Here’s Carl Sandburg again, this time from his 1920 collection “Smoke and Steel.” Today’s piece...
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Podcasts de poetry
When I look at a more well-known poet or poem, I often find someone else less well-remembered...
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Our last poet, Margaret Widdemer seems to have done most of her adventuring in fantasy, but...
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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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Fire and Sleet and Candlelight
Today’s piece, like my recent setting of Margaret Widdemer’s “When I Was A Young Girl” reframes a...
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The Destruction of Sennacherib
“The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold…” This, written by Byron, is one of the...
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The words here are quoted from an interview artist and performer Laurie Anderson gave a few...
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A couple of mornings ago, I awoke after a night’s sleep, and as I took my bicycle out to the...
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Plum Tree Blossoms on 40th Street
Today I step aside from our usual practice here, and present words I wrote. With opportunity,...
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It’s not often that we think of English Romantic poets along with science. We tend to think of...
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St. Francis Einstein of the Daffodils
Metaphor, that stuff that helps make the music of thought in poetry, is the linking or liking of...
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Back more than 200 years ago, poet, painter, engraver and mystic William Blake was reported to be...
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Here’s a short piece using a poem by a person who started out her career as a poet but who spent...
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July 4th is celebrated in the U. S. as Independence Day, the day that our congress signed a...
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Emily Dickinson's pared-back winter observation performed with acoustic guitar and bass. For more...
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Emily Dickinson compresses the time-space continuum into a tiny poem. For more about this and...
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Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon
8th century Chinese master poet Li Bai solves the problem of drinking alone, but there may be a...
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The Angry Percy Shelley: England 1819
English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote this reaction to oppression 201 years ago. I'll...
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Resuming our encounter with the 1926 Harlem Renaissance publication Fire!! I present my...
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Emma Lazarus wrote more than the one famous poem of hers which became part of the Statue of...
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