This Poet Is Dust

A selection of recordings by noted writers of poetry & prose who are no longer with us, voiced by RM. If you have any requests, email RM at rahim@viciousminuteshour.com

Featured Recording:

The Closing Passage of Giovanni's Room - by James Baldwin - Read by RM

Poetry & Prose of Poets & Writers No Longer With Us (Individual Recordings, Updated on a continual basis)

Reunion by Louise Gluck - Read by RM
Half Night by Paul Celan - Read by RM
Letter Poem #3 by James Schuyler - Read by RM
Wind Off A River - by Dean Young - Read by RM
After Years - by Ted Kooser - Read by RM
Being Present at More Than One Place at a Time - by James Tate - Read by RM
Changing Genres - by Dean Young - Read by RM
Vespers (end of August) by Louise Gluck - Read by RM
Now I Become Myself - by May Sarton - Read by RM
The Virtue - by Paul Blackburn - read by RM
To The Harbormaster - by Frank O'Hara - Read by RM
These Heroics - by Leonard Cohen - Read by RM
With a Blessing Rather than Love Said Nietzsche - by Linda Gregg - Read by RM
Time - by John Wieners - read by RM
The View - by Mark Strand - read by RM
Stumbling - by Dick Lourie - Read by RM
Snowdrops - by Louise Gluck - read by RM
The Country Without A Post Office - by Agha Shahid Ali - Read by RM
Nothing Is What It Seems - by James Tate - Read by RM
An Excerpt from 'Hopscotch' - by Julio Cortazar - Read by RM
Imaginary Conversation - by Linda Pastan - read by RM
I am Learning to Abandon the World - by Linda Pastan - Read by RM

A Quick Word

Fundraiser for my brother Salim

As I’m sure you’ve seen elsewhere on the site (specifically at Emergency Fundraiser for Salim — VMH) my brother Salim has Stage 4 Liver Cirrhosis. Without a liver transplant soon, he will die.

He’s been on the waiting list for over two years. His work has now moved him to long-term disability and that affects his benefits as well for very expensive medication. The financial strain on him is only exacerbating his condition.

We’ve been running a fundraiser for him, but it’s going pretty slow lately. We’ve also set up a campaign to help find him a living liver donor, but there are layers of bureaucracy that make it challenging to receive a transplant from a living donor in this country.

The fundraiser is for his rent, food & medication but more, it’s to buy us enough time to find him that living liver donor to save his life. If we can cover his expenses for the next two months, I can spend more time searching for a living liver donor to not only help him, but raise awareness for many others in our country who are in need of a transplant to save their lives (& how someone can help by being a living donor)

I know it’s hard out there. I know of the financial uncertainty of things. But if everyone reading this donated $25 or more to him, it buys him that time for me to find him that living liver donor and we save his life.

If you’re willing to help us, you can visit this link - Emergency Fundraiser for Salim — VMH or simply click on the ‘Donate’ button below (& if you do, on behalf of my brother & my family, thank you)

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