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Colin V
Radio Free Verse
Wednesdays at 7:56 PM
Wish you could jam Wallace Stevens on your drive home? Feeling a lack of Larkin on your fm dial? Tune in Wednesday evenings at 7 for poets reading poetry, with biographical notes and musical interludes. Host Colin V picks poems from across eras and styles, from formalism to the furthest fringes of the avant-garde, Baudelaire to Bishop, John Donne to John Ashbery, plus weekly roundups of literary happenings around Austin.
Shows
May 8, 2013 Show
A celebration of the so-called New York School of midcentury American poets, a Manhattan-based gang that included future stars like John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, and several others. Don't miss it!
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| The Circus | Kenneth Koch | Essential American Poets |
| Rivers and Mountains | John Ashbery | Reading at the Living Theatre, September 1963 |
| Poulenc: Sonata for Cello and Piano | London Conchord Ensemble | Poulenc: Complete Chamber Works |
| Eating Chocolate Ice Cream: Reading Mayakovsky | Barbara Guest | Collected Poems |
| Freely Espousing | James Schuyler | Poem of the Day |
| Kaleidoscope | Ornette Coleman Quartet | This Is Our Music |
| Having a Coke with You | Frank O'Hara | Biting Off the Tongue of a Corpse |
| Into the Dusk-Charged Air | John Ashbery | Reading at the Living Theatre, September 1963 |
| A Man in Blue | James Schuyler | Poem of the Day |
| The Blue Stairs | Barbara Guest | Collected Poems |
| To the Film Industry in Crisis | Frank O'Hara | Totally Corrupt |
| The History of Jazz | Kenneth Koch | Essential American Poets |
| Cleopatra's Dream | Bud Powell | The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 5: The Scene Changes |
May 1, 2013 Show
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| What Work Is | Philip Levine | Essential American Poets |
| A Position at the University | Lydia Davis | Reading at the Kelly Writers House, 1999 |
| Work | Thelonious Monk | Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins |
| Filling Station | Elizabeth Bishop | Poem of the Day |
| On the Subject of Doctors | James Tate | Essential American Poets |
| Goddess President, She's the Rose of the World | Poem of the Day | |
| Work Song | Nat Adderley | Work Song |
| His Carpets Flowered | Lorine Niedecker | Collected Poems |
| Working Men | Lydia Davis | Reading at the Kelly Writers House, 1999 |
| Workout | Hank Mobley | Workout |
| Working Models | Rae Armantrout | A Voice Box, May, 2010 |
| To Work Is to Contradict Contradictions, to Do Violence to Natural Violence | Robert Creeley | The Radio Reading Project |
| A Vision of Labor: 1931 | William Carlos Williams | Reading at the 92nd St Y, 1954 |
| The Downs | Minotaur Shock | Rinse |
April 17, 2013 Show
In the wake of this week's attacks in Boston, we picked a few poems about Boston and Massachusetts.
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| A Boston Ballad | Walt Whitman, read by The University Players | Selections from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass |
| Boston Flower Market | Ange Mlinko | Reading at the Drawing Center, New York, June 2001 |
| B Sharp Boston | Duke Ellington & His Orchestra | Primping for the Prom |
| Boston Year | Elizabeth Alexander | Poem of the Day |
| Dream & Excursus, Arlington, Massachusetts | Philip Whalen | Reading at the Vancouver Poetry Festival, July 1963 |
| For the Union Dead | Robert Lowell | Robert Lowell Reads His Poems |
| Solaris | Kreidler | Eve Future |
| Let's Cook! | Barney Kessel | Let's Cook! |
| Pscyhe in Somerville | Denise Levertov | Essential American Poets |
| Massachusetts | Robert Creeley | Rockdrill 1: I Know a Man, Poems 1945-1975 |
| Twilight in Boston | Jonathan Richman | I, Jonathan |
April 10, 2013 Show
"The child is the father of the man," wrote William Wordsworth, born April 7, 1770. Poems about childhood, including a couple from the man himself.
