Podcasts de poetry

The Poplar

We’ve already met most of the small circle of poetic Modernists that assembled itself in London...

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At the Beginning

A German poem by Anarchist Erich Mühsam written in 1909, now translated to English in 2020 to see...

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The Snow is Deep on the Ground

This is Kenneth Patchen's winter poem for troubled lovers, which I perform here with with drums,...

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In Memory of Colonel Charles Young

Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen wrote this short elegy for one of the first Afro-Americans...

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The world is a beautiful place

Here's a 2016 LYL Band performance of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem from his A Coney Island of the...

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The Poem, "The Wild Iris"

This musical piece uses as its text Heidi Randen's short response to Louise Glück's poem "The...

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The Dick & the Dame, or Dave Moore goes Pulp Noir

Dave Moore's 7-minute compression of hard-boiled detective fiction tropes. He says he was...

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The House of Hospitalities

Thomas Hardy's poem of wistful Christmas memories performed in this new song setting. For more...

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Railroad Avenue

Here's an outwardly simple yet mysterious poem by Langston Hughes, published among other young...

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To John Renbourn Dying Alone

A perennial question asked of songwriters is “Which comes first, the music or the words?” Here...

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Arthur Koestlers Death Song

We’re going to drop back into questions of death and life for a little bit with this one. Arthur...

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Bar Tryst Late Winter

I’ve been on the serious side for the last few episodes, but this time it’s going to just be a...

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Hymn To Evening

I’m going to tell you a very sad and very wondrous story. A little over 350 years ago, when...

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Frances

Here a piece "Frances" based on a short, incomplete poem written by a teenager who went on to do...

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Boris Pasternak's February

A couple of episodes back I mentioned that we’d meet Yeats “rook-delighting heaven” again as we...

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2ebruary

I decided on my own that Yeats’ piece in the last episode was about February, but I have some...

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A Cold Heaven

We’ve already met Irish poet William Butler Yeats with a brief poem earlier this month. Now his...

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Artists Hunting Monsters

Let's continue our investigation of connections between art and politics that I’ve touched on...

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On Being Asked for a War Poem

Today's episode is a short, yet puzzling piece with words by William Butler Yeats: “On Being...

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Winter is Good

Here in the upper Midwest we are now in the middle of winter, and so are in a various ambivalence...

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