THE POETRY SLOW DOWN
KRXA 540 AM
Dr. Barbara Mossberg
Produced by Sara Hughes
April 6, 2014
© Barbara Mossberg 2014
THE HEART IS A SPONDEE (Charles Wright, Journal in the Year of the Ox): AND SPEAKING “POEMS THAT MAKE GROWN MEN CRY,†in which we hear (hear! hear!) from Anthony and Ben Holden’s new “100 Men on the Words That Move Them,†–the idea of which if grown MEN cry, it must be pretty moving–it’s Cruel April, you’ve been waiting for it and now it’s here, and speaking of crying, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,†on this note, the new collection out on Aimless Love by Billy Collins and Mary Oliver’sDog Songs (speaking of crying).
