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 and was the US Poet Laureate from 1992 to 93.
1:42.5	You may know from previous podcast that they get a two-year run in the job of
1:48.8	US poet laureate. So the poem I want to look at, look, I'll be straight with you. This wasn't
1:56.1	the Mona Van Dyne poem I was going to look at. There was another one about Mona's love of graffiti,
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