GALL AND NERVE, GUTS AND GLORY
–THE POETRY OF INDIGESTION, PAIN, AND GLORIOUS PHYSICAL DESIRE TO RUN AND TO WIN (AND EVEN LOSE) IN LANES AND LINES, POETIC FEET
. . . HOMAGE TO STEVE PREFONTAINE AND THE PREFONTAINE CLASSIC. . . a comparison of twin hearts in the race of life, Steve Prefontaine and Emily Dickinson (yes!)
. . . AS WE BRING TOGETHER NEWS OF THE HOUR, RUNNING NEWS FROM TRACK TOWN USA, TALKING ABOUT THE GUTS OF PERFORMANCE, AND MORE PERSONAL NEWS OF GUTS
…POETIC SPRINTERS AND FAST TWITCHERS, THE POETS OF LONG DISTANCE AND SLOW TWITCHERS,
POETS WITH KICK, FRONT-RUNNING POETS . . .
YOU GET MY DRIFT . . .
Poets discussed include Elizabeth Bishop, Walt Whitman, Sylvia Plath, with shouts out for Pablo Neruda, St. Paul, Yeats, Shakespeare and Olivia Shakespeare, Whitman, Basho, LiPo, Allen Ginsberg, Gerald Stern, William Carlos Williams, Ludwig Bemelmans, and more.
The topic of poetry and running is to be continued! Stay tuned for rivers and poetry! And June 15—Bloomsday of course! Write me at bmossberg@csumb.edu or facebook at Barbara Mossberg’s Poetry Slow Down.
As Emily Dickinson said, “my river runs to you.â€
© Barbara Mossberg 2013
