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ON WHICH SO MUCH DEPENDS: REALLY? THAT'S A POEM? THAT'S WHAT WITHOUT WHICH WE DIE MISERABLY EVERY DAY?The case for poetry (life and death) at a time when such things are being questioned as unnecessary in our civic life. A show in which I say, all right, let's see what this poetry is really about when it comes right down to it--my mother's dying and death. And in the process we'll hear what nourished me and us--e.e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, Yeats, Eliot, Beckett, Mark Strand, Stanley Kunitz, Shakespeare, James Wright, Mary Oliver, and more.The Poetry SlowdownProduced by Zappa Johns© Dr. Barbara Mossberg 2017