Podcasts de song

If all the griefs I am to have

At least on the face of it, this short Emily Dickinson poem asks for a lifetime of experience all...

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Robert Frost's Stars

American poet Robert Frost assiduously read the book of nature even when the pages were blank....

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Fenton Johnson's "Dunbar"

In 1906, Paul Laurence Dunbar, the first Afro-American poet to receive substantial notice, died,...

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Waters of Forgetfulness

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

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The Wraithie's Message

Early 20th Century Afro-American poet Fenton Johnson again shows his range with this Celtic dark...

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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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The Prodigal Son

Pioneering Black Chicago Poet Fenton Johnson termed this poem a literary spiritual in his 1915...

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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 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 Drunken Singer

I remind myself today that I sometimes write lyrics, so here's a piece that features my own words...

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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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Whispering Often

Here's a poem for March, for Spring, and for Easter now turned into a song, The words were...

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• 25 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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• 17 días

Sea Fever

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

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• 14 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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• 12 días

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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• 10 días

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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• 6 días

The Coromandel Fishers

Sarojini Naidu's poem of stalwart Bengali fishermen asked to be sung, so I sang it. The author...

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Hills: Children's poetry, but written by a child

To observe this National Poetry Month I've been diving into a pair of poetry anthologies for...

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