Words of the Morning: November 14 Robert Louis Stevenson

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

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.

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2014 Schedule

2014 Schedule for Words of the Morning

Jan 2 – no show

Jan 7 - iced out

Jan 9 Chares George Roberts and Simone de Beauvoir

Jan14 John Donne and others

Jan 16 local poet, George Chappell

Jan 21 Martin Luther King Jr. and Edgar Allan Poe

Jan 23 Hafiz, Mira and Teresa of Avila

Jan 28 Robert Frost

Jan 30 -local Author Janet Shea

Feb 4 Langston Hughes

Feb 6 snow again, out shoveling

Feb 11 Potpourri of poetry - judian james, maxine kumin, seamus heaney, elizabeth garber

Feb 13 more shoveling out of slush, what a winter - no show.

Feb 18 Toni Morrison

Feb 20 Anais Nin

Feb 25 Victor Hugo

Feb 27 H.W. Longfellow

Mar 4 William Carlos WIlliams

Mar 6 Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Mar 11 no show

Mar 13 snow and ice no show

Mar 18 Janet Flanner

Mar 20

Mar 25 Flannery O’Connor

Mar 27 Nelson Algren (28)

Apr 1 TS Eliot - Burnt Norton and East Coker

Apr 3 Poetry by students of Oceanside High School

Apr 8 C. Fox Smith

Apr 10

Apr 15 - The Psalms of David

Apr 17 - Poetry of Blessings and also poetry of WH Auden

Apr 22 - William Shakespeare's sonnet to celebrate his 450 birthday

Apr 24 Robert Penn Warren

Apr 29 - Poetry from Oceanside High School Students

May 1 May Sarton

May 6 no show due to illness

May 8no show due to being out of town

May 13 Ellen Goldsmith

May 15 Emily Dickenson died

May 20 no show

May 22 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

May 27 Walt Whitman

May 29

Jun 3 Larry McMurray

Jun 5

Jun 10

Jun 12 Ann Frank

Jun 17 Henry Lawson

Jun 19

Jun 24 Ambrose Bierce

Jun 26 The Feast of Sts Peter and Paul, - the Pied Piper Day

Jul 1 Herman Hesse

Jul 3 Franz Kafka, Robinson Misty

Jul 8 Shirley Ann Grau

Jul 10 Alice Munro Marcel Proust

Jul 15 Iris Murdoch

Jul 17 Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Jul 22 Paul Lewis Quarrrington

Jul 24 Alexander Dumas Henrik Pontoppidan

Jul 29 Eyuind Johnson

Jul 31 J.K. Rowling

Aug 5 Out sailing

Aug 7 out

Aug 12

Aug 14

Aug 19 Ogden Nash F.G. Lorca

Aug 21

Aug 26

Aug 28 Robertson Davies Goethe Tolstoy?

Sep 2

Sep 4 Richard Wright

Sep 9 Tolstoy

Sep 11 D.H. Lawrence O’Henry

Sep 16 Alfred Noyes

Sep 18 Stevie Smith with Erika Pfander guest

Sep 23 Eripides Bruce Springsteen

Sep 25 William Faulkner

Sep 30 Elie Wiesel Laura Esquivel Tia Obreht

Oct 2 Graham Green Wallace Stevens

Oct 7

Oct 9 e.e. cummings

Oct 14 John Lennon lyrics and John Prine lyrics

Oct 16 Eugene Gladstone O’Neill

Oct 21 Samuel Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Oct 23 Denise Levertov

Oct 28 John Hollander

Oct 30 Ezra Pound, Keats and Dostoevski

Nov 4 no power

Nov 6

Nov 11 out of town

Nov 13 out of town

Nov 18 out of town

Nov 20 Nadine Gordimer, Don DeLillo, Selma Lagerlof

Nov 25

Nov 27 Thanksgiving James Agee

Dec 2 Te Boyle, Ayn Patchett

Dec 4

Dec 9 John Milton Laura Goodman Salverson

Dec 11 Solzhenitsyn, Emily Dickenson (10)

Dec 16 Jane Austen

Dec 18 A Child’s Christmas in Wales

Dec 23

Dec 25 Christmas

Dec 30 Rudyard Kipling

2013 Schedule

2013 Schedule of Shows

January 10 - Robinson Jeffers

January 17 - Anton Chekhov

January 24 - Night Swim, by Jessica Keener

January 31 -John O'Hara

February 7 - Jules Verne

February 14 - I suppose I should do something to do with love

February 21 W.H. Auden

February 28 bad weather no show,

March 7 - Kenneth Grahame

March 14 Karl Marx, Albert Einstein, & Grapes of Wrath

March 21 Anniversary of the march from Selma to Montgomery, Martin Luther King, Jr. sermon and writings

