http://leevilehto.net Site of the Finnish poet, Leevi Lehto Wed, 25 Mar 2015 09:42:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My speech on receiving the Eino Leino Prize, March 24, 2015, Laulumiehet, Helsinki. http://leevilehto.net/?p=430 Two recent pieces on Ulysses by Joyce (and me): "'Mutta kuka oli Gerty?'" ("'But who was Gerty?'" On the theme of "who's talking" in Episode 13 -- and the function of stylistic variation in Ulysses in general, published in the Finnish philosophical magazine, niin&näin, 3/2012); "Ulysses ja haamut" ("Ulysses and ... http://leevilehto.net/?p=427 Salla Hakkola (folkharp), Tero Valkonen (floor tom), and me (voice) performed three poems by the Finnish Modernist master, Eeva-Liisa Manner (1921--1995) in a matinée dedicated to her 90th birthday: "Kirjoituskone" (Typewriter, 1966; with introductions by Tuula Hökkä and me), "Virsi hirsipuusta" (A Psalm From the Gallows, 1956), and "Kävely" (A ... http://leevilehto.net/?p=423 "Ananke. Pantun" by Hasso Krull; "Soome kommunistid Ida-Karjalas" (by Elo Viiding). http://leevilehto.net/?p=422 Two and a half hours of my birthday "concert" stream recorded here and here. Will itemize the previous one with start and end times for all the individual pieces soon. Thanks to everyone involved and the fabulous audience (who, hopefully, got involved as well). http://leevilehto.net/?p=398 Please feel welcome to my 60th birthday-cum-concert, Feb. 20, 2011, 6 to 11 PM, Kulttuuriareena GLORIA, Helsinki (plus online web cast) - with collaborations with Tero Valkonen, drums, Salla Hakkola, folk harp, Saara Lehto, dance. Read more: English, Finnish. http://leevilehto.net/?p=395 My speech in “Jesus versus Jesus”, a conversation between writers Antti Nylén and Janne Kortteinen, with Marko Gylén and me as moderators, Wed., Dec. 15, 2010, in Lasipalatsi, Helsinki. http://leevilehto.net/?p=392 My rejected editorial for the Kritiikkiportti.fi portal for literary criticism. http://leevilehto.net/?p=389 Text and audio for my lecture in the Annual Seminar of the Finnish Literary Research Society, June 10, 2010 http://leevilehto.net/?p=387 Some preliminary results of my recent forays onto the border-area between "poetry" and "music": 1) a demo of my "singing"  (mp3, 2:30) (of four stanzas of) that beloved classic of traditional Finnish poetry, "Lapin kesä" (The Summer of Lapland, from Kangastuksia, 1902; for the lyrics, in Finnish and in English ... http://leevilehto.net/?p=384