Last week we made the exciting announcement that Ben Pease’s Scattered Rhymes podcast was making itself a home at THEthe. In anticipation of the coming podcast, we are reposting the old episodes from the . Today we’re reposting , which features an interview with Joseph Spece. Joseph Spece, Part 1 Joseph Spece, Part 2 Note: The interview takes place at JC’s apt., so here and there you may hear mention of a picture of the Winged Victory in the living room or various trinkets on a counter in his bedroom.
We’re pleased to announce that Ben Pease’s Scattered Rhymes podcast is going to become the official podcast of THEthe! Scattered Rhymes is a long-form interview podcast in which poets discuss and read their work. Ben Pease has been doing the podcast for several years now and has created a back log of work that THEthe will be reposting over the next month or so in anticipation of Scattered Rhymes’ next installment. From that point on, we hope to make Scattered Rhymes a monthly endeavor. The latest episode will be posted and featured on THEthe and later archived at the . The first featured poet from the Scattered Rhymes podcast is Gail Mazur. Gail Mazur Interview, Part 1 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version . You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Gail Mazur [...]
Listen to Joe Weil’s album of original poetry and music, recorded with the help of . Related Posts As If She Were a Symbol of Something Adam Fitzgerald’s “Life of Gorgias” Incantations: Michael S. Harper, A Love Supreme that gum you like is going to come back in style Briefly remembering
Episode 5 of Poetry Fix! Louise Gluck’s “Mock Orange.”
Episode 4 now available on YouTube. Wallace Stevens’s poem “.” Related Posts Poetry Fix Episode 3: Pablo Neruda Poetry Fix Episode 1: Robert Hass.June 25, 2010 Poetry Fix Episode 2: ArchilochosJune 28, 2010 TheThe Roger Scruton on Beauty
Hey friends, Mary Karr and I have started a YouTube video series called Poetry Fix. . Twice a week on Mondays and Fridays we’ll upload a 2-4 minute video where we read a poem and briefly discuss it. We’re trying to pimp poetry for average humans. Any feedback is appreciated. We hope you enjoy. And if you do, consider joining and (@marykarrlit) for more updates. Also, please forward and spread the word! Share this: Related Posts Poetry Fix Episode 1: Robert Hass. June 25, 2010 Poetry Fix Episode 2: Archilochos June 28, 2010 Roger Scruton on Beauty Herman Melville Drinks Your Milkshake “While I was masturbating, more rainforest disappeared”
Poetry Fix Episode 9: Seamus Heaney’s “Digging.” Related posts: Poetry Fix Episode 8: Nicanor Parra Poetry Fix Episode 5: Louise Gluck Poetry Fix Episode 7: Robert Frost Poetry Fix Episode 6: Miroslav Holub Poetry Fix Episode 3: Pablo Neruda
Episode 8 of Poetry Fix now available. Related posts: Poetry Fix Episode 3: Pablo Neruda Poetry Fix Episode 1: Robert Hass. Poetry Fix Episode 5: Louise Gluck Poetry Fix Episode 6: Miroslav Holub Poetry Fix Episode 7: Robert Frost
Episode 7 of Poetry Fix: Robert Frosts’s “Once by the Pacific.” Poetry Fix Episode 8: Nicanor Parra Poetry Fix Episode 6: Miroslav Holub Poetry Fix Episode 9: Seamus Heaney Poetry Fix Episode 5: Louise Gluck tagged as Chrs Robinson, Episode 7, Mary Karr, Once by the Pacific, Poetry Fix, Robert Frost, YouTube
of Poetry Fix. Miroslav Holub’s “Ode to Joy.” Poetry Fix Episode 7: Robert Frost Poetry Fix Episode 5: Louise Gluck Poetry Fix Episode 4: Wallace Stevens Celebrating Sylvia tagged as Chris Robinson, Episode 6, Mary Karr, Miroslav Holub, Ode to Joy, YouTube
from Welcome to the Future
FALSTAFF God save thee, my sweet boy! KING HENRY IV My lord chief-justice, speak to that vain man. LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE Have you your wits? know you what ’tis to speak? FALSTAFF My king! my Jove! I speak to thee, my heart! KING HENRY IV I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers; How ill white hairs become a fool and jester! I have long dream’d of such a kind of man, So surfeit-swell’d, so old and so profane; But, being awaked, I do despise my dream. Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace; Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape For thee thrice wider than for other men. Reply not to me with a fool-born jest: Presume not that I am the thing I was; For God doth know, so shall the world perceive, That I have turn’d away my former self; So will I those [...]
I recommend playing all the videos at the same time. Some enchanted evening You may see a stranger, you may see a stranger Across a crowded room And somehow you know, You know even then That somewhere you’ll see her Again and again. Some enchanted evening Someone may be laughin’, You may hear her laughin’ Across a crowded room And night after night, As strange as it seems The sound of her laughter Will sing in your dreams. Who can explain it? Who can tell you why? Fools give you reasons, Wise men never try. Some enchanted evening When you find your true love, When you feel her call you Across a crowded room, Then fly to her side, And make her your own Or all through your life you May dream all alone. Once you have found her, Never let her go. Once you have found her, Never let [...]
This month marks the 47th anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s passing, and my admiration grows more intense by the day—she is my touchstone, my first and last, my desert-island poet. I marvel at what she would’ve written had she lived longer, as each poem grows richer in chronological order. Below: excerpts from an interview with Peter Orr, recorded in 1962, wherein Plath is wonderfully lucid and charming; candidly speaking about a poet’s life and work, the inextricability of the two. We’re extremely lucky to have access to this recording (and other brilliant videopoems!) here: I think my poems come immediately out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have—but I must say I cannot sympathize with these cries from the heart that are informed by nothing except a needle or a knife, or whatever it is. I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most [...]