Parlando - Where Music and Words Meet
Poetry has been defined as “words that want to break into song.” Musicians who make music seek to “say something”. Parlando will put spoken words (often, but not always, poetry) and music (different kinds, limited only by the abilities of the performing participants) together. The resulting performances will be short, 2 to 10 minutes in length. The podcast will present them un-adorned. How much variety can we find in this combination? Listen to a few episodes and see. At least at first, the two readers will be a pair of Minnesota poets and musicians: Frank Hudson and Dave Moore who have performed as The LYL Band since the late 70s. Influences include: Patti Smith, Frank Zappa, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart), William Blake, Alan Moore, Beat Poets (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, and others), The Fugs (Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg), Leo Kottke, Ken Nordine (Word Jazz), Bob Dylan, Steve Reich, and most of the Velvet Underground (Lou Reed, John Cale, Nico).Podcasts
To not be scared of death that doesn't understand us
Published: Jan. 4, 2024, 5:41 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 34 seconds
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Since There Is No Escape
Published: Dec. 29, 2023, 3:46 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 31 seconds
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Anna Akhmatova's "Love"
Published: Dec. 16, 2023, 6:26 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 40 seconds
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The Dark Cavalier
Published: Dec. 13, 2023, 3:08 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 27 seconds
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Lambing (Night-Born Lambs)
Published: Nov. 26, 2023, 6:08 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 29 seconds
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A Route of Evanescence
Published: Nov. 19, 2023, 6:43 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 7 seconds
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from Van or Twenty Years After
Published: Nov. 16, 2023, 9:01 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 19 seconds
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The Dumb Solidier
Published: Nov. 11, 2023, 7:23 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 21 seconds
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Soldier from the wars returning
Published: Nov. 11, 2023, 5:30 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds
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Halloween Parlando Project Mix 2023
Published: Oct. 28, 2023, 1:39 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 19 seconds
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The Poet's Afterthought
Published: Oct. 15, 2023, 1:59 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 50 seconds
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Touch Lightly Nature's Sweet Guitar
Published: Sept. 27, 2023, 6:35 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 16 seconds
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The Terror of the Blank Page
Published: Sept. 20, 2023, 3:32 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 36 seconds
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Like trains of cars on tracks of plush
Published: Sept. 9, 2023, 6:14 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 44 seconds
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Another Child ("To Any Reader")
Published: Sept. 6, 2023, 9:42 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 33 seconds
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from "The Windy City"
Published: Sept. 4, 2023, 12:10 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 7 seconds
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I Was Blind with Hunger for Your Love (Summer Morn in New Hampshire)
Published: Aug. 31, 2023, 4:26 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 18 seconds
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Come August, September
Published: Aug. 25, 2023, 1:46 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 42 seconds
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Langston Hughes Summer Night
Published: Aug. 20, 2023, 1:34 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 43 seconds
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LIghtly from Aldous Huxley's novel, Island
Published: Aug. 2, 2023, 10:11 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 7 seconds
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William Carlos Williams' Summer Song
Published: July 28, 2023, 6:17 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 25 seconds
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Helen Hunt Jackson's July
Published: July 22, 2023, 8:19 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 4 seconds
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All These Wild Geese Poems
Published: July 8, 2023, 6:10 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 35 seconds
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Almost Independence Day (Frederick Douglass' Questions)
Published: July 4, 2023, 4:34 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 3 seconds
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Those cattle smaller than a Bee
Published: July 1, 2023, 12:13 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 26 seconds
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Edward Thomas' "Song"
Published: June 24, 2023, 8:01 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 47 seconds
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Thomas Hardy's Transformations
Published: June 16, 2023, 9:30 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 11 seconds
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Emily Dickinson's Mushroom
Published: June 8, 2023, 2:26 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 13 seconds
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Charles Olson's "These Days"
Published: May 29, 2023, 4:41 p.m.Duration: 27 seconds
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Color-Caste-Denomination
Published: May 23, 2023, 9:35 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 32 seconds
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Branched Song (2023 Remaster)
Published: May 15, 2023, 9:23 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 25 seconds
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Instructions for Angels
Published: May 10, 2023, 1:58 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 13 seconds
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She had concealed him in a deep dark cave...
