Wed, 18 Apr 2012 06:29:28 +0200 Mischa Willett http://www.mischawillett.com Podcast Maker v1.4.1 - http://www.lemonzdream.com/podcastmaker Poetry Readings by Mischa Willett. “It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there” -William Carlos Williams This podcast features the selection and performance of poems both classical and contemporary by Mischa Willett. The goal is to provide interpretive readings that help the poems breathe, and to introduce work with which the audience may not be familiar. en Creative Commons. You may do whatever yo unlike with these readings. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Mischa Willett willettemail@gmail.com http://www.poemsforthepeople.com/index/Podcast/angel_144.jpg http://www.mischawillett.com 144 132 Podcasting Literature Performing Arts Education Poetry, Readings, Poems, Oral Interpretation no Mischa Willett This poem is the last from "Selected Poems," released in 2006 by Yale University Press. His new book, "Clavics" was my favorite of last year. Intro music from Deerhunter http://www.poemsforthepeople.com/index/Podcast/Geoffrey%20Hill.m4a Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:16:45 +0200 Podcasting no 00:02:43 Poetry, Readings, Poems, Oral Interpretation Mischa Willett A lucky find for this traveller half a world away. A very northwestern poem from the Seattle poet's 1981 collection "Landfall." (pictured here is the cover of his Collected, from 2005, probably the better investment). http://www.poemsforthepeople.com/index/Podcast/David%20Wagoner%20%22Walking%20ina%20Marsh%22.m4a Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:16:34 +0100 Podcasting no 00:05:14 Poetry, Readings, Poems, Oral Interpretation Mischa Willett This poem is newly published in the Winter/Spring 2010 issue of Crab Orchard Review and has not yet been reprinted in any collections of the poet's work. http://www.poemsforthepeople.com/index/Podcast/Bruce%20Bond%20%22Milk%22.m4a Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:23:15 +0200 Podcasting no 00:05:50 Poetry, Readings, Poems, Oral Interpretation Mischa Willett A finalist for both the Pulitzer and the National Book Award, McHugh's work is smart and snarky, and more formal, usually, than you're probably thinking it is. http://www.poemsforthepeople.com/index/Podcast/itbounce-14.m4a Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:23:39 +0200 Podcasting no 00:03:02 Poetry, Readings, Poems, Oral Interpretation Mischa Willett Likely composed for his long-time lover Lou-Andreas Salome, this is a poem of devotion to a not-quite-consumated and possible future. http://www.poemsforthepeople.com/index/Podcast/itbounce-10.m4a Sun, 05 Jun 2011 22:23:37 +0200 Podcasting no 00:03:23 Poetry, Readings, Poems, Oral Interpretation Mischa Willett "But no one ever did come, because no one ever does, and under the crushing weight of his gigantic error, Jude continued to wish himself out of the world" Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" http://www.poemsforthepeople.com/index/Podcast/Hardy%20%22Darkling%20Thrush%22.m4a Tue, 17 May 2011 22:16:47 +0200 Podcasting no 00:05:14 Poetry, Readings, Poems, Oral Interpretation Mischa Willett Hudgins works subject-wise in the fields of redemption through pain, particularly in visceral descriptions of the American South. http://www.poemsforthepeople.com/index/Podcast/hudginsv%20track1.m4a Sat, 06 Nov 2010 22:41:00 +0100 Podcasting no 00:03:10 Poetry, Readings, Poems, Oral Interpretation Mischa Willett A poem of my own, as a gift. More info at: www.mischawillett.com Terrific music from "The Fretful Porcupine" http://www.poemsforthepeople.com/index/Podcast/Mischa%20Willett%20%22Hadriana%2C%20My%20Love%22.m4a Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:23:48 +0200 Podcasting no 00:04:34 Poetry, Readings, Poems, Oral Interpretation Mischa Willett I'm sending you a postcard from the end of the world. http://www.poemsforthepeople.com/index/Podcast/Sierra%20Nelson%20%22We%27ll%20Always%20Have%20Carthage%22.m4a Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:23:54 +0200 Podcasting no 00:02:45 Poetry, Readings, Poems, Oral Interpretation Mischa Willett A place-poem from the book "Like Those Who Dream" that is deceptively simple. Those who know mythology will be right to detect a note of menace in those ferries going back and forth across the water. http://www.poemsforthepeople.com/index/Podcast/Brad%20Davis%20%22Quiet%20Words%22.m4a Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:22:58 +0200 Podcasting no 00:02:28 Poetry, Readings, Poems, Oral Interpretation Mischa Willett This short lyric is the last finished poem we have of Shelley's. He was in the middle of "The Triumph of Life," when we drowned off the Italian coast in the Bay of Spezia along with Edward Williams, husband to this poem's likely addressee, Jane Williams. http://www.poemsforthepeople.com/index/Podcast/Percy%20Bysshe%20Shelley%20%22Lines%20Written%20in%20the%20Bay%20of%20Lerici%22.m4a Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:23:50 +0200 Podcasting no 00:04:30 Poetry, Readings, Poems, Oral Interpretation Mischa Willett Experiences of the sublime are supposed to overwhelm one's intelligence. However tawdry the airline industry has managed to make flying, it's still FLYING. http://www.poemsforthepeople.com/index/Podcast/Richard%20Kenney%20%22Air%20Sublime%22.m4a Sat, 22 May 2010 22:23:51 +0200 Podcasting no 00:01:57 Poetry, Readings, Poems, Oral Interpretation Mischa Willett Halliday's ingenious productivity suite. http://www.poemsforthepeople.com/index/Podcast/Mark%20Halliday%20%22Refusal%20to%20Notice%20Beautiful%20Women%22.m4a Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:23:44 +0200 Podcasting no 00:04:39 Poetry, Readings, Poems, Oral Interpretation Mischa Willett A classic piece of ekphrastica, Auden visits a museum in this terrific poem from 1938, and let's the work teach him. http://www.poemsforthepeople.com/index/Podcast/W.H.m4a Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:23:56 +0200 Podcasting no 00:03:22 Poetry, Readings, Poems, Oral Interpretation Mischa Willett The intro poem from Mark Strand's Pulitzer Prize winning volume, "The Blizzard of One." This is the sort of book upon which re-vivified loves of literature are built. http://www.poemsforthepeople.com/index/Podcast/itbounce-2.m4a Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:23:28 +0200 Podcasting no 00:02:02 Poetry, Readings, Poems, Oral Interpretation Mischa Willett Why all these poems out poets'-selves? Is the self a suitable topic for poetry? Beasley opens a pretty interesting vein of discussion at the close of the confessional school in this smart, and sonically-motivated piece on the transience of ink. http://www.poemsforthepeople.com/index/Podcast/Bruce%20Beasley%20%22Self-portrait%22.m4a Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:23:07 +0200 Podcasting no 00:03:04 Poetry, Readings, Poems, Oral Interpretation Mischa Willett The problem of a leader who doesn't know his people; the problem of men and women passing their lives in front of televisions. http://www.poemsforthepeople.com/index/Podcast/itbounce-7.m4a Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:38:35 +0100 Podcasting no 00:06:05 Poetry, Readings, Poems, Oral Interpretation Mischa Willett A meditation on art-making, and cycling, and any striving, from Seattle poet Laura Mckee. http://www.poemsforthepeople.com/index/Podcast/Laura%20McKee%20%22Strategy%20for%20the%20Decline%22.m4a Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:23:40 +0100 Podcasting no 00:02:13 Poetry, Readings, Poems, Oral Interpretation Mischa Willett In his apartment, they found 40 copies of this poem when Dylan Thomas died, each one slightly different, reflecting the perfectionist craftsman even in this child-like reverie of a farm in summer. http://www.poemsforthepeople.com/index/Podcast/Dylan%20Thomas%20%22Fern%20Hill%22.m4a Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:23:20 +0100 Podcasting no 00:04:16 Poetry, Readings, Poems, Oral Interpretation Mischa Willett Dean Young's books are hip and smart, and, thanks to Believer books, beautifully produced. This poem has been useful on more than one occasion; a sort of "morning after" consolation. http://www.poemsforthepeople.com/index/Podcast/Dean%20Young%20%22Ode%20to%20Hangover%22.m4a Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:23:18 +0100 Podcasting no 00:03:08 Poetry, Readings, Poems, Oral Interpretation Mischa Willett From the book "All-American Poem," which is sprawling, and surprisingly vulnerable debut from a terrifically gifted, and generous poet from Portland, Or. http://www.poemsforthepeople.com/index/Podcast/Matthew%20Dickman%20%22Classical%20Poem%22.m4a Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:23:46 +0100 Podcasting no 00:05:01 Poetry, Readings, Poems, Oral Interpretation Mischa Willett McSweeny’s book of Poets Picking Poets is a terrific experiment. A poet picks two favorite poems from someone she admires, who then picks two poems from someone else, and so on. I picked Brandon Som’s, for it’s unique roundedness, and quiet close. http://www.poemsforthepeople.com/index/Podcast/itbounce-4.m4a Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:23:33 +0100 Podcasting no 00:01:54 Poetry, Readings, Poems, Oral Interpretation Mischa Willett Though she died in 1950, I feel as though Edna St. Vincent Millay is just now coming into her own. Her poems are smart and honest, and turns rueful (as this one) and celebratory (as this one also is, in a way of thinking about it). http://www.poemsforthepeople.com/index/Podcast/itbounce-3.m4a Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:23:31 +0100 Podcasting no 00:01:58 Poetry, Readings, Poems, Oral Interpretation Mischa Willett From Gilbert’s book, The Dance Most of All, which is an homage to gone worlds, poetic, civic, and otherwise. http://www.poemsforthepeople.com/index/Podcast/itbounce-1.m4a Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:23:24 +0100 Podcasting no 00:02:54 Poetry, Readings, Poems, Oral Interpretation