This blog’s author (who is, curiously, writing about himself in the third person) is one Daniel Barnett. Young Daniel split his formative years between the coastal city of Brunswick, Georgia – in which he lived for several years – and Cambridge, Ohio, where he spent his late-childhood and adolescence. He is currently a student of English at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, and plans to pursue a career in the field of Radio Journalism.
Now, enough of that back-flap-of-a-dust-cover mumbo-jumbo. I am a young writer who is searching for his niche in today’s literary world. I write mostly poetry (at least for the time being), but also essays and short stories. Besides my aspirations at author-dom, I am a jack of all trades, but master of none: a self-taught pianist, a weekend therapist, an amateur bartender and sommelier, a fervent student of sarcasm and wit, a modern gentleman, madman, and scholar.
As for the content of this blog, look for the occasional smattering of original fiction/poetry (or that taken from author’s I admire), as well as essays written of the things I know best: late nights, literature, music, film, fine food and drink, the ways of a gentleman, and women. (Admittedly, I know less about the latter than any of the former, but I’ll probably end up writing on said topic anyway.)
About Miles to Go Before I Sleep:
Broadcast for the first time in September 2010, Miles to Go Before I Sleep is a weekly radio show which combines my voracious appetites for both poetry and jazz. I spin mostly jazz tunes (with the occasional blues, funk, or soul track thrown in) laid down by everyone from Ellington and Parker to Coltrane and Mingues to Cullum and The Bad Plus, always concluding with the perfect pairing of Robert Frost (with a reading of Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening) and Miles Davis (with whatever tune suits me best at that time of night). Whether you're burning the midnight oil or settling in for the night, Miles to Go on WKCO is the perfect way to spend your Thursday night, from midnight until 2:00 AM.
Kenyon College's free-form radio station, WKCO, was conceived and built in 1947 by returning war veterans who used knowledge gleaned during World War II to plan and build all of the equipment themselves. Today, WKCO features musical and non-musical programming as eclectic and informed as Kenyon's student body, and is still an entirely student-run radio station broadcasting at 91.9 FM in the greater Gambier, Ohio area. Programming spans the gamut of interesting talk, experimental, and variety shows to aural effluvia.
"Broadcasting from the middle of nowhere, to no one, it's 91.9 FM, WKCO."
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