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- YOUR HANDY EPIGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO POETIC BUTTERFLIES AND A PORTRAIT OF THE POET AS BUTTERFLY: NOTES ON BLESSING THE RETURN OF BUTTERFLIES AT THE MONARCH SANCTUARY, PACIFIC GROVE, AKA BUTTERFLY TOWN (Featuring Emily Dickinson, W.S. Merwin, Wendell Berry, aLive from Butterfly Town, USA. We’re talking about butterflies today, in honor of their incredible desire and ability to migrate thousands of miles—straight here. The haven Monarch butterflies come home to is Pacific Grove, where I’m Poet in … Continue reading →53 min
- LATE SUMMER/ FALL GARDENS, HARVEST MOON: POETRY IN EARLY AUTUMNGreetings, fellow harvesters of earth’s bounty in mental and literal fields, psychic soil which nourishes and sustains us. I am thrilled to return to you, at this time of traditional harvest celebration, following our recent full moon, the time of … Continue reading →53 min
- THE EPIC QUOTIDIAN: NOTES OF 9-11—LOVE CALLINGNotes to our producers: I don’t know if I am going to get through this show without crying. . . thinking about 9-11 and the ways people use words in our times of greatest calamity is so moving to me—how the … Continue reading →53 min
- SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS: WHAT WE GET FROM PAYING ATTENTION, A VIEW FROM POETS ACROSS TIME AND SPACEWhoa! What’s happened to your knees? You are dripping with mud! There’s grass all over you! Well, yeah, I was listening to The Poetry Slow Down, a program discussing amazing poetry of what we see when we get down with … Continue reading →44 min
- STORM SURGE ON THE MIND: Words for Waiting (For/Out) a Storm, When You’re Slowed Way Down, to the music of Good Night Irene, Stormy Weather, Singing in the Rain, and You’ll Never Walk Alone. Can you guess what the poetry news is for this week’s showDr. B, with all due respect, what if we are slowed down . . . way slowed down . . . TOO slowed down . . . stuck in traffic, waiting for a storm, waiting out a storm . . … Continue reading →53 min
- THE BIRDS AND BEES DO IT: THE POETICS OF TWEET, or BULLETINS FROM IMMORTALITYThis is my letter to the world who never wrote to me– That’s Emily Dickinson, posting from her Amherst bedroom, and this is your host of post, Professor Barbara Mossberg, welcoming you to The Poetry Slow Down. We’re featuring bloggers … Continue reading →53 min
- GONE FISHING: CHILLING IN AUGUST HEAT WITH BARBARA MOSSBERG’S THE POETRY SLOW DOWN, KRXA 540AMO something pernicious and dread! Something far away from a puny and pious life—Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself†(The Joys, 196) Walt Whitman–he’s escaped what afflicts you and me, “something escaped from the anchorage, and driving free.†Now, Poetry … Continue reading →53 min
- THE CONJUGATION OF LET: I LET, YOU LET, HE SHE IT LETS, WE LET, YOU LET, THEY LET, WHO LET . . . LET’S . . . LINDA GREGG STARTED THIS! –THINKING OF THE LORD, THE BEATLES, ALEXANDER POPE, MILTON, SHAKESPEARE, T.S. ELIOT, E.E. CUMMINGS, AND SO MANY MORE,I have been thinking a lot about the word “let†in our language. The past two weeks, we heard Linda Gregg’s poem “Let Birds‖Let birds . . . do what? You can see Poetry Slow Down how this has slowed … Continue reading →53 min
- LOCKED OUT: The Poetry Slow Down Revelation, Elation in Blackberry and PalmWe DO move too fast! What’s wrong with that, Professor B? The early bird gets the worm! Well, if we’re going sixty miles an hour and it’s all a blur, or we’re so overscheduled and stressed and harried we can’t … Continue reading →53 min
- HUSK, SHELL, REMAINS: LETTING IN THE LIGHT, VACATING OUR LIVES TO LIVE: THE ABC’s of A Way to Be and See for Infinity, Featuring Mark Doty’s Reading of a Green Crab ShellThanking you, Poetry Slow Down, for joining me on this summer day, for an hour away, a way, as we go on vacation, for more poetry of the tourist kind, the tourist mind, perhaps disoriented, as Billy Collins wants to … Continue reading →53 min
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Poet in Residence, Pacific Grove California