Read Me a Poem - “Well, I have lost you” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Amanda Holmes reads Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem, “Well, I have lost you.” Have a suggestion for a poem? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.


This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.



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the memory palace - Episode 140: Jackie Mitchell

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Music

  • We start off with Chez Thomas, by Charles Delarue

  • Go to The Graceful Ghost, one of William Bolcom's 3 Ghost Rags.

  • Then Krzysztof Komeda's Ballet Edude II

  • A touch of Ellington playing A Single Petal on a Rose.

  • Then Concerto no. 5 en la minuer: Allegro ma non molto, as performed by Wilhelm Friedeman Bach and Brigitte Haudbebourg frames...

  • Philharmonics - Piano Sessions found on the Deluxe Edition of Agnes Obel's Philharmonics album.

  • Then we go to Nathaniel Johnson's gorgeous, Penelope's Theme from the score to the delightful film, The Brothers Bloom.

  • Sneeuwland by Oskar Schuster.

  • Judith by Jacob David.

Notes

  • I read a bunch of articles on Jackie, but if you're looking for one-stop-shopping that can send you off in other research avenues, I'd probably suggest this article by Zack Harold in Lapham's Quarterly.

the memory palace - Episode 139: 1,347 Birds

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Music

  • First up is Requiem from Nico Muhly's score to How to Talk to Girls at Parties.

  • November by Colleen.

  • Edward Hong's arrangement of Sleep from the Smoke and Mirrors Percussion Ensemble.

  • The solo version of Broad Channel by Bing & Ruth

  • Won't Be a Thing to Become by Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld

Notes

  • Here's Shane Dubay and Carl Fuldner's study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, including Fuldner's remarkable photographs.