White Ash Flies is an audible, on-line anthology drawn from that abiding and rich sea of content, the public domain. I’ll select and serialize recordings of myself reading my favorite poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and correspondence, sacred and profane, in as heterogeneous a mix as I can passably manage. I’ll also be sharing original content from time to time.
White Ash Flies presents another installment of Zander's Appendix: The House of the Stare and Will You Join My Carpool?, written and read by Colin Mahoney. 4 min, 40 sec, The House of the Stare 8 min, 15 sec, Will You Join My Carpool?
White Ash Flies is back with another installment of Zander's Sunday Sauce: Psalm 17, translated by Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), read by Colin Mahoney.
On this Valentine's Day, White Ash Flies presents Cyclops in Love: Idyll XI of Theocritus (c. 270 BC), translated by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) and read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents, Salem: a selection of Cotton Mather's reporting on the Salem witch trials of 1692-93, read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents a Good Friday edition of Zander's Sunday Sauce: Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward, written by John Donne (1572-1631), and read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies is back with another installment of Zander's Appendix and Other Gratuitous Organs: First and Latest Things, two poems written and read by Colin Mahoney. 2 min, 12 sec, He Appeared at our Gate, A Moron 6 min, 18 sec, Saturn Devouring His Son
White Ash Flies presents Paste, a short story by Henry James (1843-1916), read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents Chapter 7 from Part 1 of Fyodor Dostoyevsky short novel, Notes From Underground, read by Colin Mahoney.
No wolves, crows, or black bees were hurt during this taping of Episode 7 of The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919), read by Colin Mahoney on White Ash Flies. However, a witch did melt.
White Ash Flies presents Jabberwocky, and Other Nonsense: Works by Edward Lear (1812-1888) and Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), read by Colin Mahoney, with special guests!
A happy Halloween to all of you on Planet Earth this Sunday morning, a perfect morning for some catastrophe fiction from one of the masters of the form, Herbert George Wells (1866-1946): his short story, "The Star", published in 1897, read by Colin Mahoney.
In a nod to the spooky season, White Ash Flies presents Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents Chapter 2 of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents another installment of Zander's Sunday Sauce: Chapter 37 of the Book of Ezekiel, read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents Episode 6 of The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919), read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents The Nose, written by Nikolai Gogol (1809-1849), translated by Constance Garnett, and read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents the Phaeton episode from Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated by Arthur Golding (1536-1606), and read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents another installment of Zander's Appendix, and Other Gratuitous Organs: Two Remarks on National Parks and The Sisters Dolor (the Price Sisters at Brixton Prison), written and read by Colin Mahoney. 2 min, 23 sec, The Sisters Dolor (the Price Sisters at Brixton Prison) 4 min, 23 sec, Two Remarks on National Parks
White Ash Flies presents "Come, my Corinna, Come...": Five songs by Robert Herrick (1591-1674), read by Colin Mahoney. 1 min, 48 sec, Delight in Disorder 2 min, 33 sec, To Daffodils 3 min, 23 sec, Upon Julia's Clothes 3 min, 50 sec, The Coming of Good Luck 4 min, 15 sec, Corinna's Going A-Maying
White Ash Flies is back with the first installment of Diary of the First Trip Through the Grand Canyon by John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents On Knowing what Gives us Pleasure by Samuel Butler (1835-1902), read by Colin Mahoney.
Tonight, White Ash Flies presents another installment of Zander's Appendix: 3 Poems, written and read by Colin Mahoney. 1 min, 20 sec, Living Room With TV 3 min, 15 sec, My Dentist Lives in the Suburbs, Attends Meetings in the City 5 min, 25 sec, One Man to Another, Somewhere Over South Dakota
White Ash Flies presents The Brothers by William Wordsworth (1770-1850), read by Colin Mahoney.