Published: May 6, 2023, 2:05 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 28 seconds
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There's No Reception in Possum Springs
Published: May 1, 2023, 1:27 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 41 seconds
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The Things We Thought (That We Should Do)
Published: April 28, 2023, 9:11 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 37 seconds
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Brahma by Emerson
Published: April 25, 2023, 2:57 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 54 seconds
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Carl Sandburg's Band Concert
Published: April 17, 2023, 4:44 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds
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Beneath the Poplars
Published: April 6, 2023, 10:23 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 3 seconds
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A Dream Girl - Carl Sandburg's Courting Poem
Published: March 27, 2023, 9:41 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 43 seconds
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Love and a Question
Published: March 25, 2023, 8:01 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 14 seconds
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But These Things Also (Are Springs)
Published: March 21, 2023, 3:50 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes
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Like a White Stone
Published: March 19, 2023, 5:35 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 52 seconds
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Now that I am in Madrid and I can think
Published: March 9, 2023, 11:08 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 25 seconds
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Southern Exposure
Published: Feb. 20, 2023, 11:35 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 46 seconds
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The Phones in Our Hands (Are So Magical)
Published: Feb. 16, 2023, 4:26 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 51 seconds
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I'm Gonna Make Love to My Widow 'fore I'm Gone
Published: Feb. 12, 2023, 2:41 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 32 seconds
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From the Dark Tower
Published: Feb. 2, 2023, 2:59 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 58 seconds
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I Am Afraid to Own a Body
Published: Jan. 23, 2023, 5:15 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 47 seconds
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The Birmingham Vulcan (for MLK)
Published: Jan. 14, 2023, 2:42 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 46 seconds
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Don't Have To (Now You're Done)
Published: Dec. 31, 2022, 2:47 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 44 seconds
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The House of Hospitalities
Published: Dec. 25, 2022, 6:31 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 35 seconds
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Now Winter Night Enlarge
Published: Dec. 20, 2022, 3:31 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 21 seconds
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I felt my life with both my hands
Published: Dec. 10, 2022, 6:47 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 31 seconds
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I'm Sorry for the Dead Today
Published: Dec. 1, 2022, 2:16 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 10 seconds
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Wabasha and 5th, 1949
Published: Nov. 24, 2022, 12:11 a.m.Duration: 5 minutes 54 seconds
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My November Guest
Published: Nov. 10, 2022, 10:51 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 12 seconds
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Sam and the Ghosts
Published: Oct. 25, 2022, 6:11 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 27 seconds
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The Only Ghost I Ever Saw
Published: Oct. 19, 2022, 9 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 50 seconds
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Leonard Cohen's Jukebox
Published: Oct. 7, 2022, 3:03 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 8 seconds
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They Flee From Me
Published: Oct. 1, 2022, 12:39 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 54 seconds
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Sonnet Suggested by Willy Vlautin
Published: Sept. 16, 2022, 10:49 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 1 second
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Summer She Has No Lover
Published: Sept. 11, 2022, 9:22 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 9 seconds
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Working Girls, Happiness, and Muckers: Carl Sandburg writes about workers
Published: Sept. 4, 2022, 7:17 p.m.Duration: 7 minutes 49 seconds
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From Us She wandered now a Year
Published: Aug. 31, 2022, 5:01 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 58 seconds
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Arthur Hoehn, a song about an all-night classical music DJ
Published: Aug. 20, 2022, 9:24 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 55 seconds
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Let Us Be Midwives! (Bringing Forth New Life)
Published: Aug. 6, 2022, 4:03 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 33 seconds
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Palingenesis - can one recreate a rose from its ashes?
