From August 19, 2013:
Chuck 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 what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.
From August 30, 2015:
Advice & love letters we savor, letters we take literally to the table. . . from Pablo Neruda (a foodie) to Sandra Gilbert (a foodie), Emily Dickinson (a foodie) to Thomas Jefferson (a foodie), and many more. Music by Bob Hope, Mick Jagger, Trini Lopez, and Adele.
“Maybe it is the topic of food, because, to be truthful, don’t we love to think and read and hear (and write, I confess) about food? And maybe it is the idea that “you can’t go wrong here,†as I insist in my directions to making the dish. We cannot hear that enough. Because we feel we can go wrong every which way, early, late, often. So it seems that we need solace, to know that someone thinks the world of us. We need a fork in warm lemon pie, and a letter. This show is for you, then, O my cherished Character. Hear on.â€
THE POETRY SLOW DOWN with Professor Barbara Mossberg (a foodie)
Produced by Zappa Johns
© Barbara Mossberg 2015
From July 6, 2014:
ALMOST AT TIMES, A FOOL—
WE WISH . . . HUMANITARIAN CLOWNING:
THE WISE FOOL AND OTHER WISDOM ROLES
© Barbara Mossberg 2014
From July 14, 2013:
To the coooool notes of the Beatles, “Hey Jude†(“better better better
betterâ€), Frank Sinatra’s “I Wish You Love†(“and in July, a lemonade, to
cool you in the summer shadeâ€), Simon and Garfunkle, “Bridge Over Troubled
Waters†(“like a bridge over troubled waters, I will lay you downâ€), and
Richard and Mimi Farina, “Pack Up Your Sorrows†(“you’ve got to pack up
your sorrows, and give them all to me, you would lose them, I know how to
use themâ€), we hear
AND IN JULY A LEMONADE:
A MEDITATION ON TRANSFORMATION
BUTTERFLIES DO IT AND POETS DO IT TOO–
WHAT POETRY MAKES OF LIFE’S LEMONS
From July 20th, 2014:
COMMON GROUND AMONG FOUR POETS ON A RANDOM FRIDAY EVENING—THE THEME IS DUST AND WHY IT MATTERS TO YOU AND ME AND, IT SEEMS, POETS EVERYWHERE, EVERY TIME
Let’s slow down, you and I, when the evening is, let’s slow down and go then, and go to Innisfree, and let’s sweep out the dust in our minds, the dust from which we came and to which we go, the dust which we are, stars are, and poets know it, poets have always known it. Welcome to our Poetry Slow Down, RadioMonterey.com, podcast BarbaraMossberg.com, produced by Sara Hughes in our home studios, and I’m your host Professor Barbara Mossberg, bouncing and prancing around with the poetry scene up in, out West
