Dr. Barbara Mossberg » Poetry Slowdown
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Poet in Residence, Pacific Grove California
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THE EPIC QUOTIDIAN: NOTES OF 9-11—LOVE CALLING
16/09/2011 Duración: 52minNotes to our producers: I don’t know if I am going to get through this show without crying. . . thinking about 9-11 and the ways people use words in our times of greatest calamity is so moving to me—how the … Continue reading →
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SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS: WHAT WE GET FROM PAYING ATTENTION, A VIEW FROM POETS ACROSS TIME AND SPACE
08/09/2011 Duración: 43minWhoa! What’s happened to your knees? You are dripping with mud! There’s grass all over you! Well, yeah, I was listening to The Poetry Slow Down, a program discussing amazing poetry of what we see when we get down with … Continue reading →
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STORM SURGE ON THE MIND: Words for Waiting (For/Out) a Storm, When You’re Slowed Way Down, to the music of Good Night Irene, Stormy Weather, Singing in the Rain, and You’ll Never Walk Alone. Can you guess what the poetry news is for this week’s show? We’r
29/08/2011 Duración: 52minDr. B, with all due respect, what if we are slowed down . . . way slowed down . . . TOO slowed down . . . stuck in traffic, waiting for a storm, waiting out a storm . . … Continue reading →
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THE BIRDS AND BEES DO IT: THE POETICS OF TWEET, or BULLETINS FROM IMMORTALITY
22/08/2011 Duración: 52minThis is my letter to the world who never wrote to me– That’s Emily Dickinson, posting from her Amherst bedroom, and this is your host of post, Professor Barbara Mossberg, welcoming you to The Poetry Slow Down. We’re featuring bloggers … Continue reading →
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GONE FISHING: CHILLING IN AUGUST HEAT WITH BARBARA MOSSBERG’S THE POETRY SLOW DOWN, KRXA 540AM
09/08/2011 Duración: 52minO something pernicious and dread! Something far away from a puny and pious life—Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” (The Joys, 196) Walt Whitman–he’s escaped what afflicts you and me, “something escaped from the anchorage, and driving free.” Now, Poetry … Continue reading →
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THE CONJUGATION OF LET: I LET, YOU LET, HE SHE IT LETS, WE LET, YOU LET, THEY LET, WHO LET . . . LET’S . . . LINDA GREGG STARTED THIS! –THINKING OF THE LORD, THE BEATLES, ALEXANDER POPE, MILTON, SHAKESPEARE, T.S. ELIOT, E.E. CUMMINGS, AND SO MANY MORE, LE
27/07/2011 Duración: 52minI have been thinking a lot about the word “let” in our language. The past two weeks, we heard Linda Gregg’s poem “Let Birds”–Let birds . . . do what? You can see Poetry Slow Down how this has slowed … Continue reading →
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LOCKED OUT: The Poetry Slow Down Revelation, Elation in Blackberry and Palm
21/07/2011 Duración: 52minWe DO move too fast! What’s wrong with that, Professor B? The early bird gets the worm! Well, if we’re going sixty miles an hour and it’s all a blur, or we’re so overscheduled and stressed and harried we can’t … Continue reading →
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HUSK, SHELL, REMAINS: LETTING IN THE LIGHT, VACATING OUR LIVES TO LIVE: THE ABC’s of A Way to Be and See for Infinity, Featuring Mark Doty’s Reading of a Green Crab Shell
13/07/2011 Duración: 52minThanking you, Poetry Slow Down, for joining me on this summer day, for an hour away, a way, as we go on vacation, for more poetry of the tourist kind, the tourist mind, perhaps disoriented, as Billy Collins wants to … Continue reading →
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THE POETRY VACATION: POETS AS DELIBERATE TOURISTS—Post cards from “somewhere i have never traveled gladly beyond any experience” (e.e. cummings)—or Messages from Lost and Found
04/07/2011 Duración: 52minIt’s that time of year when people, maybe you, maybe you right now, go on vacations, which means, vacate, empty, leave home, leave the everyday routine, and be tourists. You are saying, Oh not me, I don’t want to be … Continue reading →
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THREE LEGS IN THE AFTERNOON: BEYOND THREE SCORE YEARS AND TEN, POETRY FROM LIFE’S LONG SUMMER AFTERNOON, or, IT’S NOT OVER TIL IT’S OVER (AND NOT EVEN THEN)
01/07/2011 Duración: 48minMusic: We’ll hear strains from “Old Man River,” 16 Tons (ya load sixteen tons, what’ya get, another day older and deeper in debt), Paul Simon, “Still Crazy” (after all these years), Jacques Brel, The Old Folks Loveliest of trees, … Continue reading →
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THE GENIUS OF ENTHUSIASM, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, MORNING SONG: AN ENCOURAGEMENT OF POETS OF TODAY AND ANCIENT TIMES, and an annotated reading of W.S. Merwin, “An American Addresses Philomena”
05/06/2011 Duración: 48minI caught the happy virus last night When I was out singing beneath the stars. It is remarkably contagious – So kiss me—HAFIZ And so our Sufi 14th century poet frames our impassioned show today, how nature is interpreted as … Continue reading →
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PRACTICE RESURRECTION LIKE THE FOX: NEW(S) NEWSFLASH: UPDATE ON FOX NEWS POEM, REFLECTIONS ON FOX AND POETRY AS RESURRECTION MOXY, POETRY AS NEWS MAKING THE NATION’S CIVIC MORAL IMAGINATION
30/05/2011 Duración: 48minOur show ponders Ezra Pound’s injunction to the poets to “make it new.” We are thinking of the relation between making something new, and making news. The rare good news story about the sighting of the rare Sierra fox whom … Continue reading →
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A HOPE OF MOTHERS, A WORRY OF MOTHERS: MOTHERS IN POETRY, ON POETRY, AS POETS
09/05/2011Our music for today’s show sets the scope of our tribute show on the poetry of mothers, about mothers, for mothers, to mothers: you’ll hear “I Turn to You,” the theme song from Harold and Maude (Maude’s maternal advice to be … Continue reading →
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AN ART TO EVERYTHING
25/04/2011 Duración: 49min“Don’t you know it, don’t you know I love you, he said. He was shaking. He said: I love you. There’s an art to everything. What I’ve done with this life, what I’d meant not to do, or would have meant, maybe, had I understood, though I have no regrets.” … Continue reading →
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CONCERTO OF GOOD STINKS, EARTH AS A GOOD READ, AN EARTHY SHOW.
17/04/2011 Duración: 48minOur Poetry Slow Down’s title takes off from Alicia Ostriker’s “April,” with notes of birthday glads Shakespeare and John Muir, speaking for Earth Day, and the theme today of “I’ll Take It, I’ll Make It, Anywhere I Am (Pray It … Continue reading →
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CRUEL AND TAXING APRIL(S)
11/04/2011 Duración: 48minCRUEL AND TAXING APRIL(S). April perturbs and taxes the mind of Emily Dickinson and T.S. Eliot, while Thoreau doesn’t worry about how to do justice to this season; he proclaims morning as the season of the day, the time of … Continue reading →
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A KNOCKING OF FOOLS, TREES, AND RESURRECTION FROLIC With notes of “April, come she will,” Dylan’s
08/04/2011 Duración: 48minA KNOCKING OF FOOLS, TREES, AND RESURRECTION FROLIC With notes of “April, come she will,” Dylan’s standing in the doorway cryin,’ You Are My Sunshine, and What kind of fool Am I, we take up the malignment of April, poetically … Continue reading →