Dr. Barbara Mossberg » Poetry Slowdown
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Poet in Residence, Pacific Grove California
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THIS JUST IN
08/12/2013 Duración: 52minTHIS JUST IN: MID DECEMBER NEWS WITHOUT WHICH MEN DIE MISERABLY EVERY DAY—front page news, science says optimism is important for brain and body health–and what poetry has to do with it—from the poignant to the sublime, from a woman … Continue reading →
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HEARING IN THE DARKNESS THE EVERLASTING SONG OF US
03/12/2013 Duración: 52min“HEARING IN THE DARKNESS THE EVERLASTING SONG OF US” (from Chuck Tripi’s “Agencies of Grace”): POEMS AND FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, POEMS TO LIGHT US IN DARK DAYS AND FRIDAY NIGHTS, reflections about Emerson’s national recruiting calls for “The Poet” and … Continue reading →
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GRACING LIVES
24/11/2013 Duración: 52minIn Memorium, Antonina Rumore Clarke, June 13 1920-Nov 23-24 2010.Music: Amazing Grace Camp Granada RESPECT I Will Survive verb verb: grace; 3rd person present: graces; past tense: graced; past participle: graced; gerund or present participle: gracing 1.1. do honor or … Continue reading →
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SING IN ME MUSE—LET’S HEAR IT FOR PANACHE: COURAGE ON THE JOURNEY TO PARADISE AND ALL YOU WISH FOR—AN EPIC SHOW FOR SURE!
17/11/2013 Duración: 52minCYRANO (opening his eyes, recognizing her, and smiling as he speaks: the actor must try to convey the multiple meanings of the word panache, a feather, the plume in his hat, display, swagger, attack, or just spirit.): My panache. “I … Continue reading →
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LET’S GIVE A HAND FOR POETRY!
10/11/2013 Duración: 52minAll hands on deck! Let’s hear it for our Poetry Slow Down, the news we need, the news we heed, the news “without which men die miserably every day:” so says William Carlos Williams, whose day job was an OB/GYN and … Continue reading →
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DARLING YOU SEND ME
03/11/2013 Duración: 52minDELIVER US, SEND US: LET’S HEAR IT FOR LETTERS, “JOY OF EARTH/DENIED THE GODS,” IN POETRY INSPIRING A RESURGENCE OF LETTER WRITING (YOU KNOW YOU NEED TO GIVE AND TO RECEIVE), considering Billy Collins, Emily Dickinson, Derek Walcott, Charlotte Bronte, … Continue reading →
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STAYIN ALIVE: FROM THE LIPS OF THE BEE GEES TO EARS OF UNIVERSE: WE RETURN TO OUR TOPIC OF EARTH’S ALPHABET BEGINS WITH B(EE): ON OUR BEES’ KNEES, OR, WHAT THE BUZZ IS ALL ABOUT, AND WHY IT KEEPS HUMMING
20/10/2013 Duración: 52minReprise: One Year Later! ZZZZZZ I’m your host, Professor Barbara Mossberg, for our sweeeet humming show today called: STAYIN ALIVE: FROM THE LIPS OF THE BEE GEES TO EARS OF UNIVERSE: WE RETURN TO OUR TOPIC OF EARTH’S ALPHABET BEGINS … Continue reading →
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*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*
13/10/2013 Duración: 52min*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* The Poetry Slow Down with Professor Barbara Mossberg on KRXA 540AM, live … Continue reading →
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COGNOSCENTI OF COMEDY, CONSCIENCE, COURAGE
08/10/2013 Duración: 52minPOETS’ TAKE ON CAPITOL “NEWS”—WOULD THE GODS DO ANY DIFFERENTLY? IF HOMER IS ANY EVIDENCE, WE MAY YET FACE A HAPPY ENDING. MEANWHILE, SPEAKING OF HAPPY ENDINGS: BIRTHDAYS OF TWO WRITERS OF OLD-SCHOOL COMEDY, SYLVIA PLATH AND E.E. CUMMINGS, FELLOW … Continue reading →
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EPIC BEGINNINGS
