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Love and a Question

Robert Frost's version of a weird tale he borrowed from William Butler Yeats is performed today...

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HotMix Club #285 - Especial Reinaldo Verissimo no Carnaval 2017

Eu trouxe pra vocês grandes djs, concedi folga quase que geral, e agora eu vou sintetizar o que...

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Hyacinth Girl

Let us return to that April epic of high-church Modernism. T. S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland.”  Long...

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The Road Not Taken

As we continue our celebration of National Poetry Month (#npm2018), today we present one of...

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Millay's Spring

Yesterday’s Edward Thomas poem “Thaw” had an irony, he had rooks, a bird used symbolically to...

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The Burial of the Dead

Well the rooks were wrong about Winter passing, at least for now.  As much of Minnesota is...

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Visions of Cleopatra

“Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule.” This famous line from T. S. Eliot’s...

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Dear March

We had a real Minnesota whip-saw this week, the aftermath of a 15-inch snowstorm as the week...

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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (Daffodils)

It may be U. S. National Poetry Month, but one can’t deny the impact that English poets have had...

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I Shall Not Care

Here’s a poem by Sara Teasdale, an American poet of the first part of the 20th Century. I was...

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My Poor Bagpipes

In search of words to combine with music here, I sometimes find it necessary to translate from...

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Poets to Come

A month ago I began our celebration of the U. S. National Poetry Month with an audio piece using...

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I Thought It Mattered

Today is May Day, a day that combines many things. Neo-Pagans can point to it as Beltane or the...

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Union Square

Last month when I dropped Sara Teasdale’s “I Shall Not Care” hurriedly, I promised I’d return to...

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Sunset From Omaha Hotel Window

Have you ever noticed how little poetry deals with the world of everyday work, with the...

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Long Guns

Here’s Carl Sandburg again, this time from his 1920 collection “Smoke and Steel.” Today’s piece...

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When I Was a Young Girl

When I look at a more well-known poet or poem, I often find someone else less well-remembered...

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Full Moon

 Our last poet, Margaret Widdemer seems to have done most of her adventuring in fantasy, but...

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In Memoriam

Here’s a story about a poem appropriate for this Memorial Day, though the story includes three...

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Fire and Sleet and Candlelight

Today’s piece, like my recent setting of Margaret Widdemer’s “When I Was A Young Girl” reframes a...

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