The Anarcho-spiritual Broadcast

This reading continues the majestic sequence “By Blue Ontario’s Shore” from Walt Whitman’s incomparable Leaves of Grass, covering sections 11 & 12. Leaves of Grass editor Karen Karbiener notes about “By Blue Ontario’s Shore”: “From its first appearance in 1856, this poem has functioned as Whitman’s definitive social statement. In 1856 it constituted a broad […]

A message from the past: We interrupt the regularly scheduled eternity for a message from Walt Whitman, the poet of America, who considered his book to be America itself. Hundreds of millions of citizens and immigrants all together the leaves of this grass, the growth and maintenance of these States, this vast lawn of a […]

We’re in a constitutional crisis and I need Walt Whitman right now. In this episode I take a break from reading “By Blue Ontario’s Shore” to become possessed by a barking, chanting, deliberate spirit of Whitman, who arrives as a voice from the past to tell us how from over the carnage will rise prophetic […]

Part two of my reading of “By Blue Ontario’s Shore” by Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass editor Karen Karbiener notes about the sequence “By Blue Ontario’s Shore”: “From its first appearance in 1856, this poem has functioned as Whitman’s definitive social statement. In 1856 it constituted a broad directive for how the country might be […]

I return to my first love and my last love, the poem of America, the incomparable Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. This post covers sections one through three, Leaves of Grass Deathbed Edition.

In part 2 I do bible quotes and then wrap it all up with a profound flourish.

In truth, I started this blog because there is a coherent value system I wanted to elaborate which I termed anarcho-spiritual, a silly name, honestly, but one I live with now because at one time I thought it sounded kind of cool and made it a .com on WordPress. In reality, however, the belief system […]

I continue my lyric poetry sequence, Loosely Connected Yous, with this new part, which is actually directly connected to the previous one. Thank you for listening.

Here I start a new track and begin scripture readings, beginning with the Book of Psalms, Psalms 1 through 6. The edition I use is the New American Bible Revised Edition, which is a reliable, middle of the road English translation, which also has some good footnotes. I quote from the copy which I’ve used […]

Well I’m back to my own readings, after being so rudely interrupted by the likes of R.M. Rilke, and his elegies so artfully rendered by Stephen Mitchell. Loosely Connected Yous is my first book, so be gentle with me, it’s probably not very good poetry. But it’s a lyric sequence that has stuck with me […]