Today is the 140th anniversary of Carl Sandburg’s birth. Sandburg began his long and broad career...
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Podcasts de poetry
As we near 170 audio pieces posted here, we now get our second set of Shakespeare’s words, but...
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The Parlando Project combines various words (usually poetry) with music as varied as I can make...
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I’m continually a few days behind in the past month or so, what with Winter holidays and other...
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Here’s a second poem by Afro-American Modernist poet Fenton Johnson. Like the first piece of...
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“So, what are you going to do today?” my teenaged son asked me. “Go and be of some use to the...
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William Carlos Williams' Thursday
How many poems celebrate a poet's dreams? This one doesn't. Here I perform Williams' poem with...
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Now that I am in Madrid and I can think
This is Frank O'Hara's love poem of separation -- separation from the beloved, separation of the...
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Others have set Anna Akhmatova's poetry to music effectively, but I decided to create and perform...
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But These Things Also (Are Springs)
Edward Thomas, the honest and observant nature poet, finds signs of Spring in, well, bird poop....
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Robert Frost's version of a weird tale he borrowed from William Butler Yeats is performed today...
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With a poem, mystery and ambiguity can be often served best alongside brevity. H. D.’s “The...
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Cleverness in poetry or writing can be a mixed blessing. While poetry without cleverness can be...
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Metaphors, implied or direct, are a form of an equation. If E=mc2 or 2+2=4 then should fog=little...
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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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Here’s a tribute to a couple of other American originals who are inspirational to this Project....
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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
We’re about to begin April’s National Poetry Month in the U. S., but I’m going to begin...
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Let us return to that April epic of high-church Modernism. T. S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland.” Long...
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As we continue our celebration of National Poetry Month (#npm2018), today we present one of...
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Look at a picture of T. S. Eliot. Chances are you’ll see a proper English gentleman looking back...
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