Increasingly, I am comprehending the miracle of Emily Dickinson. Fifty years before Ezra Pound...
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Increasingly, I am comprehending the miracle of Emily Dickinson. Fifty years before Ezra Pound...
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Here is a short piece about an intense memory experience, where you believe you are fully...
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One Summer Morning, Which Isn't
Here’s an audio piece that begins in the midst of a common life event: when a son leaves home to...
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National news and household events continually waylay my attention. Dejected gutters, palace...
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Justice Denied in Massachusetts
Partly for the reason of sadness and disappointment with my country, and partly for...
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Here’s a piece to celebrate the announced discovery of the oldest intact shipwreck, a...
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Easter Monday (In Memoriam E. T.)
Eleanor Farjeon's elegy to Edward Thomas after Thomas' death in WWI, here performed with strings,...
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Robert Frost's stark tale of a racially motivated murder told over piano, bass and drums. For...
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American poet Arthur Davidson Ficke wrote this meditation comparing the creation of poetry in our...
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D. H. Lawrence's epigrammatic poem on nature's view of self-pity performed to original music with...
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Early 20th century poet Charlotte Mew wrote this strikingly modern sounding meditation on men out...
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Sleep with me 'cause you're going to be a corpse soon! How romantic is that valentine? Andrew...
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A sonnet that launched a thousand valentines, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's famous Victorian love...
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Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
Vachel Lindsay thought of the great President in his own time of national torment. For more about...
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He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
W. B. Yeats Romantic and romantic poem about the offering of love. For more about this and other...
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Wallace Stevens' poem takes a cold look at winter accompanied by original music with bass,...
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This remarkable poem about women and men from 1922 works both as a love poem and as political...
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Robert Frost's spring poem with just a little literary snow in it, performed with electric guitar...
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For National Poetry Month, a Carl Sandburg collection of koans he wrote about poetry. For more...
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The second part of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" performed with music. To hear Part I, "The...
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