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2023 Flight of the Midnight Skylark in a Jazz Suite Mode
This episode is based on a blog article by the American author and documentarian whose name is pronounced, Ah-bear-zhah-nee, and spelled A-b-e-r-j-h-a-n-i. The following are in his words: Writers, poets, and artists often draw creative inspiration from each other in ways that produce memorable moments. Such was the case in…
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Calendar of National Poetry and Jazz Appreciation Month Events at Bright Skylark LP
The GoFundMe page in the Ike Carter and Aberjhani Music Heritage Project will launch to raise funds in support of the extended research, composition, and publication of a major volume on radio programmer and music historian Carter’s life and musical times.
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Poetic Traditions of Compassion and Creative Maladjustment (part 4): Rainer Maria Rilke
“Like the other poets in this series, Jalal al-Din Rumi and Gwendolyn Brooks, Rilke in his writings does not dwell on the word compassion per se. He strives to embody it…” –Aberjhani
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The Compassionate Poetic Genius of Gwendolyn Brooks
Welcome to the revised Part 3 of Poetic Traditions of Compassion and Creative Maladjustment. This revision is presented to correct technological difficulties encountered with the previous upload. Thank you for your patience and please enjoy the episode: June 7, 2017, marked the centennial of the birth of Gwendolyn Brooks, (she…