Letters to Dead Imagists and A Pact
A few episodes ago I dropped a performance of Walt Whitman’s “Poets to Come,” a piece where...
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Podcasts de spoken
Here’s Carl Sandburg again, this time from his 1920 collection “Smoke and Steel.” Today’s piece...
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The Destruction of Sennacherib
“The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold…” This, written by Byron, is one of the...
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The words here are quoted from an interview artist and performer Laurie Anderson gave a few...
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A couple of mornings ago, I awoke after a night’s sleep, and as I took my bicycle out to the...
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Plum Tree Blossoms on 40th Street
Today I step aside from our usual practice here, and present words I wrote. With opportunity,...
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It’s not often that we think of English Romantic poets along with science. We tend to think of...
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St. Francis Einstein of the Daffodils
Metaphor, that stuff that helps make the music of thought in poetry, is the linking or liking of...
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We’ve already met most of the small circle of poetic Modernists that assembled itself in London...
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A perennial question asked of songwriters is “Which comes first, the music or the words?” Here...
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I’ve been on the serious side for the last few episodes, but this time it’s going to just be a...
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Our last episode featured words by Phillis Wheatley, whose story I first heard about in a...
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Here a piece "Frances" based on a short, incomplete poem written by a teenager who went on to do...
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A couple of episodes back I mentioned that we’d meet Yeats “rook-delighting heaven” again as we...
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I decided on my own that Yeats’ piece in the last episode was about February, but I have some...
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I feel I’ve been a bit long-winded lately with the notes for these episodes. In my defense, I...
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Let's continue our investigation of connections between art and politics that I’ve touched on...
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Eric Burdon and the Animals had a considerable run of hit singles in the 1960s. To the degree...
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You may have noticed that episode frequency has fallen off a bit this month. Well besides the...
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I often wonder when reading opinions when someone stops or starts thinking. Opinions generally...
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