Podcasts about nijol miliauskait

"Remembering" and "memory" are major elements in the creation of poetry. There are essential focuses or common themes that poems that include memories often use.  I take a look today at another one of those focuses, memories of loss and especially the loss of home. I read poems by Nijolė Miliauskaitė, Elizabeth Bishop, Abraham Lincoln, Zeina Azzam, and Rainer Maria Rilke.  I end the program with one of my own poems.

Today, in the second in a series of programs that illustrate my work over the years, I continue to present some of my translations of Lithuanian poetry and to read my own poems.  I begin with my translations of poems by Nijolė Miliauskaitė and end with two of my own poems. Both halves of this program include a focus on prophecy and on female figures from Greek mythology.

As I have suggested in my past few programs, "remembering" and "memory" are major elements in the creation of poetry. There are essential focuses or common themes that poems that include memories often use. I take a look today at another one of those focuses, memories of places in our lives -- cities-- as sources of memory and as springboards for various thematic considerations. I read poems by Walt Whitman, William Blake, Langston Hughes, Elizabeth Bishop, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, and Nijolė Miliauskaitė. I end the program with one of my own poems in which a city plays a visible and important role.

As I have suggested in my past few programs, "remembering" and "memory" are major elements in the creation of poetry. There are essential focuses or common themes that poems that include memories often use.  I take a look today at another one of those focuses, memories of loss and especially the loss of home. I read poems by Nijolė Miliauskaitė, Elizabeth Bishop, Abraham Lincoln, Zeina Azzam, and Rainer Maria Rilke.  I end the program with one of my own poems.

Today’s program follows up on my last program about Advent and presents poems about Christmas from a variety of perspectives. I read poems by Clement Clarke Moore, e.e. cummings, William Butler Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Ken Hada, and Lithuanian poet Nijolė Miliauskaitė. I end with one of my own poems written during and for the Christmas season.  

Today’s program considers poems that are about children or that include children as parts of the poems’ principal themes. There are many contrasting visions of the state in which children live and I take a look at some depictions of children and of childhood in the works of some contemporary poets that may address two of those contrasts – innocence and experience. I read poems by William Blake, Lithuanian poet Nijolė Miliauskaitė, Julie Chappell, Alan Berecka, and Chinese poet Li Nan. I end the program with one of my own poems that presents a similar theme.

Today’s program focuses on one of the two essential and principal themes in all of poetry, and, perhaps, in all of literature: death. The other foundational theme is love and was the subject of last week’s program. I discuss some of the elements of death as they might be presented in poetry and then read several poems that focus on the sense of loss the results because of the death of someone who is loved. Today’s poems are by Dylan Thomas, Constance Carrier, Sherry Craven, and the Lithuanian poet Nijolė Miliauskaitė. I end the program with two of my own poems.

Vidurnakčio lyrikoje Nijolės Miliauskaitė eiles skaito Dagna Juknaitė.

Today’s program is about using myths when writing poems. The program includes an overview of what myth is and then presents poems that use myth as a foundational thematic device. Those poems include my translations of poems about the Greek queen of the underworld, Persephone, by the Lithuanian poet Nijolė Miliauskaitė, and three of my poems: two that use the figure of the Greek mythological figure Icarus, from my book The Kingfisher’s Reign, and one that incorporates a version of the Egyptian sky-god Horus, from Three White Horses.  

Vidurnakčio lyrikoje Nijolės Miliauskaitės eiles skaito aktorė Gražina Urbonaitė.

In this episode, MPT Editor Clare Pollard introduces our Digital Pamphlet on Lithuanian poetry, 'How to Swim', and looks back at our online translation workshop on Lithuanian poetry. Hear Martyn Crucefix reading his tranlsation of *** by Nijolė Miliauskaitė, alongside a reading in the original Lithuanian. This digital pamphlet is published on 21 February 2018. See more at: modernpoetryintranslation.com/how-to-swim/

Vidurnakčio lyrikoje Nijolės Miliauskaitės eiles skaito aktorė Gražina Urbonaitė.

Vidurnakčio lyrikoje Nijolės Miliauskaitės eiles skaito aktorė Gražina Urbonaitė.

Vidurnakčio lyrikoje Nijolės Miliauskaitės eiles skaito Dagna Juknaitė.

Vidurnakčio lyrikoje Nijolės Miliauskaitės eiles skaito Dagna Juknaitė.

Vidurnakčio lyrikoje Nijolės Miliauskaitė eiles skaito Olita Dautartaitė.

Vidurnakčio lyrikoje Nijolės Miliauskaitė eiles skaito Olita Dautartaitė.

Vidurnakčio lyrikoje Nijolės Miliauskaitė eiles skaito Dagna Juknaitė.

Vidurnakčio lyrikoje Nijolės Miliauskaitė eiles skaito Dagna Juknaitė.

Unikalūs archyviniai įrašai Poetė Judita Vaičiūnaitė pasakoja apie mylimo Vilniaus ženklus, Jonas Strielkūnas – apie sapnuojamą tėviškę ir per kelias minutes atsirandančius eilėraščius, o Nijolė Miliauskaitė juokauja, kad poeziją pasirinko gal ir iš kvailumo. Tai mintys iš radijo archyvuose saugomų šių šviesaus atminimo poetų interviu. Radijo archyvuose galima surasti daug įdomių pokalbių, tad šįkart klausysimės ryškių mūsų literatūros žmonių, kurie ne taip jau dažnai duodavo interviu.

Unikalūs archyviniai įrašai Poetė Judita Vaičiūnaitė pasakoja apie mylimo Vilniaus ženklus, Jonas Strielkūnas – apie sapnuojamą tėviškę ir per kelias minutes atsirandančius eilėraščius, o Nijolė Miliauskaitė juokauja, kad poeziją pasirinko gal ir iš kvailumo. Tai mintys iš radijo archyvuose saugomų šių šviesaus atminimo poetų interviu. Radijo archyvuose galima surasti daug įdomių pokalbių, tad šįkart klausysimės ryškių mūsų literatūros žmonių, kurie ne taip jau dažnai duodavo interviu.