Podcasts de american

#68 - Nate Stewart - The Rituals of Spaceflight!

Episode 68 features Nate Stewart. Nate is an Operations Planning Flight Controller at NASA's...

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The Labors of Hercules

Marianne Moore's poem explores some implacable problems in American culture in her characteristic...

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Important Women Who Did Important Stuff - Part 1

Episode 87 is the first of a many-headed beast that, hopefully, everyone enjoys and learns from....

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John Coltrane Live at Birdland

I read a short portion of LeRoi Jones' liner notes to a 1963 John Coltrane record. For more...

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Government

Carl Sandburg's vision of government starts with corruption and moves somewhere you might not...

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Claude McKay's America

As we enter the celebration weekend of American Independence Day, a complex look at our country...

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from Allen Ginsberg's America

Parts of Allen Ginsberg's assessment of his personal America written in 1956 performed with a...

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Sail On Oh Ship of State

My attempt to sing a folk setting I composed of Longfellow's hymn to the American Experiment as...

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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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SodAcústica n° 1 | O primeiro

Esse e o primeiro podcast do SodAcustica. Era pra ser uma banda de blues e "acustiquices" mas...

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SodAcústica n° 1 | O primeiro

Esse e o primeiro podcast do SodAcustica. Era pra ser uma banda de blues e "acustiquices" mas...

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EP 121 - Nina Teicholz

How Are We to Interpret the New Dietary Guidelines for Americans? The United States government...

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Wind Rising in the Alleys - Big Kids in the Alley

For our second American Labor Day piece, two labor marching songs performed by a rock band, one...

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Poetry by Marianne Moore for National Poetry Month

Here's American poetry's National Anthem and its reader's Bill of Rights performed by the Lake...

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We Grow Accustomed to the Dark for National Poetry Month

Emily Dickinson's poem is performed with our original orchestral setting as we continue or...

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Fenton Johnson's "Tired" for National Poetry Month

Warning: this 1919 poem by too-little-known Chicago Afro-American poet is disturbing. "Tired" was...

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John Gould Fletcher's weird "America"

John Gould Fletcher is not much read today, but this 1916 prose poem seeks to meld modes of...

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Brahma by Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson was key in bringing elements of South Asian thought to the still forming U....

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Almost Independence Day (Frederick Douglass' Questions)

In 1852 the great American reformer Frederick Douglass gave a speech "What to the Slave Is the...

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David McCullough on the Pioneers Who Defined America

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough discusses his latest book The Pioneers, how...

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