Kurt Elling singing Theodore Roethke's villanelle, The Waking

Theodore Roethke, The Waking -- The Poetry Foundation

Hozier

I love this guy's voice!

Terry Gross - Fresh Air - interviews Sam Baker

Krista Tippett: On Being: Interview with Marilynne Robinson and Marcelo Gleiser

I loved this interview from this week's episode of On Being!

What I'm Reading and What I'm Listening to

The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, by Eudora Welty is available today, on Kindle, for $1.99

Tinkers, by Paul Harding, is available today, on Kindle, for $2.99

I belong to Audible.com, and I own a Kindle HDX. This allows me to take advantage of Amazon's Whispersync, that moves between audible and e-book versions of the book you've purchased. Amazon discounts the Audible price, once you purchase the e-book version of a book. I'm really enjoying this feature.

Renée Fleming and Lou Reed - Perfect Day

Jeff Beck - Nessun Dorma - The Crossroads Guitar Festival

Bobby Blue Bland - Ain't no love in the heart of the city

What a voice. RIP.

Joni Mitchell - Woodstock

Renée Fleming - Dark Hope

Dark Hope - Renée Fleming​

Wallace Stevens : Lecture 19 Yale

Wallace Stevens is considered as an unapologetically Romantic poet of imagination. His search for meaning in a universe without religion in "Sunday Morning" is likened to Crane's energetic quest for meaning and symbol. In "The Poems of Our Climate," Stevens's desire to reduce poetry to essential terms, and then his countering resistance to this impulse, are explored.

What I'm Listening to: Emeli Sande

​Next to Me - Emeli Sande

Proposition 8 - Marriage Equality - Supreme Court

​Supreme Court: Transcript from Hollingsworth v. Perry

The audio recording of the argument

How Opinion on Same-Sex Marriage is Changing, and What It Means - NYTimes​

What I'm Reading

This week's Audible Books:

The 4% Universe by Richard Panek​

In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy​

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright​

What I'm listening to...Jose James

Jose James: A Broad-Minded Singer Lets the Beat Build: NPR

No Beginning No End

Moby Dick - Big Read

Have you heard about this? Peninsula Arts and Plymouth University joined forces to produce a reading of Moby Dick, that combines professional readers with ordinary folks to bring this masterpiece to life. Take a listen:

Moby Dick - Big Read

The first chapter, Loomings, is read by Tilda Swinton:

James Joyce - Ulysses: Molly Bloom's Soliloquy (the last 50 lines) read by Marcella Riordan

I love Riordan's reading of Molly Bloom's soliloquy. What a great voice!

What I'm Listening to: Kowloon - Walled City - 99% Invisible

from 99% Invisible:

Kowloon Walled City



Check out the website to see some amazing photos:

99% Invisible

What I'm listening to...Radiolab

I love the Radiolab podcast. This week's show is about color:

Radio host and producer: Jad Abumrad