Earful.be - Audio Poetry

Lynn McGee is the author of the poetry collections Tracks (Broadstone Books, 2019), Sober Cooking (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2016), and two award-winning poetry chapbooks: Heirloom Bulldog (Bright Hill Press, 2015), and Bonanza (Slapering Hol Press, 1997). She lives and bike rides as much as possible in the Bronx, New York. Below are pieces from the ongoing collaboration between Lynn McGee and Bill Parod in poetry soundtracks.

Poems and readings by Lynn McGee

Soundtracks by Bill Parod

Artwork by Teresa Parod

My Seven-Season Friendship with a Russian Spy

My Seven-Season Friendship with a Russian Spy was published in Atticus Review in March 2020. The poem — inspired by The Americans, a spy thriller series set in the 1980s and which features two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple — is from Lynn McGee's manuscript that blends personal narrative with the themes of film and streaming series, The TV in the Other Room. The soundtrack is scored for strings, brass, synth bass, and a variety of field recordings from personal collections and freesound.org. Russian language segments were created using Google Translate and Amazon Poly.

Tracks

Tracks is the title poem from Lynn McGee's 2019 book of poetry published by Broadstone Books. Reading by Lynn McGee. Composition, keyboard, and field recordings by Bill Parod. Percussion by I Gusti Ngurah Kertayuda.

Who I Was Before We Met

Who I Was Before We Met was published in The Night Heron Barks in Fall 2020. The soundtrack is made entirely from violin sounds. Poem and reading by Lynn McGee. Composition, violins, and software by Bill Parod.

Bioluminescence Can Be Ours

Bioluminescence Can Be Ours was published in Atticus Review in January 2021. Poem and reading by Lynn McGee. Composition, violins, basses, field recordings, and software by Bill Parod.

The banner at the top of this page is from Chicago "El", an oil pastel on paper drawing by Teresa Parod.