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Poetry Month 1: A Recitation of "Porphyria's Lover"
An audio recitation of Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover."
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Jan 177 min read
A Person of Letters?
There are a myriad number of stories of great writers being burned by Hollywood. At the beginning of the sound age, dramatists of note...
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Dec 27, 20249 min read
2024 in Perspective
Greetings, readers! I hope you all had a nice holiday season and are as ready for the New Year as I am. 2024 was both challenging and...
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Nov 22, 20242 min read
The Holiday Season: A Prose-Poem
The cold is finally here. Jackets and layers. The quickening of the dark. The sense that something special is drawing near. Christmas has...
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Nov 15, 20241 min read
I Suppose it's Fall: A Poem
The leaves and acorns fall and leave a densely populated gram on the cemented places that should still be nature places. The weather is...
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Nov 1, 20241 min read
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 18, 20248 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 11, 20244 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 21, 20243 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 24, 20242 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 19, 20242 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 23, 20242 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 16, 20242 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 9, 20241 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 2, 20242 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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