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In the Dept of Poetic Justice! Bannon's New Mic Technique with Lyrics for the Great American Wrongbook!
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "...it makes My General levitate or at least he tries.", Credit: Susan Cook
Bannon's free yoga, Pranayama and no more stuffy nose!

  • Added: Aug 23, 2024
  • Length: 02:05
We Among The Hand Hewn Beams Are Safer: Sonnet 1099
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "...on the edge in a time of intense disturbance...", Credit: Nova Scotia Mikmaq Portrait Exhibit
At a poetry workshop, we sit beneath the hand hewn beams of a farmhouse abandoned in the 19th century because the sheep overgrazed the land and rev...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2024
  • Length: 01:09
Protecting the Children: American Sonnet 1098
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "...when the glass door slams, the father shouts, exploitation of innocence..., Credit: Susan Cook
It began as a necessity.

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  • Added: Aug 16, 2024
  • Length: 01:03
  • Purchases: 1
What Courage Wears to Bed
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "...she won't dismiss, hand off or dress down good..., Credit: Susan Cook
The values of a democracy shared through verse not vitriol.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2024
  • Length: :53
An American Sonnet to a Fire Gone
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: The epilogue and Frost's "Reluctance" "Ah when to the heart of man/was it ever less than treason/to go with the drift of things...
Everything changes, if only we can see it.

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  • Added: Aug 11, 2024
  • Length: 01:20
  • Purchases: 1
Hope Is Not the Thing With Feathers
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
This Democracy brings us optimism, change and always, hope.

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  • Added: Aug 11, 2024
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 1
The Violence of Denying Reproductive Rights
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: From 2020 to 2023, 49% of Maine homicides were women domestic violence victims.
Media articles or Judicial discussions rarely if ever include the possibility of domestic abuse toward the child or the mother as risk factors whic...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2024
  • Length: 05:03
Ch'i and the Lessons of "Rage": Donald Trump through the lens of Sun Tze and Hannah Arendt
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: The 1918 Truth: Wear a mask., Credit: The Topsham Crier/Charles Crosby
The revelations of Woodward's "Rage" are understood best through Sun Tze, the ancient Chinese text also known as The Art of War and the historical ...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2024
  • Length: 09:14
In the Aftermath: An American Sonnet
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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Joseph Biden withdraws from the Presidential race.

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2024
  • Length: 01:03
  • Purchases: 1
"I see Trees Standing in Deep Water" From The Department of Poetic Justice (and Poetic Reckoning)
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The town of Brunswick, Maine is set to remove 2/3 of the trees on Maine Street because it is too expensive to work around them as they install new ...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 1
"It's A Grand Night for Bailing!" In the Department of Poetic Justice (some Lyrics for the Great American Wrongbook) !
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: ..And somewhere a Bird Who Is Bound he'll be heard is giving his lawyer a call,,,,.., Credit: Susan Cook
In The Department of Poetic Justice (with lyrics for The Great American Wrongbook ) , remembering another moment of ex, um disclosure!

  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 02:42
"A Sonnet for the Waterfall" Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Ruth Bader Ginsburg March 15, 1933 - September 18, 2020, Credit: Susan Cook
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at age 87. " When the spark had finally stopped, ending finally, the luscious waterfall, (the opulent deceit, the ple...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:15
  • Purchases: 2
Remembering September 11, 2001: "The Fall"
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets, Credit: Poems by Susan Cook
On the anniversary of September 11, In Memoriam , "The Fall" (submitted 9/16/2013 in "Blue: American Sonnets" to the Beatrice Hawley (now Alice Ja...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:03
  • Purchases: 1
Journalist Suppression and Fear for Democracy- Sonnet for the Journalist Who Said 'Wink, Wink'
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Sonnet for Wink, Wink -Susan Cook- There are places here on earth where a wink at the wro...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: :52
  • Purchases: 1
Three Poems for Hard Times
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "We are watching the edge of the world, held by a vision, the persistence of breath...", Credit: Susan Cook
"When Loss and Innocence", "What Courage Wears to Bed", "The Meaning of Life". Poems from the author of "Breathing: American Sonnets"

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 1
Sonnet for What Will Be Well
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: 'shipwrecked, lost everything, all's well...", Credit: Edgar Cook
Poems are solace in times of not knowing. Today, a Sonnet for What Will Be Well. "There are events that narrowly avoid crossing our paths, eve...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Mass Shooting Sequence: In Memoriam
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
We know too much of the sequence of the aftermath of a Mass Shooting Sequence.

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 1
How Einstein Understood E=mc Squared
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Poetry Month and Einstein creating E=mc squared

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: :55
  • Purchases: 1
A Sonnet for the Quantum Mechanics of Poetry
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "...to a wider grasp...", Credit: Susan J Cook
Poetry best helps us grasp the Quantum Mechanics topic of the latest Nobel Prize in Physics.

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:03
  • Purchases: 1
Three Poems for These Times
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "When loss and innocence...", Credit: Susan Cook
Three poems of loss, courage and resilience for these times.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 03:05
A Poem to the President of the NRA
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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This poem to the President of the NRA has no statistics, no logic, no legal reasoning or principle. Only profound grief and sadness..

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:09
Why Women Don't Tell, Part 3: The Cultural Anomie that Keeps Violence Toward Women Hidden in Broad Daylight
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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The arrest of a Fifth Avenue architect as the alleged serial murderer of several women brings up the question of whether anyone over that long peri...

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  • Added: Jul 21, 2023
  • Length: 08:36
  • Purchases: 1
Sonnet for Looking for China
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Forget-me-knots in bloom..., Credit: Susan Cook
From the Spring 2023 Maine Arts Journal. A poem about grieving.

  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: :59
Shaming and Humiliating By Choice: Roe v. Wade and Denying Consequence
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: At the 1996 Dem National Convention, at the beginning of the Platform debate, women protested for the right to choose..., Credit: New York Times, August 28, 1996
As 6 Supreme Court Justices end Roe v. Wade, shaming and humiliating Pro-Choice advocates becomes the anti-choice strategy.

  • Added: May 21, 2022
  • Length: 06:13
To Thrift or Not to Thrift
From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio
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Thrift shops are much more than second-hand junk shops, they’re often treasure troves, chock full of goods, ready for the taking. They run the gamu...

  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:34