Podcast based in El Paso, TX focusing on music, art and all things culture in the area and everywhere else.
Categories: Arts, Music, Society & Culture
Tags: art, Comedy, Culture, el paso, El Paso music, electronic music, hip-hop, New Music, poetry, punk, rock, Texas
Magnificent in its scale and scope, this monumental poem by the blind poet John Milton was the first epic conceived in the English language. It describes an omniscient, all powerful God, the Fall of Man, the Temptation in the Garden of Eden, the disgraced angel who later becomes known as Satan, the Angelic Wars fought by Archangels Michael and Raphael and the Son of God who is the real hero of this saga. The poet John Milton was more than sixty years old when he embarked on this immense work of literary creation. His father was a wealthy merchant who had embraced Protestantism despite opposition from his Catholic family. Milton grew up in a privileged environment, having been schooled at home by private tutors and traveling extensively throughout Italy. It was here that he first read Virgil and Homer and decided to create his own epic in English. Tumultuous historical events intervened, like the English Civil War and the establishment of Puritan Rule. Milton was deeply embroiled in politics and the new parliament. When the monarchy was restored, Milton found himself on the wrong side and he retreated into hiding where he began working on his dream of creating an epic to match the best in Latin and Greek. He completed it after five years of tremendous effort, since he was already totally blind when he began working. The entire work, consisting of nearly ten thousand individual lines of blank verse was dictated by Milton from memory, to a series of scribes. Paradise Lost consists of twelve smaller volumes divided into Books. Each one is devoted to a particular Biblical episode. It begins with a prologue that describes the subject of the epic, much like an introduction. The action shifts to the rebellion of Lucifer and from then on, to familiar episodes like the temptation of Adam and Eve and their disobedience to God’s laws. Satan and his unholy legions are described in great detail as are their rebellion and malevolence. Adam and Eve, God and the Son of God are portrayed in brilliant, unforgettable lines and the conflict between the forces of good and evil is represented on a cosmic scale. For lovers of poetry and literature, Paradise Lost represents a seminal work of supreme importance in English literature. Present-day readers will certainly find it fascinating to decode the multitude of classical references, Biblical lore, social and cultural themes that adorn this great work.
Categories: Arts, Religion & Spirituality
Tags: audio books, audiobook, ebooks, free audio books, John Milton, Literature, Loyal Books, loyalbooks.com, Paradise Lost, poetry, religion
This is the San Francisco Haight Street poetry podcast TV, Mystic Babylon, created by John Rhodes. On this podcast we will have all the poets from the open mics, and poetry readings in the San Francisco Bay Area, on this program. Type in “Mystic Babylon” to iTunes and subscribe. Earlier podcasts will be archived on the web podcast pages that can be a accessed by big “Click Here” pictures, where it says Program Archives.To download the archives to iTunes go to “Advanced” in the iTunes Menu, click on “Subscribe to Podcast” and type in: http://mysticbabylon.podomatic.com/ archive/rss2.xml. I don’t recomend you copy and paste that code, but type it in, because sometimes pasting it will leave incorrect gaps in letters. iTunes will automatically download the archives (all the old shows). There is a simple picture tutorial on how to do this on the Mystic Babylon Web site. Visit my serial novel podcast of my book: Little Bird Told Me, at http://littlebirdtoldme.podomatic.com . You can buy all my books from: authorhouse.com , or a paid audio version of my novel from audible.com . To make the Media Player display a larger image, click numerous times the CTRL key, while clicking the + key. [itunes pic]
Dear Poetry Podcast TV Friends. This is John Rhodes director of the San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV Show. Due to the high expense of running this site here at http://mysticbabylon.podomatic,com , please shift to watching this to either http://sanfranciscopoetry.blip.tv or in the near future to http://mysticbabylon.blip.tv. http://mysticbabylon.blip.tv will eventually have all my old podcasts on it possibly with photoslide shows added, but look for the http://sanfranciscopoetry.blip.tv as being the main site. Also if you would like to view these videos on the Roku box or Boxee box, they are available there on the blip.tv ap on your TV, if you search there for the title San Francisco Open Mic Poetry Podcast TV. For a full listing of my sites, visit http://rhodespoetry.com. I still have to update the listing there but that is where I will put my list. Also. please visit archive.org by clicking on the image in this sites sidebar to see videos not in my podcasts, of long poetry festivals and events. Thank-you for your patience and please keep watching. This site will be downgraded in April, so be prepared for the change.
