White Ash Flies

Tonight on White Ash Flies, Episode 1 of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, read by Colin Mahoney.

Zander's Appendix and Other Gratuitous Organs brings along two poems written and read by Colin Mahoney: Lot's Lament, and The House of the Stare, on White Ash Flies. 45 sec, Lot's Lament 2 min, 5 sec, The House of the Stare N.B. Sections 2 and 3 of The House of the Stare paraphrase two passages from Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species.

White Ash Flies is back this Friday with Episode 3 of The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, read by Colin Mahoney.

Tonight on White Ash Flies, Episode 1 of My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir, read by Colin Mahoney.

This morning, on White Ash Flies: Zander's Appendix and Other Gratuitous Organs, featuring 3 Poems Containing Birds, written and read by Colin Mahoney. 45 sec, The Agency to End Agency 2 min, Momotus Momota 3 min, 30 sec, A Letter From Here

Tonight another round of Sonnet Octagon on White Ash Flies: 3 sonnets by Edmund Spenser eyeball-to-eyeball with 3 by William Shakespeare. Bring some clean towels.

Tonight, on White Ash Flies, we're serving up Your Tuesday Spleen: 2 Poems by Jonathan Swift, read by Colin Mahoney. 50 sec, A Pastoral Dialogue 5 min, 15 sec, Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift (ll. 73-164)

Another Sunday, another installment of Zander's Sunday Sauce on White Ash Flies, featuring La Corona (1608 or thereabouts), a sonnet sequence by John Donne, read by Colin Mahoney: 50 sec, Sonnet 1 2 min, Sonnet 2, Annunciation 3 min, 12 sec, Sonnet 3, Nativity 4 min, 20 sec, Sonnet 4, Temple 5 min, 25 sec, Sonnet 5, Crucifying 6 min, 40 sec, Sonnet 6, Resurrection 7 min, 52 sec, Sonnet 7, Ascensio...

Tonight, bounding from Zander's Appendix: 2 Poems Against Malice, written and read by Colin Mahoney, on White Ash Flies. 49 sec, The Strange Death of the Count de Foix 3 min, They Built Her a Close Heaven

Tonight, the first installment of Cathay (1915), a book of Chinese poems in translation (via Japanese and Italian) by Ezra Pound, read by Colin Mahoney. 1 min, The Bowman of Shu 3 min, 20 sec, The Beautiful Toilet 4 min, 15 sec, The River Song 7 min, 30 sec, The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter

On White Ash Flies, this week's installment of Zander's Sunday Sauce features a side-by-side of two translations of Psalm 37, read by Colin Mahoney:  One by Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)and a second from the Oxford Annotated Bible, the Standard Revised Edition. 5 min, 55 secs, Sir Thomas Wyatt's translation

Tonight on White Ash Flies, Episode 4 of Lincoln Letters: His star rises as the Chicago convention approaches. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

This is the first installment of a new series on White Ash Flies, SONNET OCTAGON: The sonnets of Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599) and William Shakespeare (1564-1616), read by Colin Mahoney.  Tonight, Sonnets 1-3 by each.

White Ash Flies presents Episode 2 of The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, read by Colin Mahoney.

White Ash Flies presents another installment of Zander's Sunday Sauce: The Book of Ruth, from the Oxford Annotated Bible, Standard Revised Edition, read by Colin Mahoney.

On a rainy Saturday, from Zander's Appendix: Monday with Dad (for Jim), written and read by Colin Mahoney.

Another back and forth of the presidential ping pong ball: Episode 4 of The Adams-Jefferson Letters, on White Ash Flies. 

For Cat People everywhere, and everyone else: Today on White Ash Flies, My Cat Jeoffrey, written by Christopher Smart during his confinement to St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, read by Colin Mahoney.

Birds on fire: The Phoenix and Turtle by William Shakespeare, on White Ash Flies.  

White Ash Flies presents another installment of Zander's Sunday Sauce, with the Book of Jonah followed by a poem by John Donne, read by Colin Mahoney: 45 sec, The Book of Jonah 10 min, 30 sec, A Hymn to God the Father

For all the nurses, techs, physicians, PAs and everyone else caring for the sick out there, The Wound-Dresser by Walt Whitman, on White Ash Flies.

White Ash Flies presents Episode 3 of Lincoln Letters, read by Colin Mahoney.

Tonight, Zander's Appendix, and Other Gratuitous Organs presents The Golf Outing (an eastertide triptych), written and read by Colin Mahoney: 30 sec, Part 1: The Visitation 6 min, Part 2: The Burning of the Boats 24 min, 42 sec, Part 3: The Deposits, the Debits, and the Balance Thereunto

The first installment of Zander's Appendix, and Other Gratuitous Organs, a new series featuring original content written and read by Colin Mahoney.  Today, 4 Poems: 45 sec, “The Best Case” 1 min 51 sec, “The Sisters Dolor” 4 min 7 sec, “He Named His Boat Clover” 5 min, “Will You Join My Carpool?”

White Ash Flies presents Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth, read by Colin Mahoney.