Melissa Studdard reading her poetry from – I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast

Melissa Studdard reading from her book, I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast.

This is a Saint Julian Press Podcast production of three W. S. Merwin poems; The Blackboard, Living With the News, and Neither Here Nor There. Each poem is read or presented by Publisher/CEO/Poet – Ron Starbuck.

Saint Julian Press Podcast On the Subject of Poetry – By W. S. Merwin Read by Ron Starbuck

Rain Light & To My Brother – by W.S. Merwin Read by Ron Starbuck – Saint Julian Press, Inc. From: The Essential W.S. Merwin Paperback: 200 pages Publisher: Copper Canyon Press (August 29, 2017) Language: English ISBN-10: 1556595131 ISBN-13: 978-1556595134

For the Anniversary of My Death – By W. S. Merwin – Read by Ron Starbuck The Essential W.S. Merwin Paperback: 200 pages Publisher: Copper Canyon Press (August 29, 2017) Language: English ISBN-10: 1556595131 ISBN-13: 978-1556595134

Melissa Studdard read "Integrating the Shadow" from her book – I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast.

East Coker - Burnt Norton & Sleepers Awake Saint Julian Press Podcast – Art & Music utilized under “Fair Use” practice for Educational non-profit Purposes. Art by Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985. Passover Angel of Death – From Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. White Crucifixion – From the Art Institute of Chicago. Music: Sleepers Awake by composer Johann Sebastian Bach. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Sleepers Awake), from The Essential Yo-Yo Ma. Ron Starbuck – Readings from East Coker & Burnt Norton

When I Was a Boy – A poem written and read by Ron Starbuck.

PRELUDIO – Prelude by Antonio Machado A New Translation By Ron Starbuck © 2019 Photo – An aged music stand Trinity Episcopal Church Midtown Houston

Melissa Studdard reads her poem, Kiss the World With My Wounded Mouth.

Donn McKenzie reads from Bird Light, by poet Elizabeth Cohen.

A recording of Donna McKenzie reading poems from Hunger for Salt, by poet Elaine Fletcher Chapman, published by Saint Julian Press.

Doug Williams reading poems from Dharma Rain by Terry Lucas.

Le Léthé by Charles Baudelaire from his work, Pièces condamnées / Condemned Poems. This is a new liberal literary translation by Ron Starbuck © 2018 – Saint Julian Press. A new translation of his work and perhaps a pardon, if eros and obsession are too present for some tastes. Nepenthe means – "that which chases away sorrow"

Equinox-March 1968 written by Eugene McCarthy, and read by Ron Starbuck. Eugene Joseph McCarthy (March 29, 1916 – December 10, 2005) was an American politician and poet from Minnesota. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959 and the United States Senate from 1959 to 1971. McCarthy sought the Democratic nomination in the 1968 presidential election, challenging incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson on an anti-Vietnam War platform.

Melissa Studdard reads her poem — For Baudelaire, from I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast.

Mockingbird Song – From: THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT BEING AN EPISCOPALIAN New & Selected Poems By Ron Starbuck

A reading of the poem "They Have Asked" by Ron Starbuck, with music composed by John Powell Hardesty.

RUNNING WITH WOLVES – read by Ron Starbuck from "There is Something About Being An Episcopalian"