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| There Was a Boy | William Wordsworth, read by Christopher Hassall | The Poetry of William Wordsworth |
| Hang Garden | Ochre | Like Dust of the Balance |
| Sympathetic Portrait of a Child | William Carlos Williams | Library of Congress Recording Labratory, May 1945 |
| Snakes | Eileen Myles | Reading at the Ear Inn, January 1998 |
| Carter: 2 Diversions: II. | Ursula Oppens | Elliott Carter at 100: The Complete Piano Music |
| Excerpt from My Life ["Like plump birds along the shore"] | Lyn Hejinian | Reading at San Francisco State University |
| God Bless the Child | Eric Dolphy | At the Five Spot: Complete Edition |
| Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood | William Wordsworth, read by Cedric Hardwicke | The Poetry of William Wordsworth |
| Wordsworth: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 34: II. Presto | London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite | William Wordsworth: Symphonies 2 & 3 |
| I'll Remember April | Stan Getz | Quintets: The Clef & Norgran Studio Albums |
| Summer Garden | Louise Glück | Poem of the Day |
| Getting | Plaid feat. Leila | Not for Threes |
April 3, 2013 Show
Colin is out for tonight, and DJ Wolverine has you covered with two straight hours of jazz, all the way through "Rasputin's Jukebox" and up until Lee with "Club Talk." Stay tuned for some kickin' tunes from the GREATEST genre around!
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Love for Sale | Pete Christlieb, Ernie Watts and Rickey Woodward | Tenor Trio |
| River Of Light | Ernie Watts | The Long Road Home |
| Max Roach | Charlie Watts/Jim Keltner Project | Charlie Watts/Jim Keltner Project |
| Bourbon Street Parade | Jim Beebe | Jim Beebe's Chicago Jazz Saturday Night Function |
| Goin' To Town | Deep Blue Organ Trio | Goin' To Town |
| Aeroflot | Carlo Actis Dato Quartet | New Delhi Mambo |
| The Call | B-Sharp Jazz Quartet | Searching For the One |
| Blue 7 | Sonny Rollins | Saxophone Colossus |
| Wolverine Blues | Andy Sherwood | While We Danced at the Mardi Gras |
| Chicago Song | David Sanborn | The Best of David Sanborn |
| Lover Come Back To Me | Bud Powell | Lover Come Back To Me |
| Dreierlei | Clarinet Trio Two | Translucent Tones |
March 27, 2013 Show
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Bird Song | The Men | New Moon |
March 27, 2013 Show
DA SONNET
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Holy Sonnet XVI | John Donne, read by John Richetti | PennSound Classics |
| Love Is Not All | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work |
| The Children of the Poor | Gwendolyn Brooks, read by Quraysh Ali Lansana | Poem of the Day |
| Even/Odd | Rachel's | Systems/Layers |
| Sonnet to Morpheus | John Beer | The Waste Land and Other Poems |
| Carrion Comfort | Gerard Manley Hopkins, read by Hugh Schwatrzberg | Record a Poem |
| Film Music | Electrelane | Rock It to the Moon |
| Sonnet | John Ashbery | 19th Annual Poetry Day, WFMT Chicago, 1973 |
| Sonnet 1 | William Shakespeare, read by The Marlowe Society | Shakespeare: The Sonnets |
| Sonnet to Hank Cinq | duke ellington | Such Sweet Thunder |
| Sonnet 1 | K Silem Mohammad | The Sonograms |
| Sonnet 3 | Rae Armantrout | Reading at the Kelly Writers House, March 22, 2013 |
| Singer 1968 | Windsor For The Derby | Against Love |
| Post Sonnet | Elaine Equi | Segue Reading Series |
| This Can't Be Love | Red Garland Trio | It's a Blue World |
| Sonnet 23 | John Milton, read by John Richetti | PennSound Classics |
| Winter | Marie Ponsot | Poem of the Day |
| Sonnet 73 | William Shakespeare, read by Edith Evans | Edith Evans Reads Shakespeare's Greatest Sonnets |
| Metamorphosis Five | Philip Glass | Metamorphosis |
March 20, 2013 Show
On the 2056th anniversary of Ovid's birth, we play poems about classical mythology.
