White Ash Flies: Recent Episodes
Colin Mahoney
White Ash Flies is an audible, on-line anthology drawn from that abiding and rich sea of content, the public domain. I’ll select and serialize recordings of myself reading my favorite poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and correspondence, sacred and profane, in as heterogeneous a mix as I can passably manage. I’ll also be sharing original content from time to time.
White Ash Flies closes out this St. Patrick's Day with The Dead, a short story by James Joyce, from his collection, Dubliners. Read by Colin Mahoney.
Zander’s Sunday Sauce: Tonight we’re serving up Psalm 22 from the Revised Standard Version of the Old Testament, which could fairly be called a lamentation with ramifications.
White Ash Flies presents another installment of Zander’s Appendix following up on our previous episode: Another set of three shorter poems, written and read by Colin Mahoney:
4 min, 25 sec - He Named His Boat Clover
5 min, 15 sec - The Strange Death of the Count de Foix
7 min, 38 sec - A Letter From Here
White Ash Flies opens its fourth season with another installment of Zander's Appendix, an occasional series of original work, featuring three short poems written and read by Colin Mahoney.
4 min, 10 sec - Monday with Dad
6 min, 53 sec - Ecce Homo
8 min, 23 sec - The Agency to End Agency
4 min, 10 sec
White Ash Flies Presents The Elixir of Life, a short story by Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), translated by Clara Bell, and read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents The Sorrows of Niobe, from Book 6 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, published in 8 CE, in which the goddess Latona makes Niobe pay dearly for her presumption, just as in the preceding story, Arachne was punished by Minerva for her presumption: surpassing the goddess in a weaving competition. The translation into English from Latin is Arthur Golding’s, published in 1567.
White Ash Flies presents another installment of Zander's Appendix: The House of the Stare and Will You Join My Carpool?, written and read by Colin Mahoney.
4 min, 40 sec, The House of the Stare
8 min, 15 sec, Will You Join My Carpool?
White Ash Flies is back with another installment of Zander's Sunday Sauce: Psalm 17, translated by Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), read by Colin Mahoney.
On this Valentine's Day, White Ash Flies presents Cyclops in Love: Idyll XI of Theocritus (c. 270 BC), translated by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) and read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents, Salem: a selection of Cotton Mather's reporting on the Salem witch trials of 1692-93, read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents a Good Friday edition of Zander's Sunday Sauce: Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward, written by John Donne (1572-1631), and read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies is back with another installment of Zander's Appendix and Other Gratuitous Organs: First and Latest Things, two poems written and read by Colin Mahoney.
2 min, 12 sec, He Appeared at our Gate, A Moron
6 min, 18 sec, Saturn Devouring His Son
White Ash Flies presents Paste, a short story by Henry James (1843-1916), read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents Chapter 7 from Part 1 of Fyodor Dostoyevsky short novel, Notes From Underground, read by Colin Mahoney.
No wolves, crows, or black bees were hurt during this taping of Episode 7 of The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919), read by Colin Mahoney on White Ash Flies. However, a witch did melt.
White Ash Flies presents Jabberwocky, and Other Nonsense: Works by Edward Lear (1812-1888) and Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), read by Colin Mahoney, with special guests!
A happy Halloween to all of you on Planet Earth this Sunday morning, a perfect morning for some catastrophe fiction from one of the masters of the form, Herbert George Wells (1866-1946): his short story, "The Star", published in 1897, read by Colin Mahoney.
In a nod to the spooky season, White Ash Flies presents Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents Chapter 2 of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents another installment of Zander's Sunday Sauce: Chapter 37 of the Book of Ezekiel, read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents Episode 6 of The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919), read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents The Nose, written by Nikolai Gogol (1809-1849), translated by Constance Garnett, and read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents the Phaeton episode from Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated by Arthur Golding (1536-1606), and read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents another installment of Zander's Appendix, and Other Gratuitous Organs: Two Remarks on National Parks and The Sisters Dolor (the Price Sisters at Brixton Prison), written and read by Colin Mahoney.
2 min, 23 sec, The Sisters Dolor (the Price Sisters at Brixton Prison)
4 min, 23 sec, Two Remarks on National Parks
White Ash Flies presents "Come, my Corinna, Come...": Five songs by Robert Herrick (1591-1674), read by Colin Mahoney.
1 min, 48 sec, Delight in Disorder
2 min, 33 sec, To Daffodils
3 min, 23 sec, Upon Julia's Clothes
3 min, 50 sec, The Coming of Good Luck
4 min, 15 sec, Corinna's Going A-Maying
White Ash Flies is back with the first installment of Diary of the First Trip Through the Grand Canyon by John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents On Knowing what Gives us Pleasure by Samuel Butler (1835-1902), read by Colin Mahoney.
Tonight, White Ash Flies presents another installment of Zander's Appendix: 3 Poems, written and read by Colin Mahoney.
