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#209 – Being a Jew in 1900, Being a Jew Now
15 Dec 2025
“Unfinished Michelangelo” (poem & video)
11 Dec 2025
“The Sun Sets into the Sea” (poem & video)
10 Dec 2025
#208 – Bach & God
8 Dec 2025
“Vermeer’s The Milkmaid” (poem & video)
1 Dec 2025
#207 – Death, the Gods, and Endless Life in Ancient Egypt
25 Nov 2025
YouTube is Censoring… Poetry?
24 Nov 2025
“Mr Cassian’s Good Friend, Albert Einstein” (poem & video)
21 Nov 2025
“Robert Oppenheimer” (poem & video)
20 Nov 2025
#206: The Discovery of Indo-European Languages – 1876
17 Nov 2025
“Dylan Klebold’s Crush” (poem & video)
12 Nov 2025
#205: Learning to Read, c. 2000 BCE
11 Nov 2025
“Merlin” (poem & video)
10 Nov 2025
#204: Walt Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” 1856
3 Nov 2025
#203: Bruce Springsteen Talks About “Nebraska” – 1984
24 Oct 2025
#202: A Death at Sea, 1834
6 Oct 2025
#201: Gillian Anderson, & What Women Want, 2024
25 Sep 2025
#200: The Last Days of Walter Benjamin, 1940
15 Sep 2025
#199: The Protestant Reformation Gets Going, c. 1517
9 Sep 2025
#198: Georgia O’Keeffe Finds Herself in the Fall of 1915
1 Sep 2025
#197: A Honeymoon in the House of the Dead in Ancient Mesopotamia, c. 2300 BCE
27 Aug 2025
#196: Morning at the London Docks, c. 1850
23 Aug 2025
Oppenheimer & the Bomb (from the archive)
6 Aug 2025
Robert Oppenheimer (poem)
6 Aug 2025
“Bone Antler Stone” is 70% off at Amazon
9 Jul 2025
“The One Who Sang So Well” (new story)
15 Jun 2025
New Podcast Announcement – “Savage Amazement”
11 May 2025
Shakespeare: The Life & Times (from the archive)
23 Apr 2025
Anthology: Poems for Spring (from the archive)
4 Mar 2025
Shopping for books?
3 Feb 2025
The Great Myths #24: Sigurd & the Dragon (from the archive)
28 Jan 2025
Patti Smith / Mazzy Star & Living Colour / Philip Glass (from the archive)
21 Jan 2025
Great Poems: Shakespeare’s “To be or not to be” (from the archive)
14 Jan 2025
Recent Poems & Essays
10 Jan 2025
Anthology: Visionary Poetry from Yeats, Whitman, Blake & Myth (from the archive)
7 Jan 2025
First Person: Voices from 1900-1914 (from the archive)
31 Dec 2024
Van Gogh’s Early Years (from the archive)
24 Dec 2024
William Blake (new episode)
17 Dec 2024
John Keats: “The poet has no identity” (from the archive)
3 Dec 2024
On Cyber Monday, Remember Poetry
2 Dec 2024
The Great Myths #2: Enkidu in the Underworld (from the archive)
26 Nov 2024
The Sound of Beethoven (from the archive)
19 Nov 2024
Bruce Springsteen / Simon Schama / The Iliad (from the archive)
12 Nov 2024
Now available: “Bone Antler Stone”
8 Nov 2024
Notes from the Grid: All Things Can Console (from the archive)
5 Nov 2024
Advice from Walt Whitman & W. B. Yeats (from the archive)
29 Oct 2024
The Great Myths #1: Gilgamesh Begins (from the archive)
21 Oct 2024
A Farewell to the Podcast with Theodore Roethke’s “The Rose”
8 Oct 2024
7 Poems by H. D. (new episode)
27 Sep 2024
6 Poems by R. S. Thomas (new episode)
17 Sep 2024
4 Poems by Kenneth Rexroth (new episode)
3 Sep 2024
Robert Lowell: 10 Essential Poems
27 Aug 2024
The Midsummer Fire Festivals of Old Europe
20 Aug 2024
Advice from Robert Pinsky (new episode)
14 Aug 2024
Patti Smith / Mazzy Star / Philip Glass
6 Aug 2024
Seamus Heaney: 7 Poems from “North” (new episode)
2 Aug 2024
Advice from Toni Morrison, T. S. Eliot, John Berryman // Whitman’s Earliest Critics
30 Jul 2024
Cities Under Siege: Occupied Paris, Gauls in Rome, Blake’s London
27 Jul 2024
The Great Myths #14: The Destruction of Da Derga’s Hostel (Celtic)
23 Jul 2024
Little Biographies (new episode)
19 Jul 2024
William Carlos Williams: 11 Essential Poems
13 Jul 2024
Louise Glück: Poems from “The Wild Iris” & “Ararat”
