Tag: poet
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Bonus Track: Matthew MacFadyen reads Sonnet 29
Well, I got my to-do list mostly covered, and more quickly than I expected. I’m working on what today’s reading will be– What? You think I plan these things ahead of time? Again, dear reader, you give me far too much credit. I may appear to be organized, but that’s all done with smoke and…
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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…
