Dr. Barbara Mossberg » Poetry Slowdown
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Poet in Residence, Pacific Grove California
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July 7th 2013
07/07/2013 Duración: 52minWELL I DECLARE: LAYING IT ON THE LINE, POST JULY 4 REFLECTIONS ON GAME-CHANGING DECLARATIONS, PURSUITS AS FAR AS POETRY GOES, IN LOVE, LIFE, INDEPENDENCE, RIGHTS, AND OTHER KINDS OF HAPPINESS Featuring Edna St. Vincent Millay, Duane Esposito, Oscar Wilde, Thomas … Continue reading →
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June 30th,2013
30/06/2013 Duración: 52minMusic: Annie Get Your Gun, I’ve got the sun in the morning and the moon at night Beatles, Hard Day’s Night Machine Gun Kelly, Invincible Man of La Mancha, The Impossible Dream (lyrics, Joe Darion) Dedicated to Nelson Mandela *SPLENDOR … Continue reading →
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June 9th 2013
12/06/2013 Duración: 51min“SURELY JOY IS THE CONDITION OF LIFE”—Henry David Thoreau Welcome to our Poetry Slow Down, KRXA 540AM, think for yourself radio with Producer and icon Hal Ginsberg, whose vision of poetry on this show was excited by a poem about … Continue reading →
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June 2nd 2013
06/06/2013 Duración: 51minGALL AND NERVE, GUTS AND GLORY –THE POETRY OF INDIGESTION, PAIN, AND GLORIOUS PHYSICAL DESIRE TO RUN AND TO WIN (AND EVEN LOSE) IN LANES AND LINES, POETIC FEET . . . HOMAGE TO STEVE PREFONTAINE AND THE PREFONTAINE CLASSIC. … Continue reading →
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May 19th 2013
19/05/2013 Duración: 52minFor Scientist Jim Sedell CALLED, CREEKSIDE ANY TIME MORNING, ANY PLACE WALDEN, ANY MOMENT ALIVE, AWAKE: GOING TO THE WOODS TO LIVE DELIBERATELY . . . . WITH MOM’S PIE BERRY PIE AND PBR–THE HORSE LEAVES THE BARN, THE TRILLIUM … Continue reading →
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LABOR OF LOVE:
12/05/2013 Duración: 52minOF COURSE WE’RE HEARING POETRY ABOUT MOTHERS! I WON’T LIE TO YOU, THERE IS NOT A WHOLE LOT IN OUR HUMAN HISTORY OF POETRY ABOUT MOTHERS. YOU WOULD THINK, AS A TERRAN ARCHEOLOGIST FROM THE SIRENS OF TITAN THAT IN FACT WE … Continue reading →
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WHAT IS ALL THIS JUICE AND ALL THIS JOY?
05/05/2013 Duración: 52minA JUICY SHOW: POETS DEFINE AND PRACTICE THE JUICE, PROVIDING ANSWERS FOR WHEN WE EACH ARE POSED THIS QUESTION IN THE HEADLINE NEWS—ASKED OF OUR PRESIDENT, NO LESS, DO YOU HAVE THE JUICE? Just what is meant by this metaphor? We’re going … Continue reading →
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Finding Eden (snake, weeds, and all) in Our Own Back Yards
21/04/2013 Duración: 52minFinding Eden (snake, weeds, and all) in Our Own Back Yards: The Poetry of Community Garden: Earth Day, John Muir’s Birth Day, lots of robust Muir poetry with notes of Milton, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, William Cullen Bryant, Gilgamesh, and our contemporary … Continue reading →
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Where we get when we go away, or, If traveling is a fool’s paradise (Emerson) book me! On the soonest flight! IN HONOR OF SENATOR FULBRIGHT’s BIRTHDAY AND THE VISION OF THE FULBRIGHT PROGRAM:
07/04/2013 Duración: 52minWelcome to our Poetry Slow Down, KRXA 504AM, Think for Yourself Radio, produced by Sara Hughes, I’m your host Professor Barbara Mossberg, all because of the life of Senator William Fulbright: How is it that in going away, from all … Continue reading →
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PRACTICING RESURRECTION – I who have died am alive again today—e.e. Cummings
31/03/2013 Duración: 52minEars of our ears are opened! Thank you mr. e. e. cummings, you ARE indeed alive again today and so are we,—slowing down for our Poetry Slow Down, I am your host Professor Barbara Mossberg, alive again today, on the … Continue reading →
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CONTINUAL CHEERFULNESS IS A SIGN OF WISDOM – Irish Proverb: The Luck of the Irish, Cheshire Cat Magnetic Belts, Persian New Year, Ides of March, and Other News in Poetry
17/03/2013 Duración: 52minWe will begin with news on the topic of wisdom and the struggle to make a life of meaning and purpose and solace AND cheer—enduring —which will take us to some great poems on what and how to make of … Continue reading →
