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“Evolution of a Valentine” [by Sandra Beasley]
From Sandra Beasley's blog "Chicks Dig Poetry": <<< Today, a student walked into my office at Wichita State University and wanted to talk about sestinas. Yes, please! We got to this place from her…
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Mussorgky’s Pictures at an Exhibition [by Lera Auerbach]
As I prepare a recital program for my concert at San Francisco Performances next month, I return to a work that has accompanied me for most of my life. Modest Mussorgsky's masterpiece, Pictures at an Exhibition, is…
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Eliot’s Turn [by Thomas Moody]
Critics have often viewed the work of T.S. Eliot through the lens of his conversion to “Anglo-Catholicism” in 1927. His most famous poems, Prufrock, The Waste Land, and The Hollow Men, written before…
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Visiting Raftery the Poet in the Cemetery of the Poets [by Terence Winch]
Many decades ago, my brother Jesse took a beginners’ course in the Irish language. Out of that experience, he memorized a short, beautiful poem by Anthony Raftery, usually called “Mise Raifteirí.” When we were…
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“Come Rain or Come Shine” w/ Eileen Farrell and Leonard Bernstein [by David Lehman]
Tomorrow is Valentine's Dayand to get you in the moodhere's Eileen Farrell provingthat a great opera singer cansing great jazz (Arlen's music,Mercer's words),and listento Lenny play the pianoin the bridge he could havebeen a…
