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Aug 26, 2020
4 min

Book Review: Voices on the Wind by Daniel Leach

It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can ...

"Prose and Poetry" and Other Poems by Robin Helweg-Larsen

The Editor

Aug 22, 2020
1 min

"Prose and Poetry" and Other Poems by Robin Helweg-Larsen

Prose and Poetry I long for Prose - but darkly, distantly, She looks at far-off lands. It’s Poetry who brings persistently Small gifts in...

By Bruce Meyer

Aug 17, 2020
1 min

Telling the Bees About Friendship

As boys, we collected fireflies in Mason jars on summer nights, hoping as we waited for dreams in small rooms the shadows filled we’d be ...

By Michael R. Burch

Aug 12, 2020
2 min

Water and Gold and Other Poems

Water and Gold You came to me as rain breaks on the desert when every flower springs to life at once, but joy’s a wan illusion to the exp...

Translation

Aug 10, 2020
1 min

On Contemplating Schiller's Skull

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Here in this charnel-house of bleaching bones, like ye...

An Original Musical Setting of "Poems Unwritten"

The Editor

Aug 8, 2020
1 min

An Original Musical Setting of "Poems Unwritten"

Sometimes, when the light and the mists of the day Settle holy and soft on the edge of the night, When the sights and the sounds of the w...

By Craig Dobson

Aug 2, 2020
2 min

Late Imperial Woes

I anxiously wait by the phone, My favourite villa’s up in smoke, Barbarians are nearing Rome. I’m rich in titles, yet I’m broke. Great ga...

The Editor

Aug 1, 2020
1 min

Brahms' Advice for Composers - Part I

The Chained Muse is proud to present the first part in a lecture series by music scholar Fred Haight. In this installment, there will be ...

By Paul Gallagher

Jul 25, 2020
2 min

The Violin Soldier

It was a story somehow true – it likely happened so, It's strange – but there is much that's strange in human powers to know. A young mus...

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