Imagine a world where what you thought was poetry was entirely different. A world where short...
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Podcasts de spring
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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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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Monday night here in Minnesota it snowed. As I took my pre-teen son to school in the morning, he...
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Did I just say it’s been awhile since I featured a piece with words by Carl Sandburg? I started...
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On Thursday's podcast, I reacted to J.D. Martinez signing with the Boston Red Sox this week. I...
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Cleverness in poetry or writing can be a mixed blessing. While poetry without cleverness can be...
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I like to mix up our musical encounters with poetry here, using both well-known and lesser-known...
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Yesterday’s Edward Thomas poem “Thaw” had an irony, he had rooks, a bird used symbolically to...
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We had a real Minnesota whip-saw this week, the aftermath of a 15-inch snowstorm as the week...
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Here’s a story about a poem appropriate for this Memorial Day, though the story includes three...
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Plum Tree Blossoms on 40th Street
Today I step aside from our usual practice here, and present words I wrote. With opportunity,...
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St. Francis Einstein of the Daffodils
Metaphor, that stuff that helps make the music of thought in poetry, is the linking or liking of...
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Back more than 200 years ago, poet, painter, engraver and mystic William Blake was reported to be...
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I perform Ezra Pound's account of how he wrote this famous early Modernist English poem and then...
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Robert Frost's anthem to wind, breath, poetry, and music performed with electric guitar and and...
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This song of spring and May by Longfellow is a delicately balanced carpe diem poem. For more...
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For this World Poetry Day, Emily Dickinson practices social distancing and shelters in place. For...
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Wordsworth wrote this joyous ode to the beginning of spring--but what if it was performed with...
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