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Metamorphoses VIII, 217-35 | Ovid | Princeton Classical Language Instruction Project |
| Britten: Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Opus 49: Phaeton | Humbert Lucarelli | Britten: Six Metamorphoses after Ovid |
| Ovid, Meet a Metamorphodite | Jonathan Williams | Get Hot or Get Out |
| Fragment 1 | Sappho, read by Thomas McEvilley | Fragments 1, 2, 16, 31, 94 |
| Abrazo Distante | Tristeza | A Colores |
| Ode to Psyche | John Keats, read by Rachel DuPlessis | Studio III Session |
| Eros | Tortoise | Standards |
| Canto I | Ezra Pound | Ezra Pound Reads |
| Feather | Eric Dolphy | Prestige Jazz |
| The Birth of Venus | Muriel Rukeyser | Reading on March 21, 1959 |
| Venus de Milo | Miles Davis | Birth of the Cool |
| The Birth of Venus | William Carlos Williams | Reading at Harvard University, December 4, 1951 |
| Prayer to Hermes | Robert Creeley | Prayer to Hermes |
| Odysseus Hears of the Death of Calypso | Donald Revell | Poem of the Day |
| Metamorphosis Five | Philip Glass | Solo Piano |
March 13, 2013 Show
With St. Patrick's Day near, we survey a few leading lights of Ireland's rich poetic history.
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| The Lake Isle of Innisfree | William Butler Yeats | William Butler Yeats Reads His Own Work |
| The Song of the Old Mother | William Butler Yeats | William Butler Yeats Reads His Own Work |
| Blues in B-Flat | Ben Webster | Live at Ronnie Scott's 1964 |
| The Fishermen | William Butler Yeats | Poem of the Day |
| Page 43 Line 21 | James Joyce | Finnegans Wake |
| Morton Feldman: For Samuel Beckett | Sylvain Cambreling, Klangforum Wien | For Samuel Beckett |
| From "Malone Dies" | Jack MacGowran | MacGowran Speaking Beckett |
| Concert | Roger Doyle | Cool Steel Army |
| Joining the Colors | Maggie O'Sullivan | States of Emergency |
| Donnacha Dennehy: Junk Box Fraud | Crash Ensemble | NMC at 20: An Anniversary Sampler |
| Immram | Paul Muldoon | Paul Muldoon Reads His Poems |
March 6, 2013 Show
Blake Carter subs in Colin for tonight, as Mr. Carter recites some of Banjo Paterson's more well-known works (will update playlist at a later date).
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| reciting Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson | Radio Free Verse | kvrx.org |
February 20, 2013 Show
Ekphrasis--poems reacting to art and artists. Yow!
