Category: Saturday Songs
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Christmas Song, Poetry Mash-up, Gleefully Snow-Bound
Again, I am returning to an older post from Christmas past, with a few editing adjustments. I still love this song, and I want to go snuggle now with a certain someone while we read this poem. Last time we featured monks, Handel, and John Greenleaf Whittier. JGW makes an appearance again today—second day in…
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Saturday Song for the Season with Tori Amos
I have lots of other things to blog about but the phrase from an old song, “We need a little Christmas–right this very minute” keeps coming to mind. I’ll share that one soon enough but as my sweetheart is napping on the sofa, a YouTube playlist of Tori Amos songs reeling away on the TV,…
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Come with Us, a Saturday Song with Sophie
Sophie Ellis-Bextor is back! Her new album Familia was released in September, with this as the first single. “In a hazy state of mind you’ll believe this stuff.” Appropriate timing, I think. Related articles Saturday Songs with Sophie Ellis-Bextor and the New Radicals Saturday Songs with Vampires Saturday Song, Cleopatra Part 2
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Saturday Song Flashback with Fiona Apple
Okay, in my effort to not “praise the devil” by making “injustice the only / measure of our attention (Jack Gilbert, “A Brief for the Defense“),” how about a Throwback Saturday? Okay, so that’s not really a thing. So let’s just call it a Fiona Flashback. A bit about “making it new.” Read the original…
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Saturday Songs with Vampires
Lots going on these last few weeks here in my world, including work on a new chapbook, and preparation for a live reading with the River Poets at the Bloomsburg Public Library this Thursday, September 1st. I also went on a bit of a William Stafford reverie and recorded several lesser-known poems from his 1987 collection,…
