Podcasts de spoken

In the Bleak Midwinter

Tomorrow is Christmas, a holiday that in the English-speaking world owes a lot to the English...

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California City Landscape

I beg your indulgence here, but once more I feature Carl Sandburg’s words in today’s piece....

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Mirabeau Bridge

Earlier this month I announced that my performance of Tristan Tzara’s “The Death of Apollinaire”...

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Clear Winter

Once more I’m going with a fresh translation for today’s words. And once more, they’re from the...

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A Certain Slant of Light

The Parlando Project combines various words (usually poetry) with music as varied as I can make...

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God Is In the All Time

I’m continually a few days behind in the past month or so, what with Winter holidays and other...

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A Dream

Here’s a second poem by Afro-American Modernist poet Fenton Johnson. Like the first piece of...

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Ruined Refrigerator

Cleverness in poetry or writing can be a mixed blessing. While poetry without cleverness can be...

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I Hear an Army

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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Side-Walks

Here’s a tribute to a couple of other American originals who are inspirational to this Project....

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Madame Sosostris

Look at a picture of T. S. Eliot. Chances are you’ll see a proper English gentleman looking back...

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Poetry

Today’s audio piece marks the 200th published by the Parlando Project! Since presenting our first...

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Unreal City

Today we continue our performance of T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” as part of our celebration of...

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Thaw

I like to mix up our musical encounters with poetry here, using both well-known and lesser-known...

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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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Frederick Douglass

Today’s piece uses words by Robert Hayden, who was a 20th Century American poet who often wrote...

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Rats Alley

Continuing in our #NPM2018 celebrating serialization of “The Waste Land” by T. S. Eliot, it’s...

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Good Night Ladies

While performing and posting about T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” bit by bit this month, have I...

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Anglers

Next weekend is the Minnesota sport fishing opener, and despite the late spring, the ice will be...

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The Black Riders XXXIX

In my episodic way here, I’ve touched on the rise of Free Verse in Modernist poetry. Free Verse...

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