Dr. Barbara Mossberg » Poetry Slowdown
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Poet in Residence, Pacific Grove California
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I’M HERE AND YOU’RE HERE BECAUSE APRIL IS THE CRUELEST MONTH and why April in fact is National Poetry Month (the same reason)
03/04/2016 Duración: 59minThe Improbable Role of Poetry Changing People’s Lives and What April Has to Do With It, or, MY LIFE IN TERMS OF A QUEST OF CRUEL AND CRUELER APRILS:– THAT APRIL ‘TUDE and more true confessions. . . THE POETRY … Continue reading →
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ALL THAT DAMPNESS AND RECKLESSNESS / GLADLY AND LIGHTLY / AND THERE IT IS AGAIN–BEAUTY THE BRAVE, THE EXEMPLARY / BLAZING OPEN
27/03/2016 Duración: 59minRecklessness . . . gladly . . . rambunctious . . . shining . . . our show today takes its title from Mary Oliver, “ALL THAT DAMPNESS AND RECKLESSNESS/GLADLY AND LIGHTLY,/ AND THERE IT IS AGAIN–BEAUTY THE BRAVE, THE … Continue reading →
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ON A DELICIOUS DATE, ON A DELICIOUS FATE, YOU I MEAN, YOU, YOU ARE THE DELICIOUS FATE, AND OTHER WAYS WE THINK IN MARCH MADNESS GOING OUT AND GOING ON WITH LIONS
20/03/2016 Duración: 59minPoetry for a wild March, Hares and Coots, and plenty of leaping. This has been a wild week, Pi Day, Einstein’s birthday, Ides of March, St. Patrick’s Day, Ducks becoming number one seed, all having to do with the Poetry … Continue reading →
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WE REVISIT THIS THEME: CONTINUAL CHEERFULNESS IS A SIGN OF WISDOM
13/03/2016 Duración: 59minIrish Proverb: Cheshire Cat Magnetic Belts, Persian New Year, Pre-Gaming Ides of March, and St. Patrick’s Day, and Other News in and of and by Poetry I love this Irish proverb, continuous cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom, because I … Continue reading →
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EVERYTHING HAPPENS TO ME (Chet Baker): THE EMERGENCY OF BEING ALIVE (William Stafford): A REVISIT TO POETRY AS BRAIN ROADS– AND ALTERNATIVE LIFE ROUTES, SCENIC ROUTES, EVACUATION ROUTES, EXALTATION ROUTES, PRAISE, IN JUST SPRING
06/03/2016 Duración: 59minTo the tunes of Chet Baker, Bob Marley, Billie Holiday, Joni Mitchell, and the Happy Wanderer, guest host Emily Dickinson helps us welcome March, along with e.e. cummings, William and Kim Stafford, Derek Walcott, Jorie Graham, Leigh Hunt, Elizabeth Bishop, … Continue reading →
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SURPRISE! THE WORLD THROUGH MY STUDENTS’ EYES AND WHY THIS MATTERS TO KNOW
21/02/2016 Duración: 59minWhat the Old Guys and Wise Guys mean to today’s young leaders and scholars—a snapshot onto our world, a wake-up call, and that’s waking up to smell the coffee and see with amazement the morning sun rising gloriously. To the … Continue reading →
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YOU, READING THIS, BE READY (William Stafford): THE NEWS OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES AND WHAT IT HAS TO DO WITH POETRY, AND THE BRAIN ON LOVE: OUR VALENTINES SHOW FOR BRAINIACS
14/02/2016 Duración: 59minTo the music of “Gravity” by The Perfect Sphere, “Defying Gravity,” Wicked, “Fly Me to the Moon,” Frank Sinatra, “You Make Me Feel Brand New,” Stylistics, “Love (Is All There Is), Beatles, and “Skiddamarink,” we start with William Stafford’s poem … Continue reading →
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WHAT’S THE STORY, MORNING GLORY? Oh, Just, Saving the Earth, Or, The Poets Had It All Along: Trees (et al) R Us!
