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…
Tag: 30 Days
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…
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…
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…
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…
30 Days, 30 Readings, Day #1 NaPoMo, William Stafford’s “When I Met My Muse”
So what are you doing to celebrate National Poetry Month? Some poets like K. McGee are writing a poem a day. Others like Rachel Bunting are busy with school and work and parenting and just hoping to participate and encourage others to celebrate. Please check out her blog for some great ideas about where to…
