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Lucky Words

Jeffrey Windsor

A weekly* email newsletter about literature, art, trail running or hiking or riding or camping or walking or just sitting in the Utah mountains or the desert of the Colorado Plateau, and a good deal of poetry. luckywords.substack.com

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00:19:30

Episode 4.08 Mark Gibbons’s “My Life as a Capitalist”

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2023/04/08

Recorded live and on site right outside Utah Lake State Park, which means that there are also airplanes flying and birds chirping and other people walking. I have edited out the other people walking, but the rest of it is all here.[Mark Gibbons](https://gibbonspoetry.com/) is the Montana Poet Laureate for 2021-2023, and I hope he doesn't mind that I used this poem...#### TEXT OF POEM"My Life as a Capitalist" by Mark GibbonsMy Life as a Capitalist has been an abject failure. As evidence consider

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00:14:15

Episode 4.07 John Donne’s “Good Friday 1613, Riding...

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2023/04/07

Five or six years ago, I read this poem here on Lucky Words. This is a new recording—recorded, edited, and uploaded on Good Friday 2023—looking at the best Good Friday poem ever written.Who am I kidding? Every poem by John Donne is the best ever written.I hope that you have (or had) a lovely Easter, filled with family, chocolate, poetry, and Jesus Christ. #### TEXT OF POEMLet man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, Th' intelligence that moves, devotion is; And as the other spheres, by being

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00:12:16

Episode 4.06 Dylan Thomas’s “The force that through...

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2023/04/07

Redorded on location on the trail to Corona Arch outside Moab, Utah, in May of 2022. Some members of my family were with me, and I recorded in snatches while we were hiking—which is why there is some heckling going on. I tried to edit most of it out, but, you know...I have a soft spot for Dylan Thomas, but I don't know why. There's something about his poetry that just feelsgood to me. I feel the same way about Hopkins (maybe I should do some Hopkins...), even though they're both poets who really

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00:10:11

Episode 4.05 Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art”

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2023/04/06

Recorded on location at Arches National Park in Moab, Utah. Specifically, at the La Sal mountains look out—not that I could see anything.While this is a lovely poem, it's also another poem that I recorded sitting down. At least this time I wasn't at my desk, I was still enclosed in a car. It wasn't quite as bad, and the view was nice, but it isn't my ideal. I'm not sure that you all notice, but my brian feels like it only works at half-speed when I'm sitting. To get access to my whole intellect

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00:16:11

Episode 4.04 The anonymous Anglo-Saxon poem “The...

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2023/04/05

A very different thing today: I'm stuck indoors and so this was recorded at home. So weird. Still, I don't think you'll get bored, because I get all artsy: give it a listen and let me know how much you like (or dislike) it.

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00:10:53

Episode 4.03 John Keats’s “On First Looking into...

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2023/04/03

When I was in high school and probably completely insufferable, I used to walk around with a book of poetry in my back pocket. Keats was a big favorite then. I'm not sure why; I mean he is great, but it's not exactly stuff that should thrill an obnoxious young kid. And I was very obnoxious. I cringe looking back at myself in those days.

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00:09:46

Episode 4.02 Czeslaw Milosz’s “And Yet The Books”

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2023/04/03

Hiking in the snow is always harder than hiking on dirt, but there's still snow on the ground and so I'll take what I can get. The cold does present one particular difficulty, of course, that it makes my nose run and I have to edit out about a thousand sniffs. I didn't get them all, and for that I apologize.

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00:09:25

Episode 4.01 John Ashbery’s “Just Walking Around”

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2023/04/02

Reading and analysis of this poem by John Ashbery, while hiking in the Utah mountains

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Poetry Month 2023

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2023/04/01

Welcome back! (Or just plain old welcome, if you're here for the first time.)Here at Lucky Words, I'm trying for a podcast a day during National Poetry Month, which is April every year. It's a bit like NaNoWriMo, except for podcasts, and poetry, and no one else in the world does it except me. I hope you enjoy it. If you've got suggestions, corrections, comments, or criticism, I'd love to hear it. Seriously: even the angry stuff. If you want to say something, say it. Send an email to

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09:49

Episode 3.11: Gwendolyn Brooks' "The Preacher...

