Audio: Leonard Nimoy reads Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” from “The Martian Chronicles”
In the mid-seventies, a pair of record albums came out that offered a truly singular listening experience: the voice of Bradbury in the voice of Nimoy. Here’s a recording of … Continue reading
Adrian Blevins: An Ode to the Erection
I sing, for my daughter, of shanks and shafts and the endearing contrast between the mind’s affairs and the body’s undiscriminating inclinations.
Audio: Raymond Carver reads “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”
Here’s an audio recording of Raymond Carver reading his most famous story, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.” Taped in a Palo Alto hotel room in 1983 … Continue reading
Jenne’ R. Andrews: Becoming Your Beloved
Becoming Your Beloved Thirty five years out from your death, out of the dense black of the kitchen window where the trees have tightened their embrace around one another— . … Continue reading
Jose Padua: The Night We Tried to Get a Poet Arrested
I remember the night my friend and I tried to get a poet arrested for his crimes against literature, his hiding of horribly sentimental lines by speaking like a seller … Continue reading
Video: Big Mama Thornton and John Lee Hooker — “Down Home Shakedown”
1960 harmonica jam session. If you love the blues, this performance is not to be missed. The harmonica, also called French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, was developed in Europe … Continue reading
Video: Philip Levine reads “What Work Is”
Philip Levine reads his work at the AFL-CIO on Nov. 15, 2011. Philip Levine (January 10, 1928 – February 14, 2015) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet best known for … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: Midwinter
for all the trouble we go to to get the news on the lawn how we brave the strange wind in the linden tree brave the occasional black ice brave … Continue reading
Jose Padua: In These Insufferable Dreams
In these insufferable dreams I am becalmed by sweet monsters of joy—unfamiliar faces that move with jagged motions as in an old film, color photographs pulled from a wrinkled envelope … Continue reading
Philip Terman: Reading Philip Levine
Reading Philip Levine (1928-2015) The last person to read this book was Molly Renee Miller of 7527 Drive, San Antonio Texas, 78249-2518, United States of America. I know this because … Continue reading
Video: Taha Muhammad Ali reads his poem “Revenge”
Taha Muhammad Ali and Peter Cole read Taha’s unpublished poem Revenge.
Jose Padua: Bold as Love
It was my end of the summer visit back home— to DC, from New York, from the train full of bad snacks and half-cold beer, and when I got to … Continue reading
Video: I didn’t Like It the First Time (The Spinach Song) by Julia Lee
Julia Lee (October 31, 1902 – December 8, 1958) was an American ” dirty blues” musician. Born in Boonville, Missouri, Lee was raised in Kansas City, and began her musical … Continue reading
