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Saturday Plans for National Poetry Month
My sons are coming tomorrow (read that as later today, since I wrote this in the wee hours before bed), and thanks to Life is an Exquisite Journey’s blog I have some ideas of what we can do on our street and at the park a block away, right by the library. I wonder if…
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Day # 6 – 30 Days, 30 Readings for National Poetry Month: “Sonnet 130” by William Shakespeare
Okay, I am ashamed. I have a problem. I love poetry so much that when I’m at work all day and other people have to sneak out to the dumpster to have a smoke, I am doing something much much worse… Yes, I admit it, I sneak to the restroom sometimes to (please don’t judge…
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Day #5 National Poetry Month, 30 Days, 30 Readings: “Fire Flies” by DJB
I bet you were thinking I wasn’t going to make it. Well, it’s still and hour and a half before midnight, so here is day five of 2012’s National Poetry Month project, 30 days, 30 readings. This time I thought I’d read for you one of my own. I hope you like it. The images…
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Bonus Track: Honoring Adrienne Rich, “Diving Into the Wreck”
I wanted to pass this along to my readers in memory of Adrienne Rich. One of my favorites read by my friend Kristine Byrne. Kristine told me that when she heard the poet read this herself, the delivery was much more matter of fact, but I really like this reading. Check out Kristine’s other videos…
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Day #4 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: Adrienne Rich, “Poetry I”
The poetry world, and this troubled world we live in lost Adrienne Rich on Tuesday, March 27th. I think this is a proper poem to remember her by on this 30 days project for National Poetry Month. There were many to chose from, but this one strikes a chord that ties together her mission, her…
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Bonus Track from Tom O’Beldam: “At Melville’s Tomb,” by Hart Crane
While I was studying up on Hart Crane I did what I often do, I looked it up on Tom O’Bedlam’s SpokenVerse Channel on YouTube. That man has an astounding one thousand plus videos in his catalogue, and with over 12,500 subscribers (including me), he is the Rock Star of poetry readings on YouTube. I…
