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cosmic dream radio
by laylage
Stop looking at a screen. Let the images be made in your mind. Expect: despair, glee, intimations of mortality, and extra-ordinary words, sometimes read directly to you, sometimes set in radio-play esque frames assembled from mysterious cables, drift-wood, glitter, a golden microphone, and cheap glue.
Episodes
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Hotel Eden
www.luminouswork.org/podcast. what on earth was I thinking? “Rowing in Eden” from the anthology A Convergence of Birds, feels like a Cornell box. It plays childishly on a strange ledge over a vista of time, longing, and lyricism. There are two french words in the text which I pronounce very…
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Rilke's Duino Elegies--#9
www.luminouswork.org/podcast. If you are alone at cliff’s edge, beaten by a harsh salt wind, the ruins of the 11th century behind you, a steep rocky drop to the sea before you—I can think of no better company than Rilke, who, in just such a position, heard: “Who, if I cried out, would hear me…
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the longest night of the year
www.luminouswork.org/podcast. I like this poem. Usually, I dislike or am bored with the products of my creativity soon after completing them. Very few things become stand-alone worlds even I enter breathlessly because they speak beyond what I can intend. This poem is like that for me. It was a…
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transcendental etudes
Learn more at www.luminouswork.org/podcast. What a weekend. Piles of logs from two fallen trees piled up behind the house, a broken well line, a boiler on the fritz, grass knee high, and bugs everywhere. The bugs are bad because of the rain. There's been a lot of rain. The basement floor is wet....
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worry worry worry
A new poem by me literally recorded beneath the boughs of a giant oak that fell right over my study. Learn more at www.luminouswork.org/podcast.
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My party is the party of dust
Alain Bosquet's 7 part poem translated from the French by Jean Malaquais. Bosquet was born in Odessa. In this poem he returns to his homeland to find his poetic voice. I'm trying to do that, too. Learn more at www.luminouswork.org/podcast.
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Christmas in July
Trees that depend on cold to seed and fruit are "migrating" to more northern climes: with our help and on their own. If that isn't mythology, what is? Let's go there: into a lyric, liturgical mythology of polar bears, forests, and blistering-hot Christmas Eves. Includes an intro.
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Valentine's Day, 2017
A valentine's day edition of cosmic dream radio with desire, descent, grief, song. Excerpts of poet Gregory Orr's lyric sequence _Orpheus & Eurydice_, published by Copper Canyon Press in 2001.
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three swords
The three of swords tarot card inspires a song. Replete with hart hearts, night-riding knights, pens that pin, and clouds. You can download and share just the song from the podcast webpage!
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demi-gods in brooklyn
"When love is in excess, it brings a woman no honor"?? --Medea, Circe, and Ariadne weigh in.
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T.S. Eliot's "Ash Wednesday"
It's ben a long time since I've released a cosmic dream radio episode! I explain why and do penance with a straight-up reading of Eliot's beautiful poem.
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Strand's the end
A house/trance rendering of Mark Strand's poem THE END. But I'll read it to you first.
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trade
a song sad about love and art. with fireworks and an inside groove.
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bicycle coat
a poem sandwiched between two slices of pop-esque. How'd it get so dark? more info at www.luminouswork.org/podcast
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audio intro
I make an "Audio Intro" all professional like and then ruin it by sounding like a young college radio host. Love me anyway.
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hellhound by my side
a radio poem with three-head harmony! cerberus is tired of being beaten, sedated, and dragged around. he wants someone to play. are you the kind of girl he's looking for?more at: www.luminouswork.org/cosmic-dream-radio/2015/3/26/the-kind-of-girl
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black black bulldog
a radio poem about love and failure when they're basically the same thing.. "True love has not, as far as I know, been compared by the poets to a bulldog. But it has the same sort of grip."--Rebecca West. more at: www.luminouswork.org/cosmic-dream-radio/2015/4/7/we-limit-ourselves-to-the-piano-forte
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message to m13
a broadcast for the aliens from this stupid small-town planet earth. with lame songs and barbecue sauce. more at: www.luminouswork.org/cosmic-dream-radio/2015/4/6/its-getting-hot-here
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Stop looking at a screen. Let the images be made in your mind. Expect: despair, glee, intimations of mortality, and extra-ordinary words, sometimes read directly to you, sometimes set in radio-play esque frames assembled from mysterious cables, drift-wood, glitter, a golden microphone, and cheap glue.
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laylage
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Stop looking at a screen. Let the images be made in your mind. Expect: despair, glee, intimations of mortality, and extra-ordinary words, sometimes read directly to you, sometimes set in radio-play esque frames assembled from mysterious cables, drift-wood, glitter, a golden microphone, and cheap...
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