Dr. Barbara Mossberg » Poetry Slowdown
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Poet in Residence, Pacific Grove California
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BLITHE SPIRIT OF POETRY LIFTING—AND SAVING–OUR WORLD THROUGH HOPE: A Defense of Poetry (Shelley, 1819) Alive and Well Today
01/07/2018 Duración: 53min“Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; … Continue reading →
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HERE FOR THE PRESENT
18/06/2018 Duración: 01h24min“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”―Thornton Wilder “Wonderful to be here”—Walt Whitman That’s Thornton Wilder and Walt Whitman, and this is Professor Barbara Mossberg, with Producer Zappa … Continue reading →
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In Memory of Anthony Bourdain THE POETIC CHEF: Stewing Those Lyric Chops– Tolstoys, Woolfs, Dantes in the Kitchen
11/06/2018 Duración: 57minOur #POETRYSLOWDOWN always says we are the news you need, the news you heed, the news “without which men die miserably every day” (Wm. Carlos Williams). We are the news between the headlines, fast-breaking, late-breaking, heart-breaking news; we are the heart-making news. Here … Continue reading →
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THE DAY’S ON FIRE: It’s for the Birds
05/06/2018 Duración: 01h04minIn a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadow in the deepening shade; I hear my echo in the echoing wood—A lord of nature weeping to a tree. I live between the heron and the wren, … Continue reading →
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THE DAY’S ON FIRE: It’s for the Birds
27/05/2018 Duración: 19minTheodore Roethke, In a Dark Time: In a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadow in the deepening shade; I hear my echo in the echoing wood—A lord of nature weeping to a tree. I live between … Continue reading →
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A JUICY SHOW: INK IS DRIPPING FROM MY LIPS/THERE IS NO HAPPINESS LIKE MINE (Mark Strand); TODAY I WAS HAPPY SO I MADE THIS POEM (James Wright); NOW MAY CRIES OUT AGAIN, I’M HERE I’M HERE (Alicia Ostriker)
21/05/2018 Duración: 01h12minOn this May day, as our on-air show live today from Helsinki celebrates the happiness in the hear and now, with ecopoetry, an anniversary show of poems of juice shared on this show over five years, no, six, no, seven, … Continue reading →
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LIVE FROM THE DIPLOMAT, Stockholm, Sweden: CRY FOWL! HENPOWER (WHO KNEW?)
13/05/2018 Duración: 01h07minAh, but the poets knew! Hear we are (hear hear!) at your Poetry Slow Down, our weekly hour news shoe since 2008—if the show fits, hear it!–the news you need, the news you heed, the news “without which men die … Continue reading →
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CAUCUS FOR THE HEARTS: WHY ART MATTERS TO CONSTANTLY KEEPING THE COUNTRY GREAT
06/05/2018 Duración: 44minA radio-waving welcome to Congresswoman Pingree, new co-chair of Congress’ Caucus for the Arts; how arts have played key roles in critical legislation for civil and human rights, war and peace, and the environment, including making Presidential reputations for greatness … Continue reading →
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WHAT IS YOUR RED LETTER DAY? Or, GOODNESS ON THE LOOSE, GOODNESS AT LARGE, and HOW DO WE EVEN KNOW WE ARE ALIVE?
22/04/2018 Duración: 56min(Would a tree ask this question?) Meanwhile, or is it rather kindwhile, but meanwhile in terms of ways and means, how do we spend our time when things are loosey goosey and goose droppings of news are drooping like rain—here (hear … Continue reading →
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YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GO TO PRISON—A POEM HAS YOUR BACK
08/04/2018 Duración: 58minI’M A LONELY STRANGER HERE (Clapton) here there is no place that does not see you (Rilke): YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GO TO PRISON—A POEM HAS YOUR BACK. Yes, there is an epidemic that on the surface seems bewildering, … Continue reading →
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HOW WOULD YOU SAVE YOUR TREE?–THE HOPE IN YOU: ALL IN OUR FUTURE’S HANDS
01/04/2018 Duración: 58minA shoe for you, kicking up those poetic feet that will lift your spirits, the news you need, the news you heed, the news without which men die miserably every day—so says Dr. William Carlos Williams, and we’ll hear ideas for … Continue reading →
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BOSSY BARBARA’S GUIDE TO JOY PART ONE
04/03/2018 Duración: 58minThe Role of Poetry in Living Deliberately—the art and science of going to the woods, so to speak. And so we are! Speaking of the woods:: e.e. cummings’ sonnet of gratitude, amazement, for every thing, alive again today, ready to … Continue reading →
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TABLE OF CONTENTS!
