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This is a Saint Julian Press Podcast production of three W. S. Merwin poems; The Blackboard, Living With the News, and Neither Here Nor There. Each poem is read or presented by Publisher/CEO/Poet – Ron Starbuck.
Saint Julian Press Podcast
On the Subject of Poetry – By W. S. Merwin Read by Ron Starbuck
Rain Light & To My Brother – by W.S. Merwin Read by Ron Starbuck – Saint Julian Press, Inc. From: The Essential W.S. Merwin Paperback: 200 pages Publisher: Copper Canyon Press (August 29, 2017) Language: English ISBN-10: 1556595131 ISBN-13: 978-1556595134
For the Anniversary of My Death – By W. S. Merwin – Read by Ron Starbuck The Essential W.S. Merwin Paperback: 200 pages Publisher: Copper Canyon Press (August 29, 2017) Language: English ISBN-10: 1556595131 ISBN-13: 978-1556595134
Melissa Studdard read "Integrating the Shadow" from her book – I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast.
East Coker - Burnt Norton & Sleepers Awake Saint Julian Press Podcast – Art & Music utilized under “Fair Use” practice for Educational non-profit Purposes.
Art by Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985. Passover Angel of Death – From Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. White Crucifixion – From the Art Institute of Chicago.
Music: Sleepers Awake by composer Johann Sebastian Bach. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Sleepers Awake), from The Essential Yo-Yo Ma. Ron Starbuck – Readings from East Coker & Burnt Norton
PRELUDIO – Prelude by Antonio Machado A New Translation By Ron Starbuck © 2019
Photo – An aged music stand Trinity Episcopal Church Midtown Houston
A recording of Donna McKenzie reading poems from Hunger for Salt, by poet Elaine Fletcher Chapman, published by Saint Julian Press.
Le Léthé by Charles Baudelaire from his work, Pièces condamnées / Condemned Poems. This is a new liberal literary translation by Ron Starbuck © 2018 – Saint Julian Press. A new translation of his work and perhaps a pardon, if eros and obsession are too present for some tastes. Nepenthe means – "that which chases away sorrow"
Equinox-March 1968 written by Eugene McCarthy, and read by Ron Starbuck. Eugene Joseph McCarthy (March 29, 1916 – December 10, 2005) was an American politician and poet from Minnesota. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959 and the United States Senate from 1959 to 1971. McCarthy sought the Democratic nomination in the 1968 presidential election, challenging incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson on an anti-Vietnam War platform.
Mockingbird Song – From: THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT BEING AN EPISCOPALIAN New & Selected Poems By Ron Starbuck
A reading of the poem "They Have Asked" by Ron Starbuck, with music composed by John Powell Hardesty.
RUNNING WITH WOLVES – read by Ron Starbuck from "There is Something About Being An Episcopalian"
Melissa Studdard's reading of "I Fell in Love With a Double Yoke Egg" from her book of poetry, "I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast."
For 2 Conversion Therapists by Melissa Studdard from her book, I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast.
Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot – Little Gidding – Last Movement – a reading by Ron Starbuck
Melissa Studdard offers a lovely reading of the title poem from her book, I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast.
Melissa Studdard reads – For the Women of Antenco, from her book – I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast, published by Saint Julian Press.
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NOW ~ Poems by Thomas Simmons
SAINT JULIAN PRESS is extremely excited to announce that in the late spring or early summer of 2017, we will be publishing NOW, a new book of poems by Thomas Simmons. Thomas served as an associate professor for the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT, and for over two decades in the Department of English at the University of Iowa.
A reading of a new poem, The Paschal Mystery, written by Ron Starbuck, with a prayer from the Episcopal Church – Book of Common Prayer.