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- JOHN MUIR’S CHRISTMAS CAROL STRATEGIES TO SAVE THE EARTH: THE POETRY OF BEHOLDING NIGHT AND DAY, HARKING, GLORY, AND JOYA celebration of an earth-struck poetry-loving man, as a geologist “rocks” around the clock. John Muir’s death certificate lists him as a geologist, but it’s not as a geologist that we name hospitals, stars, glaciers, schools, trails, flowers, and forests … Continue reading →1 hr 7 min
- Coming Soon: JOHN MUIR’S CHRISTMAS CAROLS – STRATEGIES TO SAVE THE EARTH!Our celebration John Muir and of the 100th anniversary of the National Parks Service will be heading your way December 19th! Listen early as Dr. B gives us a teaser of the upcoming episode.4 min
- GROWING OLD AND BOLD WITH POETS ON OUR JOURNEY!—You need this show, I know: the “difficult†and “despised poems . . . without which men die miserably every dayâ€â€”William Carlos Williams.I shall grow old but never lose life’s zest, Because the road’s last turn will be the best.—Henry Van Dyke “THE DIFFERENCE MADE ME BOLD:†CELEBRATING EMILY DICKINSON’S LIFE OF SERVICE, IN HONOR OF HER 186 BIRTHDAY, THE MEANING SHARING … Continue reading →55 min
- WHY SCIENTISTS LOVE FRANK ZAPPA AND HOW WE KNOW E.E. CUMMINGS WAS A PHYSICIST AND WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS A PHYSICIAN AND EMILY DICKINSON WAS A SCIENTIST and other news we need to live in happy-ness and hoppy-ness and not “die miserably every dayâ€â€œi who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun’s birthday, and this is the birthday of life, and of love and wings, and the gay great happening illimitably earth†–e.e. cummings WELCOME to our Poetry Slow … Continue reading →59 min
- THE BARDS WERE NOT LIARS (Timothy Severin): THE TRUTH ABOUT EPIC YOU, AND WHY EPIC POETRY IS YOUR LIFE COMPANION WE ARE THANKFUL FOR“The explorer finds little evidence for any of the way Homer describes Troy . . . Yet here, in the mind’s eye, stood an awe-inspiring city with soaring battlements dominating the plans. Homer and the bards were not deliberate liars, … Continue reading →1 hr
- WELCOME TO THE DEUS EX MACHINA SHOW HOW WE RISE:To occasions, when we’re knocked down, low, heavy heart, how we have it in us to do so, how we’re called on to do so, called for, and what poetry has to do with it. A rousing show, to lift, … Continue reading →1 hr
- METAPHOR FOR THE THINGS THAT COUNT AND YES IT IS ROCKET SCIENCE, in memorium, Jack (J.D.) Roberts, d. October 29, 2016 (age 98)Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.—Einstein I’m trying to find something true that can’t be expressed by math.—J.D. Roberts Can haiku save the day? We know sonnets can. It’s all about … Continue reading →1 hr
- HELPFUL BANANA BREADWhen you’re in the dark woods, and the way is lost, and a lion, leopard, and she-wolf are snarling, blocking your way, you (evolved radio show listener) might think of Dante’s Rx, the Roman epic poet Virgil, or Rumi’s peoples … Continue reading →1 hr
- Stay Tuned! Coming Soon, a Click Away, to You! TROUBADOR of “BENEVOLENT MISANTHROPE†EXPLOSIVE NEWSThe Dynamite Genius of Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize Committee, Dynamic Connection Between Nobel and Dylan: What is literature? Who’s asking? All of a sudden, everyone is. And the point is, it is Everyone. The Odyssey was sung. We … Continue reading →59 min
- I SHALL KEEP SINGING (Emily Dickinson) THEY SAID I COULDN’T SING BUT I DID SING (Florence Foster Jenkins, channeled by Meryl Streep)Criticism is said to have killed an enthusiastic diva and John Keats and been dead wrong (and snarky) about . . . well, name your favorite—Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Scott Fitzgerald, J.D. Salinger, Henry Miller, we love … Continue reading →1 hr
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Poet in Residence, Pacific Grove California