07/02/2016 Duración: 59minA tree-mendous show that takes off from Shakespeare’s tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,/ Sermons in stones, and good in everything to reflect on the headline “news” this week about trees from The Hidden Life of Trees: What … Continue reading →
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IMAGINATION EVERY, EVERY MINUTE: AN ASTRONOMICAL HOUR, OUR SPACY SHOW WHICH SWINGS LIKE A STAR ON THE MARTIAN,CHALLENGER, STAR WARS, LORD OF THE RINGS, PLANETS MARS AND EARTH, AND WHAT POETRY HAS TO DO WITH IT
31/01/2016 Duración: 59minWords from Galileo to John Glenn, Archibald MacLeish to Einstein and Emily Dickinson, Ray Bradbury, Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, WallaceStevens, William Cullen Bryant, John Brainard, and Lola Ridge from DUBlin, with music “I Will Survive,” “Happy Days,” “Starman,”“Woodstock,” “Oh … Continue reading →
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On this week’s Smithsonian News from the Department of Terrestial Magnetism That Life Begins With Rocks
24/01/2016 Duración: 59min“So called lifeless rocks”—Star Power–the Life in Stones: Who Knew?—a rocking show on new science and old poetry—We will rock you from Homer to Shakespeare to John Muir—to T.S. Eliot–to D.H. Lawrence—to Ruth Padel –and even yours truly, You Are … Continue reading →
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DREAM POWER: PRELUDE TO A NATIONAL HOLIDAY OCCASIONED BY POETRY: WHAT IS NEEDED FOR LEADERSHIP OF A GREATER SOCIETY AND RESILIENT WORLD?
17/01/2016 Duración: 59minDoubt not, O poet, but persist. Say, ‘It is in me, and shall out.’ Stand there, baulked and dumb,stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until, at last, rage draw out ofthee that dream-power which every night shows … Continue reading →
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YOUR FEETS TOO BIG: WAKE FOR JOHN EATON AND LIVE BROADCAST FROM ABROAD WRITERS, DUBLIN
13/12/2015 Duración: 59minYOUR FEETS TOO BIG: WAKE FOR JOHN EATON AND LIVE BROADCAST FROM ABROAD WRITERS, DUBLIN Welcome to our Poetry Slow Down, I’m your professor Dr. B, Barbara Mossberg, with Producer Zappa John, our Mr. Z, for radiomonterey.com, podcast at BarbaraMossberg.com, broadcast … Continue reading →
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GROWING BOLD WITH POETS ON OUR JOURNEY!
06/12/2015 Duración: 59minI shall grow old but never lose life’s zest, Because the road’s last turn will be the best.—Henry Van Dyke “The difference made me bold”—celebrating Emily Dickinson’s life of service, in honor of her 185th birthday; the meaning sharing one’s … Continue reading →
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THE PANACHE SHOW
29/11/2015 Duración: 59minThe music says it all: Roberta Flack, Killing me softly with his song Wizard of Oz, Courage (Lion’s Song) Pinocchio—Jiminy Cricket “When You Wish Upon a Star” Footloose, “Almost Paradise” Elvis, “It’s Now or Never” Sound of Music, Climb Every … Continue reading →
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Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i’d kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter . . . yeah if i were a poet i’d kid nap you
22/11/2015 Duración: 59minThat’s Nikki Giovanni, her Kidnap poem, kidnapping you today for our annual Thanksgiving PoetrySlowDown ANK OU ERY UCH, or, LET’S GIVE THANKS FOR THE POEM I’M WRITING (AND THESE WORDS I EAT) and this is your host Professor Barbara Mossberg, as … Continue reading →
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THIS IS MY LETTER TO THE WORLD: DARLING YOU SEND ME
15/11/2015 Duración: 59minI reflect that kind is three quarters kin. Our bonds, the actual equation of us, the Mayan saying, you are my other me. Emily Dickinson’s I’m Nobody draws us in to this secret shared identity. We are in this together. … Continue reading →
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A RED PLAID FLANNEL SLOW: DAY OF THE DEAD: GOTTA LOTTA LIVING TO DO!
08/11/2015 Duración: 59minA show about memory and the spirit and spirits of what we treasure and hold precious when we slow down, and the role of Muse, of poetry, in bringing life to life. Music is “Memory,” from Cats, Got a Lotta Living … Continue reading →
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LIVE FROM THE TENT, or WHERE WE ROOST: NEWS OF NEW DAY
01/11/2015 Duración: 59min(with thanks to Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space, and Kenneth Helphand, Defiant Gardens, Thoreau, Walden, Edmund Rostand, Chanticler, Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, and a few maverick rooster-loving emperors and poets … Continue reading →
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HOMER WAS BLIND BUT COULD SEE GRANDNESS OR, THE MUSE IN A DAY WHEN THE GRAND CANYON IS “MEDIOCRE CANYON” AND TAJ MAHAL AND GREAT WALL OF CHINA ARE “DISAPPOINTING”
04/10/2015 Duración: 56minA radio show that ponders and bounces rating systems as we traverse our world. What do we bring to the table of life? And if marvelosity is “not a word” then how do we know what it means? Because you … Continue reading →
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