Podcasts de poetry

The Grasshopper and the Cricket

John Keats charming little poem about the sounds of summer performed. For more about this and...

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Small Iowa Town after World War Two

A musical performance of a monologue about the experience of change in a small town, how change...

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Before Summer Rain

Rainer Maria Rilke's summer "picture poem" has dark undercurrents brought out in this stark...

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Breakfast in a Pandemic

A tale of an urban encounter representing our American moment in a time. For more about this and...

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Fear No More

This song from Shakespeare's play Cymbeline asks what in the sum of life that death subtracts do...

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Mark Twain takes on Poetry; Stephen Dowling Bots

In the course of his novel Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain gives us a parody of 19th century...

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Genius by Mark Twain

American satirist Mark Twain jotted down these skeptical notes about poetic genius around 150...

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The Poetry of a Root Crop

Charles Kingsley's strange garden/graveyard poem presented here in a folk-rock performance. For...

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Robert Frost's Mowing

Robert Frost's meditation on work performed for American Labor Day in a setting for guitar and...

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The Birmingham Vulcan (for MLK)

This mythological folk song for Martin Luther King Day weaves a tale of a monumental iron statue...

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Yeats' Fairy Song

A beguiling song from Yeats' verse play The Land of Heart's Desire performed with acoustic guitar...

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I Am Afraid to Own a Body

Emily Dickinson's questioning meditation on living in a body performed in a new musical setting....

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From the Dark Tower

This sonnet by Countee Cullen begins our observance of Black History Month this year. Within my...

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A Southern Road

Harlem Renaissance figure Helene Johnson wrote this cold pastoral more than a decade before the...

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Triad

I find it a wonderful “Parlando – Where Music and Words Meet” co-incidence that one of Christina...

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Let Us Live and Love

A while back here there were several episodes where we discussed songwriters as literary figures,...

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She Is as Near to My Heart

Here’s another piece adopting words by Rabindranath Tagore, the Nobel Prize winning songwriter...

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Arrival

Today’s words are from William Carlos Williams. Unlike our last episode, I wouldn’t call this a...

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Wild Swans

Let’s return again to Edna St. Vincent Millay as I start a short series of pieces using words by...

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Already a Broken Heart

Are there more poems about love than any other topic? I’ve done no study, but I think that’s...

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