Podcasts de spoken

Wally Wood

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

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A New Colossus

The end of the poem I feature today (“A New Colossus”) has become, slowly, over years, a sort of...

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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 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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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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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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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 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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I Was Not Yet Awake

Here’s an episode with a short story written and read by Dave Moore. Just as I have my bicycle...

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I Did Not Go to See the Perseids

Here’s a something of a bonus episode based on a sonnet I wrote a few years back. I’m tired...

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Lunar Eclipse

My own lunar eclipse piece is set in our century, and in my Midwestern place. I start off by...

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At the Lunar Eclipse

We seem to be in a month of sky omens in the Midwest, with the Perseids meteor shower and a solar...

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Like John A Dreams

Today’s selection was also recorded a few years back, and is more conventionally in that “poet...

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Sky

I describe the Parlando Project is various words (mostly poetry) combined with various music. The...

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Trenches St Eloi

I was talking with my wife this weekend. She’s reading a memoir about current military...

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It Is a Small Plant

September 17th is the birthday of the American Modernist poet and physician William Carlos...

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From Sunset to Star Rise

Today was the Autumn Equinox, which some use to mark the beginning Fall. Where I live it was very...

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Wild Nights Wild Nights

Thomas Wentworth Higginson may have exaggerated a bit, speaking of “dred.” It was 1891, and he...

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