Dr. Barbara Mossberg » Poetry Slowdown
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Poet in Residence, Pacific Grove California
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POETRY ON STAGE, UPSTAGING, DOWNSTAGE: THE POETRY OF DRAMA, THE DRAMA OF POETRY– LIVE FROM THE OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL AND REPORTING FROM BROADWAY
28/05/2017 Duración: 55min5 plays coast to coast in two days: a view of poetry’s transforming role in civic and personal life. In which we consider The Great Comet of 1812, a musical of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, that covers Victor Hugo’s … Continue reading →
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ON MOTHER’S DAY, The Poetry of One of the Most Undocumented Profound Phenomena of Human Experience
14/05/2017 Duración: 01h19minThere’s not a lot of it—on the surface—apparently—but what’s there is good-hearted and heart-breaking and moving and shaking, human beings at their humblest and poets at the most yearning and wistful and creative. In this show I reflect on my … Continue reading →
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CELEBRATION: WHAT DO WE CELEBRATE WHEN WE CELEBRATE STAR WARS, MOTHER (HUMAN AND EARTH), JOHN MUIR’S 1000 MILE WALK TO THE GULF: or, WHAT’S EPIC IN YOUR HEART? MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU
07/05/2017 Duración: 01h15minNo, not the revenge of the Fifth—this is your Poetry Slow Down, with a special intergenerational Star Wars unit devised by your intrepid geek nerd techy Producer Zappa Johns and host Dr. B, and Zappa is fresh from Orlando, Florida, attending … Continue reading →
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FRIENDS OF SCIENCE (ARENT WE ALL?) = A SHOW FOR YOU, AND LOVED EARTH, Part Two
30/04/2017 Duración: 49minLive from Denton, Texas, where poetry grows tall and thick as thistles Occasion: time (n.), case, juncture, event, instance, incident, occurrence, circumstance, point, spot, position; chance (n.) possibility, opportunity, opening, season, contingency, stage; reason (n.), cause, ground, motive, justification, rationale, … Continue reading →
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FRIENDS OF SCIENCE (ARENT WE ALL?) = A SHOW FOR YOU
23/04/2017 Duración: 01h14minOccasion: time (n.), case, juncture, event, instance, incident, occurrence, circumstance, point, spot, position; chance (n.) possibility, opportunity, opening, season, contingency, stage; reason (n.), cause, ground, motive, justification, rationale, explanation, excuse, basis; cause (v.) motivate, induce, prompt, elicit, effect, give rise … Continue reading →
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WHEN THERE ARE NO WORDS, THERE IS POETRY: PROUD MUSIC OF THE STORM
26/03/2017 Duración: 01h01minWHEN TERRORISM THREATENS OUR TRUST IN OUR WORLD—WE LOOK IN POETRY FOR A WORLD WE CAN TRUST, beginning with Spine Poetry. We’ll not only learn about spine poetry (you have your own right now) but how it can give us … Continue reading →
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SAVE NEA/NEH/PBS/NPR
19/03/2017 Duración: 01h06minON WHICH SO MUCH DEPENDS: REALLY? THAT’S A POEM? THAT’S WHAT WITHOUT WHICH WE DIE MISERABLY EVERY DAY? The case for poetry (life and death) at a time when such things are being questioned as unnecessary in our civic life. … Continue reading →
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POETRY DANCES WITH THE LAW–RESURRECTION ENGINEERING TO RESTORE HETCH HETCHY VALLEY (WE CAN DO THIS!
12/03/2017 Duración: 01h01minLive from Berkeley, words on behalf of earth and your own favorite tree and poets! The Poetry Slowdown © Barbara Mossberg
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OUT OF THE MUCK AND MUDDLE, MUD AND PUDDLE, WEARY BLEAK WORN BEFUDDLED LIFE, A CROCUS, A SHINING MOMENT! –DEAR MARCH, COME IN!
05/03/2017 Duración: 01h09minDickinson and Eco poets Denshosha? Wetzeng? A talk with Kim Stafford . . . Emily Dickinson serves as earthling terran hostess for the season and our show today on March 5, for, as she says, “We like March. His shoes … Continue reading →
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IF YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES TO MAKE YOUR CASE FOR YOUR (HOPELESS?) (BUT WORTHY) CAUSE ON BEHALF AND WHOLE OF EACH OTHER AND EARTH
26/02/2017 Duración: 55minHello my peoples, an iambic greeting to you this fair morning as we slow down—you know you move too fast—for our Poetry Slow Down, I’m Dr. B, your professor Barbara Mossberg, with our West Coast producer Zappa as in Frank … Continue reading →
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SO MUCH DEPENDS UPON A RED WHEELBARROW . . . HMM . . . WHAT? WHAT IS THE NEWS IN A RED WHEELBARROW, IF IT’S GLAZED WITH RAIN BESIDE THE WHITE CHICKENS? WHAT MATTERS? WHAT SHOULD WE PAY ATTENTION TO? WHAT IS WORTH OUR TIME? AND WHAT IS A WASTE OF TIME?
