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Earle R. Hitchner III presents Garrison Keillor presenting Terence Winch’s “Comfort”
https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2008%252F08%252F23.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aisg1mYTUfs In that second link, click on the timeline at 3:00 to hear Garrison Keillor recite Terence's poem "Comfort," the text of which I pasted below. This is the second time that Keillor circulated…
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“Mad Men” [by Jim Cummins]
Mad Men Two men walk through the boardroom.Each one carries a spear; each wears a mask.Each man is afraid of his own death,but is no less willing to strike, to rend, kill.Each mask is…
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Farewell from the BAP blog
We have decided to end the Best American Poetry blog on September 30, 2025, the last day that our host, Typepad, shall remain in business.That this outfit is going under signals, perhaps, the decline of blogs in the…
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Happy birthday, Lew Saul
for Lew Saul 1) Perfection: Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 20Delight: Beethoven’s Sixth (“the Pastoral”) 2) Lew Saul reads my two-line poem for him(See above) and adds“Le Sacre du Printemps for air-conductingon a perfect breezy…
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Beethoven’s 4th Piano Concerto [for Lew Saul]
from the text of Luciano Berio's "Sinfonia": <<< and all this can't stop the wars, can't make the old younger or lower the price of bread — say it again, louder! – can't stop…
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Beethoven and My Father
My father Joseph Lehman was born on December 17, 1912, in Furth, Germany. Ludwig Van Beethoven was born in Bonn on the same December day in 1770. When my father had his fatal heart…