Categories: Arts
Tags: access, Arts, Francisco, mic, Open, poetry, public, San, SF Bay Area, spoken word, tv
Poet Jay Rose Ana was forged in the Black Country of the West Midlands. She loves poetry and thinks you might enjoy it too. Join Jay Rose Ana as she takes you on a poetic journey, exploring life through rhyme and prose, digging through poetry past and looking ahead to the future. There is an eclectic mix of poetry and banter to delight and entertain.
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Categories: Arts, History, Society & Culture
Tags: History, Humour, jay rose ana, poetry, spoken word
Truthful, humorous and insightful poetry to uplift and brighten your day. Hosted and written by Martin Strasmore. The resounding gongs, played by Kassandra Strasmore, offer an experience of peace and tranquility. Good poetry can open up the mind and heart to new ways of seeing the world, accepting difficulties and embracing opportunities for transformation. Each episode is intended to support and uplift the world and to renew our respect for each other and nature.
Categories: Comedy, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
Tags: Antiracism, Gong, humor, mindfulness, nature, pandemic, peaceful, poems, poet, poetry, relaxing, spirituality
A podcast containing a wide variety of subject matter. It usually consists of creative writing, creative songwriting (more on the experimental, instrumental side), discussions on great bands, comedic relief and other odd bits and pieces that are mused upon by the ones who live.
Categories: Arts, Comedy, Music
Tags: Acting, Beatles, berg, Bob, cheese, coldplay, crazy, curious, drama, Dylan, Education, ellis, Erik, Harry, heinrichs, iraq, joel, kelsey, miles, Mozart, music, NA, nirvana, penner, poetry, potatoes, Potter, Questionnaire, quiz, Stories, story, The, theatre, writing
Every episode – musicians Eric Peter Schwartz and his son, Daniel Schwartz, take apart a selection of Eric’s terrible teen poetry.
Categories: Comedy
A new podcast where today’s finest writers read the work that matters to them—from their homes, to yours. Produced and commissioned by the 92nd Street Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center, a home for live readings of literature for over 80 years.
Tags: 92ndstreety, 92y, Arts, fiction, poetry, readaloud, Reading, readings, storytime
AAWW Radio is the podcast of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, an NYC literary arts space at the intersection of migration, race, and social justice. Listen to AAWW Radio and you’ll hear selected audio from our current and past events, as well as occasional original episodes. We’ve hosted established writers like Claudia Rankine, Maxine Hong Kingston, Roxane Gay, Amitav Ghosh, Ocean Vuong, Solmaz Sharif, and Jenny Zhang. Our events are intimate and intellectual, quirky yet curated, and dedicated to social justice. We curate our events to juxtapose novelists and activists, poets and intellectuals, and bring together people who usually wouldn’t be in the same room. We’ve got it all: from avant-garde poetry to post-colonial politics, feminist comics to lyric verse, literary fiction to dispatches from the left. A sanctuary for the immigrant imagination, we believe Asian American stories deserve to be told. Learn more by visiting aaww.org Produced by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.
Categories: Arts, Society & Culture
Tags: aaww, APA, arab, arabamerican, art, Asian, asianamerican, asianamericanwritersworkshop, author, Bangladesh, book, Chinese, conversation, creativewriting, Culture, Desi, diaspora, experimentalpoetry, feminism, feminist, fiction, filipino, filipinx, Identity, indian, interview, islamophobia, Korean, lgbtq, Literature, margins, maxinehongkingston, muslim, newyork, nonfiction, novel, opencity, pacificislander, poetry, postcolonial, prose, queer, race, racialjustice, radical, radio, socialjustice, southasian, syrian, Vietnamese, Writer
This is a podcast in which Professor Deulen introduces poetry to her irreverent husband, Max. Each show is a close reading of a single poem. They discuss it for a bit, allowing the conversation to take on a life of its own.
Categories: Arts
Tags: Education, humor, Literature, poetry
The Old Man and The Me tell stories about life, mental illness, loving someone with a mental illness and everything in between. Some are written by me. Some by the old man who died March 2, 2017. A lot of sensitive topics are discussed, so not suited for children.
