THE POETRY SLOW DOWN
RadioMonterey.com
Podcast BarbaraMossberg.com
Dr. Barbara Mossberg
Produced by Sara Hughes
October 26, 2014
© Barbara Mossberg 2014
NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THESE POEMS: RECIPES FOR HOW TO COOK A WOLF (don’t worry, it’s a metaphor), GOSKY PATTIES (doesn’t happen), AND OTHER DELECTABLE FORMULAS FOR LIVING RIGHT
Welcome to our Poetry Slow Down, I’m Professor Barbara Mossberg with Producer Sara Hughes on radiomonterey.com, podcast at BarbaraMossberg.com. On our show last week about how and why to write with  verve, and finding that the next generation’s finds of verve and grace happen to be poetry, I was quoting one of my student’s choice of a vervacious poet and literary critic, Kay Ryan, former U.S. Poet Laureate, reading her essay Poetry is Funny, from Poetry Magazine, mentioning Edward Lear’s poem recipe Gosky Patties, and I promised you a show taking off from Lear’s Gosky Patties and Kay Ryan’s romp—all brio, tude, and vigor, and so we’re doing a show on the poetry of recipes, with Lear, M.F.K. Fisher, Pablo Neruda, Emily Dickinson, Henry Fielding, Homer, Cavafy, Gertrude Stein, my own weighing in, and notes of D.H. Lawrence (fig), E.B. White (pig—NOT), and others. You might need some snacks for our show, or some writing pads to get some recipes down, and so let’s get started with what prompted our shenganigans today, the poet Kay Ryan riffing on Edward Lear’s Gosky Patties . . .
© Barbara Mossberg 2014
