Dr. Barbara Mossberg » Poetry Slowdown
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Poet in Residence, Pacific Grove California
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TEN CLASSICAL TAKEAWAYS YOU NEED RIGHT NOW (AND SO DOES YOUR DAUGHTER, AND SO DOES YOUR GRANDFATHER)
26/11/2017 Duración: 57minI’ll admit some of them run over a thousand pages. Some are translated from Sumerian on clay tablets. Some are from Spanish, Greek, French, olde English, and quirky as the day is long. Poetry, prose, drama, spoken, written, sung, they … Continue reading →
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BRAVERY: THE POETRY OF MORAL COURAGE
12/11/2017 Duración: 01h03minI TOOK my power in my hand And went against the world; ’T was not so much as David had, But I was twice as bold. I aimed my pebble, but myself Was all the one that fell. Was it … Continue reading →
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ANGELS AND TREES—and what song and story has to do with saving the earth
05/11/2017 Duración: 57minTHE RADIO SHOE: Poetic footwork in the POETRY SLOW DOWN, with Professor Barbara Mossberg (“no place safe from poetry”), in which the news of poetry is a civic force of community building and health, and general happiness, and world peace, … Continue reading →
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STEMPATHY: WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT (SCIENCES, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHS)?, OR, GENIUS–IT’S ALL ABOUT POETRY (AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN)
29/10/2017 Duración: 50minAnd/or, You Are My Sunshine as Rocket Science: the Physics of Campfire Wisdom, with thanks to Thomas Friedman for “Stempathy,” and my contribution to the case for learning the world needs now, now more than ever: in calling for empathy, as scientists … Continue reading →
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Rebroadcast: *YOUR EFFULGENCE, THE BONES AND LIGHT OF IT–* *LET THESE POEMS TURN YOU RED GOLD ORANGE AND YELLOW: YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A TREE AND YOU KNOW IT*
24/10/2017 Duración: 52minFrom October, 2013: “Today when persimmons ripen,” as Jane Hirshfield begins us, we’re slowing down—you know you move too fast—in this slowed time of year, where trees are strutting their structural moxie, revealed when their leaves take flight, sing the … Continue reading →
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ALL THIS USELESS BEAUTY: DOES BEAUTY MATTER, WHY AND HOW COULD IT MATTER GIVEN TODAY’S NEWS, IS IT A LUXURY WE NO LONGER CAN AFFORD? QUESTIONS WE HAVE TO ASK, THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM WHEN WE TALK ABOUT POETRY.
15/10/2017 Duración: 51minAnd talk about poetry we will, with Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Ada Limon, Ross Gay, and Emily Dickinson. She started it, really: she said “Nobody knows this little rose.” Now we know Nobody: Odysseus’ cunning way to describe himself when he escapes the … Continue reading →
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Rebroadcast: EARTH’S ALPHABET BEGINS WITH B(EE): ON OUR BEES’ KNEES, OR, WHAT THE BUZZ IS ALL ABOUT
09/10/2017 Duración: 52minBees, why bees, Dr. B? You’ve given us shows of moles and bats and hats and coots, roosters, birds, foxes, bears, butterflies, and even worms! How low can you go? You’ve had us walking, on our knees, falling from the … Continue reading →
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KNOW YOURSELF MORE DEEPLY (A SHINING GOLD TRUTH THAT WAS THERE ALL ALONG)–WE REVISIT YOUR EFFULGENCE, THE BONES AND LIGHT OF IT– LET THESE POEMS TURN YOU RED GOLD ORANGE AND YELLOW: NOTES FROM YOUR INNER TREE
01/10/2017 Duración: 48min“Today when persimmons ripen,” as Jane Hirshfield begins us, we’re slowing down—you know you move too fast—in this slowed time of year, where trees are strutting their structural moxie, revealed when their leaves take flight, sing the song of gravity, … Continue reading →
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Rebroadcast: CAN I TALK YOU OUT OF YOUR WORRIES? (or do I even want to?)
