Today’s piece uses a very short poem about a famous doomed adventurer written by a too-little...
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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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My own lunar eclipse piece is set in our century, and in my Midwestern place. I start off by...
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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...
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Today’s selection was also recorded a few years back, and is more conventionally in that “poet...
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I return today to the work of pioneering English modernist poet T. E. Hulme, he of the entire...
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I describe the Parlando Project is various words (mostly poetry) combined with various music. The...
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I was talking with my wife this weekend. She’s reading a memoir about current military...
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There’s two things that attracted me to T. E. Hulme, the lesser-known Modernist poet and...
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Today’s audio piece is another by Christina Rossetti, connected through family with the Victorian...
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September 17th is the birthday of the American Modernist poet and physician William Carlos...
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Today’s piece uses my own words to present some images regarding American musician and songwriter...
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Edna St Vincent Millay is another poet who offered little to the “New Criticism” critics who...
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Today was the Autumn Equinox, which some use to mark the beginning Fall. Where I live it was very...
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson may have exaggerated a bit, speaking of “dred.” It was 1891, and he...
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100 years ago, a WWI German artillery shell ended the life of T. E. Hulme, the man sparked off...
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I was ready to post this new piece, Carl Sandburg’s “At A Window” yesterday when I had one of...
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As I started doing some translations of Tristan Tzara, the man who was most famous for being one...
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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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Today’s piece is our first proper piece by English poet Thomas Hardy. In America Hardy may be...
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