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It’s that time of year when people, maybe you, maybe you right now, go on vacations, which means, vacate, empty, leave home, leave the everyday routine, and be tourists. You are saying, Oh not me, I don’t want to be … Continue reading →

Music: We’ll hear strains from “Old Man River,” 16 Tons (ya load sixteen tons, what’ya get, another day older and deeper in debt), Paul Simon, “Still Crazy” (after all these years), Jacques Brel, The Old Folks   Loveliest of trees, … Continue reading →

I caught the happy virus last night When I was out singing beneath the stars. It is remarkably contagious – So kiss me—HAFIZ And so our Sufi 14th century poet frames our impassioned show today, how nature is interpreted as … Continue reading →

Our show ponders Ezra Pound’s injunction to the poets to “make it new.” We are thinking of the relation between making something new, and making news. The rare good news story about the sighting of the rare Sierra fox whom … Continue reading →

Our music for today’s show sets the scope of our tribute show on the poetry of mothers, about mothers, for mothers, to mothers: you’ll hear “I Turn to You,” the theme song from Harold and Maude (Maude’s maternal advice to be … Continue reading →

“Don’t
   you know it, don’t you know

I love you, he said. He was
   shaking. He said:
I love you. There’s an art
   to everything. What I’ve
   done with this life,

what I’d meant not to do,
 or would have meant, maybe, had I
understood, though I have
 no regrets.” … Continue reading →

Our Poetry Slow Down’s title takes off from Alicia Ostriker’s “April,” with notes of birthday glads Shakespeare and John Muir, speaking for Earth Day, and the theme today of “I’ll Take It, I’ll Make It, Anywhere I Am (Pray It … Continue reading →