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Day 30 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: DJB Reads from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”
I love my new mouse! He’s so tiny and quick. But I don’t think that was the entire problem. I still had Windows Movie Maker shut down on me during production tonight. Luckily I had a whole heck of a lot more work saved this time. And while I would love to upgrade to a…
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Bonus Track: Wallace Stevens, “Gray Room”
I’m way late getting out of the house today! I have a huge list of things on my to-do list today, not the least of which is purchasing a new external mouse for this ancient laptop so as to prevent the kind of technological nightmare I had last night while recording segments from “The Man…
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Day 29 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: From Wallace Stevens’ “Man with the Blue Guitar”
I have thought of my son Jonathan in relation to this poem, ever since he picked out this blue Dean guitar at my brother-in-law’s music shop. We were looking for laptops at the time, for a birthday present, but he said he would be happier to upgrade to a better guitar instead. How could…
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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…
