February 23

Thursday, Feb. 23, I will be reading the poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay. What an amazing poet, a local woman makes the big time.
Come and enjoy the hearing of the written word spoken.

I am trying to understand how to pod cast these shows, any advice is more than welcome.

Email me at peter_jenks@yahoo.com

Wislawa Szmborska

It was my aim to read Alice Walker on Feb. 9th, as it was her birthday. But I kept looking and thinking and having so much of so many of her work, that I felt it better to wait for another day.
What I did was to read Wislawa Szmborska, the polish poet who died earlier this month. What a jewel! She won the 1996 Nobel prize for literature, and has an amazing gift with word. I am always surprised with joy to discover those from other places that I was oblivious to because of my limited language.


from her poem Born:

So this is his mother.
This small woman.
The gray-eyed procreator.

The boat in which, years ago,
he sailed to shore.

The boat from which he stepped
into the world,
into un-eternity.
...



I am still looking for what to do next week.
Next Tuesday is the 10 year anniversary of WRFR, so come stop by.

feb 2 2012

Cold day today, groundhog day. In reading James Joyce's "The Encounter" today I ran out of time. Maybe I can copy the ending here later.
Here is a picture of arriving early in the morning at the station and reading this morning.
Also Happy Birthday to John Meyer, one of my few and wonderful listeners.