Today we continue our performance of T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” as part of our celebration of...
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Today we continue our performance of T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” as part of our celebration of...
05:41
I like to mix up our musical encounters with poetry here, using both well-known and lesser-known...
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Continuing in our #NPM2018 celebrating serialization of “The Waste Land” by T. S. Eliot, it’s...
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While performing and posting about T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” bit by bit this month, have I...
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Here’s a story about a poem appropriate for this Memorial Day, though the story includes three...
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A German poem by Anarchist Erich Mühsam written in 1909, now translated to English in 2020 to see...
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Rayna Noire is My Guest Author on October 31st
Love witches? Come listen to my guest, Rayna Noire, on October 31st. We're celebrating Samhain...
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Today's episode is a short, yet puzzling piece with words by William Butler Yeats: “On Being...
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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 lives, outside of art, of artists bear only a mysterious resemblance to their work. The...
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Last episode I presented Ezra Pound’s rant about the society that lead so many to their deaths in...
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Remember that “reverse English Invasion” that happened 50 years before the Beatles landed in New...
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Here’s one more piece from Ezra Pound’s 1915 breakthrough collection “Cathay,” a war story he...
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On the Troop Ship to Gallipoli
In the notes to the past few episodes I’ve mentioned how Ezra Pound was more than an exemplary...
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Here is one more war poem from WWI, this one by another soldier poet, Wilfred Owen. Beside...
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I promise you, we will end up today very close to the love song of the last episode, though we...
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This is an elegy, not a love poem, but then an elegy is a love poem that replaces the focus...
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Today’s piece uses a very short poem about a famous doomed adventurer written by a too-little...
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I was talking with my wife this weekend. She’s reading a memoir about current military...
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100 years ago, a WWI German artillery shell ended the life of T. E. Hulme, the man sparked off...
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