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Technical Difficulties!
Two things are happening right now. 1. My laptop’s mouse pad seems to be dying. It is 3 years old now and it has taken a lot of pounding, so tomorrow I will get an external mouse. 2. Windows Movie Maker does not like what I am doing with this video for tonight. I keep…
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Bonus Track: I Read Mark Strand’s “Keeping Things Whole”
Just two more poets to go, one tonight and one tomorrow, to conclude National Poetry Month. But in a little while I am going to go visit with the boys and their mother at a huge local flea market. They sell the most exotic fleas! There’s a poem idea for you. Anyway, since I don’t…
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Day 28 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: Mark Strand, “The Tunnel”
For today, another modern American poet. Some think he’s rather dark. He prefers to say “evenly lit.” I agree with him. He’s a master of surrealism and has a measured sense of phrasing that I like very much. Mark Strand is one of those poets who reads his work the way I hear it in…
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Musical Bonus Track: Stevie Smith’s “Not Waving, But Drowning,” Sung by Tanita Tikaram
Back home from a long-ish work day and glad to finally be starting my weekend. I have the poem for tonight recorded, but I need to do some editing, after a much needed nap! So first I thought I’d share this gorgeous interpretation of Stevie Smith’s “Not Waving, But Drowning.” Stevie was our poet for…
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Of My Ego and the Muse
This was one of my poems from my early fatherhood days, trying to be a good husband, going to school, learning how to fix things around the house, pay the bills. Sometimes we were just so tired. I saw the way people worked so hard with fertilizer and weed killers just to make every blade…
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Day 27 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: Stevie Smith, “Our Bog is Dood”
Our Blog is . . . Dude . . . Here we are, Day 27! Every day of this month I have recorded, edited and uploaded a poetry video as part of my project and personal challenge of 30 Days, 30 Readings for National Poetry Month. Each poem has been by a different poet, often…
