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Poetry Month 4: A Recitation of "She Walks in Beauty"
A recitation of Lord Byron's poem "She Walks in Beauty."
Feb 281 min read
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Poetry Month 2: A Recitation of "My Last Duchess"
Another vlog- a Youtube recitation of Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess"
Feb 142 min read
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Poetry Month 1: A Recitation of "Porphyria's Lover"
An audio recitation of Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover."
Feb 71 min read
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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...
Nov 15, 20241 min read
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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...
Jun 21, 20243 min read
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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...
May 24, 20242 min read
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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...
May 19, 20242 min read
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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...
Feb 23, 20242 min read
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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...
Feb 16, 20242 min read
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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...
Feb 9, 20241 min read
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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...
Feb 2, 20242 min read
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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...
Nov 10, 20232 min read
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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...
Sep 29, 20238 min read
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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...
Aug 11, 20239 min read
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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...
Jun 2, 20231 min read
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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."
Mar 31, 20231 min read
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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...
Mar 17, 20231 min read
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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...
Feb 24, 20231 min read
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Poem: "August Night, 1972"
This summer poem was written based on several photographs in family albums. The sickly sweet smell of ground water, George Jones singing...
Aug 19, 20221 min read
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