Published: Aug. 4, 2022, 7:49 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 15 seconds
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From Cocoon forth a Butterfly - Emily Dickinson's summer
Published: July 29, 2022, 12:20 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 42 seconds
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Yellow Air (Heat)
Published: July 12, 2022, 7:03 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 49 seconds
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Medley: A High-Toned Old Christian Woman and First Fig
Published: March 20, 2021, 9:27 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 16 seconds
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The Singing Woman from the Wood's Edge
Published: March 16, 2021, 1:22 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 18 seconds
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Orpheus with his lute made trees
Published: March 7, 2021, 7:01 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 12 seconds
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The world is a beautiful place
Published: Feb. 23, 2021, 11:04 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 52 seconds
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The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Published: Feb. 20, 2021, 9:20 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 26 seconds
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Langston Hughes' Dream Variation
Published: Feb. 18, 2021, 6:09 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 12 seconds
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In Memory of Colonel Charles Young
Published: Feb. 2, 2021, 12:46 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 26 seconds
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William Carlos Williams' Thursday
Published: Jan. 22, 2021, 3:43 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 3 seconds
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The Snow is Deep on the Ground
Published: Jan. 16, 2021, 11:14 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 39 seconds
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Williams' January
Published: Jan. 10, 2021, 7:41 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 55 seconds
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Shakespeare's Sonnet 97 "How like a winter hath my absence been"
Published: Dec. 31, 2020, 6:22 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 6 seconds
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I wake and feel the fell of dark
Published: Dec. 21, 2020, 6:41 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 10 seconds
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Twilight Fallen White and Cold
Published: Dec. 20, 2020, 4:49 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 26 seconds
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The Butterfly Dream
Published: Dec. 11, 2020, 10:58 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 3 seconds
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End of the Sky - A Doomscrolling Sonnet
Published: Dec. 5, 2020, 1:49 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 35 seconds
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Trifles - I Know What Stillness Is
Published: Nov. 30, 2020, 4:29 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 9 seconds
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Theme from Trifles
Published: Nov. 30, 2020, 4:17 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 10 seconds
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Dave Moore's Cathedral
Published: Nov. 27, 2020, 4:44 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 49 seconds
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Longfellow's Harvest Moon
Published: Nov. 25, 2020, 3:30 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 59 seconds
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In German November
Published: Nov. 18, 2020, 5:03 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 4 seconds
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O Let Me Be Alone Awhile
Published: Nov. 14, 2020, 7:25 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 31 seconds
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Her Strong Enchantments Failing
Published: Oct. 29, 2020, 3:19 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 33 seconds
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Emily Bronte's Spellbound
Published: Oct. 26, 2020, 7:52 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 4 seconds
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Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour
Published: Oct. 20, 2020, 10:54 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 29 seconds
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Lola Ridge's Dream
Published: Oct. 15, 2020, 10:29 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 58 seconds
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A Dream Within A Dream
Published: Oct. 7, 2020, 3:56 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 49 seconds
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He Bids His Beloved Be At Peace
Published: Oct. 2, 2020, 7:12 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 59 seconds
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Truth Never Dies
Published: Sept. 28, 2020, 3:19 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 41 seconds
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As if the Sea should part
Published: Sept. 18, 2020, 3:07 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 34 seconds
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The Angry Percy Shelley: England 1819
Published: Sept. 12, 2020, 3:38 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 24 seconds
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Robert Frost's Mowing
Published: Sept. 7, 2020, 2:52 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 36 seconds
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The Poetry of a Root Crop
Published: Sept. 4, 2020, 11:25 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 59 seconds
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Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon
Published: Aug. 30, 2020, 9:42 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 58 seconds
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Genius by Mark Twain
Published: Aug. 20, 2020, 9:46 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 6 seconds
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Mark Twain takes on Poetry; Stephen Dowling Bots
Published: Aug. 18, 2020, 4:19 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 51 seconds
