ON THE SCOTLAND VOTE, AND U.S. POLL, WOULD YOU LEAVE YOUR COUNTRY:

From Frank Zappa to Bob Dylan, Walt Whitman to Percy Bysshe Shelley, Emily Dickinson to George Eliot, Rabbi Burns to Shakespeare, Thoreau to Robert Kennedy, we hear thoughts on what goes into the phenomenon of thinking of "my" country, and what poetry has to do with it . . . . Untangling or at least identifying the entanglements: a heart-felt and earnest show about belonging to each other and our earth, ending with a love poem by Kevin Prufer, "In A Beautiful Country," and that's the feeling poetry can give us, with which I'd like to leave us, for today.THE POETRY SLOW DOWNRADIOMONTEREY.COMDr. Barbara MossbergProduced by Sara HughesSeptember 21, 2014© Barbara Mossberg 2014