Category: creativity
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Gilgamesh and Skinny Dipping
Episode one of our book club podcast WESTERN CANONBALL features The Epic of Gilgamesh and some scandalous skinny dipping by Enkidu. Gilgamesh features an antihero who offends gods, slays giants, and offensively steals the wives of everyone in the kingdom. This podcast is basically a group of us meeting at my house for dinner about…
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Megabus Moon Roof poem
My Megabus Moon Roof poem is from my poetry podcast. I’m reading first from my book Inconveniences, Rightly Considered — a collection of poems I wrote between 2005 and 2017. Featured Download: For a quick tutorial on how to write your own poetry, click here.
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The Wolf and The Lamb by Aesop
Today for Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales, we’re reading the poem The Wolf and The Lamb by Aesop. Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales is another one of my podcasts featuring bedtime story readings — in this case the myths, legends, folklore and tall tales of the world. Now and again, I read one of my…
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New York Funeral poem
My New York Funeral poem is from my poetry podcast. I’m reading first from my book Inconveniences, Rightly Considered — a collection of poems I wrote between 2005 and 2017. Featured Download: For a quick tutorial on how to write your own poetry, click here.
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Dr. Lowrey in Memorium poem
My Dr. Lowrey in Memorium poem is from my poetry podcast. I’m reading first from my book Inconveniences, Rightly Considered — a collection of poems I wrote between 2005 and 2017. Featured Download: For a quick tutorial on how to write your own poetry, click here.
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The Cock and the Pearl by Aesop
Today for Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales, we’re reading the poem The Cock and The Pearl by Aesop. Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales is another one of my podcasts featuring bedtime story readings — in this case the myths, legends, folklore and tall tales of the world. Now and again, I read one of my…
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Daylight and the Stand poem
My Daylight and the Stand poem is from my poetry podcast. I’m reading first from my book Inconveniences, Rightly Considered — a collection of poems I wrote between 2005 and 2017. Featured Download: For a quick tutorial on how to write your own poetry, click here.
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Olympics Need an Aesthetic Branch — #OlympianAesthete
In preparation for our first two book readings for our Western Canonball book club here in Brooklyn (click here to unlock the whole booklist and join the book clumb), I came across an interesting passage in Hesiod’s WORKS AND DAYS where he gives a sort of meta reference to his THEOGONY, the first book in…
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The Lady of Shallot by Tennyson
Today for Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales, we’re reading the poem The Lady of Shallot by Tennyson. Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales is another one of my podcasts featuring bedtime story readings — in this case the myths, legends, folklore and tall tales of the world. Now and again, I read one of my…
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Cradle of Stone poem
My Cradle of Stone poem is from my poetry podcast. I’m reading first from my book Inconveniences, Rightly Considered — a collection of poems I wrote between 2005 and 2017. Featured Download: For a quick tutorial on how to write your own poetry, click here.
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Stan Freberg Banana Boat (DAY-O)
Stan Freberg Banana Boat (DAY-O) is a parody of the original Banana Boat song. Thanks to Fred Heumann for the find.
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Obscure History Memes : Dragon Man
Trogdor! Trogdor! Trogdor was a man! I mean, he was a dragon-man Or maybe he was just a dragon… But he was still Trogdor! Trogdor! Burninating the countryside Burninating the peasants Burninating all the peoples And their thatched-roof cottages! Thatched-roof cottages! Whoa! Listen to those wicked dueling guitar solos! It’s like Squeedly vs. Meedly over…