Categories: Arts
Pastor Kevin is a passionate preacher and teacher of the Word because of what Jesus teaches in Matthew 12:30, and what Paul teaches in Romans 1:5
Subject: Proverbs Speaker or Performer: Kevin M. Kelley Scripture Passage(s): Proverbs 4:26 Date of Delivery: January 9, 2022
Categories: Religion & Spirituality
Tags: Baptist, Bible, biblical, Centered, church, core, evangelical, gospel, hard, kelley, kevin, poetry, preacher, preaching, The, Truth
Originally written for his young daughter Josephine, who died tragically aged six, The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is a collection of short stories which were published separately in magazines before being compiled into a book. The stories are in the form of fables, where animals communicate and speak to each other as humans do and the purpose of each story was to convey a moral or message to the reader. Modern readers would be more familiar with the Disney animated version in which Mowgli the little “man-cub” is raised by wolves. As he grows, he is trained by denizens of the jungle like Bagheera the panther, Baloo the bear and Kaa the snake. The dreaded tiger Sher Khan is a diabolical villain, feared by all. However, the book is quite different from the Disney film which tends to romanticize some of the characters and demonize others! The original Jungle Book includes the delightful Riki Tiki Tavi tales about a valiant and clever mongoose who protects his friends from the dangerous snakes of the jungle. Contrary to the film version again, only a few of the stories are about Mowgli. What strikes the reader is the sense of wonder and magic that Kipling evokes in these stories about the mysterious jungle and its inhabitants. The writer’s brilliant skills with the English language are another feature that makes the book such a reading pleasure. Interspersed with delightful poems, this is indeed the perfect choice for a read-aloud with your kids! First published in book form in 1894, the original edition contained beautiful illustrations by Rudyard’s father, John Lockwood Kipling, an artist and art teacher who spent much of his career in India. It was here that Kipling first heard Indian folk tales and was inspired to recreate his versions of them for his own children. The Jungle Book also gained a great reputation for being a “moral story” and Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scouts movement requested permission from Kipling to use many of the book’s situations and characters as motivational resources. The leader of a Scout pack was dubbed “Akela” after the warrior wolf of the Free People as wolves are called in the Jungle Book. Kipling was a journalist who covered several wars like the Boer War in South Africa. His extensive body of work includes the famous Just So Stories, Kim and several volumes of short stories, articles, essays and poetry. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 and till date, remains the youngest to have won the prestigious award. Today, though his reputation stands dimmed as he is seen as one of the “prophets of Imperialism” the magic of his words cannot be denied. The Jungle Book is a classic that indeed belongs on every bookshelf!
Categories: Arts, Kids & Family
Tags: Adventure, animals, audio books, audiobook, ebooks, fiction, free audio books, Kids, Literature, Loyal Books, loyalbooks.com, poetry, Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
A selection of stories and tales, mainly about the natural world, our place in it, as well as stories about everyday people who change their lives and others by being different or perhaps by being too much the same
Categories: Arts, Society & Culture
Tags: earth, environment, nature, Pagan, poetry, Seasons, Sustsainabilty
Aristotle’s Poetics from the 4th century B.C. aims to give a short study of storytelling. It discusses things like unity of plot, reversal of situation, and character in the context of Greek tragedy, comedy and epic poetry. But it still applies today. It is especially popular with screenwriters as seen in many script gurus’ how-to books.
Categories: Arts, Music, Society & Culture
Tags: aristotle, audio books, audiobook, ebooks, free audio books, Literature, Loyal Books, loyalbooks.com, music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, poetics, poetry
This is the final installment in Sophocles’s Theban Plays, following Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. Oedipus’s daughter Antigone deliberately breaks the laws of Thebes when she buries her brother’s body and is sentenced to death. She clashes with Creon, the King of Thebes, over what constitutes justice and morality: the laws of the state or the laws of the individual.
Tags: Antigone, audio books, audiobook, Classics (antiquity), Dramatic Works, ebooks, free audio books, Languages, Literature, Loyal Books, loyalbooks.com, Myths/Legends, play, poetry, Sophocles, tragedy
The Poetry Podcast that gives you some culture in 5 minutes or less once a week, pretty much every week. Yes, they’re all poems written by me (and all the music is by me, too), but I challenge you to listen and then tell me that it wasn’t time well spent. Check out https://lefthandrob.net for musings on every episode and links to pick up the books. You support means I can afford to keep making these!
Categories: Arts
Join Toni Payne as she discusses Love, Life and the Pursuit of Happiness fused with the occasional Pop Culture Topics.
Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
Tags: breakups, Culture, Entertainment, help, how, inspirational, lifestyle, loss, love, Motivation, Podcase, poetry, POP, relationships, self, to, weight
A monthly podcast featuring selected material from Uncanny Magazine, including fiction, poetry, and interviews.
Categories: Arts
Tags: fantasy, fiction, interviews, Magazine, nonfiction, poetry, sciencefiction, scifi, uncanny, unicorn
“A World of Black Writers by the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation invites readers and writers to explore the vast literary landscape created by Black writers and to learn about the skill, resources and paths they used to develop their work. A World of Black Writers gives authors not only an occasion to spotlight their work, but also gives avid readers and future writers an opportunity to further understand and enjoy both the content, creativity, and diversity of their work.”
Categories: Arts
Tags: art, author, black writers, Books, Culture, diversity, Literature, people of color, poetry, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston