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On Apollinaire’s Birthday [by David Lehman]
In the heady days leading up to and including the catastrophe of World War I, when Paris was the capital of modern art, the poet Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918) stood at the vital center of…
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Theme Music: The Candide Overture [by Leonard Bernstein, on LB’s birthday]
from "A Good Week for a Birthday" (in The Morning Line by David Lehman) What would I choose as my theme musicif I were the classical music disc jockeymaybe Bernstein’s overture to Candide or…
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Theme Music: The Candide Overture [by Leonard Bernstein, on LB’s birthday]
from "A Good Week for a Birthday" (in The Morning Line by David Lehman) What would I choose as my theme musicif I were the classical music disc jockeymaybe Bernstein’s overture to Candide or…
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“Refugee” by Francis Geyer [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Francis Geyer’s “Refugee” first appeared in the Summer 1962 issue of Meajin, one of Australia's premier literary magazines. Geyer was Gwen Harwood’s second published heteronym, whose creation freed a multitude of Harwood’s most notable…
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“Refugee” by Francis Geyer [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Francis Geyer’s “Refugee” first appeared in the Summer 1962 issue of Meajin, one of Australia's premier literary magazines. Geyer was Gwen Harwood’s second published heteronym, whose creation freed a multitude of Harwood’s most notable…
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“Sinatra” [by Miho Kinnas and Ethelbert Miller]
Sinatra The strawberries are waiting for Frank Sinatra.He sings of moons, nights and years.His head tilted like a blue eye sky.What would it be like to touch his fedora?Tough guys listen and wonder. — Miho Kinnas &…
