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Four Columbine Poems (podcast)
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Walt Whitman’s Death Poetry (podcast)
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Walt Whitman’s Love Poetry (podcast)
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Advice from Toni Morrison, etc. // Whitman’s Earliest Critics
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Whitman’s Selected Long Poems & Short Poems Now Available
Two new pocket books are now available from S4N Books, Walt Whitman’s Selected Short Poems and Selected Long Poems. As usual, each book is $3.99. Click on each link to see the table of contents. You can also look through all nine volumes in the S4N Pocket Poems Series.
First Person: Eudora Welty & Helen Keller // Anthology: Poems by Lowell, Clare, Barbauld, Finch, Spenser (podcast)
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Anthology: Poems by Edgar Lee Masters, Tennyson, Mary Robinson, Henry Wotton, Walter Raleigh (podcast)
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Shakespeare, Sex & Sonnets // Loneliness, Part 2 (podcast)
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Vermeer in Bosnia (podcast)
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The Great Myths #17: Tales of the Elders of Ireland (podcast)
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Loneliness (podcast)
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Help Support “Human Voices Wake Us”
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How to Tell a Story: Advice from James Joyce & Thomas Hardy
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“That Jane Goodall Tramp”//So Long, Lawrence Ferlinghetti (podcast)
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Shakespeare (podcast)
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First Person: Funeral Home Director & Telemarketer (podcast)
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George Orwell on Poverty (podcast)
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The Earliest Bookstores I Remember // Picasso’s “Guernica” (podcast)
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Advice from Joan Didion, Stanley Kunitz, Billy Collins, Alice Munro
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Jealousy, Part 2 (podcast)
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The Great Myths #16: The Story of Taliesin (podcast)
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A Poet Writes to His Father (podcast)
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Anthology: Poems by William Blake, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Louise Bogan, Anne Bradstreet, Henry Vaughan (podcast)
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Advice from Walt Whitman & W. B. Yeats (podcast)
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Anthology: Poems by Wordsworth, Eavan Boland, Milton, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Philip Sidney (podcast)
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Rereading “The English Patient” (podcast)
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Ted Hughes: 4hrs of Selected Poems (podcast)
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Walt Whitman & Sex (podcast)
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Ted Hughes: 5 Last Poems (podcast)
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Jung’s Great Dream (podcast)
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Copies of “To the House of the Sun” on Sale
To anyone who has thought about buying a copy of To the House of the Sun, now would be the time. Amazon is selling copies of them for $4.95 (80% off). Not sure how long that will last, so go get em. “An incredibly well executed epic saga in a poetry format, To The House […]
T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” (podcast)
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Vermeer in Bosnia (podcast)
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The Poet Speaks: Shakespeare, Fitzgerald, Lowell, Larkin, Paz
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Standing on Two Feet & the Evolution of Language (podcast)
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Seamus Heaney’s Origin Story (podcast)
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Anthology: Poems by William Carlos Williams, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Brontë, Alexander Pope, etc. (podcast)
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New Interview at the Jewish Literary Journal (podcast)
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The Great Myths #15: The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne (podcast)
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The Great Myths #8: The Dream of Oengus (podcast)
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First Person: Rome (AD 64) and America (1832) (podcast)
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Walt Whitman’s Long Foreground (podcast)
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Anthology: Is Poetry Important?, & Poems by Emily Dickinson, Shakespeare, Virgil, R. S. Thomas (podcast)
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Stubbornness (podcast)
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The Poet Speaks: Beethoven, Joseph Campbell, etc. (podcast)
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Seamus Heaney: 7 Poems from “North” (podcast)
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The Poet Speaks: Flannery O’Connor, Jacques Barzun, Jean Guehenno (podcast)
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Anthology: Poems by Amy Lowell, Thomas Hardy, John Donne, Christopher Marlowe, William Cowper (podcast)
