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The Gelding: A Poem about the End
A new poem by the prize-winning author Ryan C. Tittle
Jun 271 min read
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Down with the Sickness (To Thine Own Shelf Be True)
A short tour of my book collection
Mar 283 min read
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Shakespeare & the Cinema
A sense of Shakespeare on Film
Mar 2118 min read
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Old Friends: An Elegy
An essay and poem on the loss of friendship.
Mar 144 min read
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Poetry Month 4: A Recitation of "She Walks in Beauty"
A recitation of Lord Byron's poem "She Walks in Beauty."
Feb 281 min read
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Poetry Month 3: A Monologue from LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST
An audio recording of a monologue from William Shakespeare's LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST.
Feb 211 min read
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Poetry Month 2: A Recitation of "My Last Duchess"
Another vlog- a Youtube recitation of Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess"
Feb 142 min read
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Poetry Month 1: A Recitation of "Porphyria's Lover"
An audio recitation of Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover."
Feb 71 min read
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A Person of Letters?
There are a myriad number of stories of great writers being burned by Hollywood. At the beginning of the sound age, dramatists of note...
Jan 177 min read
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2024 in Perspective
Greetings, readers! I hope you all had a nice holiday season and are as ready for the New Year as I am. 2024 was both challenging and...
Dec 27, 20249 min read
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The Holiday Season: A Prose-Poem
The cold is finally here. Jackets and layers. The quickening of the dark. The sense that something special is drawing near. Christmas has...
Nov 22, 20242 min read
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I Suppose it's Fall: A Poem
The leaves and acorns fall and leave a densely populated gram on the cemented places that should still be nature places. The weather is...
Nov 15, 20241 min read
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A Reminder before Voting
When crossing the road, the person who looks only left, the person who looks only right, both get hit by cars.
Nov 1, 20241 min read
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To My Teachers, with Love
Growing up as an actor, I always believed actors were born, not made. Certainly, one can learn techniques of speaking and movement,...
Oct 18, 20248 min read
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Columbus Day and the Offended Generation
Not all holidays are created equally, but there is a ubiquity about them. It is necessary, for example, to have a bright spot in the...
Oct 11, 20244 min read
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On the Providence of Summer (And Why I Hate It)
As you read this, we are in the second day of summer, a season I appreciate (for all the life, the beauty, the cooling pool outside, the...
Jun 21, 20243 min read
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Notes from the Hospital: A Prose-Poem
They said it was bad and my decision to come saved my life. Ten and a half hours in the emergency room, I spoke maybe a few words to my...
May 24, 20242 min read
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Blue Collar Poems
Special to the Blog: a little late, but still within "the week." A few down-to-earth, blue collar poems. Enjoy! Raised Right We are...
May 19, 20242 min read
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Poetry Month 4: Your Spirit Eternal
It's been nice sharing some poetry with you this month. If it's not been your thing, I'm sorry. I'll be back in March with more new...
Feb 23, 20242 min read
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Poetry Month 3: Love Poems (I Promise)
A little belated St. Valentine's Day present-- some legitimate love poems, not my usual unrequited odes. Love one another. Some of these...
Feb 16, 20242 min read
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