AS SURE AS APRIL

Apr 23 2020

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Best-selling author David Teems reads David Teems. Conceived to explore and promote David's new historical fiction, ASK FOR ME TOMORROW [Summer 2020], AS SURE AS APRIL puts this new novel center stage. He will read and improvise from his other published works as well, including titles of his favorite writers and thinkers. With music in, around, and underneath it all.

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S1E4 - Think On These Things

Apr 23 2020 23 mins

After the last episode, the world changed. This episode addresses the change, through the podcast theme song, THINK ON THESE THINGS. Though the passage/lyric can be found in the King James Bible, it "stands outside religion and politics." There is something universal in its importance and its appeal. 23 min.

S1E3 - Brother

Jan 19 2020 32 mins

In this continuing exercise in autobiography, David Teems offers tribute to his brother, but in an inclusive way. If you love somebody, tell them you love them . . . now. Leave no accounts unsettled or words unspoken. Includes the usual literary saints—John Keats, Thomas Wolfe, William Tyndale—and a few musical surprises.

S1E2 - Wonderful World

Nov 30 2019 35 mins

To the ambience and sound of his Thanksgiving table, David Teems improvises on his private world—family, friends, characters in his books—his "wonderful" world. Continued exercise in autobiography. Reading from John Keats, from his 2010 book, AND THEREBY HANGS A TALE (Oreo and the Christmas Cheeseball), and his new novel (Summer 2020).

S1E1 - To Autumn

Oct 31 2019 33 mins

David Teems explains the title of his podcast. A lost child named April. The tragic life of a young English poet. John Keats TO AUTUMN and Thomas Wolfe's OLD OCTOBER, an excerpt from Wolfe's 1935 OF TIME AND THE RIVER. Episode closes with entries from GODSPEED: VOICES OF THE REFORMATION (Abingdon Press, 2017).