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0:53:15

BLITHE SPIRIT OF POETRY LIFTINGâ€”AND SAVING–OUR...

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2018/07/01

“Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; … Continue reading →

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1:24:02

HERE FOR THE PRESENT

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2018/06/18

â€œWe can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.â€â€•Thornton Wilder â€œWonderful to be hereâ€â€”Walt Whitman Thatâ€™s Thornton Wilder and Walt Whitman, and this is Professor Barbara Mossberg, with Producer Zappa … Continue reading →

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0:57:42

In Memory of Anthony Bourdain THE POETIC CHEF:...

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2018/06/11

Our #POETRYSLOWDOWN always says we areÂ the news you need, the news you heed, the news â€œwithout which men die miserably every dayâ€ (Wm. Carlos Williams).Â Â We areÂ the news between the headlines, fast-breaking, late-breaking, heart-breaking news; we are the heart-making news. Here … Continue reading →

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1:04:15

THE DAYâ€™S ON FIRE: Itâ€™s for the Birds

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2018/06/05

In a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadow in the deepening shade; I hear my echo in the echoing woodâ€”A lord of nature weeping to a tree. I live between the heron and the wren, … Continue reading →

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0:19:09

THE DAYâ€™S ON FIRE: Itâ€™s for the Birds

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2018/05/27

Theodore Roethke, In a Dark Time: In a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadowÂ in the deepening shade; I hear my echo in the echoing woodâ€”A lord of nature weeping to a tree. I live between … Continue reading →

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1:12:28

A JUICY SHOW: INK IS DRIPPING FROM MY LIPS/THERE IS...

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2018/05/21

On this May day, as our on-air show live today from Helsinki celebrates the happiness in the hear and now, with ecopoetry, an anniversary show of poems of juice shared on this show over five years, no, six, no, seven, … Continue reading →

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1:07:01

LIVE FROM THE DIPLOMAT, Stockholm, Sweden: CRY FOWL!...

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2018/05/13

Ah, but the poets knew! Hear we are (hear hear!) at your Poetry Slow Down, our weekly hour news shoe since 2008â€”if the show fits, hear it!–the news you need, the news you heed, the news â€œwithout which men die … Continue reading →

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0:44:23

CAUCUS FOR THE HEARTS: WHY ART MATTERS TO CONSTANTLY...

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2018/05/06

A radio-waving welcome to Congresswoman Pingree, new co-chair of Congressâ€™ Caucus for the Arts; how arts have played key roles in critical legislation for civil and human rights, war and peace, and the environment, including making Presidential reputations for greatness … Continue reading →

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0:56:18

WHAT IS YOUR RED LETTER DAY? Or, GOODNESS ON THE...

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2018/04/22

(Would a tree ask this question?) Meanwhile, or is it ratherÂ kindwhile, but meanwhile in terms of ways and means, how do we spend our time when things are loosey goosey and goose droppings of news are drooping like rainâ€”here (hear … Continue reading →

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0:58:21

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GO TO PRISONâ€”A POEM HAS YOUR BACK

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2018/04/08

Iâ€™M A LONELY STRANGER HERE (Clapton) here there is no place that does not see you (Rilke): YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GO TO PRISONâ€”A POEM HAS YOUR BACK. Yes, there is an epidemic that on the surface seems bewildering, … Continue reading →

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0:58:13

HOW WOULD YOU SAVE YOUR TREE?–THE HOPE IN YOU: ALL IN...

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2018/04/01

A shoe for you, kicking up those poetic feet that will lift your spirits, the news you need, the news you heed, the newsÂ without which men die miserably every dayâ€”so says Dr. William Carlos Williams, and weâ€™ll hear ideas for … Continue reading →

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0:58:38

BOSSY BARBARAâ€™S GUIDE TO JOY PART ONE

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2018/03/04

The Role of Poetry in Living Deliberatelyâ€”the art and science of going to the woods, so to speak. And so we are! Speaking of the woods:: e.e. cummingsâ€™ sonnet of gratitude, amazement, for every thing, alive again today, ready to … Continue reading →

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1:22:17

TABLE OF CONTENTS!

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2018/02/25

And so it is, a plating of lyric memoir about food and hunger, on eating and being eaten, on who is eating (or not), on what is, and is not, eatenâ€”like Thoreauâ€™sÂ Walden, Where I Lived and What I Lived For, … Continue reading →

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0:38:58

EARTH ON THE LINE! CALLING EARTH BACK! ENCOURAGEMENT...

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2018/02/18

Top o the morning to you, Poetry community! Post-Valentines, in the thick of birthdays of civic leaders, weâ€™re slowing down for our Poetry Slow Down, Iâ€™m your host Professor Barbara Mossberg, with our West Coast Producer Zappa Johns, broadcasting live … Continue reading →

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1:03:17

ATTENTION MUST BE PAID (Death of a Salesman) AND...

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2018/02/11

Life and Death Stakes in Paying Attention, Your Own, Each Otherâ€™s, Our Earthâ€™s, and What Amazed Poetry Has To Do With It. (Mary Oliver (a lot), D. H. Lawrence, Emily Dickinson (of course), John Muir (a lot), John Steinbeck, Arthur … Continue reading →

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0:53:15

THE APOLOGY HEARD ROUND THE WORLD

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2018/01/28

When thereâ€™s a murder, we investigate â€œwho dunnit.â€ When somethingâ€™s gone wrong, we look for evidence. But what about when something goes right? With good acts, great acts, can we also investigate â€œwho dunnit?â€ Whatâ€™s the â€œweapon?â€ Whatâ€™s the motive? … Continue reading →

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0:47:14

A TIME TO REMEMBER JOHN MUIR AS A POET, AND THE ROLE...

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2017/12/24

The Poetry Slow Down with Professor Barbara Mossberg. In our show, broadcast live from Los Angeles, where John Muir died 103 years ago today, we consider his last words, sprawled as he lay in a hospital bed with the manuscript … Continue reading →

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0:50:55

THE NEWS OF CHICKADEE: RX IN A TIME OF STRUGGLE

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2017/12/17

My little chickadees! Hello! This is your Professor Barbara Mossberg and Iâ€™m greeting you this dark December day, one of the shortest and darkest of the whole year, with the sound of a chickadee, on THE POETRY SLOW DOWN with … Continue reading →

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0:59:47

BLESS, YOU POETS!

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2017/12/10

An Emily Dickinson Poetry Shoe (if the show fits, hear it): how poets change our life and save the earth (and/or make it want to keep on), with music by Merrilee Rush, Kings of Leon, Yosef Islam, the former Cat … Continue reading →

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1:03:53

â€œHEARING IN THE DARKNESS THE EVERLASTING SONG OF...

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2017/12/06

What if we approached poetry as a stadium event, weâ€™ll consider that and amazing poems that shine in darkness and lift us today, and how we need this light, in the context of Ralph Waldo Emersonâ€™s national recruiting calls for … Continue reading →

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