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers | Andrew Marvell, read by John Richetti | Reading at University of Pennsylvania, January 2012 |
| Bluesine | Martial Solal | Bluesine |
| An Unmentionable Painting | Bill Berkson | Segue Reading Series, October 2007 |
| Roses | Barbara Guest | Essential American Poets |
| To Frank Parker | Robert Lowell | Poem of the Day |
| "Cezanne painting with the same eye" | Murat Nemet-Nejat | Reading at the Kelly Writers House, January 2012 |
| About Cezanne | Cid Corman | About Cezanne |
| The Dance | William Carlos Williams | Pleasure Dome: Audible Modern Poetry Read by Its Creators |
| Slam's Mishap | Lucky Thompson | 1944-1947 |
| Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror [Part 1] | John Ashbery | The Voice of the Poet |
| Cosimo | Hotel Morgen | To Rococo Rot |
| Musee des Beaux Arts | W.H. Auden | W.H. Auden Reads His Poetry |
| Spring | Tagaki Masakatsu | Eating |
| Wednesday's Blues | Joe Newman | The Complete Swingville Sessions |
| Bresson's Movies | Robert Creeley | Bresson's Movies |
| Identical Ship | Mountains | Centralia |
| To the Film Industry in Crisis | Frank O'Hara | Totally Corrupt |
February 6, 2013 Show
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Pledge | Lee Ann Brown | Reading on WKCR, May 2002 |
| Soft Money | Rae Armantrout | Reading for A Voice Box, May 2010 |
| Money Shot | Rae Armantrout | Reading for A Voice Box, May 2010 |
| It Could Happen to You | Bud Powell | The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1 |
| Yesterday's Money | Iain Sinclair | Rockdrill 12. Iain Sinclair: Dead Letter Office, Poems 1970-2004 |
| The Town Dump | Howard Nemerov | Reading at the Library of Congress |
| Getting the Done Job | The Books | The Lemon of Pink |
| Money | Philip Larkin | Collected Poems |
| The View from the Dollar Bill | Bob Perelman | Reading at Bick's Books, December 1989 |
| Balance of Payments | John Ashbery | Reading at the Living Theatre, September 1963 |
| Gadje Sirba | A Hawk and a Hacksaw | The Way the Wind Blows |
January 30, 2013 Show
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| The Flea | John Dunne, read by John Richetti | John Richetti Reads Selected Poems of John Dunne |
| Django's Tiger | Django Reinhardt | The Best of Django Reinhardt |
| Goats | Eugenio de Andrade, read by Atsuro Riley | Poem of the Day |
| Snakes | Eileen Myles | Segue Reading Series |
| Szum I Szelest | Jacaszek | Lo-Fi Stories |
| Vixen | W.S. Merwin | Essential American Poets |
| Mountain Cats | Talkdemonic | Beat Romantic |
| At the Fishhouses | Elizabeth Bishop | Pleasure Dome |
January 23, 2013 Show
Sestinas! Pantoums! Villanelles! Ballades! Ghazals! Lesser-known verse forms take center stage.
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Let Me Count the Waves | Sandra Beasley | Poem of the Day |
| Sestina: Altaforte | Ezra Pound | Vocarium Recording, Harvard University, 1939 |
| O, She Says | Hailey Leithauser | Poem of the Day |
| Up in Dodo's Room | Howard McGhee | Complete Savoy & Dial Mastera Leader Sessions |
| Hotel Lautreamont | John Ashbery | Hotel Lautreamont |
| On the Sunny Side of the Ocean | John Fahey | Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death |
| Parent's Pantoum | Carolyn Kizer | Carolyn Kizer |
| Slanky Panky | Kid Koala | Some of My Best Friends Are DJs |
| June Night | Wynton Kelly | Kelly Great |
| The Ghazal of What Hurt | Peter Cole | Things Over Which I've Stumbled |
| The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse | Geoffrey Chaucer, read by David Wallace | PennSound Classics |
| It Hurts Me Too | Elmore James | Person to Person |
January 16, 2013 Show
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Crossing Brooklyn Ferry | Walt Whitman, read by The University Players | Selections from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass |
| Third Avenue in Sunlight | Anthony Hecht | Essential American Poets |
| Cage: Sonata for Prepared Piano No. 5 | Julie Steinberg | Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano |
| The Second City | Michael Davidson | Close Listening |
| A Reason | Barbara Guest | Essential American Poets |
| Pitt on Your Shirt on Monday | Ronn McFarlane | The Scottish Lute |
| St. Felix Street | Kimberly Lyons | Segue Reading Series |
| Birds: Amsterdam | Paul Blackburn | Reading at Bard College |
| Pauline Oliveros: Woodwind Quintet: VI. Interlude | Quintet of the Americas | Self-Portrait |
| The Waste Land [excerpt] | John Beer | Poem of the Day |
| Sub City | Bud Powell Trio | The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 4 - Time Waits |
December 18, 2012 Show
For 2012's last edition of Radio Free Verse, let's pretend there's such a thing as winter.
