november 26 2013 William Blake

William Blake's birthday is on Thanksgiving, and since I am not having a show that day I will be moving him to the Tuesday show. I know of Blake's etchings and artwork, but very little of his poetry. When I went on Poemhunter.com I found that he was number 13 in the top 500 poets. I was very surprised and want to get to know him better. Tune in for the show when I will be reading his poetry.

William Blake

November 21, 2013 C S Lewis

On November 22, 1963, C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley both died.  Also that day, President Kennedy was assassinated. The events of the deaths of the two authors was greatly overshadowed and generally missed by the news.
On Thursday, November 21, 2013, I will be reading the poems of C.S. Lewis on my show. Most people know of his Chronicles of Narnia, his Mere Christianity, his Screwtape Letters, and Surprised by Joy. But his poetry is not so well known. So to commemorate the little remembered anniversary of his death, I will be reading the little known poetic works of one of the great voices of the 20th centuries.
All are welcome.

C.S. Lewis

November 19 2013

Gettysburg Address

Poet Allen Tate

Today we celebrate three very different voices in American Literature: Allen Tate, Abraham Lincoln and Sharon Olds.
Today is Sharon Olds birthday as well as Allen Tate. It is also the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address.

Poet Sharon Olds

November 14 Robert Louis Stevenson

November 13 is the birthday of R.L. Stevenson, the great Scottish Writer.  It will be a time to read his poems and perhaps a bit of his other writings.

Nov 12 Dostoyevsky

Tuesday, November 12 - We will be celebrating Dostoyevsky's birthday, which is either Oct 30, or November 11 1821.  I will be reading The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, as it is about a dream a man had on or about November 3rd.

What fun.

Dostoyevkyy

November 7th Albert Camus' 100th birthday

It is Albert Camus' 100th birthday. I knew only a little bit about him, having read the Stranger in high school or college.  What a life!  I read his address given upon the occasion of him receiving the Nobel Prize for literature along with several other essays.

Albert Camus

October 31 John Keats

This post is out of order, sorry.
October 31st is the birthday of John Keats.  What a joy to read his work.  It is amazing to think of all he did in his very short life.  I read the poem Isabella or the pot of basil along with a number of other works. 

John Keats

Tuesday Nov 5

On this day the show officially begins a two day a week format. We begin with the writings of Art Critic and teacher and writer John Berger. 
The second half of the show will be a reprive of Denise Levertov.  I was so moved by her poems that I ordered some more of them and would like to get to know her better, so we will have an encore of her poems.

John Berger in 2009