The Cultured Bumpkin

I'm an absolute sucker for a good love poem, and this is one of the best in the English language. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's #43 in her "Sonnets from the Portugese" and it's a beauty.

An artist friend of mine once said if he was born 150 earlier, he would have asked Elizabeth out on a date. I told him if I was born 150 years earlier, I would have challenged him to a duel.

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I love sunsets, and my favorite place to see them is out in the Flint Hills of Kansas. This poem perfectly describes the beauty of one of those Plains sunsets (or anywhere else for that matter!)

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Ambrose Bierce was an American writer, journalist and Civil War (1861-1865) veteran who fought on the Union side. He was one of ten children, all of whose names started with the letter "A". Bierce joined the 9th Indiana Infantry as a Private at the start of the war, and later earned an officer's commission, and was wounded at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. He wrote extensively about his war experience, and "An Occurrence at Owl Creek" is probably his best known story. It first published in the San Francisco Examiner in 1890.

If you're ever at Shiloh National Military Park in southern Tennessee, you'll find a quote by Private Ambrose Bierce of the plaque near "Bloody Pond" which briefly describes the aftermath of the battle.

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This short little Robert Frost poem reminds me of working in the garden with my Dad in rural Mississippi when a neighbor came by...

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On this episode, professional stage and voice actor Andy Harvey joins me in the studio for a "duet" of Mark Twain's "A Telephonic Conversation"

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This Edgar Allen Poe classic from 1846 takes a look at cold blooded revenge. Just for fun, let's pretend that it takes place in New Orleans during Mardi Gras.

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This short, sweet little classic from English poet William Blake is a very nostalgic piece because I can hear it in my Dad's voice (who's been gone for almost 10 years). He used to read it, and he is the man I credit with helping me to develop a love of literature.

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This episode features one of the greatest artists that I know, Jesse Phillips, butcher a cherished American classic into fish bait. Departing from the usual format, this episode is a "live recording" so that you can hear all of Jesse Phillip's spontaneous awkwardness, self loathing, and color commentary in real time as I attempt to direct his narration, and play the "voices" in O. Henry's "A Retrieved Reformation"

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This 1916 poem by Carl Sandburg makes you think...

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