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Architect's Watercolor: Each Minute is Encounter
Today, Erika Kyba reads Arthur Sze's "Architect's Watercolor." This is a poem that toes the line between potentiality and reality.
Comus: To Quench the Draught of Pheobus
Today, Erika Kyba continues to analyze Milton's "Comus," and we learn what makes the wicked spirit, Comus so dangerous: he menaces the rational faculties of men, and t...
Comus: The Rank Vapors of this Sin-Worn Mold
Today, Erika Kyba introduces Milton's "Comus," a purported morality masque which is perhaps not what it seems to be. Alexandra Comus narrates the part of the Attendant...
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Accept this "Bonnie Doon"
Today, Erika Kyba reads through the end of "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi," by Emily Dickinson. We begin to tie together the themes of moral bankruptcy, surface versus subs...
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Insolvency, Sublime!
Today, Erika Kyba reads "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi," by Emily Dickinson, a witty societal critique dashed with a commentary how certain astronomical discoveries have al...