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2019/06/07

This is kind of a lonely poem for a lonely day hiking. Not lonely, exactly, but very alone. I spent probably five hours and saw, maybe, three human beings. It was good. I like to be alone.Sometimes. I also like to be with those I love. When I am with other people, I think about them. I am a person in society. When I am alone, I think about God, or nature, or poetry and art, or all of those things. I think about myself in relation to all those things.### TEXT OF POEM"The Preacher Ruminates Behind the

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10:16

Episode 310: Alexander Pope's "Ode on Solitude"

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2019/05/11

More adventures in Canyonlands National Park in southern Utah.I hike to be quiet and alone. This hike took me on the White Rim Trail, one of the destination trails for 4x4 affectionados. Which is about the opposite of me. I like my peace and quiet, which never includes dirtbikes or ATVs.Of course, every one I saw at least waved at me, and often were very friendly and chatty. I tell a story of one of those encounters in this episode.### TEXT OF POEMAlexander Pope's "Ode on Solitude"Happy the man,

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Episode 309: Karl Shapiro's "Interlude III"

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2019/05/03

This recording was originally much longer than what I've got for you here. I took a fork in a trail which led me to an overlook that was so magnificent, so overwhelming, that I just stood there, mostly mute. It's vastness, it's quiet emptiness: it made me feel small and like a thing touching divinity.Later, on that same hike, I discovered tiny tiny flowers that I hadn't noticed before. They were just as shocking to me as the canyon. Big and small: this hike was really killing me aesthetically.It

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Episode 308: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "My Cathedral"

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2019/04/27

I spent a few days in Moab, camping and hiking and writing and recording. It was lovely.This episode was recorded as I was hiking in Canyonlands National Park on the Murphy loop. I did edit out some long stretches of just me walking (not excatly compelling audio, that), and a couple of times were I got distracted by something I saw. I did leave in a couple shorter ones (a lizard in one instance, a butterfly in another) just to maintain the feeling of the recording, which is not some

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9:55

Episode 307: Amy Lowell's "Fenway Park: Study in...

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2019/04/22

One of the beautiful days in April in Utah, talking about a beautiful sport in Boston. (OK, this year, there's very little beautiful about baseball in Boston, but last year was great and there's always next year.) Some American poetry today, because today feels like a good day to be an American.This is not an easy poem. It's weird. Don't worry too much about getting it "right." That's not the point. This is a poem to take an interpretation (or partial interpretation, in my case, and probably yours,

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Episode 306: Margaret Atwood's "You Begin"

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2019/04/16

On a trail up American Fork canyon, listening to the water rushing down the mountain as it melts from the snowpack. It's mesmerizing. I know it just sounds like a static hiss on the recording: maybe you can hear it as a natural sound and not just a background noise.There's something magical about this transition between seasons. There's something magical about seeing the world transform itself, to move from a monochromatic, cold environment to a verdant one: warm, green, vibrant.Today's poem is

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00:10:22

Episode 305: Shakespeare's Sonnet 126

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2019/04/13

While one a short hike right near the border between Utah and Idaho, I tried to capture the songs of all the [Western Meadowlarks](https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/western-meadowlark) around me. If you listen closely, you can just hear them. It's one of my favorite birdsongs, and they're not shy about singing it.Today's poem is another of Shakespeare's sonnets. If you didn't hear my episodes on the sonnets, I highly recommend heading back and listening to episodes 201, 203, and 205. I give a

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Episode 304: Emily Dickinson's "Tell all the truth...

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2019/04/11

This was recorded on a super windy day in Moab. I didn't realize just how much it had affected the recording until I tried to listen to it at home. I tried to make it listenable in Audacity and GarageBand, and even still it sounds pretty lousy.Which is really too bad, because the poem is great and the locale was spectacular. There are few things more pleasant than sitting on warm slickrock when the day turns cool and breezy. There's such a lovely radiant heat from the stone.What I didn't actually

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Episode 303: Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Spring"

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2019/04/06

Today's poem, perfectly titled for a beautiful day in April, is a pretty tough one for me. Even now, listening to what I said when I recorded, I'm only half-convinced of my interpretation. I have noticed some new stuff, that I would include if I could. But the recording is not a historical event, captured in this one-take.I did do a little editing in this recording, though. A good chunk is me getting distracted by birds, and it's boring to listen to me watching. The birds were too quiet to hear

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5:03

Episode 302: Mary Oliver's "Why I Wake Early"

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2019/04/04

This was recorded at Arches National Park a while back, on a cold, cold morning. It was a great time to read this wonderful Mary Oliver poem about mornings (and happiness and goodness).I apologize that the sound quality on this is so lousy. I am clearly no professional sound engineer, and there is all sorts of clipping and sound that's blown out by the wind and my poor mic skills. I did what I could to fix it, but frankly, I'm just guessing here.One of my favorite things about recording these on

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00:06:00

Episode 301: Donald Justice's "Men at Forty"

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2019/04/02

Squelchy, snowy hike up the Big Springs trail on a day that couldn't decide what weather felt right. There's a particular beauty in being in a monochromatic landscape like this; it makes me feel small and vulnerable.I've spent much too much time indoors this winter, and I feel more out of shape than I ever have before. I get out of breath more quickly, and the muscles on my legs are less defined than ever beore. It'll take some work this spring and summer to get back to where I was. A poem about

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