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More from "Moses on Mount Pisgah"
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More from "Moses on Mount Pisgah"

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For this week’s Poetry Aloud selection, I’ve again chosen an excerpt from my poem “Moses on Mount Pisgah,” one of the dramatic monologues — the first of 33 — in The Twelve-Gated City, a book-length work I’ve been working on for about two years and am now completing. In this poem, the speaker, Moses is a very old man, watching the children of Israel far …

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Word & Song by Anthony Esolen
Poetry Aloud
Poetry Aloud will help you learn how to read poetry with your ears. Unlike children with bad table manners, poetry is meant to be heard and not just seen. Join Anthony Esolen every other week (or so) as he introduces and discusses a longish poem and then reads it aloud.