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Breakfast in a Pandemic
Published: Aug. 11, 2020, 2:30 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 59 seconds
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Before Summer Rain
Published: Aug. 5, 2020, 5:25 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 59 seconds
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Small Iowa Town after World War Two
Published: Aug. 3, 2020, 2:46 p.m.Duration: 7 minutes 15 seconds
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The Grasshopper and the Cricket
Published: July 31, 2020, 2:29 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 31 seconds
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The River Merchant's Wife, Another Letter
Published: July 26, 2020, 9:47 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 6 seconds
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The Poet's Voice
Published: July 13, 2020, 12:51 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 58 seconds
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Sail On Oh Ship of State
Published: July 3, 2020, 11:05 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 49 seconds
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from Allen Ginsberg's America
Published: July 2, 2020, 8:10 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 19 seconds
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Claude McKay's America
Published: July 1, 2020, 8:13 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 10 seconds
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Huazi Ridge (after Wang Wei)
Published: June 28, 2020, 11:13 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 40 seconds
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A Mien to Move a Queen
Published: June 25, 2020, 4:11 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 28 seconds
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The Workman's Dream
Published: June 20, 2020, 8:31 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 31 seconds
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Emily Dickinson: Forever and Crumbling
Published: June 7, 2020, 7:36 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 55 seconds
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John Coltrane Live at Birdland
Published: May 27, 2020, 10:20 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 22 seconds
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
Published: May 19, 2020, 2:23 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 16 seconds
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Acquainted with the Night
Published: May 14, 2020, 3:53 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 36 seconds
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Believers (Thoreau, McClure, Whitman, Blake, Ginsberg)
Published: May 10, 2020, 6:10 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 21 seconds
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Some Rainbow coming from the Fair
Published: May 5, 2020, 8:53 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 37 seconds
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Stones Under the Low-Limbed Tree (Ghost House)
Published: May 4, 2020, 12:09 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 4 seconds
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Corinna, Corinna Let's Go a Maying
Published: April 30, 2020, 10:24 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 22 seconds
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Confucian Ode on Blake, Dickinson, and Whitman
Published: April 30, 2020, 12:02 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 34 seconds
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An Old Man On Record Store Day
Published: April 26, 2020, 3:33 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 4 seconds
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Shakespeare's Sonnet 152
Published: April 24, 2020, 2:29 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 12 seconds
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Song of Myself (I Contain Multitudes)
Published: April 22, 2020, 1:26 a.m.Duration: 6 minutes 17 seconds
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When You Are Old
Published: April 19, 2020, 5:03 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 54 seconds
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Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
Published: April 15, 2020, 1:43 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 16 seconds
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The Easter Flower
Published: April 12, 2020, 1:59 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 49 seconds
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I Have Loved Hours at Sea
Published: April 9, 2020, 3:31 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 41 seconds
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Teasdale's Morning
Published: April 5, 2020, 5:08 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 53 seconds
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The Fire Sermon (from T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land")
Published: April 3, 2020, 7:16 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 53 seconds
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Wordsworth's March
Published: April 1, 2020, 1:51 a.m.Duration: 2 minutes 40 seconds
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
Published: March 28, 2020, 3:38 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 48 seconds
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A light exists in spring
Published: March 21, 2020, 9:38 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 35 seconds
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To a Fat Lady Seen from the Train
Published: March 4, 2020, 6:41 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 32 seconds
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Sadie and Stephen Hawkings
Published: Feb. 26, 2020, 11:31 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 58 seconds
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Sympathy (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)
Published: Feb. 21, 2020, 10:25 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 10 seconds
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from Sandburg's Lincoln
Published: Feb. 18, 2020, 1:31 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 3 seconds
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These Phones in our Hands (are so Magical)
Published: Feb. 14, 2020, 8:47 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 25 seconds
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