THE POETRY SLOW DOWN
KRXA 540AM Podcast BarbaraMossberg.com
Dr. Barbara Mossberg
Produced by Sara Hughes
January 5, 2014
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TOWARDS WHAT END?
THE POETRY SLOW DOWN
KRXA 540AM
Dr. Barbara Mossberg
Produced by Sara Hughes
December 28, 2013
© Barbara Mossberg
ECSTATIC EPIC MUSCLE, NOTIONS OF NATION, WORLD, AND SELF IN EMILY DICKINSON, EVERYBODY’S NOBODY/NOBODY’S NOBODY: EMILY, YOU’RE SHINING HERE, IN AN EDEN TO WHICH WE COME SLOWLY, SLOWED DOWN FOR OUR POETRY SLOW DOWN, IN OUR ANNUAL TRIBUTE SHOW!
© Barbara Mossberg 2013
THIS JUST IN
THIS JUST IN: MID DECEMBER NEWS WITHOUT WHICH MEN DIE MISERABLY EVERY DAY—front page news, science says optimism is important for brain and body health–and what poetry has to do with it Continue reading
HEARING IN THE DARKNESS THE EVERLASTING SONG OF US
“HEARING IN THE DARKNESS THE EVERLASTING SONG OF US†(from Chuck Tripi’s “Agencies of Graceâ€):  POEMS AND FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, POEMS TO LIGHT US IN DARK DAYS AND FRIDAY NIGHTS, reflections about Emerson’s national recruiting calls for “The Poet†and the relation of American football and poetry and civic consciousness. Reflections on poetry and football, and plenty of Whitman, and the lights of Ezra Pound, Mark Strand, Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Martin Luther King, Jr., Plato, a little Dickinson (a power book that goes a long way), Leonard Cohen, a way lit with Jack Gilbert, James Wright, William Carlos Williams, Jane Hirshfield, Lucille Clifton, Pablo Neruda, Piere Joris, Bill Stafford, Pimone Triplett, Mary Oliver, Ander Monson!