1 min, 20 sec, Living Room With TV
3 min, 15 sec, My Dentist Lives in the Suburbs, Attends Meetings in the City
5 min, 25 sec, One Man to Another, Somewhere Over South Dakota
White Ash Flies presents The Brothers by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), read by Colin Mahoney.
Tonight on White Ash Flies, another installment of Zander's Sunday Sauce: The Beatitudes (Mt. 5: 3-16) from the King James Version (1611), read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies in a South Florida mood: Three Poems by Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), read by Colin Mahoney.
2 min, 17 sec, Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs
3 min, 27 sec, A High-Toned Old Christian Woman
5 min, 10 sec, O Florida, Venereal Soil
Tonight, White Ash Flies is serving up your weekend spleen is the shape of Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, published anonymously in 1723, read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents A Grave, a poem by Marianne Moore (1887-1972), read by Colin Mahoney.
Pandemonium tonight, as White Ash Flies pits Elizabeth Barrett Browning against William Shakespeare in the latest episode of SONNET OCTAGON. Expect mayhem.
Shakespeare:
Sonnet 91, 2 min, 38 sec
Sonnet 97, 3 min, 47 sec
Sonnet 98, 4 min, 45 sec
Barrett Browning:
Sonnet 15, 6 min
Sonnet 24, 6 min 50 sec
Sonnet 29, 8 min
White Ash Flies presents On Official Business (1899), written by Anton Chekhov and translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett, read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents a special installment of Zander's Appendix and Other Gratuitous Organs: Wheelock's Calendar, written and read by Colin Mahoney.
Wheelock
Clara, his wife
Caroline, their daughter
Contents:
January, 2 min, 29 sec
February - Madison, WI, 2 min, 27 sec
March, 5 min, 25 sec
April - Shiloh, 1862, 6 min, 7 sec
May, 8 min, 30 sec
June - Arches National Park, 10 min, 5 sec
July- the 4th on Lake Mendota, 11 min, 37 sec
August - Caroline's Wedding Day, 13 min, 37 sec
September, 15 min, 14 sec
October, 17 min
November - Chicago, 18 min, 25 sec
December, 19 min, 45 sec
On White Ash Flies, Zander's Sunday Sauce is back with Chapter 38 of the Book of Job, from the Authorized Version of the Bible (aka The King James Bible, 1611), read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents episode 5 of The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, read by Colin Mahoney.
Tonight White Ash Flies presents, Caliban Upon Setebos by Robert Browning (1864), read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents two poems by William Butler Yeats from his 1919 collection, The Wild Swans at Coole: The Collar-bone of a Hare and An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents, 2 Poems En Route: On the Ubiquity of Headphones, and On I-80, Before Damascus, written and read by Colin Mahoney.
57 sec, On the Ubiquity of Headphones
1 min, 50 sec, On I-80, Before Damascus
White Ash Flies presents The Star-Splitter (1923) by Robert Frost, read by Colin Mahoney.
Tonight, Zander's Appendix presents Nightsong, written and read by Colin Mahoney, on White Ash Flies.
White Ash Flies presents Episode 2 of Homer's Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope, read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents Episode 1 of Homer's Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope, read by Colin Mahoney.
Tonight on White Ash Flies, Zander's Appendix and Other Gratuitous Organs presents 2 Poems for the Dog Days, written and read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents Episode 3 of Edward Gibbons' The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1, read by Colin Mahoney.
Tonight on White Ash Flies, Episode 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, read by Colin Mahoney.
Taped Tuesday, White Ash Flies presents Episode 3 of SONNET OCTAGON, pitting 3 sonnets written by Thomas Wyatt (1503?-1542) against 3 by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), read by Colin Mahoney.
A shorter number tonight on Zander's Appendix: Poem Containing My Daughter's House, Drawn and Cut by Hand, written and read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents Episode 4 of The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, read by Colin Mahoney.
Tonight, on White Ash Flies: Episode 2 of John Muir's My First Summer in the Sierra, read by Colin Mahoney.
Tonight, on White Ash Flies: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901–1902, read by Colin Mahoney.
Tonight on White Ash Flies, Episode 1 of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, read by Colin Mahoney.
Zander's Appendix and Other Gratuitous Organs brings along two poems written and read by Colin Mahoney: Lot's Lament, and The House of the Stare, on White Ash Flies.
45 sec, Lot's Lament
2 min, 5 sec, The House of the Stare
N.B. Sections 2 and 3 of The House of the Stare paraphrase two passages from Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species.
White Ash Flies is back this Friday with Episode 3 of The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, read by Colin Mahoney.
Tonight on White Ash Flies, Episode 1 of My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir, read by Colin Mahoney.
This morning, on White Ash Flies: Zander's Appendix and Other Gratuitous Organs, featuring 3 Poems Containing Birds, written and read by Colin Mahoney.
