Podcasts de performance

Fenton Johnson's "Tired" for National Poetry Month

Warning: this 1919 poem by too-little-known Chicago Afro-American poet is disturbing. "Tired" was...

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See Emily (Dickinson) Play - I recast her poem "May-Flower" for National Poetry Month

I sometimes see a psychedelic aspect to Dickinson's poetry, and this performance manifests that...

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The Trees are Down for National Poetry Month

Charlotte Mew's poetry has some unusual qualities, like in this poem which starts out like she's...

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Autumn Movement for National Poetry Month

Carl Sandburg didn't just do Chicago poems. An example: this lovely farmland poem performed with...

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Oh Me! Oh Life! Walt Whitman's de profundis poem performed

A performance of Walt Whitman's de profundis poem. Published in 1867, Whitman's expression of the...

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Willie Mays

A primitive LYL Band cassette tape recording from the middle 80's celebrates the great baseball...

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The Tyger

English poet William Blake's mystical tiger is a highlight of his book Songs of Experience....

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Emily Dickinson's "Bloom"

Avant gardener Dickinson wants us to appreciate the effort it takes to flower, and so I perform...

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Enjoying Flowers Walking Alone

Another of my adaptations of master classical Chinese poet Du Fu's work for performance in...

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To Whom It May Concern (Carry Them Away)

This is our musical performance of a poem by Kevin FitzPatrick. Kevin wrote many fine poems about...

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Burying the Poet's Typewriter

My elegy for poet Kevin FitzPatrick performed live by The LYL Band. For more about this, or for...

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My adaptation of Li Bai's "Staying the Night at a Mountain Temple"

Li Bai is one of most esteemed classical Chinese poets, and this is my adaptation./interpretation...

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Generations

A very short piece that hides a little Möbius strip paradox in the middle. For more about this or...

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John Gould Fletcher's weird "America"

John Gould Fletcher is not much read today, but this 1916 prose poem seeks to meld modes of...

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Yellow Air (Heat)

I adapted and transformed a poem by John Gould Fletcher to make this original song about summer,...

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Stratocaster

I wrote this little ode to Leo Fender's swoopy electric guitar design on the occasion of it being...

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Arthur Hoehn, a song about an all-night classical music DJ

Today's National Radio Day, and radio hosts who spin records are part of that legacy. Here's a...

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From Us She wandered now a Year

A performance of American poet Emily Dickinson's tightly compressed meditation on time...

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Working Girls, Happiness, and Muckers: Carl Sandburg writes about workers

Few poets wrote as often about working people and their lives as Carl Sandburg. Here then are...

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Summer She Has No Lover

In a break from our usual practice of setting other people's poems,  here's a sonnet of summer...

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