# augmented man — RSS Amplifier Everything augmented man publishes, via the RSS Amplifier directory. Page: Feed: --- ## [Keep the Poem Where You Keep the Medicine](https://augmentedman.substack.com/p/keep-the-poem-where-you-keep-the) _2026-08-16 · augmented’s journey_ His reading is better than therapy [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211413439/55902d23768d78362b8191e3d3d9bb62.mp3) ## [We Fall in Love With Whoever Reads the Poem to Us](https://augmentedman.substack.com/p/we-fall-in-love-with-whoever-reads-the-power-of-poetry) _2026-08-09 · augmented’s journey_ For everyone who misses the voice that used to read poems out loud [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210494630/db8f42e311ce707d6f007b0475129c5f.mp3) ## [The Sweetest Revenge in Poetry](https://augmentedman.substack.com/p/the-sweetest-revenge-in-poetry-the-power) _2026-08-01 · augmented’s journey_ Inside the poem you know by heart, there is a hidden door, and it was left unlocked for you [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209391200/89155bf9f229e0f33c4b6e2df9358f52.mp3) ## [Today, the poem sounds almost prophetic](https://augmentedman.substack.com/p/today-the-poem-sounds-almost-prophetic-the-power-of-poetry) _2026-07-19 · augmented’s journey_ Poems That Make Grown Substackers Cry [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207641776/a99670a6559c05e327e13bbaf6a51103.mp3) ## [Quotations Without Quotation Marks](https://augmentedman.substack.com/p/quotations-without-quotation-marks) _2026-07-10 · augmented’s journey_ How another person’s language becomes your belief [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/206496488/bdace84ea5bfa997ca7bc0d2fe7a4274.mp3) ## [You’ll be returning to this often](https://augmentedman.substack.com/p/you-will-be-returning-to-this-often-the-power-of-poetry-substack) _2026-06-17 · augmented’s journey_ this really is a blessing for any one who lost someone they loved [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202409659/fb40dd517588c278f21134e64d91e7d0.mp3) ## [A Gardener Does Not Tell the Seed What to Become](https://augmentedman.substack.com/p/a-gardener-does-not-tell-the-seed-what-to-become-the-power-of-poetry) _2026-05-31 · augmented’s journey_ The Poem Was Made for the Restack Button [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/199963525/9567df0888b234333e4202d71b97467a.mp3) ## [It turns everyone into a poet, even against their will](https://augmentedman.substack.com/p/it-turns-everyone-into-a-poet-even-against-their-will-the-power-of-poetry) _2026-05-14 · augmented’s journey_ "We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race" DPS [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/197716814/f0cf3bd5d4d52c48b83c1f167625772c.mp3) ## [The Father as the Real Poet](https://augmentedman.substack.com/p/the-father-as-the-real-poet-the-power-of-poetry) _2026-05-01 · augmented’s journey_ “I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom” Umberto Eco [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/196154444/91995c8c19fc693197af58f8328935a8.mp3) ## [Your poem already knows where your heart is going before you do](https://augmentedman.substack.com/p/hold-this-the-power-of-poetry) _2026-04-24 · augmented’s journey_ on the one move a poem can make that nothing else can [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/195379440/075d17e0858cb345d90782c99732268e.mp3) ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/1D1dW9gQbuIx) _2026-04-24 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy apps from your repo with auto-config, instant previews, scaling, and monitoring. ## [nice to meet a real poet](https://augmentedman.substack.com/p/nice-to-meet-a-real-poet-the-power-of-poetry-jarmusch-paterson-aha-fish-emily-dickinson-poem-bus-driver-movie-would-you-rather-be-a-fish) _2026-04-05 · augmented’s journey_ Watch now | For everyone who writes on their lunch break and tells nobody [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/193259501/a06a741cff383ce899a6e85a733db63f.mp3) ## [the true dwelling of the holy](https://augmentedman.substack.com/p/the-true-dwelling-of-the-holy-the-power-of-poetry-kindness) _2026-03-29 · augmented’s journey_ Watch now | Kindness as Appetite, Eaten in Secret ## [How to Keep Your Dignity When the System Turns Against You](https://augmentedman.substack.com/p/how-to-keep-your-dignity-when-the-system--turns-against-you-the-power-of-poetry) _2026-03-15 · augmented’s journey_ Watch now | Why the right sentence can do what outrage and anger usually cannot [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/191053252/5ca737d52feb5a45ea62d9e5a942e0e8.mp3) ## [With torn and bleeding hearts we smile](https://augmentedman.substack.com/p/with-torn-and-bleeding-hearts-we-wear-the-mask-paul-laurence-dunbar-maya-angelou-the-power-of-poetry) _2026-03-08 · augmented’s journey_ Watch now | The Hardest Word in the Poem Is “We” [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/190301416/ce943c1fc4bcd03c77e3150520cadd96.mp3) ## [Every Poem is Hiding a Secret. Here is How to Find It](https://augmentedman.substack.com/p/read-the-last-word-of-every-line-the-poem-just-told-you-its-secret) _2026-03-01 · augmented’s journey_ Watch now | McKellen's simplest trick works on every poem you'll ever read. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/189559627/c5665fe51a3bb1f81bd82859a51b6931.mp3) ## [The Poem at the Heart](https://augmentedman.substack.com/p/the-poem-at-the-heart-the-power-of-poetry) _2026-02-22 · augmented’s journey_ Watch now (2 mins) | The Power of Poetry on Stage [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/188729119/949a3f30ef062bfbddde42562f928924.mp3) ## [Who do you want to be at the end of the world?](https://augmentedman.substack.com/p/who-do-you-want-to-be-at-the-end-of-the-world-the-power-of-poetry-shakespeare) _2026-02-11 · augmented’s journey_ Watch now | A Government Censor Tried to Kill a Question [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/187666541/5eb3eb0398a0aff44b78966b32f5e7f8.mp3) ## [Choose One of Five](https://augmentedman.substack.com/p/choose-one-of-five-the-power-of-poetry) _2026-02-01 · augmented’s journey_ Watch now Some Doors Can Only Be Opened From the Inside, But Poetry Knocks ## [Before you know what kindness really is...](https://augmentedman.substack.com/p/the-thief-was-the-muse-the-power-of-poetry-naomi-shihab-nye) _2026-01-24 · augmented’s journey_ The Thief Was the Muse ## [One OS for your AI workforce (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/NSbhEMzrw4OR) _2026-01-24 · **Sponsored**_ Build, direct, and supervise AI teams from a single operations workspace ## [The Son Who Commanded His Father to Live](https://augmentedman.substack.com/p/the-son-who-commanded-his-father-to-live-the-power-of-poetry) _2026-01-20 · augmented’s journey_ Watch now | On the psychological reversal at the heart of poetry’s most famous rage