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Poet in Residence, Pacific Grove California

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1:01:36

What would Rumi do and say? Finding the rhyme in your...

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2020/01/13

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1:04:20

Elation Equation: And We Shall Be A Mighty Kindness...

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2019/10/28

As we consider Emerson (whom the late Harold Bloom called “God”) and Einstein, and Astra theology, and what is known about the universe in ancient and emergent minds, considering human and civil rights, peace, and the environment (Peace! Love! Freedom! Happiness!) … Continue reading →

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1:17:43

How Is It That Pumpkins Are Orange Coming Out of Soil?

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2019/09/24

Let us consider poetry as necessary for life as soil. Just because nutritious soil is necessary to life, all our lives on earth, does not mean it is not downright miraculous. A little clay here, rock there, dust, remains, odds … Continue reading →

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1:20:45

Hassle of errands on Saturdayâ€™s stressed To To:...

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2019/09/10

WWRS? (What Would Rumi Say?) What does poetry have to do with it? Stay tuned for The Poetry Slow Down with Professor Barbara Mossberg. Enjoy the video for this week’s episode on our Facebeook page.

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1:16:50

ARE YOU TALKING TO ME? TREES TALKING TRASH AND GLORY,...

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2019/06/17

Poetry Slow Down, our episode this week begins a series wherein we embark on ancient ships and rocky land routes to engage with trees, as people have always done, and I meanÂ always. Since recorded history, our first forays into writing … Continue reading →

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0:44:21

SHAMBLING OUT OF SILENCE (BRIAN DOYLE), SCATTERING...

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2019/06/03

As we celebrate Walt Whitmanâ€™s birthday, we consider how seriously as a poet he took joy (very). As it turns out, in fact, poets taking joy seriously is a thing. Weâ€™re slowing down today (you know you move too fast) … Continue reading →

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0:53:15

DOWN WITH WASTING-TIME SHAMING: WASTING TIME FOR GLORY

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2019/05/26

CONFESSIONS OF KILLER OF CATERPILLARS, HEADS UP TO DEER (AND OTHERS) AT RISK, BEING RAPT, RAPTORMANIA, RAPTURE, AND RIPARIAN ECSTASY YOU HAVE TIME FOR IF YOU SLOW DOWN: Poems and Lyric Prose â€œOn Lifeâ€ and Utterly Necessary Living, Life, and … Continue reading →

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0:58:58

MOTHERâ€™S DAY: confessions when a writer is a daughter!

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2019/05/13

Never mind the headlines, thereâ€™s plenty of drama in the kitchen . . . itâ€™s a lot. A play in the making about a daughter raising her mother from the dead, an act of which her mother approves, although not the … Continue reading →

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1:07:50

QUANTUM MIRACLES THE POETRY OF EVERYTHING IS ALIVE...

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2019/03/11

Please help yourself to an hour (plucked from Daylight Savings Time), slowing down (because you know you move too fast) for the up of the ThePoetrySlowDown that aspires to be a Holy Fire Reiki for your spirit (as poetry perhaps always has … Continue reading →

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0:54:03

THE EYES HAVE IT: WHEN SO MUCH DEPENDS UPON A RED...

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2019/02/18

A consideration of what we considerÂ slow news, and whatâ€™s at stake, for our own survival and for society at large. In which we take up the fate of earth and all life (including spidersâ€”and youâ€™ll be glad) (you truly will) … Continue reading →

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0:55:44

THE USE OF POETRY: REVELATIONS AND OTHER LEARNING...

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2019/02/11

In which our show showcases poetsâ€™ love of teaching (their poems are proof of the pudding) and in which I learn from studentsâ€™ questions to me about the role and use of poetry in our lives, and, in their own … Continue reading →

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1:04:15

â€œMy work is loving the worldâ€–WHAT IS OUR WORK?

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2019/02/04

A perspective on how we (should) spend our daily energies. A bossiness of poets weigh in, from the late (but always here) Mary Oliver, William Stafford, Raymond Carver, Emily Dickinson, Billy Collins, Lorine Neidecker, Alice Dunbar -Nelson, Gerald Manley Hopkins, … Continue reading →

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0:53:17

CALLING ALL LOVERS: YOU NEED THE TREEâ€”BUT THE TREE...

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2019/01/06

Hello, and happy new year, O friends, O ears, hear hear! Youâ€™re slowing down for the Poetry Slow Downâ€”you know you move too fast! You know you are supposed to slow down for your health, and mind, and spirit, and … Continue reading →

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1:10:38

HOW YOU MATTER TO A TREE, AND FOR THAT MATTER,...

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2018/12/23

If â€œeverything is aliveâ€ (Ian Chillag), e=mc2 (Einstein), things â€œmust be sung,â€ â€œsing themselvesâ€ (Emerson), then a) you are alive, b) you are everything, c) you are a song. Weâ€™re all in this together, like penguins and bats, singing our … Continue reading →

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0:51:44

RUMInating ROUX for all you rue

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2018/12/12

Youâ€™re under the weather, my friend, feeling stressed and blue! Dr. B has a potion that will do: Itâ€™s light as a feather, word flour and fat, called for when the world seems sour and flat! Just when youâ€™re going … Continue reading →

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0:53:23

WHO IS YOUR VIRGIL? OR, WHEN YOUR SCREEN GOES PLAID

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2018/11/18

(A GOOD LOOK IN SHIRTS, NOT SO MUCH ON YOUR COMPUTER), AND DAYS ARE DARK, AND THE NEWS IS FRIGHTFUL, IT’S TIME TO LET GO THE NEWS FEED FOR THE NEWS YOU NEED: POETRY! YOU NEED TO GET OUT YOUR … Continue reading →

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0:55:19

RECALCULATE: IN LIFEâ€™S DIRECTIONS, SOMETIMES WE...

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2018/10/08

From ancient drama to todayâ€™s poetry, lyric wisdom suggests (do orÂ Â die –â€œmiserablyâ€) that our sense of success, â€œhomeâ€ and other destinations, and goals need to be rethought. Living is fraught with perils and defeatsâ€”or are our â€œdefeatsâ€ really something to … Continue reading →

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1:20:53

YOUR MIND CAN TRANSFORM A NON MOMENT OR TERRIBLE TIME...

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2018/10/01

So Poetry Slow Down! Youâ€™re slowing down here (hear hear!) with me, your host Professor Barbara Mossberg,Â Dr. B, and our production team, Zappa Johns and Nico Moss: you know you move too fast! This is our time to slow down, … Continue reading →

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0:52:16

FELLOW MORTALSâ€”Goats and Sheep, for a GOAT SONG: A...

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2018/08/12

In fact it leads to heartwarming knowledge about our own humanity! And we need to hear this! Now! So weâ€™ll slow down to take that windy path where goats go, lambs gambol. Iâ€™m your host Barbara Mossberg, with this ministry … Continue reading →

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1:14:26

THE PLATED SELF: ON BEING TASTY–The Noble Fate or...

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2018/07/22

To eat or to be eaten, or both? That is the question. Life and death. What is our human fate and purpose? These are large questions, indeed, and poetry has some answers to get us slowed down in these hurtling … Continue reading →

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