A TRUE HAPPY HOUR IT’S TIME FOR RUMINATIONS: NEUROSCIENCE ON SPONTANEOUS AND INSTANTANEOUS HAPPINESS, A PRACTICE OF MIND-FULL-NESS, WITH RUMI AND PRACTICIONERS ANDREW WEIL AND RICK HANSON, WITH WHAT POETRY HAS TO DO WITH IT ALL, INCLUDING WHAT TO MAKE … Continue reading →

To the coooool notes of the Beatles, “Hey Jude” (“better better better better”), Frank Sinatra’s “I Wish You Love” (“and in July, a lemonade, to cool you in the summer shade”), Simon and Garfunkle, “Bridge Over Troubled Waters” (“like a … Continue reading →

WELL I DECLARE:  LAYING IT ON THE LINE, POST JULY 4 REFLECTIONS ON GAME-CHANGING DECLARATIONS, PURSUITS AS FAR AS POETRY GOES, IN LOVE, LIFE, INDEPENDENCE, RIGHTS, AND OTHER KINDS OF HAPPINESS Featuring Edna St. Vincent Millay, Duane Esposito, Oscar Wilde, Thomas … Continue reading →

Music: Annie Get Your Gun, I’ve got the sun in the morning and the moon at night Beatles, Hard Day’s Night Machine Gun Kelly, Invincible Man of La Mancha, The Impossible Dream (lyrics, Joe Darion) Dedicated to Nelson Mandela *SPLENDOR … Continue reading →

“SURELY JOY IS THE CONDITION OF LIFE”—Henry David Thoreau Welcome to our Poetry Slow Down, KRXA 540AM, think for yourself radio with Producer and icon Hal Ginsberg, whose vision of poetry on this show was excited by a poem about … Continue reading →

GALL AND NERVE, GUTS AND GLORY –THE POETRY OF INDIGESTION, PAIN, AND GLORIOUS PHYSICAL DESIRE TO RUN AND TO WIN (AND EVEN LOSE) IN LANES AND LINES, POETIC FEET . . . HOMAGE TO STEVE PREFONTAINE AND THE PREFONTAINE CLASSIC. … Continue reading →

For Scientist Jim Sedell CALLED, CREEKSIDE ANY TIME MORNING, ANY PLACE WALDEN, ANY MOMENT ALIVE, AWAKE: GOING TO THE WOODS TO LIVE DELIBERATELY . . . . WITH MOM’S PIE BERRY PIE AND PBR–THE HORSE LEAVES THE BARN, THE TRILLIUM … Continue reading →

OF COURSE WE’RE HEARING POETRY ABOUT MOTHERS! I WON’T LIE TO YOU, THERE IS NOT A WHOLE LOT IN OUR HUMAN HISTORY OF POETRY ABOUT MOTHERS. YOU WOULD THINK, AS A TERRAN ARCHEOLOGIST FROM THE SIRENS OF TITAN THAT IN FACT WE … Continue reading →

A JUICY SHOW: POETS DEFINE AND PRACTICE THE JUICE, PROVIDING ANSWERS FOR WHEN WE EACH ARE POSED THIS QUESTION IN THE HEADLINE NEWS—ASKED OF OUR PRESIDENT, NO LESS, DO YOU HAVE THE JUICE? Just what is meant by this metaphor? We’re going … Continue reading →

Finding Eden (snake, weeds, and all) in Our Own Back Yards: The Poetry of Community Garden: Earth Day, John Muir’s Birth Day, lots of robust Muir poetry with notes of Milton, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, William Cullen Bryant, Gilgamesh, and our contemporary … Continue reading →