Readings of two love poems by W. B. Yeats: the early poem, "The Song of Wandering Aengus," and one of his very last poems, "Politics." Both still break the heart, despite the vast distance in time and style between the two.

Buy the Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats here: https://www.amazon.com/Collected-Poems-William-Butler-1996-09-09/dp/B01LP2T9AS

Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected]. 

I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at [email protected], and I will remove the episode immediately.

A reading of three of my favorite of Wallace Stevens’s poems, “How to Live. What to Do,” “The Idea of Order at Key West,” and “Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour.” 

Buy Stevens’s Collected Poems: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1101911689/ 

Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected]. 

I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at [email protected], and I will remove the episode immediately.

“Notes from the Grid“ is a series of small essays on how we have come to handle things like culture, technology, privacy, education, history, and so much else. 

Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected].

A reading from “American Indian Myths & Legends,” edited & retold by Richard Erdoes & Alfonso Ortiz. This particular myth is a White River Sioux story told by Jenny Leading Cloud at White River, South Dakota, 1967, and recorded by Richard Erdoes. 

Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/American-Legends-Pantheon-Folklore-Library/dp/0394740181/ 

Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected]. 

I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at [email protected], and I will remove the episode immediately.

A reading of Laurie Sheck’s poem “Headlights,” from her 1996 collection, “The Willow Grove.” 

Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679766030/

Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected]. 

I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at [email protected], and I will remove the episode immediately.

An episode from 10/15/20: Only the third episode in this podcast (and you can hear it in my voice, where I still sound a little uncomfortable), tonight I read Carl Jung's description of his famous "Dream of the House." In the dream, Jung walks from the top floor and down through the rest of the house, into the basement, and beyond.

As each lower level in the house appeared to represent an earlier moment in history, Jung considered the house to be a kind of map of the psyche, where the lower levels represented the unconsciousness itself. Jung said that it was this dream, which seemed to contain information both personal/autobiographical and impersonal/historical, which gave him his first inkling of what he would later call the “collective unconscious.”

In September of 1909, Jung traveled to America with Sigmund Freud and others, and it was on the return journey that he had his dream. The account of the dream that I read from comes from Jung's memoirs late in life, Memories, Dreams, Reflections; I then read from Ronald Hayman's A Life of Jung, who notes some differences between this and earlier accounts of the dream.

Don’t forget to support Human Voices Wake Us on Substack, where you can also get our newsletter and other extras. You can also support the podcast by ordering any of my books: Notes from the Grid, To the House of the Sun, The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and Bone Antler Stone.

Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected].

Notes from the Grid is a series of small essays on how we have come to handle things like culture, technology, privacy, education, history, and so much else. 

The audio from Kurt Cobain is taken from AJ Schnack's 2006 documentary, "Kurt Cobain: About a Son." Buy the documentary here: https://www.amazon.com/Kurt-Cobain-About-Son/dp/B000WTZ6M6/ 

Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected]. 

I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at [email protected], and I will remove the episode immediately.

An episode from 10/10/20: A reading from Mary Pipher’s 1994 book, Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. It is fascinating to see how the internet is nowhere to be found here, and how in the years after the book was published, technology and smartphones have only exacerbated these age-old difficulties.

Don’t forget to support Human Voices Wake Us on Substack, where you can also get our newsletter and other extras. You can also support the podcast by ordering any of my books: Notes from the Grid, To the House of the Sun, The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and Bone Antler Stone.

Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected].

An episode from 10/8/2020: In the first episode of Human Voices Wake Us, I read Louise Glück's poem, "Messengers," on the morning that it was announced that she had won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Buy her Collected Poems: 1962-2012.

Don’t forget to support Human Voices Wake Us on Substack, where you can also get our newsletter and other extras. You can also support the podcast by ordering any of my books: Notes from the Grid, To the House of the Sun, The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and Bone Antler Stone.

Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to [email protected].