This is the most difficult set of words to read coherently that I’ve presented so far in the...
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Podcasts de spoken
This episode recounts a common Midwestern experience, returning on a holiday to the much smaller...
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I’m often attracted to Chinese poetry, and I’m not sure why. Perhaps it’s the deceptive...
03:12
Imagine a world where what you thought was poetry was entirely different. A world where short...
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What is lost when poetry is translated? Robert Frost thought it outright: “Poetry is what is...
04:23
William Butler Yeats, when he spoke admiringly about the ubiquity that songwriters like...
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Biking on the Greenway with My Son and Bob Stinson
Minnesota goes wild in spring when it finally gets warm, and so today, which promises to touch 70...
06:32
Monday night here in Minnesota it snowed. As I took my pre-teen son to school in the morning, he...
02:18
The most popular TV show of my youth was a strange yet derivative series called “The Beverly...
08:45
Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
One way to get experience is to seek it through the directed travel of a pilgrimage. Many...
04:36
Readers of these notes may recall a discussion of the theory that Emily Dickinson’s reclusive...
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To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Nothing
Given that poetry contributes the great majority of the words to the half of the Parlando Project...
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The Death of Col Bruce Hampton
It’s probably one of the best quotes in the history of music criticism: “I’ve heard that Wagner’s...
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I Was Reading About Jesse James
When I was growing up and learning songs from Jerry Silverman’s folk songbooks, there was song...
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Returning now to our discussion of Modernism, that early 20th Century artistic movement that gave...
03:35
Last episode I presented Ezra Pound’s rant about the society that lead so many to their deaths in...
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Here at the Parlando project we say we’re where music and words meet. Sometimes words sing...
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Here’s a piece with words by a poet I knew nothing about until this year, and still now know next...
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Remember that “reverse English Invasion” that happened 50 years before the Beatles landed in New...
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We’ve made it more than 90 episodes into the Parlando Project without doing any Shakespeare,...
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