Content Tagged ‘Audio’

Audio Excerpt: History Here Requires Balboa

December 23, 2012 8:29 pm | Tags: , , , , , | No Comments

Here is audio of me reading a poem from my chapbook, History Here Requires Balboa. This poem takes up an apocryphal story of Montezuma’s death at the hands of Cortez: death by molted gold down the throat. While that’s probably not how he died–many scholars think he was stoned to death by his own people after Cortez took him prisoner–the image of such an execution marries …
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Partial Solar Eclipse

December 22, 2012 2:50 pm | Tags: , , | No Comments

When I was in college, I happened to be in an astronomy class when a partial solar eclipse took place over western Pennsylvania. The strange shadows cast during such an event stuck with me for the many years since. My poem about the event was published in The Southern Review in the fall. Here’s audio of me reading it.

 

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