29/09/2013 Duración: 52minWe always take advice from poets, Derek Walcott’s Love After Love (“The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself . . . “), Rumi (“Say Yes Quickly”), T.S. Eliot (“Let us go then, you and I . … Continue reading →
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PARK(ing) LOT POEMS: THE INNER EPIC LIFE/POEMS RECOGNIZE AND TRANSFORM LIFE’S PARKING LOTS INTO PARKS AND WILDNESS AND MORNING AND MIRACULOUS BEAUTY
22/09/2013 Duración: 52minAre We a Mean Culture When It Comes to Proclaiming Beauty? Not You, O Listener: read on– ” . . . again the spotlight is on the poet writing the poem—out of darkness, out of silence–she is a tragic … Continue reading →
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“Don’t be afraid”—Seamus Heaney’s “last words”
15/09/2013 Duración: 52minLanguage arts in the news this week: the news without which “men die miserably every day.” So here is to living happily today—hear-hear—as in the earliest poetry which was recited, stories told, and to aid the speakers’ memory, it was … Continue reading →
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THIS POEM: POETS SLOW DOWN TO CONSIDER THE QUESTIONS THAT MAKE US THANKFULLY HUMAN; THEY HAVE “NO IDEA” BUT THEY WRITE THE POEM ANYWAY AND THAT IS THE POINT, by Rumi, Randall Mann, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Frost, Billy Collins, Muriel Rukeyser, Emily Di
08/09/2013 Duración: 52minAll day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up … Continue reading →
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*SERMONS IN STONES, I AM A ROCK, YOU ARE A ROCK, HE/SHE/IT IS A ROCK, WE ARE A ROCK, YOU ARE A ROCK, THEY ARE A ROCK: THE CONJUGATION OF RIPRAP, A ROCKING SHOW*
01/09/2013 Duración: 52minThe news we need, “without which men die miserably every day” (William Carlos Williams)—in this case, news that we ALL came from Mars. From Kabir to Shakespeare to John Muir to Gary Snyder, we’re celebrating what poets make of science … Continue reading →
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August 25th 2013 – BURNING AND LEARNING NEWS
25/08/2013 Duración: 52minBURNING AND LEARNING NEWS: WHILE FIRES RAGE WE RENEW OUR APPRECIATION FOR WILDERNESS, AND THE VITAL ROLE OF LANGUAGE IN HOW WE SEE AND TREAT OUR EARTH, ON THE OCCASION OF THE 97TH ANNIVERSARY OF OUR NATIONAL PARKS SERVICE On … Continue reading →
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OLD DOGS: LEARNING LIFE TRICKS, GOOD NEWS, FROM THE POETS
19/08/2013 Duración: 52minChuck Tripi’s poem Janet’s poem Rumi she sent! TODAY, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be … Continue reading →
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COMMANDO HOPE: POEMS ON TURNING 65
11/08/2013 Duración: 52minThis is good news for all of us. Many of you know 65 and all of us hope to know. Some did not make it but lit the way of aging with commando* hope—going forth, being in the moment, unprepared, … Continue reading →
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Help! – A hot time for poetry, a little relief in days of hot messes and poets to the rescue!
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July 28th, 2013
28/07/2013 Duración: 52minA TRUE HAPPY HOUR IT’S TIME FOR RUMINATIONS: NEUROSCIENCE ON SPONTANEOUS AND INSTANTANEOUS HAPPINESS, A PRACTICE OF MIND-FULL-NESS, WITH RUMI AND PRACTICIONERS ANDREW WEIL AND RICK HANSON, WITH WHAT POETRY HAS TO DO WITH IT ALL, INCLUDING WHAT TO MAKE … Continue reading →
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July 14th, 2013
14/07/2013 Duración: 52minTo the coooool notes of the Beatles, “Hey Jude” (“better better better better”), Frank Sinatra’s “I Wish You Love” (“and in July, a lemonade, to cool you in the summer shade”), Simon and Garfunkle, “Bridge Over Troubled Waters” (“like a … Continue reading →