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Erika Kyba

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The Legend of the Knight of the Red Cross: The Road...

The Poetry Fix ·

2026/02/17

Today, we continue our journey through Spencer's Faerie Queene. Join Erika Kyba to analyze the forest symbolism that Spencer uses to set up the themes that will pervade this canto, and strap in as the Knight of the Red Cross seeks his first battle in the Den of Error.

4:31

The Legend of the Knight of the Red Cross: What's Up...

The Poetry Fix ·

2026/02/10

Today, we continue our journey through Spencer's Faerie Queene. Join Erika Kyba as she analyzes how Spencer draws a connection between the poem's female lead, Una, and the symbol of the Lamb of God. We talk about the importance of not judging Una as your typical damsel in distress too quickly; she's a character that might surprise you.

4:31

The Legend of the Knight of the Red Cross: An Untried...

The Poetry Fix ·

2026/02/03

Today, we continue our journey through Spencer's Faerie Queene. Erika Kyba discusses some of Spencer's typical conventions, such as introducing characters by their appearances and actions, allowing the reader to judge their behavior before the poet names them.

4:31

Prologue to the Legend of the Knight of the Red...

The Poetry Fix ·

2026/01/27

Today, Erika Kyba introduces you to Spencer's Faerie Queene. In this episode, we read the Prologue to the Legend of the Knight of the Red Cross (narrated by the lovely Sophia Kyba), and discuss Spencer's intriguing choice of Greek gods to invoke as his muses.

4:45

The Milk-Maid and the Milk-Pail: Of Daydreams and...

The Poetry Fix ·

2026/01/20

Today, Erika Kyba reads La Fontaine's "The Milk-Maid and the Milk-Pail," a witty and practical French fable about the danger of getting carried away in a daydream.

4:46

We Should not Mind so Small a Flower: Restoring the...

The Poetry Fix ·

2026/01/13

Today, Erika Kyba reads Emily Dickinson's "We Should not Mind so Small a Flower," in which poet uses the flower of a mustard seed as a metaphor for God instantiating the Kingdom of Heaven through the smallest and most easily overlooked means.

3:53

Architect's Watercolor: Each Minute is Encounter

The Poetry Fix ·

2025/12/11

Today, Erika Kyba reads Arthur Sze's "Architect's Watercolor." This is a poem that toes the line between potentiality and reality.

4:30

Comus: To Quench the Draught of Pheobus

The Poetry Fix ·

2025/12/04

Today, Erika Kyba continues to analyze Milton's "Comus," and we learn what makes the wicked spirit, Comus so dangerous: he menaces the rational faculties of men, and tempts them, through inordinate pleasure, to animality and indignity. Alexandra Comus joins us once again to narrate the part of the Attendant Spirit.

4:34

Comus: The Rank Vapors of this Sin-Worn Mold

The Poetry Fix ·

2025/11/20

Today, Erika Kyba introduces Milton's "Comus," a purported morality masque which is perhaps not what it seems to be. Alexandra Comus narrates the part of the Attendant Spirit.

7:23

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Accept this "Bonnie Doon"

The Poetry Fix ·

2025/11/13

Today, Erika Kyba reads through the end of "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi," by Emily Dickinson. We begin to tie together the themes of moral bankruptcy, surface versus substance, and modernity, served with a slice of devilry.

4:31

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Insolvency, Sublime!

The Poetry Fix ·

2025/11/06

Today, Erika Kyba reads "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi," by Emily Dickinson, a witty societal critique dashed with a commentary how certain astronomical discoveries have altered the way we understand and behave towards the universe around us.

4:31

The Abyss: Above, Below, On Every Side

The Poetry Fix ·

2025/10/30

Today, Erika Kyba reads "The Abyss," by Baudelaire, and attempts to explore the poet's terror of the infinite.

4:20

The Benefactors: The Pinch of Pain and Fear

The Poetry Fix ·

2025/10/23

Today, Erika Kyba reads "The Benefactors" by Rudyard Kipling. Kipling mediates on how all innovation springs from the "pinch of pain and fear" that drives man.

4:31

Adam's Curse: As Weary-Hearted as that Hollow Moon

The Poetry Fix ·

2025/10/16

Today, Erika Kyba reads "Adam's Curse" by William Butler Yeats. Yeats muses on how all beautiful and lovely things require labor...and how this laboring after the beautiful has become an "idle trade" in the hollow age of modernity.

4:31

The Boston Evening Transcript: Who Are You, When...

The Poetry Fix ·

2025/10/09

Today, Erika Kyba reads "The Boston Evening Transcript," by T. S. Eliot. Much in the same vein as Henry David Thoreau, Eliot mediates on our constant obsession with the news, and what that does to the human person.

4:32

Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers: A Meditation on Legacy

The Poetry Fix ·

2025/10/02

Today, Erika Kyba reads "Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers," by Emily Dickinson. In this poem, Dickinson plays with the image of a tomb acting as a lamp, and she meditates on legacy, death, and history.

4:31

As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Lovely in Eyes not His

The Poetry Fix ·

2025/09/25

Today, Erika Kyba reads "As Kingfishers Catch Fire," by Gerard Manley Hopkins. In this poem, Hopkins explores the natural image of kingfishers and dragonflies reflecting the sun's light, and he uses it to portray how God's glory shines forth in every single person, with all their particularities.

4:31

On Time: The Temporal and the Eternal

The Poetry Fix ·

2025/09/18

Today, Erika Kyba reads John Milton's "On Time." This is a poem that echoes the themes John Donne's "Holy Sonnet X," asserting the triumph of believers over death and temporal decay.

4:30

Demain dès l'aube: Facing the Unspeakable

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2025/09/11

Today, Erika Kyba reads Victor Hugo's "Demain dès l'aube," a poem about a man who has delayed facing his grief for far too long.

4:35

America: Perennial With the Earth

The Poetry Fix ·

2025/09/04

Today, Erika Kyba reads Walt Whitman's "America," a distillation of the patriotic spirit that infuses much of Whitman's poetic corpus.

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