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This "Readings" section of the website was originally intended to be a collection of some favorite poems, with sound clips of readings by me. Then I started adding other sound clips I like, and it got more general (and correspondingly less self-indulgent).
It is still mainly clips of me reading poems, though. If I'm not going to recite poems here, I'll be doing it in my car, and here is safer.
Should you feel so moved by any of the readings as to want to pay me for my time and trouble, I have no problem with that whatsoever. If you have a PayPal account, you can send me twenty bucks via the button on my Fire from the Sun page. Or you can mail me a check in care of National Review (215 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10016). I repeat: I have absolutely no problem with this.
| Date of reading or performance |
Title | Author | Reader/Performer |
|---|---|---|---|
| (Not known) | La Route est Dure | Richard Holmes | Georgia Brown |
| Dec. 18, 2007 | Night Mooring at Maple Bridge | Zhang Ji | JD |
| 1920(?) | On the Road to Mandalay | Rudyard Kipling | Peter Dawson |
| (Not known) | Hamlet | Boris Pasternak | (Not known) |
| Feb. 3, 2007 | Villanelle: "It is the Pain…" | William Empson | JD |
| Feb. 3, 2007 | Winter | William Shakespeare | JD |
| Jan. 2, 2007 | I Remember, I Remember | Thomas Hood | JD |