Tag: poet
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Day 12 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: John Keats, “To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent”
This one goes out to my cyber friend Keatsbabe. Visually I was going for a kind of unrehearsed contrast in this video, keeping the city images throughout, instead of the pastoral scenes Keats supplies up in the poem itself. I think I like the result. The opening scene is of the Chrysler Building, once upon a time the…
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Day # 9 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: William Butler Yeats, “A Model For The Laureate”
As William Butler Yeats said in a letter to Dorothy Wellessley in 1937, “Politics, as the game is played today, are so much foul lying.” It’s impossible for a thinking person not to be bothered by politics in these United States of late, when it seems that the government, local and national is being bought…
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Bonus Track: Honoring Adrienne Rich, “Diving Into the Wreck”
I wanted to pass this along to my readers in memory of Adrienne Rich. One of my favorites read by my friend Kristine Byrne. Kristine told me that when she heard the poet read this herself, the delivery was much more matter of fact, but I really like this reading. Check out Kristine’s other videos…
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Day #3 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: Hart Crane’s “A Persuasion”
Aside from reading a few of his poems here and there over the years, I am relatively new to Hart Crane’s work, though thanks to multiple recommendations he has been on my reading to-do list for ages. My brother Vincent from across the Pond asked me about Crane this week, because he had just taken…
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DJB reads Sweet Talk, and Billy Collins Reads at the White House
I highlighted my William Stafford playlist the other day, and today I’d like to feature another playlist of mine, a group of poems by one of my favorite living American poets, Billy Collins. Click here for the playlist. There are some great readings of his poems online, including some fun animations, one of which I…
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William Stafford Playlist
Sometime after midnight last night I posted here an old favorite poem by William Stafford. Since I started in earnest with new readings on my YouTube channel in January, I have been developing a William Stafford Playlist which you can be find by clicking on this sentence. Have a look, take a listen, and perhaps you…