Tonight on White Ash Flies, another installment of Zander's Sunday Sauce: The Beatitudes (Mt. 5: 3-16) from the King James Version (1611), read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies in a South Florida mood: Three Poems by Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), read by Colin Mahoney. 2 min, 17 sec, Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs 3 min, 27 sec, A High-Toned Old Christian Woman 5 min, 10 sec, O Florida, Venereal Soil
Tonight, White Ash Flies is serving up your weekend spleen is the shape of Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, published anonymously in 1723, read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents A Grave, a poem by Marianne Moore (1887-1972), read by Colin Mahoney.
Pandemonium tonight, as White Ash Flies pits Elizabeth Barrett Browning against William Shakespeare in the latest episode of SONNET OCTAGON. Expect mayhem. Shakespeare: Sonnet 91, 2 min, 38 sec Sonnet 97, 3 min, 47 sec Sonnet 98, 4 min, 45 sec Barrett Browning: Sonnet 15, 6 min Sonnet 24, 6 min 50 sec Sonnet 29, 8 min
White Ash Flies presents On Official Business (1899), written by Anton Chekhov and translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett, read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents a special installment of Zander's Appendix and Other Gratuitous Organs: Wheelock's Calendar, written and read by Colin Mahoney. Wheelock Clara, his wife Caroline, their daughter Contents: January, 2 min, 29 sec February - Madison, WI, 2 min, 27 sec March, 5 min, 25 sec April - Shiloh, 1862, 6 min, 7 sec May, 8 min, 30 sec June - Arches National Park, 10 min, 5 sec July- the 4th on Lake Mendota, 11 min, 37 sec August - Caroline's Wedding Day, 13 min, 37 sec September, 15 min, 14 sec October, 17 min November - Chicago, 18 min, 25 sec December, 19 min, 45 sec
On White Ash Flies, Zander's Sunday Sauce is back with Chapter 38 of the Book of Job, from the Authorized Version of the Bible (aka The King James Bible, 1611), read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents episode 5 of The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, read by Colin Mahoney.
Tonight White Ash Flies presents, Caliban Upon Setebos by Robert Browning (1864), read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents two poems by William Butler Yeats from his 1919 collection, The Wild Swans at Coole: The Collar-bone of a Hare and An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents, 2 Poems En Route: On the Ubiquity of Headphones, and On I-80, Before Damascus, written and read by Colin Mahoney. 57 sec, On the Ubiquity of Headphones 1 min, 50 sec, On I-80, Before Damascus
White Ash Flies presents The Star-Splitter (1923) by Robert Frost, read by Colin Mahoney.
Tonight, Zander's Appendix presents Nightsong, written and read by Colin Mahoney, on White Ash Flies.
White Ash Flies presents Episode 2 of Homer's Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope, read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents Episode 1 of Homer's Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope, read by Colin Mahoney.
Tonight on White Ash Flies, Zander's Appendix and Other Gratuitous Organs presents 2 Poems for the Dog Days, written and read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents Episode 3 of Edward Gibbons' The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1, read by Colin Mahoney.
Tonight on White Ash Flies, Episode 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, read by Colin Mahoney.
Taped Tuesday, White Ash Flies presents Episode 3 of SONNET OCTAGON, pitting 3 sonnets written by Thomas Wyatt (1503?-1542) against 3 by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), read by Colin Mahoney.
A shorter number tonight on Zander's Appendix: Poem Containing My Daughter's House, Drawn and Cut by Hand, written and read by Colin Mahoney.
White Ash Flies presents Episode 4 of The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, read by Colin Mahoney.
Tonight, on White Ash Flies: Episode 2 of John Muir's My First Summer in the Sierra, read by Colin Mahoney.
Tonight, on White Ash Flies: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901–1902, read by Colin Mahoney.
Tonight on White Ash Flies, Episode 1 of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, read by Colin Mahoney.
Zander's Appendix and Other Gratuitous Organs brings along two poems written and read by Colin Mahoney: Lot's Lament, and The House of the Stare, on White Ash Flies. 45 sec, Lot's Lament 2 min, 5 sec, The House of the Stare N.B. Sections 2 and 3 of The House of the Stare paraphrase two passages from Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species.
White Ash Flies is back this Friday with Episode 3 of The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, read by Colin Mahoney.