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David Novak Reads Poetry

I opened this channel because I wanted to tweet a poem about Anthony Huber killed in Kenosha. Then I decided to post readings of poems, to give my mind some other focus besides the election campaign then in full swing between Biden and Trump. After the votes were cast, and after the failed Jan. 6th overthrow, I stopped—until reinventing myself as a “BookTuber” as I document my attempts to become a better reader.

Against Fascism is the title of my last book. Get it from Lulu (dot) com, along with others, at my Author’s Spotlight page linked below.

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A Poem from the Western Zhou and Some Context

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Recent Reads: Gene Sharp, John Irving, Francis Parkman

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Christmas Poems: A Reading of Moore, Stevenson, Service, Tennyson, Eliot, Longfellow #poetrythursday

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Finishing Francis Parkman: France and England in North America (in Seven Parts)

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Longfellow Presents Michelangelo and Vasari in a Scene from an Unfinished Work of Drama

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What I Read Today (Parkman)

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Major-General James Wolfe (an Excerpt from the History of Francis Parkman)

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I Just Got Some Books from the Library (Four)

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“The Pearl” from Embodiment and Release

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Thinking on Medieval Europe and Its Literature

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Reflections on Monkhood (from Hanshan, Peter Harris trans.)

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Bringing Down Dictatorship in Poland | Gene Sharp

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A Bit of a Ramble Including Some Mozart and Salieri

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Lines by Raúl Zurita (Song of the Reappeared)

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A Poetry Reading from the Chief Modern Poets

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The Importance of Avoiding a Military Coup in Working to Topple Dictatorship

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Stumbling over a Poor Sentence in Sharp | From Dictatorship to Democracy

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Poetry Reading: Something of My Own

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Exercising Power Against Dictatorship

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November 28, 2025

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You Cannot Negotiate Away Dictatorship

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On the Goal of Supplanting Dictatorship with Democracy: Words from Gene Sharp

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Ten Untouched Books Tag: Anchor Baby Edition

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The King of Horror Stephen King BookTube Tag

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Poking into a New Anthology | Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry

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Update or Addendum to My Last Ramble: Further Thoughts into Plans for Next Year

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A Year-End(ish) Ramble: November 19, 2025

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Poetry Reading after Yet Another Capitulation by Senate Democrats | Schumer, Cloture and Emily Pike

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Some Rambling (Wholly Non-Bookish) from August 31, 2025

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A Reading of “The Taipan” by W. Somerset Maugham (Story Timestamped in the Description)

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Some Idries Shah from The Way of the Sufi

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Steve Bannon Contemplates Facing Justice

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A Maugham Miscellany (Trigger Warning: Includes Description of Animal Slaughter)

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(A Reading of) Some Poems In Memoriam Dick Cheney

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A Reading of Sonnets Against Fascism (Plus Long Silent Gaps While Hunting for Them)

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The Favorite Quotes Tag

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October 31, 2025 (Another Essay from 2009)

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Poetry Thursday (After Facer): A Victober Miscellany (Hopkins, Barrett Browning & Rossetti)

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Recent Reads: Maxim Gorky, George Eliot, Marc Bloch

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A Smattering of Book Covers That I Like

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Wherein I Read My Essay from 2009 (Touching on Bloch, Szpilman, Karski, and the Scholls)

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A Midnight Poetry Reading: Selections from Donne to Marvell

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“The Changed Woman” by Gabriela Mistral (a Translation by Raymond Couch)

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The Rule of Three Tag (Incomplete)

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An Impromptu Reading of Claude McKay

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A Formal Feeling in Poetry: Carolyn Kizer, Elizabeth Spires, and Maura Stanton Discuss the Craft

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A Random Potpourri of Books Pertaining to the Second World War, Esp. Karski, Szpilman and Bloch

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October 19, 2025: About Yesterday’s No Kings Protest

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“But He Was Cool” by Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee)

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Historian Marc Bloch on What Drove French Armies to Disaster, from Strange Defeat

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A Prophetic Senior Officer as Described by Marc Bloch

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Historian Marc Bloch on Being Both a Jew and a Frenchman, from Strange Defeat

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[Mail Haul and] Book Blather: Eliot, Bloch, Irving (and Poetry)

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October 16, 2025

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Adam Kirsch on Living in These Times (From Slate, December 6, 2015)

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Reading (and Life) Check-in October 12, 2025

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Haul Wars: Chicago Edition

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Twitches a Liberal Titty: An Impromptu Poetry Reading Featuring Yeats, Shakespeare, and Cummings

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Books Coming In

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Militarily Speaking: A Poetry Reading

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