Tag: poet
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Day 26 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: Robert Frost’s “Birches”
Well, I have done quite a few short poems during this personal challenge of recording and posting a poem each day of National Poetry Month. So this time I thought I’d do a bit of a longer reading for you. I have been wanting to read “Birches” for some time. I grew up a bit…
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Day 25 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Portrait by a Neighbor”
I love used bookstores, and if the used book store has a coffee shop, I will think that I have somehow passed from this life into my great reward. I remember my ex did not like going shopping for books or shoes with me, the shoes because I am hard to fit, and the books…
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Bonus Track: Frank O’Hara’s “Poem”
Actually there are several poems by Frank O’Hara entitled “Poem.” This is just one of my favorites. Since I did a newer Frank reading last night, I thought I’d dig into the old cloth bag and see what I read in the past by him that I could share with you. The video was crudely…
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Day 24 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: Frank O’Hara’s “Having a Coke with You”
This one has been a request of a friend’s long before April and National Poetry Month pounced upon me, and since I was eager to include Frank O’Hara in this collection, this just worked out nicely. I love how his complete absence of punctuation speeds up the poem into something of a breathless release of…
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Day 23 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: Gerald Stern, “I Remember Galileo”
After tonight there are only seven days left of National Poetry Month, only seven more poets for me to read. I have not had a plan, or a chart set out from the beginning, and many days I did not know who I would read when I awoke, but this week I started to make…
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Bonus Track, “Funeral Blues” by W. H. Auden
Last night I read a poem here by W. H. Auden. I wanted to read this one, but all the readings I’ve seen online seem to pale compared to this scene. Thanks to my friend David M. for pointing this out to me a few years back. I still have to see this movie. I…
