Category: articles
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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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An Evening with Christian Wiman
Tara and I got to go to the evening with Christian Wiman, the former editor of Poetry Magazine and the poet who wrote My Bright Abyss. The conversation wandered through the dark and bleak atmosphere of this man’s mind and it includes a brilliant story about Mary Oliver stuffing a dead bird in her pocket. You’ll…
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Introducing the Vale Megacosm : The Universe in which I Write
I’m writing this post about the Vale Megacosm for those of you that have followed me from the beginning. I mean the very beginning. As a beta reader myself for a handful of authors — and as someone well familiar with the slow output of many epic writers — I know it can take forever…
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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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A Place for Demons : Kingkiller Reread
We’re now at the place in the Kingkiller Reread where we can finally start chapter one: a place for demons — I’m assuming you’ve read all of the Rothfuss canon if you read forward. As I said before, it’s quite telling that Rothfuss titled the first chapter “a place for demons.” Beyond the obvious connection…
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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.