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Day 14 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: “No Loser, No Weeper,” by Maya Angelou
Say what you will about Maya Angelou. Say she is a better poet than a memoir writer. Say that her prose is sometimes too flowery (I myself have been guilty of saying this); say that her poetry is too sing-song. Say whatever you like, and then tell me about the time that you were asked…
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Day 13 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: “Picnic, Lightning,” by Billy Collins
Well, what would you expect on Friday the 13th except for me to run into all kinds of technical bad luck and snafus (snafu?), running me down to the last minute for uploading a video in time to qualify for day 13? So in the spirit of bad luck here is a poem by Billy…
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Day 12 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: John Keats, “To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent”
This one goes out to my cyber friend Keatsbabe. Visually I was going for a kind of unrehearsed contrast in this video, keeping the city images throughout, instead of the pastoral scenes Keats supplies up in the poem itself. I think I like the result. The opening scene is of the Chrysler Building, once upon a time the…
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SonofWalt’s YouTube Playlist for 30 Days, 30 Readings
Most of what I am publishing here this month comes in the form of playlists, but if you’d like to just scroll easily through the videos in the 30 Days, 30 Readings project you might be interested in checking out the playlist as it appears on YouTube. Embedding it did not seem to work, so…
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Day 10 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: “You Were Wearing” by Kenneth Koch
I had planned an outdoor reading today, but the weather got fickle, started spitting and gusting and causing a fuss, so I had to change plans. This is part of the difficulty I think of committing myself to producing a video a day for National Poetry Month. I suppose I can expect more of such…
