Monthly Archives: September 2012

“GLADNESS SOMERSAULTING IN THE EAVES”– HAPPY (POETIC) FEET: POETRY OF BROKEN FEET, BOOTS AND BROKEN IN BOOTS, BROKEN HEARTS AND BROKEN IN HEARTS, FALLING DOWN STAIRS AND ALL MANNER OF FALLING AND A BIT ON SMASHED TOE—POETS FALL TO!

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Poetry of Dean Young, Pablo Neruda, Emily Dickinson, James Dickey, Lewis Carroll, Lois Entwistle, Kahill Gibran, Oprah Winfrey, Tony Hoagland, Charles Wright, Shakespeare, Thoreau, William Blake, Thomas Hardy, Carrell Hawkins, Jack Gilbert, John Fuller, Gerald Stern, Linda Gregg, Mary Oliver, Kirk Douglas/Betty McMicken, William Carlos Williams, Taylor Mali, Marjory Snyder, A.A. Milne, Jennifer K. Sweeney, and Walt Whitman, speaking of falling (in love with our poets), and yours truly, Professor Barbara Mossberg. Continue reading →

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YES, YOUR GRANDMOTHER’S WILD, AND OTHER EVIDENCE OF WILD ANCESTRY; SIGHTINGS AND SIGHINGS OF LIONS AND OTHER EVIDENCE OF WILD TERRAIN CLOSE TO HOME; AND SPEAKING OF BEASTS (WHICH WE ARE), WILD THEORY—THE CASE FOR HOMER AS A WOMAN

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Poems and news of one’s inner wild, from your host’s experience of being delicious to a bear (“Night Hunger, Wild Hunger”) and inner lion DNA, to Galway Kinnel’s “The Bear,” and more, Carl Sandburg’s “Wilderness,” and Gary Snyder, “How Poetry Comes to Me” and “For All,” Lisa Jarnot, “Brooklyn Anchorage” Sandra McPherson’s “Lion,” Hayden Carruth (“wouldn’t it be great to write nothing at all but poetry of bears”) and James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man, to wild reading of domestic Odyssey—as wild life is in our headline news, backyards, urban streets, and in our creative hungers.

© Barbara Mossberg 2012

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