Podcasts de poetry

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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A Rustle of Feathers

As promised, here’s my “bird in the house” piece presented as a companion to Dave Moore’s episode...

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The Bird Dream

You may have noticed that episode frequency has fallen off a bit this month. Well besides the...

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An Old Mans Winter Night

This is the most difficult set of words to read coherently that I’ve presented so far in the...

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Homeopathic Hometown

This episode recounts a common Midwestern experience, returning on a holiday to the much smaller...

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He Hit Me First

John Renbourn, the English guitarist, and the subject of our last episode, once introduced a...

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The Spring of Dead Things

Last night my computer news feed informed me that Chuck Berry had died. As with any 90 year old...

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Spring View

I’m often attracted to Chinese poetry, and I’m not sure why. Perhaps it’s the deceptive...

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A Spring Morning

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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Light

What is lost when poetry is translated? Robert Frost thought it outright: “Poetry  is what is...

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Maiden with a Lamp

When it was announced that Bob Dylan had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature there was a...

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Song of the Wondering Aengus

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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Triad

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

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