Podcasts de poetry

Waters of Forgetfulness

Early 20th Century Black Chicago poet Fenton Johnson's dream poem references Virgil's "The...

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Bonus Track: Mistah Witch as a simulated worn 78 RPM record

BONUS TRACK Black Chicago poet Fenton Johnson was using Blues Language as early as his 1913...

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Mistah Witch

Even in 1913, Black Chicago poet Fenton Johnson was already using Blues-language in his literary...

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Two Aunties by Fenton Johnson

Black Chicago poet Fenton Johnson published these two free-verse poetic portraits in Others...

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When the Dream Outruns the Real

Poet Dave Moore's song about when "Follow your dream" or "Do what you love..." meets up with...

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The Last Antelope

Edwin Ford Piper is an early 20th century Midwestern American poet who's largely been forgotten....

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The Late Singer

William Carlos Williams' Spring poem reminds us that it's never too late to sing. I had to cancel...

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The Wind Didn't Come from the Orchard Today

Here's a playful and mysterious Emily Dickinson poem for World Poetry Day. The Parlando Project...

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• 29 días

Cool Tombs

Poet Carl Sandburg goes gothic-graveyard for this poem about Love & Death. I decided to accompany...

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• 24 días

Singing at Dusk

Emmy Hemmings is a forgotten Dada artist, launching the famous Cabaret Voltaire during WWI as am...

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• 19 días

Piping Down the Valleys Wild

My feature this National Poetry Month is going to be examination of two 1920's poetry...

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• 15 días

There is no Frigate like a Book

We continue our National Poetry Month feature examination of a pair of century-old children's...

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• 13 días

Sea Fever

We're celebrating National Poetry Month with musical presentations of poems taken from a gendered...

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• 10 días

Each in His Own Tongue

Today I read a summary of poet Mary Oliver's approach by poet and critic A. M. Juster. He...

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The Minstrel Boy

For National Poetry Month this year I'm looking at and performing poems found in a pair of 1920s...

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The World Is Too Much With Us

William Wordsworth's well-known sonnet performed, as the word sonnet means, as a little song....

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Twilight Fallen White and Cold

A mysterious song about winter nightfall from a poem by Irish writer Joseph Campbell, perfect for...

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I wake and feel the fell of dark

More winter solstice darkness performed, this time one of Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Terrible...

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The Three Kings

A new Christmas carol (or Epiphany song) I've just composed using words by the American poet...

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Shakespeare's Sonnet 97 "How like a winter hath my absence been"

Shakespeare plays with gender roles and seasons of the year in this poem of illegitimate...

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