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| To Juan at the Winter Solstice | Robert Graves | Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work |
| "The fallen grass in winter..." | Lyn Hejinian | Kelly Writers House Fellows Reading |
| Blue Horizon | Sidney Bechet | The Best of Sidney Bechet |
| The Idea | Mark Strand | Poem of the Day |
| Winter | Aleksei Kruchenykh | Russian Futurism |
| DJ Shangri-La | Clinic | Internal Wrangler |
| Winter Horses | Barbara Guest | Reading at SUNY-Buffalo |
| A Story in Winter | Joe Ceravolo | Home Recording |
| Power of Persuasion | Oneohtrix Point Never | Replica |
| The Weather: 1. Winter | Kenneth Goldsmith | The Weather |
| The Winter | Balmorhea | Rivers Arms |
| Uh Huh | Hank Mobley | Workout |
| More Sonnets on Christmas | Allen Tate | Poem of the Day |
| Burning the Christmas Greens | William Carlos Williams | Recording for the Library of Congress Recording Party |
December 11, 2012 Show
A finals-week edition, mostly music, to make things easier on a beleaguered DJ.
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| First Love | Jan Owen | Poem of the Day |
| Homework | Otis Rush | Blues Classics |
| 5 6 7 8 9 10 | Final Exam | Final Exam |
| O Gente Da Minha Terra | Mariza | New Queens of Fado |
| Mess Me Around | The Babies | Our House on the Hill |
| The One Who's Hurting (Is You) | Roy & The Dewdrops | The Sultans of Soul |
| Prodigy | Charles Simic | Selected Early Poems |
| Walk On By | El Perro del Mar | Pale Fire |
| Schubert: Der Atlas | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore | Schubert: Lieder |
| Mr. Attila | Carl Sandburg | Poem of the Day |
| Yr Escape | Milezo | 3 EP's |
| Misty | Clinic | Free Reign |
| Misty | Erroll Garner | The Essence of Erroll Garner |
| Lexicon Devil | The Germs | GI |
| Fragment V | Library Tapes | Fragment |
| After School Swing Session | Louis Jordan | After School Swing Session |
December 4, 2012 Show
Poems in translation from across time and space.
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward FitzGerald, read by Alfred Drake | Alfred Drake Reads the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
| Consolation | Wisława Szymborska, translated and read by Claire Kavanaugh | Poem of the Day |
| Carter: Cello Concerto - 7. Allegro Fantastico | Alisa Weilerstein, Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim | Elgar & Carter Cello Concertos |
| Little Soul | Hadrian, translated and read by W.S. Merwin | Bookworm |
| Aries | Mary Lou Williams | Zodiac Suite |
| Promontory | Arthur Rimbaud, translated and read by John Ashbery | Illuminations |
| Tommib Help Buss | Squarepusher | Ultravisitor |
| Yours Is My Heart Alone | Oscar Peterson Trio | Last Call at the Blue Note |
| Creative Writing | Miroslav Holub, translated by Rebekah Bloyd | Poem of the Day |
November 6, 2012 Show
This week, Radio Free Verse is your source for Election Night coverage of a very different sort--poetry of politics, the Presidency, democracy, dissent, and more.
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| For You O Democracy | The University Players | Selections from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass |
| American Poem | Eileen Myles | State of the Union |
| Mista President | The Souljazz Orchestra | Freedom No Go Die |
| On Election Day | Charles Bernstein | Reading at the Barker Center |
| Brise Napolitaine | Guerino | Les Plus Belles Valses Musette |
| Shame | Richard Wilbur | Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work |
| A Boston Ballad | The University Players | Selections from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass |
| The Tragic Condition of the Statue of Liberty | Bernadette Mayer | Reading at the Ear Inn |
| What the President Will Say and Do | Jaap Blonk | Presidential Poems |
| Vote Dizzy (Salt Peanuts) | Dizzy Gillespie | Dizzy for President |
| The One Thing That Can Save America | John Ashbery | The Songs We Know Best |
| America! | Bill Callahan | Apocalypse |
October 30, 2012 Show
Spooky poetry of ghosts, witches, and the supernatural for our Halloween special.
