Podcasts de poetry

Summer Is Icumen In

I sometimes like to ask musicians who sing folk songs “What is the oldest song you play?” As a...

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Wally Wood

Back when I was kid there was something we were taught to be concerned about, our “vocation.”...

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Implications of Fireworks

Today in the United States is Independence Day, a day celebrated with summer cookouts and...

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The Oven Bird

With today’s episode, we’ve reached the 100th official episode of the Parlando Project, where we...

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The River Merchants Wife

Today’s episode “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” has a very complicated history. I can’t...

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Heat

Just after the start of the 20th Century two teenagers met at the University of Pennsylvania. One...

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South Folk in Cold Country

Here’s one more piece from Ezra Pound’s 1915 breakthrough collection “Cathay,” a war story he...

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On the Troop Ship to Gallipoli

In the notes to the past few episodes I’ve mentioned how Ezra Pound was more than an exemplary...

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I Have Fallen in Love with American Names

Anyone remember those sentry questions that would be used in to determine if some straggler in...

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Eliza Winston

It’s now a commonplace to note how divided the United States is politically. The way the story is...

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Strange Meeting

Here is one more war poem from WWI, this one by another soldier poet, Wilfred Owen. Beside...

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She Is Sleeping on the Boundaries of the Night

I said I would change things up last time, and by stepping back a few years, today’s episode does...

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L’Amoureuse

I promise you, we will end up today very close to the love song of the last episode, though we...

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How to Make Speeches

I’m going to ask you to not read these notes yet. Listen to today’s audio piece first at least...

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The Death of Apollinaire

This is an elegy, not a love poem, but then an elegy is a love poem that replaces the focus...

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The Dark Interval Version 1

How faithful should a translation be? I can hear your first answer even over the silence of the...

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The Dark Interval Version 2

Last episode used my best effort at a faithful translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s “The Dark...

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Tender Buttons

Imagine this for the background and education for a poet. The poet is committed from a young age...

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Summer Songs and Poems - Part Deux

William Blake, Jah Wobble, Counting Crows, William Wordsworth, Dylan Thomas, Richard Burton and...

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The Lie

There are so many ways to introduce the words used in this piece. I could say it’s an OG rap...

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