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First Person: Minnesota, c. 1900 (podcast)
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Teenagers in the 1990s (podcast)
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Ted Hughes: 5 Last Poems (podcast)
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Robinson Jeffers: Poems from “Hungerfield” (podcast)
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Anthology: Poems by Edgar Lee Masters, Tennyson, Mary Robinson, Henry Wotton, and Walter Raleigh
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The Great Myths: The Egyptian Book of the Dead (podcast)
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Ted Hughes: A Handful of Late Poems (podcast)
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Two Bits of Kafka’s “The Trial” (podcast)
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The Poet Speaks: Beethoven, Joseph Campbell, etc. (podcast)
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1606: A Poem about Shakespeare (podcast)
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H. D.: “Eros” & “Envy” (podcast)
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Seamus Heaney: 2 Poems for His Murdered Cousin (podcast)
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Ted Hughes: A Handful of Astonishing Short Poems (podcast)
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John Keats: “The poet has no identity” (podcast)
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First Person: London, c. 1615 (podcast)
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The Great Myths: Osiris (podcast)
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Ted Hughes: 6 Poems from Wodwo (podcast)
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The Great Myths: Gilgamesh (podcast)
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Eavan Boland: 5 Poems (podcast)
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Laurie Sheck: 13 Poems from “The Willow Grove” (podcast)
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Happy Black Friday (podcast)
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Walt Whitman Affirms the World (podcast)
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William Wordsworth’s Immortality Ode, & 3 Other Poems (podcast)
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Lee Harvey Oswald (podcast)
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First Person: Pompeii (AD 79) & San Francisco (AD 1906) (podcast)
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One Poet’s Responds to Fame (podcast)
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How Did Picasso Do It? (podcast)
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Louise Glück: 8 Poems from “The Wild Iris”
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The Great Myths #14: The Destruction of Da Derga’s Hostel (podcast)
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Yeats, Frost, Wordsworth: 3 New Pocket Books Now Available
Three new volumes in the S4N Pocket Poems series are now available. I had a wonderful time putting these together; as with the other books in the series, they are all $3.99 and pocket size (4×6 inches). Click on each cover below to purchase:
Some Thoughts on Success & Failure (podcast episode #200)
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One Poet’s Origin Story (podcast)
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Advice from Walt Whitman & W. B. Yeats (podcast)
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A Story of Depression from 1809 (podcast)
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Beethoven on His Deathbed (podcast)
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Poetry & Education in Eighth-Century England (podcast)
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Robinson Jeffers: Six Last Poems (podcast)
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Working (podcast)
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Shakespeare, Wordsworth & a Guy from Pittsburgh (podcast)
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George Orwell on War (podcast)
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First Person: A Waitress in Chicago, 1960s (podcast)
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Ted Hughes: Ten Early Poems(podcast)
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Walt Whitman: “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” (podcast)
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Poems: Unfinished Michelangelo (podcast)
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Loneliness (podcast)
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William Wordsworth: “St. Paul’s” (podcast)
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Myths & Lies (podcast)
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Virgil’s Great Poem of Nature: Starting the Georgics (podcast)
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Ezra Pound’s Advice to a Young Poet (podcast)
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Walt Whitman: “Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun” (podcast)
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2 Poems for the Holocaust (podcast)
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Story: “Isis in Old Age”(podcast)
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Ted Hughes: 7 Poems from “Season Songs”(podcast)
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Poems for a Lonely & Creative Night (podcast)
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Walt Whitman: “I Sing the Body Electric” (podcast)
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Poems: Travels through Orkney (podcast)
