Ms. Lyric's Poetry Outlaws

Day 4 of Poet on the Road in which I discuss my fourth book (and the first one from Anvil Press, 2006), a photographic collaboration with Karen Moe, some of the perils and joys of touring, muses, garbage, the prose poem and read an homage to Frank. The cat joins in. MEOW! Why don't you ;)

Day three of Poet on the Road in which I chat about my 2006 collection Shall (Wolsak and Wynn) and the ancient Persian ghazal form. What's the difference between the original and translated kind? Should I have written it? Pressing questions. Lead on!

DAY 2: My second book and my first from Wolsak and Wynn (2001). Mostly on extinct species and Robinson Jeffers. Cool cover. But the piece I recite is for Al Purdy (1918-2000). Join me! The tour is still fresh ;)

Day one of being on a 10 day podcast poetry tour in which I gripe a tad about the state of current affairs, introduce my first collection, Somatic from Exile Editions, and its reception and read "Seated Male Nude, 1910." Enjoy the nostalgia!

I'd never heard of it. But my neighbour had. Thanks neighbour for this entree into a fascinating forgotten poem and poet from the early-mid twentieth century.

The last offering from The Illustrated Poems for Children anthology (1973). I may get a bit ecstatic here and ramble on about the obvious ;) But o the coffee was good!!!

Second to last poem I'll read from 1973's Illustrated Poems. Those who live here will find my weather report funny so let's just say this one was recorded a few days ago and yes, it's now snowing again! A FENCE may have even more irony than I address and Nothing, the Rain and Tomorrow are all in god-like caps ;)

Another of the final installments in poems recited from Illustrated Poems 1973. This one is a simple evocation of grief. Though grief is never simple. I don't even mention seasons ;)

Monday's poem is a tragic ballad read outside with the collaboration of the birds! O Poe. O Poe.

Another piece from Illustrated Poems that I presumed was about the Black experience when I was a child as the picture shows it to be so. I still believe the poem relates racial as well as economic disparities. And likely it could also have been written about pre- WW 2 Depression-era job hunting as well though I randomly mention the 40s and 50s here. All these podcasts, after all, are recorded off...

Another classic poem from 1973's Illustrated Poems anthology which is read with dramatic fervour and discussed in relation to imagery. Did eye and symmetry rhyme? Is Blake speaking about a good or evil creator? Find out here. Or at least listen to ONE version of where my mind is wandering today.

Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky is read ferociously on "hump" day (ok it's also St Patty's so this is a kind of snake right?) and discussed in terms of its sounds and how poetry is just that at its core. And yes "gyre" here has a hard G ;) Enjoy!

In which I tackle the simply joyous but also darkly complex poem by the typographically-rampant and lower case 20th century poet e.e. cummings In Just so we can celebrate the arrivals of spring!

In which I recite and meander through an exploration of this stirringly ecological 19th century poem. Note I do not mention Dickinson's fascinating punctuation that was constituted of dashes as the version printed in the 1973 Illustrated Poems had, alas, been conventionalized with semi-colons and such like things.

In which I read this piece from the 1973 Illustrated Poems anthology and talk a little about its imagery, form and tone.

Joe Rosenblatt was my friend and collaborator and an amazing poet, painter and all around outlaw. Join me as I read his writing philosophy, chat about his life, then recite a poem I wrote for him, one of our collaborative sonnets and finish with his elegiac piece.

In which I recite a further piece from the Illustrated Poems and chat about its form and sounds and intent.

Another poem recited and riffingly elaborated on from the Illustrated Poems for Children anthology (1973).

In which I begin my readings from Illustrated Poems for Children (1973). In each of these episodes I will read a classic poem from this venerable anthology, riff off it in an explorational manner, and recite it again. This is Alfred, Lord Tennyson's The Eagle. Enjoy!