GET YOUR GLOVES ON

POETRY SLOW DOWN

KRXA 540AMDr. Barbara MossbergProduced by Sara HughesApril 13, 2014© Barbara Mossberg 2014

GET YOUR GLOVES ON—NO, NO, NOT BOXING, IT'S AN ENGAGEMENT OF THE MIND, TIME TO GET ON YOUR KNEES AND DIG, AND WORK THAT SOIL, WE'RE TALKING METAPHOR OF COURSE, GARDENING, AND POEMS THEREOF, WITH ME YOUR HOST PROFESSOR BARBARA MOSSBERG—we'll ponder the tremendous connections among poetry and poets, gardens, weeds, wilderness, in the toil of psychic soil, tilling human experience, thrilling and poignant poems . . . be HEAR with me . . . . we're taking our gloves OFF . . . .we're philosophizing and rambling and gazing at gardens of Chuck Tripi, W.S. Merwin, Wendell Berry, Melissa Tuckey, Mary Oliver, Louise Gluck, Horace, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Roethke, Edgar Allen Poe, Whitman, Wordsworth, Stanley Kunitz, Yeats, Ann Stanford, Madelon Sprengnether, and Kenneth Helphand from Defiant Gardens quoting Churchill and Sassoon. Oh, and—'course, Emily Dickinson.

© Barbara Mossberg 2014