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I and you have been thinking of a poetry superbowl, an all star-team, Emily Dickinson, wide receiver (“the spreading wide my narrow hands to gather paradise”), QB, is it Emerson, calling the plays for The Poet? Yes, Walt, you’re the … Continue reading →

POETRY SLOW DOWN news WAITING ROOM RX –What To Feed The Elephant in the Room “miraculous beings come running to help” (Rumi) Your A  Team  When  It  Matters  Most A recent MOHS surgery to remove cancer from one’s nose (n.b.: … Continue reading →

THE POETRY SLOW DOWN WITH PROFESSOR BARBARA MOSSBERG CULTURAL HISTORY—AND MYSTERY PRE-GAMING ROBERT BURNS DINNER, THE DYI GUIDE TO EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW AND DO FOR HAGGIS (GAG), AND WHAT IT HAS TO DO WITH THE MLK HOLIDAYAND MORE … Continue reading →

  THE POETRY SLOW DOWN as a New Year rolls in on sound waves of poetry: I COULD DRINK A CASE OF YOU (AND STILL BE ON MY FEET): you, Life, are that light, that kind of light we celebrate … Continue reading →

GOOD LOOKING: PRESENTS, PRESENCE, GIFTS, RE-GIFTS: HERE FOR THE PRESENT, POETRY FOR THE HERE (HEAR HEAR!) AND NOW, A Winter Solstice show during the Ursid meteor shower, in which we consider the immortal Ramona the Pest—Beverly Cleary’s four-year-old, Thornton Wilder’s … Continue reading →

MUSIC: Tiptoe Through The Tulips, ANY VERSION You heard right! Yes ma’am! It’s time to celebrate Emily Dickinson’s birthday, and so we are, with her poems on flowers, and her mind on flowers, quite possibly a flower, and not a shrinking … Continue reading →

THE POETRY SLOW DOWN Dr. Barbara Mossberg Radiomonterey.com Produced by Sara Hughes December 7, 2014 © Barbara Mossberg 2014“ink is dripping from the corners of my lips/there is no happiness like mine/I have been eating poetry”—Mark Strand, 1934-2014 Everything is so … Continue reading →

THE POETRY SLOW DOWN Radiomonterey.com podcast BarbaraMossberg.com Founder and Host, Dr. Barbara Mossberg Producer, Sara Hughes November 23, 2014 © Barbara Mossberg 2014 LET’S GIVE THANKS FOR THE POEM I’M WRITING (AND THESE WORDS I EAT) My life has been the … Continue reading →

IT’S PREGAME TIME FOR BARBARA MOSSBERG’S POETRY SLOW DOWN, Livestreamed radiomonterey.com Sunday Noon-1 pm PST, Podcast BarbaraMossberg.com OFFENSE AND DEFENSE AND WINNING THE DAY: POETRY IN A TIME OF FOOTBALL—Who’s in? But Dr. B! Surely you’re kidding! We’re sitting here—we … Continue reading →

DARKNESS SICKNESS—Scandinavian malady (or melody?); Headline today in email subject line: NASA quells rumor, days of darkness in December; Are you curious about dark matter? Elaine Buldoc writes: “And thou shall learn to love even the darkness for without it … Continue reading →

THE POETRY SLOW DOWN RADIOMONTEREY.COM Dr. Barbara Mossberg Produced by Sara Hughes November 2, 2014 © Barbara Mossberg 2014 AS THE EARTH TURNS, A GAME CHANGER OR, THE EPIC LENS: A LOOK AT OUR EARLIEST POETRY THROUGH THE LENS OF STUDENTS … Continue reading →

THE POETRY SLOW DOWN RadioMonterey.com Podcast BarbaraMossberg.com Dr. Barbara Mossberg Produced by Sara Hughes October 26, 2014 © Barbara Mossberg 2014 NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THESE POEMS: RECIPES FOR HOW TO COOK A WOLF (don’t worry, it’s … Continue reading →

Verve: creative enthusiasm, vitality, syn.: energy, dynamism, vigor, vim, dash, spirit, life, animation, get up and go, brio, panache; ant.: lethargy. WHAT’S AT STAKE? ONLY THE FATE OF THE EARTH Jonathan Schell in The Fate of the Earth identified apathy … Continue reading →

Poetry slow down, screech! Break, for heart-breaking heart-making heart-shaking news without which “men die miserably every day.” Hello, RadioMonterey.com, this is your host Professor Barbara Mossberg, with producer Sara Hughes, and we’re taking to heart, our heart’s aroused, by William … Continue reading →

From Frank Zappa to Bob Dylan, Walt Whitman to Percy Bysshe Shelley, Emily Dickinson to George Eliot, Rabbi Burns to Shakespeare, Thoreau to Robert Kennedy, we hear thoughts on what goes into the phenomenon of thinking of “my” country, and … Continue reading →

I, OGRE: WILD THING! UMTRAMMELED SPIRITS—AND UNBOUND, AS WE HEAR IT FOR THE INNER AND OUTER OGRES AND CELEBRATE THE POET’S STAND UP ROLE IN PERSONAL AND CIVIC RESILIENCE, By which I mean, Poetry Slow Down, O evolved listeners of … Continue reading →

Noting the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, pondering The Washington Post experiment with violinist Joshua Bell, mourning Robin Williams and Joan Rivers, reflecting on community theater productions of Shrek the Musical and Into the Woods, fairy tales, and Sir … Continue reading →

  What do Jesus Christ, Hugh Laurie, and George Bush have in common? Right, they all write about camels. The poetry of camels—you asked for it! Never has the Poetry Slow Down, Radiomonterey.com, podcast BarbaraMossberg.com, produced by Sara Hughes, had … Continue reading →

I READ THE NEWS TODAY OH BOY—AND WHAT EMILY DICKINSON HAS TO DO WITH IT: A SHOW INSPIRED BY A BIRTHDAY WITH THE EMILY DICKINSON INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY, THE DAY’S HEADLINES OF GLOBAL DAILY ANGUISH, AND POETRY’S NEWS “WITHOUT WHICH MEN … Continue reading →