THE POETRY SLOW DOWN
KRXA 540AM
Dr. Barbara Mossberg
Produced by Sara Hughes
January 26, 2014
© Barbara Mossberg 2014

IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE PLAY ON (THE BARD)—AND IF POETRY BE LOVE OF FOOD, AS POETS PLAY ON—DO YOU STOP AT HEAVEN ON EARTH?: I PROMISHED YOU A SHOW TO WARM YOU UP, A MENU FOR MID WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT, JUST WHAT WE’RE HUNGRY FOR, SO SIT. FEAST ON YOUR LIFE (DEREK WALCOTT)

Dished Up Delicious Dishes

Relish for the Feast of Your Life, Derek Walcott (“Love After Love”)
Confession of a Sloppy Eater, Eating Poetry by Mark Strand, Rumi
Mary Lamb Breakfast
Shakespeare Cakes and Ale
Cereal with Billy Collins (“Cheerios” and “Portrait of a Reader with a Bowl of Cereal”)
Baudelaire Wine
Elizabeth Bishop Fish
Gertrude Stein Roast Beef
Pablo Neruda Onions and Tomatoes
Vegetables with Mary Oliver
Virgil Salad
Lisa Martin-Demoor Durum Wheat
W.S. Merwin Bread
Sophia Mossberg Sweet Potatoes
William Carlos Williams Plum Pudding (“this is just to say”)
Gerald Stern Grapefruit Salad
Li-Young Lee Persimmons and Peaches
Wallace Stevens Ice Cream
What Is Eaten Is In the Mind of the Beholder, Rumi, Emerson, Emily Dickinson
On Passing Heaven on Earth for Possible Greater Reward, yours truly (what do you expect from the author of “Poor Barbara! Can’t Eat!”)
And other menu choices, from A.A. Milne, Robert Heinlein, as we slow down, “Sit. Feast on your own life.”

Thank you for listening, sincerely, your line chef, Professor Barbara Mossberg
© Barbara Mossberg 201

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