As promised, here’s my “bird in the house” piece presented as a companion to Dave Moore’s episode...
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Podcasts de poetry
You may have noticed that episode frequency has fallen off a bit this month. Well besides the...
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This is the most difficult set of words to read coherently that I’ve presented so far in the...
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This episode recounts a common Midwestern experience, returning on a holiday to the much smaller...
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John Renbourn, the English guitarist, and the subject of our last episode, once introduced a...
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Last night my computer news feed informed me that Chuck Berry had died. As with any 90 year old...
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I’m often attracted to Chinese poetry, and I’m not sure why. Perhaps it’s the deceptive...
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Imagine a world where what you thought was poetry was entirely different. A world where short...
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I'll Tell You How the Sun Rose
This LYL Band performance of “I’ll Tell You How the Sun Rose” is a bit imperfect. Alternative...
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What is lost when poetry is translated? Robert Frost thought it outright: “Poetry is what is...
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When it was announced that Bob Dylan had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature there was a...
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William Butler Yeats, when he spoke admiringly about the ubiquity that songwriters like...
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Biking on the Greenway with My Son and Bob Stinson
Minnesota goes wild in spring when it finally gets warm, and so today, which promises to touch 70...
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Monday night here in Minnesota it snowed. As I took my pre-teen son to school in the morning, he...
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The most popular TV show of my youth was a strange yet derivative series called “The Beverly...
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Here’s another piece by Dave Moore. Dave plays almost all of the keyboards on the LYL Band music...
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Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
One way to get experience is to seek it through the directed travel of a pilgrimage. Many...
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Readers of these notes may recall a discussion of the theory that Emily Dickinson’s reclusive...
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It often takes a while to know who has died. When Prince died a year ago, the shock-wave for...
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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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