wordandsilence.com - Tim Miller – Poetry * Mythology * Podcast

Description: https://anchor.fm/s/3a88c6bc/podcast/rss Where my work has appeared recently: Medieval World Culture & Conflict #10: Review of Andrew Schell's study, Beowulf: A Poem. Medieval World Culture & Conflict #9: Essay: "When Translations Were King: How the Gift of a Greek Manuscript Changed Medieval Spain" (A supplement to the essay, with a further history of the Greek medical…

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An episode from 4/17/21: These “Advice” episodes (originally called The Poet Speaks) will each feature a small collection of quotations on creativity from various artists, poets, and writers.  Tonight, the main quotations come from Serge Bramly’s ⁠Leonardo: The Artist & the Man⁠, where he writes that da Vinci “was always less concerned with the finishing……

An episode from 3/4/21: This is the first in a series of readings from biographies of Walt Whitman. Tonight, I start with ⁠Paul Zweig’s Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet⁠, which focuses on the years preceding the publication of Leaves of Grass. Here, Zweig talks about Whitman’s earliest years in Long Island, Brooklyn, and……

An episode from 5/16/21: Tonight, I read three poems from one of the great literary debuts of the twentieth century, Seamus Heaney’s ⁠Death of a Naturalist⁠ (1966). Following the poems is a reading from interviews Heaney gave on the writing of Death of a Naturalist, taken from Dennis O’Driscoll’s ⁠⁠Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney⁠⁠….…

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