How would we meet and greet an alien from Mars if we ever encounter one? You might have thought about that before, or not, but I have thought about that in a poem called An Alien from Mars. Join me in this Poetry Episode from English Plus Podcast and let’s find out together.
Listen to A Broken Wing, a poem by Danny Ballan from English Plus Podcast. I will start with some thoughts on the theme of the poem and then the poem.
Listen to Dear Prophet, a poem by Danny Ballan from English Plus Podcast. I will start with some thoughts on the theme of the poem and then the poem.
Listen to A Man Just Died, a poem by Danny Ballan from English Plus Podcast. I will start with some thoughts on the theme of the poem and then the poem.
Listen to Crazy, Like God, a poem by Danny Ballan from English Plus Podcast. I will start with some thoughts on the theme of the poem and then the poem.
Listen to The Rain Must Fall, a poem by Danny Ballan from English Plus Podcast. I will start with some thoughts on the theme of the poem and then the poem.
Are you stuck with a dead-end job, and you cannot escape? Are the semi-walls of your cubicle closing in on you and you feel like you’re dying at your desk? This poem is just about that. I’ve been there before, and I am still not completely free, but I’m on my way.
Why do you always have to explain that no means no? Why can’t you be a butterfly but not available to all, only the one you choose? Be Gone is a poem talking about this from Poetry by Danny Ballan and English Plus Podcast.
Children are the most tragic casualties of war because they represent assassinating the innocence left in this world as they are themselves innocent. Listen to War Child a poem by Danny Ballan from English Plus Podcast.
Have you ever thought about a bullet’s life? What would a bullet say about that? This poem is all about that and you will be shocked what a bullet may think all the way from its manufacturing to its final destination.
There was a moment when who you are started mattering more than how good you are. Here’s what changed, what we gained, and the quiet bill now coming due.
Fame isn’t random luck or a shadowy conspiracy — it’s a business model. A deep dive into superstar economics, the algorithm, and the dopamine lottery that keeps us all playing.
You don’t need to quit everything to be a writer. A warm, dryly funny journal entry on the day job, the starving artist myth, and why “give up all else” is the worst advice in the arts.
Five thousand years of history bring us to the hardest questions: what policies actually protect people, what evidence says about different approaches, and what it would mean to organize our response to commercial sex around the genuine interests of the most vulnerable people involved.
The internet transformed commercial sex as radically as anything since the industrial revolution — enabling greater autonomy for some, creating new vectors for exploitation for others, and producing a legislative and ethical landscape that nobody has figured out how to navigate. This episode examines FOSTA-SESTA, OnlyFans, the trafficking-platform debate, and where we actually stand.
Beneath the historical narrative is an economic structure — one characterized by specific mechanisms of recruitment, control, and profit extraction that have remained remarkably consistent across centuries and continents. This episode examines the business of commercial sex as a business: how it actually operates, how exploitation is maintained, and where the money actually goes.