25/02/2018 Duración: 01h22minAnd so it is, a plating of lyric memoir about food and hunger, on eating and being eaten, on who is eating (or not), on what is, and is not, eaten—like Thoreau’s Walden, Where I Lived and What I Lived For, … Continue reading →
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EARTH ON THE LINE! CALLING EARTH BACK! ENCOURAGEMENT FOR EARTH—WHO NEEDS OUR LOVING NOTICE, LOVING FEELING. POETRY FEET LEAP TO THE RESCUE (or, Wisdom of the Candy Hearts from the Eco-Literati)
18/02/2018 Duración: 38minTop o the morning to you, Poetry community! Post-Valentines, in the thick of birthdays of civic leaders, we’re slowing down for our Poetry Slow Down, I’m your host Professor Barbara Mossberg, with our West Coast Producer Zappa Johns, broadcasting live … Continue reading →
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ATTENTION MUST BE PAID (Death of a Salesman) AND OTHER PRAYERS/THE SPILL OUT OF YOU
11/02/2018 Duración: 01h03minLife and Death Stakes in Paying Attention, Your Own, Each Other’s, Our Earth’s, and What Amazed Poetry Has To Do With It. (Mary Oliver (a lot), D. H. Lawrence, Emily Dickinson (of course), John Muir (a lot), John Steinbeck, Arthur … Continue reading →
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THE APOLOGY HEARD ROUND THE WORLD
28/01/2018 Duración: 53minWhen there’s a murder, we investigate “who dunnit.” When something’s gone wrong, we look for evidence. But what about when something goes right? With good acts, great acts, can we also investigate “who dunnit?” What’s the “weapon?” What’s the motive? … Continue reading →
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A TIME TO REMEMBER JOHN MUIR AS A POET, AND THE ROLE POETRY HAS ALWAYS PLAYED IN CIVIC CONSCIENCE
24/12/2017 Duración: 47minThe Poetry Slow Down with Professor Barbara Mossberg. In our show, broadcast live from Los Angeles, where John Muir died 103 years ago today, we consider his last words, sprawled as he lay in a hospital bed with the manuscript … Continue reading →
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THE NEWS OF CHICKADEE: RX IN A TIME OF STRUGGLE
17/12/2017 Duración: 50minMy little chickadees! Hello! This is your Professor Barbara Mossberg and I’m greeting you this dark December day, one of the shortest and darkest of the whole year, with the sound of a chickadee, on THE POETRY SLOW DOWN with … Continue reading →
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BLESS, YOU POETS!
10/12/2017 Duración: 59minAn Emily Dickinson Poetry Shoe (if the show fits, hear it): how poets change our life and save the earth (and/or make it want to keep on), with music by Merrilee Rush, Kings of Leon, Yosef Islam, the former Cat … Continue reading →
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“HEARING IN THE DARKNESS THE EVERLASTING SONG OF US” (from Chuck Tripi’s “Agencies of Grace”): THE GAME OF POEMS (AN ANCIENT AND EMERGENT NATIONAL PASTTIME) AND FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, POEMS TO LIGHT US IN DARK DAYS AND FRIDAY NIGHTS
06/12/2017 Duración: 01h03minWhat if we approached poetry as a stadium event, we’ll consider that and amazing poems that shine in darkness and lift us today, and how we need this light, in the context of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s national recruiting calls for … Continue reading →