I drove to Des Moines Iowa this past weekend for a wedding of a niece. The reception was in a tap room attached to a...
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Podcasts de lyl
Last episode I compared late 19th Century cultural hipsters with early 21st Century urban cultural revivalists. Did...
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One thing I like about the Parlando Project is how things we present end up reflecting on each other. Some of that I...
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I Was Reading About Jesse James
When I was growing up and learning songs from Jerry Silverman’s folk songbooks, there was song called “Jesse James”...
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The lives, outside of art, of artists bear only a mysterious resemblance to their work. The concentration of time...
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Last episode I presented Ezra Pound’s rant about the society that lead so many to their deaths in WWI, deaths that...
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Poetry turn-offs? There are lot of them. There’s the fatiguing stretching of language that can wear one out. There...
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Here at the Parlando project we say we’re where music and words meet. Sometimes words sing without overt musical...
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I Know a Place Where Summer Strives
It would seem odd to us, but when Emily Dickinson died, her most noted accomplishment was not her poems, but her...
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I sometimes like to ask musicians who sing folk songs “What is the oldest song you play?” As a person attracted to...
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Back when I was kid there was something we were taught to be concerned about, our “vocation.” This was somewhat like...
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I promise you, we will end up today very close to the love song of the last episode, though we will travel a ways...
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Here’s an episode with a short story written and read by Dave Moore. Just as I have my bicycle ride poems, Dave has...
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My own lunar eclipse piece is set in our century, and in my Midwestern place. I start off by musing on the same...
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We seem to be in a month of sky omens in the Midwest, with the Perseids meteor shower and a solar eclipse following...
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Today’s selection was also recorded a few years back, and is more conventionally in that “poet reading beat poetry...
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It’s been too long since we featured one of the looser live performances of the LYL Band here at the Parlando...
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Let’s get one more Halloween appropriate piece in before the holiday. We’ve featured a lot of words from Dave Moore...
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Sometimes the things we present here come together quickly. For example, the LYL Band pieces are often first takes...
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The place of short epigramic poetry in our culture, and just a touch of Percy Bysshe Shelley, combine in today’s...
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