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An episode from 9/15/23: Earlier this year, I thought it was possible to supplement this podcast with one weekly (and shorter) additional reading over at Substack; for many reasons, that ambition proved impossible to maintain. Since an illness has kept me from recording a new episode this week, I thought it worthwhile collecting those six weeks of shorter readings here:

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• 3 Poems from my long work-in-progress, The Great Year: \u201cThe Autumn Village,\u201d \u201cI was in Iceland centuries ago, \u201d \u201cSmith Looks Up the Long Road\u201d
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• Two readings from Shakespeare: \u201cOf comfort no man speak\u201d (Richard II, act II scene 2), \u201cAll the world\u2019s a stage\u201d (As You Like It, act II scene 7)
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• 3 Poems on Work: Philip\xa0Levine\xa0(1928-2015): \u201cAmong Children,\u201d Elma Mitchell (1919-2000),\xa0\u201cThoughts After Ruskin," Mary Robinson (1758-1800),\xa0\u201cA London Summer Morning\u201d
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• Favorites from T. S. Eliot\u2019s Four Quartets
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• Three Poets & Mythology: Eavan Boland (1944-2020), \u201cThe Making of an Irish Goddess," Michael Longley (b. 1939)\xa0\u201cThe Butchers," Robert Pinsky (b. 1940), \u201cThe Figured Wheel\u201d
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• Blake & His Animals: Three passages from William Blake (1757-1827): one from\xa0Visions of the Daughters of Albion\xa0and the last two from\xa0Milton. I hope that plucking these three passages from his longer work can suggest how varied\u2014not just how prophetic and opaque, but simply beautiful\u2014so much of his poetry can be.
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