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The Great Myths #13: Oisin in the Otherworld (podcast)
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Ted Hughes: 3 Poems from “River”(podcast – with corrected links)
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Ted Hughes: 3 Poems from “River”(podcast)
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First Person: Vermont, 1940 (podcast)
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Poem: “Chauvet, Lascaux, Altamira” (podcast)
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First Person: Visiting a Poor Poet in Paris, 1895 (podcast)
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Ted Hughes: Crow Poems (podcast)
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The Great Myths #11: How Cuchulainn Got His Name (podcast)
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First Person: Paris, 1785 (podcast)
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Ted Hughes: 2 War Poems (with corrected link)
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Ted Hughes: 2 War Poems
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“Cauldron & Drink” (poem)
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Seamus Heaney: Selected Poems
A collection of nearly fifty poems read and discussed on my podcast over the past few months, spanning Seamus Heaney’s entire career. Below the collection are the individual episodes that make it up. As always, the full archive of Human Voices Wake Us is at Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Email me at humanpages@outlook.com or leave […]
Seamus Heaney: A Handful of Late Poems (podcast)
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Week of the Bomb #4
Finally, voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When The New Yorker dedicated its entire August 31, 1946 issue to John Hersey’s Hiroshima, the editors wrote that they did so “in the conviction that few of us have yet comprehended the all but incredible destructive power of this weapon, and that everyone might well take time […]
Week of the Bomb #3
Many of the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project had families in Europe, or were refugees from Europe themselves, and so the atomic bomb they were helping to make had an obvious adversary in mind. When Germany surrendered, however, many felt much less animus against Japan, and in part this conflict is narrated in […]
Week of the Bomb #2
Impossible decisions remain impossible, even after they’ve been made. Following on yesterday’s post, here are the voices of those scientists and politicians who admitted the horror of the atomic bomb, but saw its creation and deployment as unavoidable; who felt caught up and even powerless in the equally inevitable march of scientific discovery; those who […]
Week of the Bomb #1
With the anniversary of the Trinity Test just passed, and the anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki this week, I realize the atomic bomb has been following me for years. The first book of poetry I ever owned was the anthology Atomic Ghosts, which featured dozens of poets responding to the nuclear age; and after I first […]
“Song to the Smith” & “A Song to Stone”: 2 Poems
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Readings from Robinson Jeffers (podcast)
Below are all the readings I’ve made from the poetry of Robinson Jeffers on my podcast, Human Voices Wake Us. The first episode, more than an hour long, collects every episode into one, and has an introduction for the whole set of readings. Beneath this, the larger episode is broken up into individual collections that […]
The Sun Sets into the Sea (poem)
The sun sets into the sea with a hissand rises with the sound of a driven wheel,the creak of speaking stone, metal and wood. The sun sets into the sea to simmerand rises with the sound of stretched leatherand the song of the horse’s chain and bit. The sun sets into the sea and is […]
Human Voices Wake Us (podcast)
After 150 episodes, I figure it’s time to mention my podcast here, Human Voices Wake Us. I started it last October. It is available at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and elsewhere. There will also be a tab on this website with the ten or so most recent episodes available for listening. Please subscribe if you’re interested, […]
2 New Essays at the “Jewish Journal”
Many thanks to David Suissa, editor of the Jewish Journal. Over the last month he’s published two of my essays there, The Leaky Boat, and Walking with God in the World. Please consider liking and sharing with any and all. Readers of this blog over the past many years may recognize some of the material […]
Two New Poems at The Jewish Journal
Many thanks to David Suissa at The Jewish Journal, for publishing my poems “Train,” and “A Ploughed Field.” Those who have read Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz, or seen Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah will probably recognize where these poems come from. Two other poems will be appearing at The Jewish Journal in the next week or […]
Images: Edward Hopper
I had heard of Edward Hopper before, but it wasn’t until a summer or two after high school, when I was working the overnight shift at a gas station, that I was hooked. I saw his painting “Gas” and was shown how even my lonely hours at BP could become the subject of art. He […]
Images: Gustave Courbet
Take a look through some of the best paintings of Gustave Courbet (1819-1877). Is the general claim true, that in his landscapes, portraits and self-portraits, that what we call modern art, began here? Click on each image to enlarge, or watch the video below.
