A collection of poetry selected and performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode. Rhapsodes of Ancient Greece were “song-stitchers,” performing selections from the epics of Homer and Hesiod. The contemporary rhapsode performs the classical poetry of his or her language, culture, and tradition. Any particular collection and arrangement of poems for performance I term a “rhapsody.” In general terms, a rhapsody is an ecstatic expression of feeling and enthusiasm. In music, a rhapsody is an instrumental ...
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Connecting to Host is a co-operative and multiplayer gaming podcast. As friends who now live a thousand miles apart, John and Ben let loose their strong opinions about co-op and online gaming. In a typical episode we review a game from a purely co-op perspective but we often do specials to discuss other gaming news or other topics about the bigger picture of multiplayer gaming.
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Brief essays on poetry: considering a poem and how it reveals the world and the human experience. Find the text of the poems featured and the podcast script on MarilynOnaRoll.wordpress.com.
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Old Books. The Bible & Faith. Antiques. Nature. History. Coffee. Poems. Edison Phonographs. Old Pipes. Old Movies. Hot Tea. Beautiful Memories Of Times Gone By.
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Love of country under scrutiny in my poem "Pro Patria."Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Details and attention weave together this disparate poem's lines: "Evidence of Tenderness" by Lauren Camp.Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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The hazards and dull horror of war and John Balaban's vivid "The Guard at the Bin Thuy Bridge."Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Small subversions and what poetry can do, seen at work in "Perserving an Ecosystem" by Christina Olivares.Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Jane Hirshfield's "Counting, This New Year's Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye
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Counting blessings, however mixed, under consideration and this Jane Hirshfield poem: "Counting, This New Year's Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me."Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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All things connected in this Li-Young Lee poem, "One Heart."Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Remembering and misremembering and an old poem: Thomas Bailey Aldrich, "Memory."Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Star-gazing with Wordsworth, and thinking about the notorious denizens of the planet Earth.Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Two poems on faith and doubt and the small voice inside.Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Kweku Abimbola's "Burning Box Braid on East & 94th, Tulsa, Oklahoma": Whirled Through a Poem's Eye
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"Burning Box Braid on East & 94th, Tulsa, Oklahoma" by Kweku Abimbola explores the maintenance of old traditions in new lands, holding the "us" amid the "other," but understanding too that we are all "other" and "us" as well.Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Reading "Vesper Sparrows" by Deborah Digges and thinking about humanity.Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Going along to get along, and Anne Carson's short-short "Getaway" considered in this podcast.Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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That Nature Is a Heracletean Fire and Of the Comfort of the Resurrection by Gerard Manley Hopkins: Whirled Through a Poem's Eye
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Gerard Manley Hopkins and reveling in the death of some things and the birth of others in his poem "That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection."Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Lost on a byway in this quirky poem by Jackie Craven.Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Tomas Transtromer's "Kort Paus I Orgelkonserten," translated by Patty Crane, and memory and experience considered in this podcast.Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Patrick Rosal's prayer and meditation on home and hope, grief and ongoing.Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Loving the world and turn of the century French poet Anna de Noailles's poem "L'impreinte" in my translation.Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Hope arising from suffering considered in Audre Lorde's "Litany for Survival."Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Memorializing Saara Raappana with this poem of hers, "Manifesto of What Breaks."Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Human's inhumanity and the love required as counterbalance in consideration, and Kumunyakaa's stunning poem of the Vietnam War Memorial, "Facing It."Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Hearts and wants, the shape of desire, and "Heart to Heart" by Rita Dove considered in this podcast.Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Fathers and memory and empathy explored in this consideration of Bruce Weigl's poem "The Harp."Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Christian Wiman and his poem about shifting beliefs and speeding time and friends, "All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs."Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Thoughts on Kay Ryan's poem "The Light of Interiors" and the importance of friendship.Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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William Snyder's poem "The Hush" is featured, and thinking about noise and silence.Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Linda Pastan's poem "Espaliered Pear Trees" inspires this episode considering humankind's incessant attempts to control nature.Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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In memory of Stu Bartow and his fine poetry and his haikuist's eye.Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Thinking about Bob Hicok's poem "All life is life in art" and "doing" versus "being" and the meaning of life.Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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A short essay thinking about Gail DiMaggio's poem "Metta for Judy," from her forthcoming collection What She Made of It.Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Thinking about Gerald Stern's poem "Day of Grief" and the sense of time and its passage, and life's unfolding.Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Considering "Book Four" by Kathleen Graber, and time, collecting things, and letting things go.Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Remembering poet and friend Naton Leslie, and his poem "In the Year of my Birth Elvis Records Heartbreak Hotel."Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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A consideration of creativity and making art, and Jane Hirshfield's poem "Rebus."Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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A consideration of faith and Bruce Beasley's poem "Aphasic Echolalia."Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Carol Frost's To Kill a Deer: Whirled Through a Poem's Eye
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Considering in this podcast Carol Frost's visceral and startling poem "To Kill a Deer." Not for the faint at heart. Frank images from a deer hunt.Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Neil Carpathios's poem serves as this podcast's poem lens. Find the text of the poem and the podcast script on MarilynOnaRoll.wordpress.com.Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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Mary Oliver's poem Wild Geese is the lens through which this podcast considers the world.Kirjoittanut marmccabe
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