9 Jul 2024
Nostalgia (new episode)
6 Jul 2024
Raising a Musical Prodigy / God’s Response to Job
29 Jun 2024
Anthology: Poems by Coleridge, Williams, Bronte, Pope & Fisher
25 Jun 2024
American Shaman
22 Jun 2024
Walt Whitman’s Life #7: His Notebooks & the Publication of “Leaves of Grass” (new episode)
19 Jun 2024
Pythagoras: The Life & Times
15 Jun 2024
Stephen King’s Great Novel of Parenthood & Grief
12 Jun 2024
The Most Brutal Scenes (new episode)
7 Jun 2024
True Horror
25 May 2024
The Great Myths #22: The Story of Ragnarok in the Norse Eddas
18 May 2024
Working
7 May 2024
First Person: Funeral Home Director // Telemarketer
4 May 2024
Walt Whitman’s Mystical Poems
27 Apr 2024
Caravaggio / Herodotus / Macbeth
24 Apr 2024
Four Columbine Poems
20 Apr 2024
Anthology: Poems on Modern Life (new episode)
18 Apr 2024
Two Bits of Kafka’s Trial
16 Apr 2024
Emily Dickinson
13 Apr 2024
The Great Myths #6: The Egyptian Book of the Dead
9 Apr 2024
An Interview with Amit Majmudar (new episode)
4 Apr 2024
Wordsworth, from “Poems on the Naming of Places”
1 Oct 2019
Ted Hughes – “Crow’s Song about God”
22 Sep 2019
The Unfinished Kafka
20 Aug 2019
The Best of Albert Camus’s Notebooks
25 Jul 2019
What To Expect When You’re in Love with a Writer
19 Jul 2019
Picasso & Sex
9 Jul 2019
Poems from Columbine: “The Mother”
19 Apr 2019
Poems from Columbine: “The Two of Them”
18 Apr 2019
Poems from Columbine: “Infatuation”
17 Apr 2019
Hart Crane, High & Low
11 Apr 2019
Joyce’s Dirty Letters
9 Apr 2019
Yeats Discovers Poetry
3 Apr 2019
Yeats Comes to the Occult
2 Apr 2019
Joyce & Proust Meet
1 Apr 2019
Hart Crane & His Father
13 Mar 2019
T. S. Eliot & His Father
12 Mar 2019
Robert Oppenheimer (poem)
7 Jan 2019
Female Figurines and a Shipwreck: Two Poems from “Bone Antler Stone”
20 Dec 2018
Review: Bone Antler Stone by Tim Miller
22 Oct 2018
Review: Bone Antler Stone by Tim Miller
11 Aug 2018
Wordsworth’s 1805 Prelude, Book 13: “The perfect image of a mighty mind, of one that feeds upon infinity”
8 Aug 2018
Wordsworth’s 1805 Prelude, Book 12: “making verse deal boldly with substantial things”
7 Aug 2018
Wordsworth’s 1805 Prelude, Book 11: “Habits of devoutest sympathy”
6 Aug 2018
Wordsworth’s 1805 Prelude, Book 10: “In the very world which is the world of all of us, the place in which, in the end, we find our happiness, or not at all”
18 Jul 2018
Wordsworth’s 1805 Prelude, Book 9: “I saw the revolutionary power toss like a ship at anchor”
10 Jul 2018
Wordsworth’s 1805 Prelude, Book 8: “A weight of ages did at once descend upon my heart”
26 Jun 2018
“Bone Antler Stone” now available
21 Jun 2018
Wordsworth’s 1805 Prelude, Book 7: “This parliament of monsters”
14 Jun 2018
Wordsworth’s 1805 Prelude, Book 6: “No absence scarcely can there be, for those who love as we do.”
12 Jun 2018
Review of Hymns & Lamentations
31 May 2018
Wordsworth’s 1805 Prelude, Book 5: “Stirred to ecstasy by glittering verse”
25 May 2018
Wordsworth’s 1805 Prelude, Book 4: “Need I say, dear friend, that to the brim my heart was full?”
24 May 2018
Wordsworth’s 1805 Prelude, Book 3: “Unknown, unthought of, yet I was most rich”
16 May 2018
Wordsworth’s 1805 Prelude, Book 2: “The self-sufficing power of solitude”
10 May 2018
Wordsworth’s 1805 Prelude, Book 1: “Invigorating thoughts from former years”
3 May 2018
Ted Hughes: 2 War Poems
26 Mar 2018
Wordsworth’s Sonnets (Forerunners)
27 Feb 2018
Kafka’s Diaries
26 Sep 2016
T. S. Eliot on Dante
19 May 2016
Wallace Stevens, Intergalactic Planetary
17 May 2016
Yeats & Lady Gregory
15 May 2016
Jean Guéhenno (Favorite Passages)
23 Dec 2015
Albert Camus, Notebooks (Favorite Passages)
7 Jul 2014
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