Images: Caspar David Friedrich
Three weeks ago I’d barely heard of the painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). Awhile ago I had noted down that I might want to look at his paintings, and now they’re burned into my mind forever. Here are some of my favorites: you can watch the video below, or click on each image to enlarge:
Reading 3 new poems: The Harvest of 1665, The Historian, Mr Cassian’s 54th Dream
On 8/26/20, a virtual book launch was held in London to celebrate three new titles published by Dempsey & Windle. As part of the reading I read the following poems: “The Harvest of 1665,” on the harvest following the plague of London in that year “The Historian,” on the execution of Sir Walter Raleigh “Mr […]
Images: Jean-François Millet
Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) was a formative influence on artists as diverse as Salvador Dali and Vincent van Gogh (his famous sower was lifted from Millet). Looking at two dozen or so of his best paintings, I understood why. Click on any image to enlarge:
The Internet will Get You Too
A post from a few years ago that is worth revisiting: I began this blog in earnest almost six years now, with a post called “Silence in London,” which offered a handful of photos from a recent trip to England. I only made that post, though, because during the trip I left a long comment […]
Unfinished Michelangelo (poem)
Unfinished Michelangelo The impossible bodies of apostles, messiahs and slaves, statues that couldn’t have stood had he finished them, faces half buried in membranes of marble that threaten to swallow and take them back; bodies climbing without hands or feet or legs out of the mineral morass in the great struggle for birth: a nearly […]
Not Quite Nostalgia (new essay)
Probably the most personal thing I’ll publish for a very long time, written a few years ago: To save a few dozens charges at iTunes, I’ve begun requesting CDs from the library so I can copy songs from my adolescence that I’ve lost track of over the last twenty years. I brought one home the […]
“Albert Einstein” – New Poem at the Jewish Literary Journal
Many thanks to editor Aaron Berkowitz, who just published my poem about Albert Einstein in The Jewish Literary Journal. Check the poem out, as well as the other fine work there.
The Great Myths #68: The Dark Home of Night & Death (Greek)
Read the other Great Myths here Here, in order, are the ends and springs Of gloomy earth and misty Tartarus, And of the barren sea and starry heaven, Murky and awful, loathed by the very gods. There is the yawning mouth of hell, and if A man should find himself inside the gates, He would […]
The Great Myths #67: The Origin of the Buffalo Dance (Blackfoot)
Read the other Great Myths here George Bird Grinnell’s classic account (from 1892) of the origin of the Blackfoot Buffalo Dance. It culminates with the buffalo freely offering themselves to the Blackfoot tribe, but only after teaching them the dance that will resurrect the buffalo herds: The people had built a great pis’kun [a buffalo […]
Isis in Old Age (story)
Originally published at Bold+Italic It was one of those across the room things, even though the women were both old and long past love, and weren’t even one another’s type. Isis was back at that pub over in Bayswater, the kind chain restaurant London had that served English food to tourists: the interiors dark wood […]
“Caedmon Comes to Singing” – new poem at Londongrip
Many thanks to Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, for publishing my poem “Caedmon Comes to Singing” in the new issue of Londongrip. Many will remember that Caedmon, who lived in seventh-century Northumbria, is credited with being one of the earliest English poets; I suppose we can all learn from his half-mythic example, of living most of his life […]
The Great Myths #63: Ragnarok (Norse)
Read the other Great Myths here from the Prose Edda: Then spoke Gangleri: ‘What information is there to be given about Ragnarok? I have not heard tell of this before.’ High said: ‘There are many important things to be told about it. First of all that a winter will come called fimbul-winter [mighty or […]
Seamus Heaney, from “Squarings”
The center of Seeing Things—and perhaps the very center of his poetry, and maybe even his greatest achievement—is the sequence called “Squarings,” which consists of forty-eight twelve-line poems. He never wrote about nature, history, myth, other poets, or his own rural upbringing so well. This week I will post my favorite poems from each of […]
Seamus Heaney, from “Crossings”
The center of Seeing Things—and perhaps the very center of his poetry, and maybe even his greatest achievement—is the sequence called “Squarings,” which consists of forty-eight twelve-line poems. He never wrote about nature, history, myth, other poets, or his own rural upbringing so well. This week I will post my favorite poems from each of […]
Seamus Heaney, from “Settings”
The center of Seeing Things—and perhaps the very center of his poetry, and maybe even his greatest achievement—is the sequence called “Squarings,” which consists of forty-eight twelve-line poems. He never wrote about nature, history, myth, other poets, or his own rural upbringing so well. This week I will post my favorite poems from each of […]
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