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Pilgrims on the Ocean [by Terence Winch & Eileen Estes]
Terence Winch & Billy McComiskey, 2016 …
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Tanya Larkin on Cavalli, Koch and Paestum: Is There Any Comparison?
"I don't want to talk about love, I just want to make it." (D'amore non voglio parlare, lo voglio solamente fare.) I hear this Patrizia Cavalli line, made famous in Kenneth Koch's poem "Talking to…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: DECEMBER 21, 2022
For today’s post, I point you in the direction of Chard deNiord’s “Tablet” which explicates/expands upon the surviving tablets of the epic poem Gilgamesh. Using anaphora, permutations of language, and big “what if” questions,…
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“Pet” by Kate Lilley [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Kate Lilley has published three books of poetry, including Versary (2002), winner of the Grace Levin Prize, and the acclaimed Lady Like (2012). Her most recent collection Tilt won the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary…
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John Donne’s “Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Eve”
‘TIS the year’s midnight, and it is the day’s,Lucy’s, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks ;The sun is spent, and now his flasksSend forth light squibs, no constant rays ;The world’s whole sap is sunk…
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Dmitri Shostakovich: The Nose, Op. 15 (1927-28) [by Lewis Saul]
The Nose, Op. 15 (1927-28)Royal Opera HouseOrchestra of the Royal Opera HouseIngo Meszmacher, cond.(2:13:27) The 22-year-old wrote his first opera (although he began others, the only other satisfactorily complete one is Lady Macbeth…