17/09/2017 Duración: 59minFinally I saw that worrying had come to nothing. And gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.—Mary Oliver (from Swan) Mary Oliver knows worry. Shakespeare knows worry. You know worry. I … Continue reading →
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WHAT DO WE REALLY CARE ABOUT? POEMS KNOW. POEMS HAVE OUR NUMBER. WE CAN TAKE THEM AT THEIR WORD
10/09/2017 Duración: 56minTHIS POEM: POETS SLOW DOWN TO CONSIDER THE QUESTIONS THAT MAKE US THANKFULLY HUMAN Whoever Brought Me Here All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed … Continue reading →
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LIVE FROM THE 4 CHICKS CAFÉ and the Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Meeting
27/08/2017 Duración: 51minSLOW DOWN! YOU KNOW YOU MOVE TOO FAST A VERY UNECLIPSE TO YOU FOR A YEAR AND LIFETIME OF AMAZEMENT EVERYDAY WONDER Dazzling Poetry but You Don’t Need Glasses to Listen– All-Us in Wonderland, or, It’s News to Me … Continue reading →
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Rebroadcast: WHEN IS IT EVER NOT ABOUT LEMON PIE — AND OTHER POETIC POIGNANCIES — RECIPE ADVICE FOR YOUR INNER KITCHEN
14/08/2017 Duración: 59minAdvice & love letters we savor, letters we take literally to the table. . . from Pablo Neruda (a foodie) to Sandra Gilbert (a foodie), Emily Dickinson (a foodie) to Thomas Jefferson (a foodie), and many more. Music by Bob … Continue reading →
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Rebroadcast: ALMOST AT TIMES, A FOOL—
07/08/2017 Duración: 49minFrom July 6, 2014: ALMOST AT TIMES, A FOOL— WE WISH . . . HUMANITARIAN CLOWNING: THE WISE FOOL AND OTHER WISDOM ROLES © Barbara Mossberg 2014
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Rebroadcast: DUST UP AT TSUNAMI BOOKS
23/07/2017 Duración: 52minCOMMON GROUND AMONG FOUR POETS ON A RANDOM FRIDAY EVENING—THE THEME IS DUST AND WHY IT MATTERS TO YOU AND ME AND, IT SEEMS, POETS EVERYWHERE, EVERY TIME Let’s slow down, you and I, when the evening is, let’s slow … Continue reading →
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Rebroadcast: AN OXFORD-BASED POETRY SLOW DOWN
17/07/2017 Duración: 35minFrom 14th century Queen’s College, broadcast live for radiomonterey.com, produced by Zappa Johns, with Professor Barbara Mossberg, on the news we heed, the news we heed, the news “without which men die miserably every day” (William Carlos Williams, who knows … Continue reading →
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EVERY TIME I HEAR A RIVER: Poems to protect and save you
09/07/2017 Duración: 01h06minThis radio show, Poetry Slow down, is so lyrically wet that you will be drenched in river imagery, you will need to dry off after the show. Is there a river in your life? We all have a river in … Continue reading →
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BUT GOD BE WITH THE CLOWN: COMEDY AND LIFE FORCE (AND JOY) IN EMILY DICKINSON AND SYLVIA PLATH
02/07/2017 Duración: 01h08s(Yes, you read right!). People might not think of either of these two poets in terms of comedy or even robust spirit–much less joy in being oneself, living this life— an obscure life extinguished after decades of early debilitating illness, … Continue reading →
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HELLO, POETRY SLOW DOWN! I’m waving to you with sound, which is, science says, the origin of matter
25/06/2017 Duración: 01h02minYes: it all begins with sound, with wave, and of course, our voices are ways we connect with each other, our brain waves, becoming voice, and radio waves, and I think it makes sense on the imagery of waves that … Continue reading →
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IN A BRAVE NEW WORLD: POETRY AS MEMES AND DABS, THE ODYSSEY HOLDING ITS OWN AS THE CONTINUING NEW THING IN TODAY’S CULTURE
11/06/2017 Duración: 41minIn which we hear from Zappa Johns about new-fangled farfalle from the internet’s video games of virtual physics for “interactive fiction” in the digital era (that would be now), including “Car Boys” and BeamNG.drive, the poetry in the news this week … Continue reading →
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GLORY BULLY, GLORY WHISPERER: TRANSFORMING TRAUMA IN THE LAND OF THE “LOSERS”–HOW DID JOHN MUIR FIND THE VOICE OF THE SIERRA THAT INSPIRED OUR NATIONAL PARKS?
04/06/2017 Duración: 01h02minA theory brought to you through blood, sweat, tears, and fears, through the post post-Civil War South, by your own fearful Dr. B, host of our PoetrySlowDown, recreating the experience of John Muir’s post-Civil War 1000 Mile Walk to the Gulf, … Continue reading →