Podcasts de poetry

Raleigh In the Dark Tower

Today’s piece uses a very short poem about a famous doomed adventurer written by a too-little...

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The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd

There’s a long tradition of “the answer record” in pop music, where another artist responds to a...

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Lunar Eclipse

My own lunar eclipse piece is set in our century, and in my Midwestern place. I start off by...

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At the Lunar Eclipse

We seem to be in a month of sky omens in the Midwest, with the Perseids meteor shower and a solar...

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Like John A Dreams

Today’s selection was also recorded a few years back, and is more conventionally in that “poet...

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The Embankment

I return today to the work of pioneering English modernist poet T. E. Hulme, he of the entire...

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Sky

I describe the Parlando Project is various words (mostly poetry) combined with various music. The...

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Trenches St Eloi

I was talking with my wife this weekend. She’s reading a memoir about current military...

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The Heart of the Woman

There’s two things that attracted me to T. E. Hulme, the lesser-known Modernist poet and...

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Somewhere or Other

Today’s audio piece is another by Christina Rossetti, connected through family with the Victorian...

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It Is a Small Plant

September 17th is the birthday of the American Modernist poet and physician William Carlos...

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For the American Hendrix

Today’s piece uses my own words to present some images regarding American musician and songwriter...

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Millays Sonnet 43

Edna St Vincent Millay is another poet who offered little to the “New Criticism” critics who...

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From Sunset to Star Rise

Today was the Autumn Equinox, which some use to mark the beginning Fall. Where I live it was very...

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Wild Nights Wild Nights

Thomas Wentworth Higginson may have exaggerated a bit, speaking of “dred.” It was 1891, and he...

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Autumn

100 years ago, a WWI German artillery shell ended the life of T. E. Hulme, the man sparked off...

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At a Window

I was ready to post this new piece, Carl Sandburg’s “At A Window” yesterday when I had one of...

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Vegetable Swallow

As I started doing some translations of Tristan Tzara, the man who was most famous for being one...

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Poems In Unrhymed Cadence

In 1899, as the 19th Century was leaving in Victorian London, a 13-year-old boy from a large poor...

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The Self Unseeing

Today’s piece is our first proper piece by English poet Thomas Hardy. In America Hardy may be...

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