Conceit: Diva Soup

At long last, a new podcast! And you thought I had abandoned the idea all together, but I have begun a new experiment which I am calling "Conceit" -- not in the sense of arrogant self-satisfaction, but in the literary sense of an overly elaborate and ridiculously stretched metaphor (like Donne's "The Flea"). I'm hoping that things will improve as I go along and I find my feet. Here's the first offering:

Diva Soup
MP3
4:16

Dear Friend

Here's a humorous doodad that I wrote after getting several glossy appeals for donations from places like the Met (they had an enormous envelope filled with brochures detailing all kinds of member benefits). It's a little cheerier than the last podcast. You can read "Dear Friend" online at Helium, where I put it after a few rejections, although in retrospect, this seems the kind of thing that Wild Violet would have liked. After all, editor Alyce enjoyed the similarly whimsical "Corrections to the Rules of Fimble Fowl (For 3 Players or 4)." Curse my impatience!

Running time 4:20