"Like a Cat" by "Laura Cronk" read by Mischa Willett
I love this little love poem by Laura Cronk. It somehow serves as criticism of and appreciation for cats, as well as of the beloved, and of the differ...
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Readings of poems classical and contemporary, selected and performed by Mischa Willett, author of PHASES.
"Lot's Wife" by "Anna Akhmatova" read by Mischa Willett
To learn more about Anna Akhmatova, you should read Clive James' essays, which are extremely convincing about her stature. This poem of hers was trans...
"The Resignation" by "Thomas Chatterton" read by Mischa Willett
Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) wrote tons of moving and intelligent verse all before he was 20 years old. His life-story and scandal is worth investiga...
“Forty” by “Lee Rossi” read by Mischa Willett
A Lenten poem tracing the 40’s with humor, wit, and good faith from the lovely “Darwin’s Garden” from MoonTide Press.
"The Great Infirmities" by Charles Simic read by Mischa Willett
"Perilous to be on the street, among the congregations of the afflicted" If ever there was a time for poems by the metaphysical physician Charles Simi...
"Broken Hierarchies" by "Geoffrey Hill" read by Mischa Willett
Available in his Collected Poems: Broken Hierarchies Oxford University Press, 2014
"What Lips my Lips Have Kissed" by "Edna St. Vincent Millay" read by Mischa Willett
A sonnet from this starburst of talent.
Guest Reader: "Lauren Camp" reading poems from "One Hundred Hungers"
Tupelo Press poet drops by the studio after a reading at Richard Hugo House. More information about the reader can be found at his website: www.misch...
"Calling Him Back from Layoff" by "Bob Hicock" read by Mischa Willett
from "Elegy Owed" Copper Canyon Press, 2014
"When Our Two Souls Stand Up" by "Elizabeth Barrett Browning" read by Mischa Willett
from the lovely "Sonnets from the Portuguese"