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THE EMERGENCY OF BEING ALIVE (William Stafford): –POETRY AS BRAIN ROADS THE DOCTOR CALLS FOR– ENGINEERING ALTERNATIVE LIFE ROUTES, SCENIC ROUTES, EVACUATION ROUTES
10/03/2013 Duración: 52minWilliam and Kim Stafford, Emily Dickinson, Derek Walcott, Jorie Graham, Leigh Hunt, Elizabeth Bishop, Luis Montero, David Wright, Gerald Stern, Judith Viorst, Philip Larkin, Seneca, Rumi, Hafiz, Stephen Grellett, C. K. Williams, Eleanor Lerman, Mark Doty, Hilarie Jones, Marilyn Nelson, … Continue reading →
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BUOYANCY PHYSICS
03/03/2013 Duración: 52minJust to be held by the ocean is the best luck we could have. It is a total waking up. Why should we grieve that we have been sleeping? It does not matter how long we have been unconscious. We are groggy, … Continue reading →
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FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE: GOING TO SEA WHEN YOUR LIFE FEELS AT SEA—OR, TAKING MATTERS INTO YOUR OWN HANDS, ENGAGING WITH FATE POETICALLY—AND/OR, WHALES AND OTHER ENCOUNTERS OF THE MEANING KIND, A DEEPLY PHILOSOPHICAL SHOW SO HANG ON TO YOUR HATS, IT’S GOIN
25/02/2013 Duración: 52minAll hands on deck! Ahoy! Avast ye, mates! This is your captain Professor Barbara Mossberg of our Poetry Slow Down, a radio show for when nights are long and you’re lying awake, pondering your fate. Fate. How we meet our … Continue reading →
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BOOK ME: HOW A PASSION FOR PLACE IS INVOKED BY POETRY AND CAN GET YOU INTO INTERESTING TROUBLE WITH THE LAW BUT IN A CIVIC HERO KIND OF WAY; POETRY AND THE CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE OF HELPING SAVE OUR EARTH AND ITS LINGS (and possibly our souls); AND A CELEBRAT
17/02/2013What would John Muir think of the current Executive Director of the Sierra Club affixing himself to a White House gate and being arrested? He would stand and cheer, along with the trees, as Henry David Thoreau’s model inspires civil … Continue reading →
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THE BRAIN ON LOVE: LOVE POETRY FOR BRAINIACS
10/02/2013 Duración: 52minWelcome to our Poetry Slow Down, KRXA 540AM, from the Think for Yourself Radio Team, Hal Ginsberg and Producer Sara Hughes, I’m your host Professor Barbara Mossberg, and I love our radio community as we listen on air to poetry, … Continue reading →
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EMILY DICKINSON AS WIDE RECEIVER (“SPREADING WIDE MY NARROW HANDS TO GATHER PARADISE”), EMERSON AS COACH, QB TENNYSON/HOMER, SAFETY WILLIAM BLAKE (“KISSING THE JOY AS IT FLIES”), RUNNING BACK FANNY HOWE, TACKLE PHILIP METRES, KICKER A. POPE, COLOR JACK CO
03/02/2013 Duración: 52minI and you have been thinking of a poetry superbowl, an all star-team, Emily Dickinson, wide receiver (“the spreading wide my narrow hands to gather paradise”), QB, is it Emerson, calling the plays for The Poet? Yes, Walt, you’re the … Continue reading →
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LIFE’S MAD CAREER WILD AS THE WAVE: LATE JANUARY FESTIVITY HOW TO: YOUR DO-IT-YOURSELF BURNS DINNER, A WALDEN DIP, WITNESS TO WHALES, THE POETRY SUPERBOWL
29/01/2013 Duración: 52minTop of the morning to you! We’re weathering together this late January day. We’re celebrating in this time that ancient civilizations didn’t even consider real time—it was just a no count time of no time they waited out til spring! … Continue reading →
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RAVENS, SKYLARKS, AND A LEADERSHIP CURRICULUM
20/01/2013 Duración: 52minRAVENS, SKYLARKS, AND A LEADERSHIP CURRICULUM: LEADERS’ POETRY, THE NEWS WE NEED, A TWO PART SHOW CELEBRATING PRESIDENT OBAMA’S INAUGURATION, MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY, THE FILM “LINCOLN,” BARACK OBAMA, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, MARTIN LUTHER KING–THE POETS THEY READ, THE POEMS THEY … Continue reading →
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SHINING LIKE THE SUN AND OTHER EPIPHANIES: HOME IS WHERE THE POET SEES
13/01/2013 Duración: 52min“Sometimes I lie awake at night at and ask, Where have I gone wrong? Then a voice says to me, this is going to take more than one night.”—Charles Schulz, Peanuts. Do you remember Peanuts’ “I love mankind—it’s people I … Continue reading →