Human Voices Wake Us

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 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.

Jung’s Great Dream - A reading from Jung’s memoir of his famous house dream, that gave him his first inkling of what he would later call the “collective unconscious.” 

Buy the books from this episode: Memories, Dreams, Reflections,” by C. G. Jung: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679723951/ 

“A Life of Jung,” by Ronald Hayman: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FKTE24A/

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. 

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.

A reading from Mary Pipher’s 1994 book, “Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls.” 

Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001VCHPYA/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_api_i_hQFGFb3W306ZG

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.

Louise Gluck’s poem “Messengers,” read on the morning she received the Nobel Prize in literature

Buy her "Collected Poems: 1962-2012," here: https://www.amazon.com/Poems-1962-2012-Louise-Gl%C3%BCck/dp/0374534098/

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.