Episode Summary Oh, those two strange twins, beauty and beast, slink by each other, twine about each other, live inside nature, people, animals, the cosmos. Beauty brings the beast into focus; the beast makes us long for beauty. The Unruly duo plunge into hurricanes, urban grit, human greed, and the Bard as we perform poems, prose, songs, and instrumentals for evidence of these strange bedfellows. Think how the tension between the two haunts the boulevards and the beaches of our perception. Take it in stride, but be aware (beware?)….
Song 1: “The Eyes Have It,” composed and performed by John V. Modaff
Poem 1: “In Hurricane With Horses” by Mark Sanders. Mark lives in Nacogdoches, TX and teaches at Stephen F. Austin University. https://sandersme1.wixsite.com/mark-sanders/
Fiction excerpt: from the novel Death of a Department Chair by Lynn C. Miller. University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/D/Death-of-a-Department-Chair
Feed the cat break: “Beastly Beauty” by John V. Modaff
Poem 2: “My Hipster” by Barbara Rockman, author of the poetry collections To Cleave and Sting and Nest. Barbara is a poet and teacher whose homebase is Santa Fe.
Song 2: “Sonnet 130” by William Shakespeare. Set to music by Phil Schmidt and performed by John V. Modaff
Episode artwork by Lynda Miller
Theme & Incidental Music by John V. Modaff, BMI
Recorded in Albuquerque NM and Morehead KY. Produced at The Creek Studio
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