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| The Apparition | John Dunne, read by Richard Burton | Richard Burton Reads Poems by John Dunne |
| Her Kind | Anne Sexton | Reads Her Poems |
| My Girlfriend Is a Witch | October Country | Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968 |
| Ulalume | Edgar Allan Poe, read by John Carradine | Halloween Spooktacular: Poe with Pipes |
| The Song of Shadows | Walter de la Mare | The Poet's Voice |
| Ghost Track | Yann Tiersen | L'Absente |
| The Ghost | Pauline Letts, V.C. Clinton-Baddeley, C. Day Lewis | Poems by W.B. Yeats and Others |
| Act IV, sc. 1 | William Shakespeare, performed by the Marlowe Society | Macbeth |
| Verdi: Macbeth: "Che faceste" - Witche's Chorus | London Symphony Orchestra | Grand Opera Choruses |
| All Hallows' Eve | Dorothea Tanning | Coming to That |
| Witchcraft | Bill Evans Trio | Portrait in Jazz |
| Relating to Robinson | Weldon Kees | Poem of the Day |
| Stravinsky: The Firebird: Berceuse - Arr. for Theremin and Piano | Clara Rockmore | Mystery Classics |
October 23, 2012 Show
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Skunk Hour | Robert Lowell | Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work |
| All In | Flying Lotus | Until the Quiet Comes |
| Women in Labor | Mary Ruefle | Poem of the Day |
| Dream Song 36 | John Berryman | Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work |
| Song | Cecil Taylor | Jazz Advance |
| In the Meantime | Lisa Olstein | Poem of the Day |
| Bowen Island | Kaki King | Glow |
| At a Solemn Music | John Milton, read by Hilton Edwards | The Poetry of John Milton |
| John Milton | John Cale | The Academy in Peril |
| Midnight Special | Jimmy Smith | Midnight Special |
| To Althea from Prison | Richard Lovelace, read by Sam Portman | The 100 Greatest Poems of All Time |
| Prison Cell Blues | Blind Lemon Jefferson | Anthology of American Blues |
October 16, 2012 Show
This week, poems set to music, music inspired by poetry, and more.
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Holy Sonnet XIV | John Donne, read by Christopher Hassall | Poems by John Dunne |
| Doctor Atomic: Batter My Heart | London Philharmonic Orchestra, Gerald Finley & Edward Gardner | Great Operatic Arias (Sung in English), Vol. 22: Gerald Finley |
| American Haikus | Jack Keroauc with Al Cohn & Zoot Simms | Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work |
| The Return | Caroline Weeks | Songs for Edna |
| Zeta Reticull / If I Told Him A Completed Portrait of Picasso | DJ Spooky, DJ Wally, Gertrude Stein | Rhythm Science |
| The Raven | The Alan Parsons Project | Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe |
| Act I: Avila; Tableau I | Orchestra of Our Time | Virgil Thomson: Four Saints in Three Acts |
| Stevie Smith | Vic Chesnutt | Little |
| Ashberyana. IIb. Scherzo: Dear Sir or Madam | Da Camera of Houston, Leon Williams, Charles Wuorinen, John Ashbery | Charles Wuorinen: Ashberyana/Fenton Songs I/Fenton Songs II/Josquiniana |
| Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly [Sonnet XIII] | Ladysmith Black Mambazo | When Love Speaks - The Sonnets |
October 2, 2012 Show
On the anniversary of Wallace Stevens' birth we feature several of his poems, plus works by other poets that explore some of Stevens' main themes--abstraction, meaning, and the use of the poetic imagination. Dig it!
