Dr. Barbara Mossberg » Poetry Slowdown
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Poet in Residence, Pacific Grove California
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WINTER IS OVER MY LOVES, COME AWAY FROM YOUR HOLLOWS AND HOLES: THE RETURN OF THE MAN WITH THE MARMELADE HAT, NANCY WILLARD’S A VISIT TO WILLIAM BLAKE’S INN.
28/03/2011 Duración: 48minFOR MOLES AND HEDGEHOGS AND BADGERS AND BALLOON MEN AND ALL EMERGENT IMPROBABLE WILD CHARACTERS IN OUR LIVES, our show today is about love, improbable love, and life improbably emergent in just Spring. It all begins in Brooklyn with Death … Continue reading →
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GET UP! ROUSED TO RESILIENCE, AS WE CONTINUE THE ART AND SCIENCE OF HOW TO GET OURSELVES BACK TO THE GARDEN
20/03/2011 Duración: 48minin midst and mists of epic storms, Gerard Manley Hopkins, with Charles Tripi’s “Get Up,†(W.E. Henley’s “Invictus,†Tennyson’s “Ulyssesâ€), and paean “Imaginary Brooklyn,†W.S. Merwin’s “The Blind Seer of Ambon†and more, Karen Bryant (responding to John Muir) as … Continue reading →
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ANTILAMENTATION: WHAT IS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN BROOKLYN AND ALASKA? JAPAN? PASADISE LOSTS: WE’VE GOT TO GET OURSELVES BACK TO THE GARDEN—Poetry’s squirrelly news of Loss and Love of This Loved and Lost and Found Earth and Its Creatures, continued, with v
14/03/2011 Duración: 48minMusic: Joni Mitchell ., Big Yellow Taxi (we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden) Jonathan Elias, Requiem for the Americas, Songs from the Lost World Stephen Stills, Garden of Eden Elvis Presley, Love Me Tender You don’t think … Continue reading →
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LIVE FROM BROOKLYN: A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND, OR, BROOKLYN AS THE HEART OF THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION
21/02/2011 Duración: 48minNothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm—That’s Ralph Waldo Emerson, and hello, this is Professor Barbara Mossberg, welcoming you to the Poetry Slow Down, KRXA 540’s Think for Yourself radio, and enthusiasm has been in the air. I’ve been researching … Continue reading →
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“IT IS A WINNING CAKE”: HOW AND WHY TO SLOW DOWN, STOP THE CLOCK, TAKE TIME OUT FOR POETRY AND FOOTBALL MAKES LIFE A MOVABLE FEAST AND HAPPY AND BEAUTIFUL AND MEANINGFUL, WITH GENIUSES ON LIFE’S SIDELINES AND FRONTLINES GERTRUDE STEIN AND MARCEL PROUST ON
07/02/2011 Duración: 48min“It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.”–Gertrude Stein. And so we’re going to take a lot of time, an hour today, for our Poetry Slow … Continue reading →
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POETRY AS ROCKET SCIENCE
03/02/2011 Duración: 50minNEED SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS?– CALLING FOR POETRY AND MUSIC EDUCATION, a mellifluous show that tells it like it is, at The Poetry Slow Down, think-for-yourself KRXA 540 AM on California’s Central Coast, and internationally at www.krxa540.com. Continuing the theme of … Continue reading →
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THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX—OF ASHES: GREEN BOUGHS, DRIED STICKS, PINK FISH GONE MIA, AND THE WILL TO GO ON LIVING:
10/01/2011 Duración: 48minthis is not a dark show, but a show filled with imagination’s colors and invoking of lifesaving creativity at a time of darkness If I keep a green bough in my heart a singing bird will come. Chinese proverb Give … Continue reading →
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ONCE MORE, GOOD FRIENDS, INTO THE FRAY, OR, WHERE THE FOX LEADS: FOY FOR THE NEW YEAR
02/01/2011 Duración: 48min(Foy, did you say, Dr. B? Did she say foy?—no, I think, oy—as in oy vey?–shh) Our cryptic and elusive (and sly, no?) title points to a foxy trail: think a little “oy†and a lot of “foy,†a literal … Continue reading →
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News We Need in the Darkest Time of Year – 12/19/2010
19/12/2010 Duración: 48minNews We Need in the Darkest Time of Year: “The Search is on for rare Sierra red fox” (San Francisco Chronicle, Monday, December 13, 2010) and other Good News About the Earth as poets are brought into play for the … Continue reading →
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IMAGINING IMMORTALITY AND EPIC IDENTITY OF DAZZLED NOBODIES: CELEBRATING BIRTHDAYS OF DRAMA QUEEN EMILY DICKINSON, GLORIOUS LUMINARY WILLIAM BLAKE, JOYOUS MASTER JOYCE CARY (with notes of Walt Whitman)
12/12/2010 Duración: 48minThe page is Emily Dickinson’s stage, backstage, theater open 24/7. Dickinson dresses up, dons costume, makes herself up, for the role as immortal poet. And so she sets the stage for the drama of her life: how to convert being … Continue reading →
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BLITHE SPIRITS
06/12/2010 Duración: 52minBLITHE SPIRITS: Hail to thee, blithe spirit– that’s Shelley, to the skylark, and I’m Professor Mossberg, hailing you, inviting the skylark in you to join me in our Poetry Slow Down, and we’ll find out more about the man who … Continue reading →
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH: Grati-Dudes, ‘Tudes in a Post-Thanks Time
30/11/2010 Duración: 42minSpeaking of thanks, in our series on life-saving wisdom thanks to poetry, we’ll consider the art of gratitude, the practice of thank you, the devotion of poetry which gives to us a way to see our world, our plights, our … Continue reading →
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Backstage at The Poetry Slow Down
15/11/2010 Duración: 46minToday we go backstage with your radio host to see behind the scenes of The Poetry Slow Down, the reading of the day’s mail with poems sent in by listeners, and how that in turns impacts—okay, deliciously detours– the plans … Continue reading →
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DAYLIGHT SAVINGS AND SPENDING: FALLING BACK, FALLING FOR FALL, FALL GUYS, AND OTHER WAYS TO MAKE THE MORNING LAST
09/11/2010 Duración: 48minDoes anybody really know what time it is? Drat Daylight Savings—or bless this conundrum? Who can say. The Poet can say, says Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson waxes forth in Crystal Blue Persuasion, in purple prose effusions, on a new day … Continue reading →
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That’s the Spirit! Essential Attitude: In Honor of Inaugurating a Poet Laureate, W.S. Merwin, broadcast from the hospital bedside vigil of my mother, age 90, who “wants to sleep” but just winked at me:
24/10/2010 Duración: 48minRobert Frost, in his poem October, beginning the hours of this day slowly, making the morning last, as Poet Paul Simon says on our show’s signature song, to Frost’s “make the day to us less brief,” his slow! Slow! savoring … Continue reading →
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We’ve Got To Get Ourselves Back to the Garden, say the poets
19/10/2010 Duración: 48minIn which we consider the relationship between gardening and poetry from earliest times, as poets wipe soil from their hands to pen their thoughts on the inextricable connections between the act of creating and co-creating Truth and Beauty out of … Continue reading →
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Life, I Insist!
04/10/2010 Duración: 48minLife, I Insist! It’s Autumn, and we’re in the mood. Change is in the air, and what does the universe portend? We hear from poet gardeners who see poetry and gardening inextricably connected, gardeners writing in their eighties and nineties, … Continue reading →