Earlier this month I announced that my performance of Tristan Tzara’s “The Death of Apollinaire”...
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Podcasts de Modernist
Here’s a second poem by Afro-American Modernist poet Fenton Johnson. Like the first piece of...
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A great deal of what you hear me play here is made possible by a 1983 invention, MIDI (Musical...
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Yesterday’s Edward Thomas poem “Thaw” had an irony, he had rooks, a bird used symbolically to...
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Last month when I dropped Sara Teasdale’s “I Shall Not Care” hurriedly, I promised I’d return to...
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Today’s words are from William Carlos Williams. Unlike our last episode, I wouldn’t call this a...
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We’ve already met most of the small circle of poetic Modernists that assembled itself in London...
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I promise you, we will end up today very close to the love song of the last episode, though we...
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Edna St Vincent Millay is another poet who offered little to the “New Criticism” critics who...
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In 1899, as the 19th Century was leaving in Victorian London, a 13-year-old boy from a large poor...
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I’m going to close out our investigation into the little-known early 20th Century Chicago...
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Three poems from deserves-to-be-better-known Irish poet Joseph Campbell's Earth of Cualann...
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Zeppelins for National Poetry Month 2022
Advisory: this poem is a disturbing account of one of the first aerial bombardments of a city and...
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Night, and I Traveling for National Poetry Month
Here's a performance of an overlooked masterpiece of early Imagist poetry written by Irish poet...
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from Van or Twenty Years After
A short bit of Gertrude Stein presented without prejudice as word-music you might enjoy in this...
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The Dancer and the Ubermarionette: Duncan, Craig and Modernist Performance
An APGRD / DANSOX public lecture given in February 2019: Olga Taxidou (Edinburgh) discusses the...
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Scientist and award-winning chef Nathan Myhrvold came to the Academy this March as part of a...
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#9/Paul Rudolph: Gene Kaufman & Joe King
Paul Rudolph was not as well-known as Frank Lloyd Wright but he designed some of the most...
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#5/Lawsuit: Paul Goldberger, Louis Cherry, & Marsha Gordon
Imagine buying a lot, designing a house, getting all the neighborhood and city approvals,...
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#4/Small World: John Morris and G. Milton Small III
John Morris is a Usability Engineer by day but by night he's the Batman of downtown...
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