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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
Poems and news of one’s inner wild, from your host’s experience of being delicious to a bear (“Night Hunger, Wild Hungerâ€) 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
HOMAGE: ON BECOMING 64—Resist the Mere! Defy! To the Fray!: POEMS THAT GOT ME HERE AND WILL TAKE ME FORWARD, POEMS FOR CARRYING ON: HOW POEMS MATTER ON LIFE’S JOURNEY
homage and quaff to Sir Peter Shaffer, Charles Wright, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, Mary Oliver, James Wright, Yeats, Chuck Tripi, notes of e.e. cummings, Dylan Thomas, Shakespeare, Homer, and Dave Barry.
It’s my little homage—Lettice Douffet, and this is Professor Barbara Mossberg, on the Poetry Slow Down. Continue reading
Hats and Bats, On Being Batty, Batting and Speaking of Summer (Honey Have You Seen My Seven Pumper?) Oh Yes Squirrels In This Time of Fig Ripening
Our show begins with a poem on a hat left by a member of the Pacific Grove (Ad Hoc) Poetry Committee at residence of truly yours, Poet in Residence for said city; Susie Joyce made it into a song, and one thing led to another, which is the way of hats and poets and poems, and so she sings on our show, she brings my poem to life, and makes it shimmer and have panache and je ne sais quoi, and then she takes another one of my poems, Bones and Flesh, and sings that, and after this, you will be really slowed down, for what goes with hats, bats, of course, since I was just in Austin, Texas, an anthropologist observing crowds on Congress Bridge waiting for the nightly appearance of bats (Did you say bats, Professor Mossberg? I did) (Honey, did she say bats?). Yes, really, I did, I do, and what I immediately wondered was about the poetry of bats, and it turns out OF COURSE that great poets write great poems about bats! And we’ll hear D.H. Lawrence, Theodore Roethke (also on weeds, speaking of creepy crawly things creeping out gardeners), Mary Oliver, Carolyn Kizer, Robert Hass.
Live from Austin: “THE LEMONADE OF SIMPLE PRAISEâ€
(Derek Walcott) : SUMMER POEMS TO COOL YOU DOWN, AND SPEAKING OF HOT JULY, TEXAS POETRY, featuring professor poets Paul Riffin and Wendy Barker, with poems and thoughts by Ruth Stone, Willis Barnstone, Mark Doty, Naomi Shahib Nye, Mark Bibbins (“And You Thought You Were the Only Oneâ€), Liam Rector (“Fat Men in Summer Suitsâ€), Derek Walcott, Frances Chung, Walt McDonald, David Woo, Rosanna Warren, Lewis Carroll, e. e. cummings, Charles Wright, Lynda Hull, Mark Jarmon; meditation on the Austin agencies of angels (insects, train) by your program host Professor Barbara Mossberg; reflections on the significance of the fact that many of Emily Dickinson’s poems can be sung to “The Yellow Rose of Texas†(with illustrations); the Harry Ransom Center at University of Texas, Manuscripts Collection; Albert Camus on traveling; upcoming Texas International Poetry Festival in September; CERN findings on the “God particle” for what makes matter and how poetry makes things matter; and more, and continuing . . . . Thank you for listening! Please write bmossberg@csumb.edu. And slow down, because you know you move too fast! Poetry’s the way. Chill.
Next week, live from our studios and returning to my hometown, Pacific Grove, and our Poetry Committee up to good: stay tuned!
© Barbara Mossberg 2012