Tonight, I return to new episodes with a handful of poems about the spring. As I mention, living as I do in a city usually inundated with snow, it has been bizarre to have not shoveled the driveway even once. And since the next few weeks of episodes are already planned out, it seemed appropriate…
Tag: Poetry
First Person: Funeral Home Director & Telemarketer
An episode from 3/8/2022: Here are two readings from Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs. I have particular affection for the second one, since I spent some time as a telemarketer back in the summer and fall of 2004. Gig is a really great book of its kind, a good follow up to Studs Terkel’s Working….
Loneliness
An episode from 9/27/21: In what may be my favorite episode, I talk about loneliness: is it really so bad, and is easy sociability really so much better? I also look at where my own experience of loneliness began, as a four year-old who suddenly found himself with hearing problems. For the next eight years…
William Wordsworth: The Immortality Ode & Three other Poems
An episode from 11/4/2021: A reading of four poems by William Wordsworth: I read these here tonight to celebrate the release of a Selected Poems of William Wordsworth that I put together, and was just published. Other small books of poems (Whitman, Tennyson, and Frost) in the same series can be found here. If you’d…
Emily Dickinson
Tonight I read from and comment on Brenda Wineapple’s wonderful book, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. If listeners can recommend other books about Dickinson they have enjoyed, email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com.
Cecil Day Lewis: “My Mother’s Sister” (podcast)
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First Person: Funeral Home Director & Telemarketer (podcast)
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Stubbornness (podcast)
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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…
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…