19/02/2017 Duración: 01h09sA consideration of what we consider news, and what’s at stake, for our own survival and for society at large. In which we take up the fate of earth and all life (including spiders—and you’ll be glad) (you truly will) … Continue reading →
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BOOK ME: HOW GENIUS LOCI, A PASSION FOR PLACE, IS INVOKED BY POETRY AND CAN GET YOU INTO INTERESTING TROUBLE WITH THE LAW BUT IN A CIVIC HERO KIND OF WAY; POETRY AND THE CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE OF HELPING SAVE THE EARTH; AND A CELEBRATION OF WRITERS OF WATERSH
12/02/2017 Duración: 01h03sOur show reviews a history of writing passionately about earth, with conscience and anguish and infinite belief in the reader to do act on behalf of earth, focusing on David Brower (Archdruid of John McPhee fame, and Sierra Club director) … Continue reading →
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THE POETRY SUPERBOWL LINE-UP SHOW
05/02/2017 Duración: 01h02minIn which football is bandied about as a theme and metaphor (of course) of what poetry is all about: football is a handy lens which gets us philosophical and full of insight; in such illumination, Emily Dickinson comes to light … Continue reading →
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HOW ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S READING OF POETRY LEADS TO NATIONAL PARK LEGISLATION, JOHN MUIR IN THE HOTSEAT OF CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY, AND IT’S ALL ABOUT A POEM ABOUT A MOUSE WHOM BOBBY BURNS (A FAV OF LINCOLN AND MUIR) CALLS A FELLOW MORTAL
29/01/2017 Duración: 55minWe tell you on this show that we are all about the news at the top of the hour, the news without which men die miserably day, the news we need, the news we heed, the news inside the fast-breaking, … Continue reading →
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POETRY AND LEADERSHIP WILD AND FREE
22/01/2017 Duración: 01h04minThoreau’s Lines A Tattoo (Temporary but Permanent on the Inside) (“put it on your bicep, Dr. B!)”, or a Whitman “flag of my disposition,” and what those words together mean in our times. A show of green sleuthing as we … Continue reading →
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THE CLEAN SWEEP SHOW, STARTING FRESH: NEW AND SHINING LIFE OUT OF THE OLD YEAR
08/01/2017 Duración: 01h03minSO . . . HOW SHOULD WE BEGIN? YOUR TRUSTY DIY GUIDE TO A NEW YEAR, BEING NEW THE POETRY WAY. A Guideline to a New Year, the Poetry Way. Hello friends, who lend me your ears, we’re hear together … Continue reading →
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RINGING IN THE NEW YEAR
02/01/2017 Duración: 08minAs we ring in the new year, we think about the days when January wasn’t even a month, much less the herald and threshold of a new year, and how to get things started right, with cleaning, you heard me, … Continue reading →
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WRAPPING IT UP: POETRY AS PRESENT, A GIFT IN OUR LIVES “WITHOUT WHICH MEN DIE MISERABLY EVERY DAY”
01/01/2017 Duración: 01h18minMaking an End: On Doing It Right: The Poetry Way WRAPPING IT UP: POETRY AS PRESENT, A GIFT IN OUR LIVES “WITHOUT WHICH MEN DIE MISERABLY EVERY DAY” (“To Asphodel, That Greeny Flower,” William Carlos Williams)—a wrap and rap of … Continue reading →
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CHRISTMAS EVE WHEN JOHN MUIR DIED, LUNGS FLOODED AS HIS BELOVED HETCH HETCHY VALLEY, YOSEMITE’S TWIN, IN THE NATIONAL PARK, DROWNED BY AN ACT OF CONGRESS TO SUPPORT WATER AND POWER FOR SAN FRANCISCO
24/12/2016 Duración: 15minWe slow down to remember not only Muir’s anguish for the Hetch Hetchy Valley which he tried to save, as much as he wrote about it, but the love of light, love of earth that animated him and made him … Continue reading →
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JOHN MUIR’S CHRISTMAS CAROL STRATEGIES TO SAVE THE EARTH: THE POETRY OF BEHOLDING NIGHT AND DAY, HARKING, GLORY, AND JOY
21/12/2016 Duración: 01h06minA celebration of an earth-struck poetry-loving man, as a geologist “rocks” around the clock. John Muir’s death certificate lists him as a geologist, but it’s not as a geologist that we name hospitals, stars, glaciers, schools, trails, flowers, and forests … Continue reading →