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A Barred Owl by Richard Wilbur
Originally posted on The Monkey Prodigy: Please take a moment to relax, close your eyes, and listen to a reading of a fine poem. Okay, you don’t have to close your eyes. https://soundcloud.com/monkeyprodigy/a-barred-owl-by-richard-wilbur A Barred Owl By Richard Wilbur The warping night air having brought the boom Of an owl’s voice into her darkened room, We…
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Requests for Toy Piano by Tony Hoagland
Originally posted on The Monkey Prodigy: https://soundcloud.com/monkeyprodigy/tony-hoagland Read this poem by clicking here. There are several good readings like the one below. A few of them are from the Poetry Out Loud competition which introduced me to this poem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6vBnnV6FRw
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The Poem Fixed My Ending
Frequently I’ve gotta do all of this work first, and then just wait and listen. I’ve been working on a poem since last Easter. Not unusual. Most of them don’t come quickly. Well, they may start quickly, but they don’t often come all at once. This poem was almost all there, but it had some…
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The Blue Fish That Requires An Aquarium of Milk by Roger Fanning
Originally posted on The Monkey Prodigy: Today I worked on a recording by a poet of whom you may not be aware, Roger Fanning. Enjoy! https://soundcloud.com/monkeyprodigy/the-blue-fish-that-requires-an-aquarium-of-milk-by-roger-fanning
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Happy Birthday to Mary Oliver
Oh, yeah, and to me! There’s a poet whose loss I was planning to write about, but then I remembered that I share a birthday with Mary Oliver today. And so instead of thinking about aging and death, I decided that first, it would be a good idea to spend a little time in the…
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Saturday Song for Walter
Hello, Friends. There’s a lot I want to catch up on as I’ve been promoting the release of my first chapbook so much lately. But I want to pause and talk about a couple of artists we’ve lost in the past week, including poet John Ashbery (more on him in the next post) and today’s…
