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Andrew Benson Brown has had poems and reviews published in a few journals. His epic-in-progress, Legends of Liberty, will chronicle the major events of the American Revolution if he lives to complete it. Though he writes history articles for American Essence magazine, he lists his primary occupation on official forms as ‘poet.’ He is, in other words, a vagabond.
. with reference to Macbeth V,5 . So bleak and dreary, like a stormy day, The world a whirl of...
Jaded I Lay Jaded I lay prostrate in bands Constructed of my self-frustration: The morning waned; so too my elation,...
Joseph, these are three powerful poems. Each one of them tells an amazing story with a clear and dire conclusion.…
Great comment Gerard. Here, we were the older folks, and the lonely woman was maybe thirty. I hope I really…
Bright blue wildflowers Lining country roads sway in A light evening breeze
Cute idea, Paul, with well-illustrated difficulties that might move a writer with beginning dementia. I would suspect that arthritis (if…
Paul, this is delightful wordplay and meter-play. Easily I imagine ending up with six iambics rather than the desired five.…
Wonderful poems and a wonderful reader, indeed producer too. Well done all. Greetings for Christmas!
Thanks, James, and Merry Christmas!
Thank you, Andrew, for your truly wonderful reading of these poems! I often forget that poetry is meant to be heard as much as read. How else can the musicality of meter, rhyme, word-play, alliteration and assonance be truly enjoyed? I’m particularly honored and delighted by the heartfelt way you have brought my Return to Ithaca to life. Your project of presenting read poems in this way is much-needed and much-appreciated.
My pleasure, Brian. I don’t know why Sally Cook’s poem got 1,500 views and yours got less than 100. Which videos the algorithm chooses to promote seems largely random. But at least they are out there for people to find! There is a lot of potential for appropriating the ‘shorts’/Tik-Tok format for artistic purposes, although it is not exactly known for this presently.
I’m always unexpectedly surprised that anyone reads my stuff at all, so I’m delighted with whatever number of views this reading of my poem gets! Thank you again, Andrew! And I’ve officially subscribed to the channel.
Andrew, a very technically-impressive display of clever & enjoyable verse! Having – as a relative novice in the digital world, whipped up around 300 of my own rhyme-n-meter audios files and then CD-ing them, I shutter when calculating what more I’d need to learn to pull off something this monumental. Always nice to HEAR well read pieces – great job.
Thanks Mark. I’m just learning as I go.
If you send some of those shorter audio files my way, I’d be happy to visualize a few and turn them into shorts, plugging a link to your book/website in there as well. If you go to the shorts category on my YT channel you can see how I did this with James Tweedie’s ‘Loquacious Limerick.’
Andrew, I’d be more than happy to send you a few shorter audios – but I ‘m not finding “shorts” on your YT channel?? If you send me an email at ‘[email protected]’ I’ll attach a few to my reply. Or, even better, shoot one to ‘[email protected]’ where I spend 98% of my time peddling antiques and windy bull-poop. I’m OLD!