Dr. Barbara Mossberg » Poetry Slowdown
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Poet in Residence, Pacific Grove California
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Coming Soon: JOHN MUIR’S CHRISTMAS CAROLS – STRATEGIES TO SAVE THE EARTH!
18/12/2016 Duración: 03minOur celebration John Muir and of the 100th anniversary of the National Parks Service will be heading your way December 19th! Listen early as Dr. B gives us a teaser of the upcoming episode.
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GROWING OLD AND BOLD WITH POETS ON OUR JOURNEY!—You need this show, I know: the “difficult” and “despised poems . . . without which men die miserably every day”—William Carlos Williams.
11/12/2016 Duración: 54minI shall grow old but never lose life’s zest, Because the road’s last turn will be the best.—Henry Van Dyke “THE DIFFERENCE MADE ME BOLD:” CELEBRATING EMILY DICKINSON’S LIFE OF SERVICE, IN HONOR OF HER 186 BIRTHDAY, THE MEANING SHARING … Continue reading →
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WHY SCIENTISTS LOVE FRANK ZAPPA AND HOW WE KNOW E.E. CUMMINGS WAS A PHYSICIST AND WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS A PHYSICIAN AND EMILY DICKINSON WAS A SCIENTIST and other news we need to live in happy-ness and hoppy-ness and not “die miserably every day”
04/12/2016 Duración: 58min“i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun’s birthday, and this is the birthday of life, and of love and wings, and the gay great happening illimitably earth” –e.e. cummings WELCOME to our Poetry Slow … Continue reading →
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THE BARDS WERE NOT LIARS (Timothy Severin): THE TRUTH ABOUT EPIC YOU, AND WHY EPIC POETRY IS YOUR LIFE COMPANION WE ARE THANKFUL FOR
27/11/2016 Duración: 59min“The explorer finds little evidence for any of the way Homer describes Troy . . . Yet here, in the mind’s eye, stood an awe-inspiring city with soaring battlements dominating the plans. Homer and the bards were not deliberate liars, … Continue reading →
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WELCOME TO THE DEUS EX MACHINA SHOW HOW WE RISE:
16/11/2016 Duración: 59minTo occasions, when we’re knocked down, low, heavy heart, how we have it in us to do so, how we’re called on to do so, called for, and what poetry has to do with it. A rousing show, to lift, … Continue reading →
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METAPHOR FOR THE THINGS THAT COUNT AND YES IT IS ROCKET SCIENCE, in memorium, Jack (J.D.) Roberts, d. October 29, 2016 (age 98)
06/11/2016 Duración: 59minNot everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.—Einstein I’m trying to find something true that can’t be expressed by math.—J.D. Roberts Can haiku save the day? We know sonnets can. It’s all about … Continue reading →
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HELPFUL BANANA BREAD
23/10/2016 Duración: 59minWhen you’re in the dark woods, and the way is lost, and a lion, leopard, and she-wolf are snarling, blocking your way, you (evolved radio show listener) might think of Dante’s Rx, the Roman epic poet Virgil, or Rumi’s peoples … Continue reading →
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Stay Tuned! Coming Soon, a Click Away, to You! TROUBADOR of “BENEVOLENT MISANTHROPE” EXPLOSIVE NEWS
17/10/2016 Duración: 58minThe Dynamite Genius of Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize Committee, Dynamic Connection Between Nobel and Dylan: What is literature? Who’s asking? All of a sudden, everyone is. And the point is, it is Everyone. The Odyssey was sung. We … Continue reading →
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I SHALL KEEP SINGING (Emily Dickinson) THEY SAID I COULDN’T SING BUT I DID SING (Florence Foster Jenkins, channeled by Meryl Streep)
09/10/2016 Duración: 59minCriticism is said to have killed an enthusiastic diva and John Keats and been dead wrong (and snarky) about . . . well, name your favorite—Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Scott Fitzgerald, J.D. Salinger, Henry Miller, we love … Continue reading →
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A PARENT TURNS 36 (THAT’S NOT OLD!): I WHO HAVE DIED AM ALIVE AGAIN TODAY
25/09/2016 Duración: 59minAll things birth-day, thinking of Ta-Nehesi Coates’ Between the World and Me, A Parent’s Thoughts (coming soon to a neighborhood near you), and tomorrow, the first day of school, a new year, a new life: WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR … Continue reading →
