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  My Visits with MGM

  Edit Villarreal

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  A wistful look back at a young Hispanic woman’s “MGM” which stands for “My Grandmama”. The narrator often channels “MGM” for advice as she tries to succeed as a second-generation American.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Yolanda Lloyd, Tony Plana, Rose Portillo, Ruben Sierra and Renee Victor.Directed by Peggy Shannon. Recorded before a live audience in June, 1992.

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  Men of Harlech

  Talhaiarn

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  LibriVox readers present 7 versions of "Men of Harlech" by Talhaiarn. This was the weekly poem for the week of September 23, 2012. 
   
  "Men of Harlech" or "The March of the Men of Harlech" is a song and military march which is traditionally said to describe events during the seven year long siege of Harlech Castle between 1461 and 1468. The music was first published without words in 1794, but it is said to be a much earlier folk air. The song was published in Volume II of the 1862 collection Welsh Melodies with the Welsh lyrics by the Welsh poet John Jones (Talhaiarn). A version translated by John Oxenford was published in "The Songs of Wales" in 1873 with music edited by Brinley Richards. This is the version recorded in this week's poetry project. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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  Challenge

  John William Streets

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  The editor of the volume Made in the Trenches includes these poignant notes:Corporal Streets, in submitting these sonnets some months ago, wrote: "They express not only my feelings but the feelings of thousands of others who, like myself, are on the verge of departure from England."Cpl. Streets, in a letter accompanying later poems, also wrote: "They were inspired while I was in the trenches, where I have been so busy that I have had little time to polish them. I have tried to picture some thoughts that pass through a man's brain when he dies. I may not see the end of the poems, but hope to live to do so. We soldiers have our views of life to express, though the boom of death is in our ears. We try to convey something of what we feel in this great conflict to those who think of us, and sometimes, alas! mourn our loss. We desire to let them know that in the midst of our keenest sadness for the joy of life we leave behind we go to meet death grim-lipped, clear-eyed, and resolute-hearted."He didn't survive, killed in action on 1st July 1916. - Summary by Ruth Golding

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  Damon Runyon Theater - Touching...

  Damon Runyon

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  The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.  Damon Runyon is acknowledged as one of the great writers to come out of twentieth century America.  Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named, and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and has no job that can be gleaned from his musings, nor does he admit to any criminal involvement; He’s a bystander, an observer, an average street-corner Joe.  Runyon described himself as "being known to one and all as a guy who is just around".  That line seems to say a lot about Runyon and his life.  It was like you were with him on some street corner hustle or some shady dive and he was filling you in on all the angles, all the gossip, all of life. He was who so many people wanted to be with……or so many people wanted to be.  Of course, the cliché about newspapermen and writers is that they are heavy drinkers, chain-smokers, gamblers and obsessively chase women with a sideline in the gathering of stories and facts and actually getting something written just before the deadline hits. That seems like Damon Runyon and his life summed up in one sentence.  His stories became legendary ways of looking that bit differently at America, of soaking up the atmosphere of a glamorous and rip-roaring age and distilling it into black and white type or, in our case, The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.

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  Yo vengo desde lejos para...

  Aljure Fortunato

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  Hoy, estoy más orgulloso y más asombrado de mi padre, Fortunato, un médico y cirujano sobresaliente; que salvó vidas de personas y tuvo el alcance universal de la poesía. Fue capaz de trasladar su mente científica a su realidad poética artística. Le pregunto al lector, ¿cómo puede ser esto posible? La respuesta está dentro de este libro. En los poemas de mi padre, usted, el lector, encontrará pistas de cómo ser capaz de tener esa apertura de pensamiento y ese alcance universal.
  / Today, I am prouder and more astonished at my father, Fortunato, who being an outstanding medical doctor and surgeon; who saved lives of people, was able to have the universal scope of poetry. He was able to shift his scientific mind to his artistic poetry reality. I ask the reader, how can this be possible? The answer lies within this book. In my father's poems you, the reader, will find clues on how to be able to have that openness of thought and that universal scope.

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  Passing Places (NHB Modern Plays)

  Stephen Greenhorn

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  A road movie for the stage, this play follows Alex and Brian on their trip from dislocation to location.
  Alex and Brian are a pair of smalltown boys going nowhere, who get out the only way they know how - doing a runner with a prized surfboard in the only transport available: a worn-out Lada. But the surfboard belongs to Binks, Alex's psychopathic gangster boss, and he's hot on their heels as they head north for Thurso - where the surf is up all year round.
  'tremendous new comedy' - Herald
  'Greenhorn conveys all the wonders and frustrations of life on the road. Passing Places is another in a growing body of Scottish plays seeking out answers to a spiritual lack with grace and good humour' - Guardian

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