Whitman Recites
Jim Clark provides an aniation of the only known recording of Whitman's voice.…
Being Lost
Several posts separated these two in my Tumblr stream— At Book Mania [http://bookmania.me/post/105065833317/from-a-field-guide-to-getting-lost-by-rebecca] At On Being [http://blog.onbeing.org/post/105051767051/sometimes-beauty-comes-from-unexpected-places-an?utm_campaign=SharedPost&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=TumblriOS] > I never wanted to be a vagabond; An aimless wanderer…
Edward Fields on Aging
Edward Fields read his poem Envoi on Prairie Home Companion last night. I don't know that I always manage to maintain his perspective. Maybe when I reach eighty-something > ENVOI > At 87, it’s hard to believe, but I simply have no complaints. I’m a pretty…
Ginsberg and Eliot
> Cool marginalia! MT @Lit_Books [https://twitter.com/Lit_Books]: Allen Ginsberg’s annotated copy of T.S.Eliot’s “The Waste Land” pic.twitter.com/9BGL5YxITO [http://t.co/9BGL5YxITO] — Souri S (@_unesouris) November 5, 2014 [https://twitter.com/_unesouris/status/530102655423901696]…
Election Day
The Paris Review [http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/11/04/william-carlos-williamss-election-day/] shocked me into another kind of appreciation for election day by offering this 1941 poem by William Carlos Williams. > Warm sun, quiet air an old man sits > in the doorway of a broken house— boards for…
Tennyson's Voice
Animation accompanies a recording of Tennyson reading *The Charge of the Light Brigade.*via PoetryReincarnations [http://youtu.be/MkqUq26z1CE]…
How like a Zen Master
This thought got my attention yesterday for its beauty, and it got me thinking about the number of times a Persian poet showed up in a Zen stream. > "Poems are rough notations for the music we are." ~Rumi #quotes [https://twitter.com/hashtag/quotes?src=hash] — Zen…
Muscle Memory
The concluding stanzas ofWhat the Heart Cannot Forget [http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2013/11/25] by Joyce Sutphen [http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2013/11/25]. In a decidedly unpoetic way, the image reminds me of the way my body feels when someone helps me…