The next segment of "The Fire Sermon," part of our serial performance of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson has a surprisingly contemporary observation about water that can serve or...
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Carl Sandburg's poem of trains and destinations performed with a rock band. For more about this...
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A Letter to Those who are About to Die
Kenneth Patchen's 1936 outlook was desperate, and alas he was right. Here's his poem performed...
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If life is precious, what do we pay for it? Do you pay with money or falling leaves? For more...
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For U. S, Memorial Day, a poem by Australian poet Kenneth Slessor. For more about this and other...
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson is largely responsible for the the emergence of Emily Dickinson, but...
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Carl Sandburg's short poem about a Chicago summer night a century ago is mixed with reflections...
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Kenneth Patchen's rhapsodic love poem performed by Dave Moore and the LYL Band. For more about...
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Robert Frost's lyric about the lyric moment set to a driving EDM beat. Our 350th piece in the...
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William Blake has a meditation on being bothered by a fly from his "Songs of Experience." For...
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A prayer written by Max Ochs and performed by the LYL Band that I think speaks to and from the...
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An opinion on a weakness causing failure in American literature
In 1939 critic Philip Rahv said that the failure to successfully combine intellect and vitality...
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Sara Teasdale's poem ambiguously situated between beauty exceeding the self and the end of self....
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One of the hundreds of Midwestern characters' lives described in Edgar Lee Masters landmark...
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A poem of cruelty and chilling horror from Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology telling of the...
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The next chapters in the story of the rape of Minerva Jones in Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River...
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Guillaume Apollinaire's poem of being caught in the beginning of WWI performed with original...
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I Had a Terror Since September
Emily Dickinson in an 1862 letter recounts a version of her life, performed here with piano and...
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Too-often overlooked Modernist poet Mina Loy's 1922 ode to abstract sculpture, now performed with...
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