45 sec, The Agency to End Agency
2 min, Momotus Momota
3 min, 30 sec, A Letter From Here
Tonight another round of Sonnet Octagon on White Ash Flies: 3 sonnets by Edmund Spenser eyeball-to-eyeball with 3 by William Shakespeare. Bring some clean towels.
Tonight, on White Ash Flies, we're serving up Your Tuesday Spleen: 2 Poems by Jonathan Swift, read by Colin Mahoney.
50 sec, A Pastoral Dialogue
5 min, 15 sec, Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift (ll. 73-164)
Another Sunday, another installment of Zander's Sunday Sauce on White Ash Flies, featuring La Corona (1608 or thereabouts), a sonnet sequence by John Donne, read by Colin Mahoney:
50 sec, Sonnet 1
2 min, Sonnet 2, Annunciation
3 min, 12 sec, Sonnet 3, Nativity
4 min, 20 sec, Sonnet 4, Temple
5 min, 25 sec, Sonnet 5, Crucifying
6 min, 40 sec, Sonnet 6, Resurrection
7 min, 52 sec, Sonnet 7, Ascension
Tonight, bounding from Zander's Appendix: 2 Poems Against Malice, written and read by Colin Mahoney, on White Ash Flies.
49 sec, The Strange Death of the Count de Foix
3 min, They Built Her a Close Heaven
Tonight, the first installment of Cathay (1915), a book of Chinese poems in translation (via Japanese and Italian) by Ezra Pound, read by Colin Mahoney.
1 min, The Bowman of Shu
3 min, 20 sec, The Beautiful Toilet
4 min, 15 sec, The River Song
7 min, 30 sec, The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter
On White Ash Flies, this week's installment of Zander's Sunday Sauce features a side-by-side of two translations of Psalm 37, read by Colin Mahoney: One by Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)and a second from the Oxford Annotated Bible, the Standard Revised Edition.
5 min, 55 secs, Sir Thomas Wyatt's translation
Tonight on White Ash Flies, Episode 4 of Lincoln Letters: His star rises as the Chicago convention approaches. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
This is the first installment of a new series on White Ash Flies, SONNET OCTAGON: The sonnets of Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599) and William Shakespeare (1564-1616), read by Colin Mahoney. Tonight, Sonnets 1-3 by each.
White Ash Flies presents Episode 2 of The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents another installment of Zander's Sunday Sauce: The Book of Ruth, from the Oxford Annotated Bible, Standard Revised Edition, read by Colin Mahoney.
On a rainy Saturday, from Zander's Appendix: Monday with Dad (for Jim), written and read by Colin Mahoney.
Another back and forth of the presidential ping pong ball: Episode 4 of The Adams-Jefferson Letters, on White Ash Flies.
For Cat People everywhere, and everyone else: Today on White Ash Flies, My Cat Jeoffrey, written by Christopher Smart during his confinement to St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents another installment of Zander's Sunday Sauce, with the Book of Jonah followed by a poem by John Donne, read by Colin Mahoney:
45 sec, The Book of Jonah
10 min, 30 sec, A Hymn to God the Father
For all the nurses, techs, physicians, PAs and everyone else caring for the sick out there, The Wound-Dresser by Walt Whitman, on White Ash Flies.
Tonight, Zander's Appendix, and Other Gratuitous Organs presents The Golf Outing (an eastertide triptych), written and read by Colin Mahoney:
30 sec, Part 1: The Visitation
6 min, Part 2: The Burning of the Boats
24 min, 42 sec, Part 3: The Deposits, the Debits, and the Balance Thereunto
The first installment of Zander's Appendix, and Other Gratuitous Organs, a new series featuring original content written and read by Colin Mahoney.
Today, 4 Poems:
45 sec, “The Best Case”
1 min 51 sec, “The Sisters Dolor”
4 min 7 sec, “He Named His Boat Clover”
5 min, “Will You Join My Carpool?”
White Ash Flies presents Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth, read by Colin Mahoney.
A brief introduction to White Ash Flies, with further introduction in the shape of a poem written and read by Colin Mahoney.
This is Episode 2 of Lincoln Letters, the selected letters of Abraham Lincoln, read by Colin Mahoney on White Ash Flies.
White Ash Flies presents Episode 1 of The Tower, a poetry collection by W.B. Yeats, read by Colin Mahoney.
Arthur Golding's 1567 translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Episode 1, read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents Episode 1 of Song of Myself by Walt Whitman, read by Colin Mahoney.
Zander's Sunday Sauce is a new series on White Ash Flies offering an ecumenical mix of sacred and devotional prose and poetry. Episode 1 features chapters 1-6 of Ecclesiastes, from the Revised Standard Version, read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents Episode 1 of The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents Episode 1 of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents Episode 1 of Lincoln Letter, a selection of Abraham Lincoln's Letters as compiled in Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings, 1859-1865, read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies is serializing the late correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, beginning in 1812, read by Colin Mahoney.