THE POETRY SLOW DOWN
RadioMonterey.com
Podcast BarbaraMossberg.com
Dr. Barbara Mossberg
Produced by Sara Hughes
October 26, 2014
© Barbara Mossberg 2014
Verve: creative enthusiasm, vitality, syn.: energy, dynamism, vigor, vim, dash, spirit, life, animation, get up and go, brio, panache; ant.: lethargy. WHAT’S AT STAKE? ONLY THE FATE OF THE EARTH Continue reading
Poetry slow down, screech! Break, for heart-breaking heart-making heart-shaking news without which “men die miserably every day.†Continue reading
From Frank Zappa to Bob Dylan, Walt Whitman to Percy Bysshe Shelley, Emily Dickinson to George Eliot, Rabbi Burns to Shakespeare, Thoreau to Robert Kennedy, we hear thoughts on what goes into the phenomenon of thinking of “my†country, and what poetry has to do with it . . . . Untangling or at least identifying the entanglements: a heart-felt and earnest show about belonging to each other and our earth, ending with a love poem by Kevin Prufer, “In A Beautiful Country,†and that’s the feeling poetry can give us, with which I’d like to leave us, for today.
THE POETRY SLOW DOWN
RADIOMONTEREY.COM
Dr. Barbara Mossberg
Produced by Sara Hughes
September 21, 2014
© Barbara Mossberg 2014
I, OGRE: WILD THING! UMTRAMMELED SPIRITS—AND UNBOUND, AS WE HEAR IT FOR THE INNER AND OUTER OGRES AND CELEBRATE THE POET’S STAND UP ROLE IN PERSONAL AND CIVIC RESILIENCE,