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THE ARCHITECTURE OF ANGUISH (“Rooms of Fire”) THINK OF DANTE: WHAT A PROF TELLS A STUDENT WHO PANICS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT: WHAT IT ALL COMES DOWN TO, OR UP TO
18/09/2016 Duración: 59minDante, Shakespeare, Elizabeth Bishop, T.S. Eliot, Rumi, Shakespeare, e.e. cummings, Thoreau, Ta-Nehesi Coates’ Between the World and Me, Alain de Botton’s The Architecture of Happiness, and Terry Eagleton’s The Meaning of Life, to the music of Simon and Garfunkle, Stevie … Continue reading →
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DROP THE MERE, KISS THE JOY AS IT FLIES, AND YOU WILL LIVE IN ETERNITY’S SUNRISE
11/09/2016 Duración: 59minHave fun my dear, my dear, have fun–Hafiz I have conversed with the spiritual Sun. I saw him on Primrose Hill—William Blake Our news from London and Paris and those who “converse” with the sun on how to live a life. … Continue reading →
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WHEN THE NEWS IS FALLING DOWN ALL AROUND WHAT GOOD IS LEFT IN THE DAY — Poetry’s Left Overs When We Are Over It
31/07/2016 Duración: 58minYou’ve seen the headlines–Let’s start, O Poetry Flight of Listeners, with a way to begin the morning anew, morning being whenever you are awake, and now is a good time—from Psalms, This is the day the Lord has made, let … Continue reading →
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Headlines, Heartlines, Love Lines: Poets on the Front Lines When Life is on the Line
17/07/2016 Duración: 59minWHEN IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR LIFE WE FIND OURSELVES IN A DARK WOOD WHERE THE DIRECT WAY IS LOST—HOW “WILD, HARSH AND INPENETRABLE”—“SCARCELY LESS BITTER THAN DEATH”—“THINKING OF IT RECREATES THE FEAR”—(Dante, The Inferno), HOW AND WHY TO GO … Continue reading →
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Professor Barbara Mossberg’s THE ROAD TO HAMILTON, PART TWO GALL, GUTS, NERVE, AND GLORY
05/06/2016 Duración: 01h03minA Show for Pre (and Ali) On the way to the phenomenon of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s tour de force on Alexander Hamilton, the power of books and poetry to excite and move our world, Viet Tang Nwhen (Viet Thanh Nguyen)’s The … Continue reading →
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WE THE PEOPLE: THE ROAD TO HAMILTON, PART ONE
22/05/2016 Duración: 58minI Found Myself in the Stories He Told—Richard Rodriquez, on William Saroyan WE THE PEOPLE: THE ROAD TO HAMILTON, PART ONE, live from Broadway-New York and Helsinki, the 40th Fulbright Anniversary and the Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference on North … Continue reading →
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TODAY I WAS HAPPY SO I MADE THIS POEM (James Wright): NOW MAY CRIES OUT AGAIN, I’M HERE I’M HERE (Alicia Ostriker)
08/05/2016 Duración: 59minOn this aMayzing Mother’s day, as our show today celebrates the “here” in the hear and now, podcast at BarbaraMossberg.com, produced by Zappa Johns, slowing down and heating it up, with poetry “without which men die miserably every day” (Wm. … Continue reading →
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Public announcement: No alligators were harmed in the making of this show.
01/05/2016 Duración: 59minIT’S MAY! YOU’VE GOT TO GET UP OUT OF BED AND GREET THE DAY! WITH THE COFFEE OF THE POETRY SLOW DOWN With Professor Barbara Mossberg Get up, get up for shame . . ./Get up, sweet-Slug-a-bed . . . … Continue reading →
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YOU ANGEL YOU (Dylan)—ARE YOU MY ANGEL (Ferlinghetti)?: POETS AS MESSENGERS? When People You Love See Angels in the Curtains and the Trees
17/04/2016 Duración: 59minExploring angels through the lens of poetry, from Angels of Bread to the Necessary Angel, the Better Angel, the Industrious Angel, the Child Angel, Angel on Wheels, Angel in the House, Guardian Angel, the Angels in America, Angels Who Have … Continue reading →
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Four Legs in the Morning: What’s Up With Morning? (and/or, Who’s Up With Morning?)
10/04/2016 Duración: 59minAwake for Travel, the Sphinx, and Ramona the Pest and the Dawnzer Light (Happy Birthday, Beverly Cleary!) Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”—That’s Henry … Continue reading →