Dr. Uncle Jerry University: Poetry 101 | The Swiftie and The Scholar
Released 25 April 2026
A bonus teaching episode on poetry fundamentals: confessional poetry, deliberate ambiguity, the major schools of literary theory, and whether poetry still matters, all framed around how Uncle Jerry reads Taylor.
Recommended Reading
Life Studies; My Papa's Waltz; On My First Son; The Real Slim Shady; Both Sides Now; Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture; Is There a Text in This Class?; Key Theories of Wolfgang Iser; Stephen Greenblatt and New Historicism; A Bit Much; Daddy; Hyperion; Ode to a Nightingale