poems, mostly metrical, and rants and raves on poets, poetry, and the po-biz (with 8-string stuff)

We’re near the end of “Sonneteer,” the middle section of my manuscript Other Voices. Tonight’s podcast, “Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God,” takes the conflation of religious and erotic language in a rather different direction than does the Song of Solomon. Listen here.

Another sonnet from my mss Other Voices, “Some Stranger,”  along with the previous “Mysterious Ways” and the next two sonnets, is an encounter with the numinous. It doesn’t go well.

The thirteenth of sixteen sonnets in “Sonneteer,” the second section of Other Voices, is “Mysterious Ways.” It involves a hurricane. Listen here.

This latest sonnet from Other Voices could have been autobiography. I was lucky. Listen here.

In the Other Voices section of the left sidebar there are links to everything podcast so far from the manuscript.

Who sought whom? Does it matter? Listen here.

This is going to take longer than the two months I’d envisioned. It really isn’t possible for me to do this nearly every night and that’s a good thing — I’ve got a life I like.

All the Other Voices podcasts so far are here, and the sonnets so far from the second section, “Sonneteer,”  are here.

I’m not sure who’s teasing whom in this one. And I’d count the puns if there wasn’t work to do. Listen here.

All the Other Voices podcasts so far are here, and the sonnets so far from the second section, “Sonneteer,”  are here.

Tonight’s sonnet podcast from Other Voices is tough, and not just because it’s Petrarchan. Its barely post-coital conversation presents a very disturbing scene. Listen here.

A tough recipe at short notice … and our man is surprised more than once. Listen here.

I’m back after a couple of days for sluggishness. Today’s sonnet from Other Voices has a young man bragging about finally getting the last word in. Listen here.

A bedroom conversation here, and the whole thing, so far, here.