James Earl Jones (RIP) Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and Walt Whitman’s “Tune of Myself”

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Word: With the unhappy cross­ing of James Earl Jones, at age 93, we’re convey­ing again a put up from our archive–one fea­tur­ing Jones learn­ing two nice Amer­i­can poets, Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whit­man. These learn­ings first appeared on our website in 2014. For all its many flaws the orig­i­nal Star Wars tril­o­gy nev­er strayed…

Patti Smith Reads Her Remaining Letter to Robert Mapplethorpe, Calling Him “the Most Stunning Work of All”

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When you go to listen to Pat­ti Smith in con­cert, you count on her to sing “Beneath the South­ern Cross,” “As a result of the Night time,” and virtually cer­tain­ly “Peo­ple Have the Pow­er,” the hit sin­gle from Dream of Life. Like her 1975 debut Hors­es, that album had a cov­er pho­to by Robert Map­plethor­pe, whom Smith describes as…