A Reminder before Voting
When crossing the road, the person who looks only left, the person who looks only right, both get hit by cars.
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Oct 188 min read
To My Teachers, with Love
Growing up as an actor, I always believed actors were born, not made. Certainly, one can learn techniques of speaking and movement,...
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Oct 114 min read
Columbus Day and the Offended Generation
Not all holidays are created equally, but there is a ubiquity about them. It is necessary, for example, to have a bright spot in the...
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Jun 213 min read
On the Providence of Summer (And Why I Hate It)
As you read this, we are in the second day of summer, a season I appreciate (for all the life, the beauty, the cooling pool outside, the...
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May 242 min read
Notes from the Hospital: A Prose-Poem
They said it was bad and my decision to come saved my life. Ten and a half hours in the emergency room, I spoke maybe a few words to my...
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May 192 min read
Blue Collar Poems
Special to the Blog: a little late, but still within "the week." A few down-to-earth, blue collar poems. Enjoy! Raised Right We are...
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Feb 232 min read
Poetry Month 4: Your Spirit Eternal
It's been nice sharing some poetry with you this month. If it's not been your thing, I'm sorry. I'll be back in March with more new...
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Feb 162 min read
Poetry Month 3: Love Poems (I Promise)
A little belated St. Valentine's Day present-- some legitimate love poems, not my usual unrequited odes. Love one another. Some of these...
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Feb 91 min read
Poetry Month 2: Stormborn
Stormborn: A Poem Peter, come out of the clouds. You fly too high. The virtues of the ground outweigh reaching for the crib. Born of the...
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Feb 22 min read
Poetry Month 1: Three Poems for Madeline
I've decided February is Poetry Month on the ryanctittle.com blog. Seems an appropriate month. It brings out romance for some, sadness...
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Nov 10, 20232 min read
The Reason: A Veterans Day Prose-Poem
At a bachelor party in the prairies. Here for my friend’s wedding. I have nothing in common with these men in uniform, but am happy to be...
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Oct 20, 20235 min read
Fourth Publication this Year!
I find myself often at a loss as to what publishers of poetry and drama want these days. I’m told the subjects to which I’ve always been...
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Sep 29, 20238 min read
A Writer Looks at Forty
Yes, I am a poet (playwright), two hundred years too late… I was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around my neck, choking me. When I...
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Aug 11, 20239 min read
An Actor's Journal- Part 4/New Publication Announcement
This week, I’ll catch us up on two weeks of rehearsal as the opening date of Waiting for Godot at BFT barrels toward us. Week 3 It is a...
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Jun 2, 20231 min read
My Poem Won a Prize!
I am so excited to announce that a poem of mine, "The Rain Dance," has won 2nd Prize in Blue Institute's Words on Water Writing Contest...
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Apr 21, 202318 min read
Not I but Also: Notes from an Age of Madness
This work contemplates, albeit in a slightly deranged way, the events of protest in the United States in the years 2016-2019. It makes no...
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Apr 14, 20231 min read
Four Poems for AJ
No explanation. Four poems. For AJ. Cheers. Abuse she stood above him, dragging the heel across his chest (which blushed). Identity Tell...
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Mar 31, 20231 min read
Descent to Timon's Cave: A Video Recitation
Something a little different today: a video recitation of my new poem, "Descent to Timon's Cave."
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Mar 17, 20231 min read
Two Devotional Poems
Two devotional poems, in honor of St. Patrick's Day. The first is freely translated from the Latin. The second, freely translated from...
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Feb 24, 20231 min read
No One Tells You: A Poem
There are things you assume you know— the waves of emotion, the choice of conflagration or inhumation, the cavern in your heart. But...
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