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Theory of Poetry (A Prose Note) | Wallace Stevens | Wallace Stevens Reads |
| What Is Poetry | John Ashbery | The Songs We Know Best |
| Poetry | Marianne Moore, read by Robert Pinsky | Slate Poetry |
| Poetry | Boogie Down Productions | Criminal Minded |
| Matisse | Gertrude Stein | Gertrude Stein Reads from Her Works |
| Where Everything Waits | Ish Klein | Poem of the Day |
| Chicago Flyer | Meade "Lux" Lewis | The History of Blue Note, 75th Anniversary |
| And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name | John Ashbery | The Songs We Know Best |
| Iambic 9 Poetry | Squarepusher | Ultravisitor |
| The Idea of Order at Key West | Wallace Stevens | Wallace Stevens Reads |
| Poetry Rejoices | Hakan Sandell, read by Bill Coyle | Poem of the Day |
| Dead Ranch | Bill Frisell Quartet | Bill Frisell Quartet |
| Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour | Wallace Stevens | Wallace Stevens Reads |
| Bed, Cadenza | Philip Glass | Einstein on the Beach |
September 18, 2012 Show
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| This Is Just to Say | William Carlos Williams | Reading His Poems |
| Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams | Kenneth Koch | Kenneth Koch |
| Theme from a Filleted Place | The Shadows | The Shadows |
| To His Coy Mistress | Andrew Marvell | Andrew Marvell |
| The Passionate Shepherd to His Love/The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd | Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh | Conversation Pieces |
| On Looking Into Chapman's Homer | John Keats | Sir Ralph Richardson Reads Keats' Poems |
| Musee des Beaux-Arts | W.H. Auden | Anthology of English Poetry |
| The Dance | William Carlos Williams | Reading His Poems |
| Esperanza | Rachel's | Systems/Layers |
| Not Waving But Drowning | Stevie Smith | Stevie Smith |
September 4, 2012 Show
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 | Stephen Murray | The Poetry of William Wordsworth |
| Anaphora | Elizabeth Bishop | Pleasure Dome: Audible Modern Poetry Read by Its Creators |
| Qu'en Reste-T-Il? | Yann Tiersen | L'Absente |
| Bucolics: Woods | W.H. Auden | W.H. Auden Reads W.H. Auden |
| September Song | Erroll Garner | The Complete Savoy Master Takes |
| Sonnet LXXIII | Edith Evans | Edith Evans Reads Shakespeare's Greatest Sonnets |
| Still | A.R. Ammons | Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work |
| En Septembre Sous La Pluie | Jean Sablon | 1931-1950 |
| The Desert Is a Circle | Six Organs of Admittance | The Sun Awakens |
| H.D.: Orchard | Amy Dunkelberg | H.D. |
| The Public Garden | Robert Lowell | Robert Lowell & John Berryman |
| Keats: To Autumn | Stanley Plumly | Poets.org |
| Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio | James Wright | James Wright |
| Hopkins: Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves | Mary Jo Bang | Poetry Foundation |
| Morton Feldman: Rothko Chapel I | William Winant, Deborah Dietrich, Karen Rosenak, David Abel | Rothko Chapel, Why Patterns? |
August 28, 2012 Show
Inaugural broadcast of a program featuring recordings of poets reading their work, with biographical information and occasional commentary, plus musical interludes. Don't miss it!
| Track Name | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|
| The Poem | Mark Strand | Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work |
| To Elsie | William Carlos Williams | William Carlos Williams Reads His Poetry |
| Born, Never Asked | Laurie Anderson | Big Science |
| No Title | Ron Padgett | Big Ego |
| If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso | Gertrude Stein | Gertrude Stein Reads from Her Works |
| The Glass Enclosure | Bud Powell | The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 2 |
| The Wrong Kind of Insurance | John Ashbery | The World Record: Readings at the St. Mark's Poetry Project 1969-80 |
| From Canto LXXVI | Ezra Pound | Ezra Pound Reading His Poetry, Vol. 2 |
| To the Film Industry in Crisis | Frank O'Hara | Totally Corrupt |
| America | John Fahey | Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes |
| Résumé | Dorothy Parker | Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work |
| Straight Life | Art Pepper | Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section |
| Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man | Ogden Nash | Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work |
| So and So Reclining on Her Couch | Wallace Stevens | Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work |