Today! KRXA 540AM Noon-1 pm PST, broadcast live and livestreamed, podcast BarbaraMossberg IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE PLAY ON (THE BARD)—AND IF POETRY BE LOVE OF FOOD, AS POETS PLAY ON—DO YOU STOP AT HEAVEN ON EARTH?: I PROMISHED YOU A SHOW TO WARM YOU UP, A MENU FOR MID WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT, JUST WHAT WE’RE HUNGRY FOR, SO SIT. FEAST ON YOUR LIFE (DEREK WALCOTT) Dished Up Delicious Dishes Relish for the Feast of Your Life, Derek Walcott (“Love After Love”) Confession of a Sloppy Eater, Eating Poetry by Mark Strand, Rumi Mary Lamb Breakfast Shakespeare Cakes and Ale Cereal with Billy Collins (“Cheerios” and “Portrait of a Reader with a Bowl of Cereal”) Baudelaire Wine Elizabeth Bishop Fish Gertrude Stein Roast Beef Pablo Neruda Onions and Tomatoes Vegetables with Mary Oliver Virgil Salad Lisa Martin-Demoor Durum Wheat W.S. Merwin Bread Sophia Mossberg Sweet Potatoes William Carlos Williams Plum Pudding (“this is just to say”) Gerald Stern Grapefruit Salad Li-Young Lee Persimmons and Peaches Wallace Stevens Ice Cream What Is Eaten Is In the Mind of the Beholder, Rumi, Emerson, Emily Dickinson On Passing Heaven on Earth for Possible Greater Reward, yours truly (what do you expect from the author of “Poor Barbara! Can’t Eat!”) And other menu choices, from A.A. Milne, Robert Heinlein, as we slow down, “Sit. Feast on your own life.” Thank you for listening, sincerely, your line chef, Professor Barbara Mossberg c Barbara Mossberg 2014 THE POETRY SLOW DOWN KRXA 540AM Dr. Barbara Mossberg Produced by Sara Hughes January 26, 2014 c Barbara Mossberg 2014
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 17:54:45 +0000
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