Podcasts de spoken

In the Bleak Midwinter

Tomorrow is Christmas, a holiday that in the English-speaking world owes a lot to the English...

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Mirabeau Bridge

Earlier this month I announced that my performance of Tristan Tzara’s “The Death of Apollinaire”...

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Clear Winter

Once more I’m going with a fresh translation for today’s words. And once more, they’re from the...

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A Certain Slant of Light

The Parlando Project combines various words (usually poetry) with music as varied as I can make...

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California City Landscape

I beg your indulgence here, but once more I feature Carl Sandburg’s words in today’s piece....

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God Is In the All Time

I’m continually a few days behind in the past month or so, what with Winter holidays and other...

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A Dream

Here’s a second poem by Afro-American Modernist poet Fenton Johnson. Like the first piece of...

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Tired

I’m going to close out our investigation into the little-known early 20th Century Chicago...

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The Wood-Pile

Robert Frost is every bit the master of word music as Yeats and Millay. What makes Frost stand...

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Shattered Visage

The place of short epigramic poetry in our culture, and just a touch of Percy Bysshe Shelley,...

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Dunbar

Here’s a piece using an outwardly modest poem by a modest poet, Anne Spencer. It spoke so quietly...

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Poetry in Translation

I remember reading about this some years back, and found it fascinating then. In my memory it was...

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The Fox

My son, now a teenager, is aware that I have a podcast, and that it deals with poetry somehow....

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Before the Feast of Shushan

Choosing to make even one arbitrary choice can be a great aid to creativity. After all, though...

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The Poplar

We’ve already met most of the small circle of poetic Modernists that assembled itself in London...

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Ruined Refrigerator

Cleverness in poetry or writing can be a mixed blessing. While poetry without cleverness can be...

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I Hear an Army

Metaphors, implied or direct, are a form of an equation. If E=mc2 or 2+2=4 then should fog=little...

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Side-Walks

Here’s a tribute to a couple of other American originals who are inspirational to this Project....

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Madame Sosostris

Look at a picture of T. S. Eliot. Chances are you’ll see a proper English gentleman looking back...

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Poetry

Today’s audio piece marks the 200th published by the Parlando Project! Since presenting our first...

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