Featuring Kathleen Dean Moore, Charles Finn, and ringleader Charles Goodrich, gathering a company of poets, with host Professor Barbara Mossberg for radiomonterey.com, Sunday live noon–1pm, PST, produced by Zappa Johns   Job 12:7-10 
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How can poetry be written and listened to, when the world breaks our hearts? A midsummer, anni-verse-ary show in the midst of news   Mathew Arnold’s Dover Beach:  Doesn’t it sound like it could be written today, of today—the question, … Continue reading →

FROM OREGON’S FAMED HAYWARD FIELD TO INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP ASSOCIATION WAVES OF POSSIBILITY CONFERENCE, TO GRADUATION CEREMONIES, TO ANNIVERSARIES OF YEATS AND MY MOTHER’S BIRTHS, AND GERARD MANLY HOPKINS AND ANNE FRANK’S DEATHS, FEATS OF LEAPING SHENANIGANS AND SPRUNG RHYTHMS OF … Continue reading →

Gordon Lightfoot, Wherefore and Why: The Touch of the Poet as Poetry Engages the World and Makes a Life Out of It The music for our show today probably says it all—Nat King Cole’s That Sunday, That Summer, Stylistics You … Continue reading →

TAKE A FEAR AND TWIST IT: OR STIR; OR MAKE IT BLUE(S): WHEN IT’S TOO HECTIC, WHEN THE NEWS IS TOO HARD, TWIST, STIR, SING THE BLUES, IN OTHER WORDS, SLOW DOWN QUARK-LAND! WHEN SOMETHING’S THE MATTER! As in THE … Continue reading →

PITCHING WOO: BIRTHDAY, EARTH DAY, BEING ALIVE AND ELATION EQUATION (it’s pretty quantum) In which we hear (hear hear!) love tributes to life itself, including and especially when all seems pretty precarious— Me on an erupting volcano (what was I … Continue reading →

What is all this juice and all this joy?—Gerard Manley Hopkins   O to have my life henceforth a poem of new joys! To dance, clap hands, exult, shout, skip, leap, roll on, float on —Walt Whitman Do you love … Continue reading →

Poets Noticing the Overlooked, Succumbing to the Despised, Forsaken, and Frankly Hated Yep, it’s everything you hate—well not YOU, of course, poetry listener, but—well, yes, you, at least me, or sometimes me: the things we sweep and kill, poison and … Continue reading →

Emily Dickinson serves as earthling hostess for the season and our show today on March 1, for, as she says, “We like March. His shoes are purple.” March, this Versace fashionista dude in a hat, comes panting to her door, … Continue reading →

BELLWETHERS: STUDENTS READ JAMES WRIGHT’S “I HAVE WASTED MY LIFE”: Good News for the Future Generations THE POETRY SLOW DOWN with Professor Barbara Mossberg February 22, 2015 Sunday Noon-1 pm radiomonterey.com bell·weth·er noun: bellwether; plural noun: bellwethers 1 the leading … Continue reading →