March 28 Maxim Gorki

April 4 Maya Angelou
April 11 potpourri, an assortment of classic poetry
April 18 Leonard Cohen
April 25 local poems from the GRLT poetry project
May 2 May Sarton
May 9 Emily Dickenson
May 16 Studs Terkel and Adrienne Rich
May 23 - Joseph Brodsky
May 30 Walt Whitman
June 6 - Garcia Lorca, Aleksandr Pushkin, Maxine Kumin
June 13 - W.B. Yeats
June 20 - Anna Akhmatova
June 27 - the little prince
July 4 - Nathaniel Hawthorne
July 11 - E.B. White Charlotte's Web
July 18 -
July 25 - G.B. Shaw
Aug - 1 Melville poetry
Aug - 8 - out sailing
Aug 15 -
Aug 22 - Dorothy Parker
Aug 29 - Jean Giono
Sept 5 - Seamus Heaney
Sept 12 - Richard Wright haiku
Sept 19 - Stevie Smith with Erika Pfander
Sept 26 - T S Eliot of course

Oct. 1

Oct 2 Wallace Stevens

Oct 3 Emily Post

Oct 17 Oscar Wilde

Oct 24 Denise Levertov

Oct 31 John Keats

Nov 5 - John Berger and Denise Levertov cont.

Nov7 Albert Camus 100th birthday

Nov 12 Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man"

Nov 14R.L. Stevenson and William Stieg

Nov 19 Sharon Olds, Alan Tate, Gettysburg Address

Nov 21 the poetry of C.S. Lewis

Nov 26 William Blake

Nov 28 no show, Thanksgiving

Dec 3 Isabel Reddy

Dec 5 Truman Capote's Christmas Memory

Dec 10 had to shovel snow and ice, no show

Dec 12 trip to boston, no show

Dec 17 Emily Dickenson transferred from Dec. 10

Dec 19 Dylan Thomas' a Child's Christmas in Wales

Dec 24 Matthew Arnold

Dec 26 Henry Miller and David Sedarias

Dec 31 Rudyard Kipling

2012 Schedule

This is always subject to change

Jan. 5 - Carl Sandburg and Khalil Gibran

Jan. 12 - Jack London

Jan. 19 - A.A. Milne

Jan 26 - Lewis Carroll

Feb. 2 - James Joyce

Feb. 9 - Wislawa Szmborska

Feb 16 - Bob McCloughlin

Feb 23 - Edna St. Vincent Millay

March 1 -

March 8 - Lyrics to various hymns

March 15 - various pop lyrics

March 22 -Stephen Sondheim lyrics

March 29 - out of town, no show, sorry

April 5 -Algernon Swindburne

April 12 -Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney

April 19 -E.B White and Frank O'Hara

April 26 - Sara Teasdale from her book LoveSongs

May 3 - May Sarton, with guest reader Erika Pfander

May 10 - Shel Silverstein and Maurice Sendak

May 17 -Joanna Hynd

May 24 - Joseph Brodsky and Theodore Roethke

May 31 - Walt Whitman

June 7 - Oscar Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol

June 14- Yeats

June 21 - Jean P. Sartre

June 28 - Recipes

July 5 - Readings in Ettiquette

July 12 - I will be out sailing, yea!

July 19 - Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology

July 26 - George Bernard Shaw and Aldous Huxley

Aug 2 - James Baldwin

Aug 9 - Sara Teasdale

Aug 16 - Hafiz

Aug 23

Aug 30 -

Sept 6 -

Sept 13 - Roald Dahl

Sept 20 - not able to make the show

Sept 27 TS Eliot the four quartets

Oct 4 - Emily Post and a wide variety of lesser known poets

Oct 11 - Eleanor Roosevelt and Thich Nhat Hanh

Oct 18 - we'll see not sure yet

Oct 25 - Dylan Thomas and Sylvia Plath

Nov 1 -

Nov 8 - John Keats

Nov 15 -Marianne Moore

Nov 22 - away for thanksgiving

Nov 29 - C.S. Lewis

Dec 6 - Rainer Maria Rilke

Dec 13 - Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales

Dec 20 - snow

Dec 27 - snow

2011 Schedule

April 28 First Show Harper Lee and Carolyn Forche

May 5 Robert Browning

May 12 Edward Lear

May 19 Alexander Pope

May 26 Ralph Waldo Emerson

June 2 - Thomas Hardy

June 9 - Maurice Sendak and Ben Johnson

June 16 - W.B.Yeats

June 22 – Anne Murrow Lindberg, Anna Akmatova

June 30 - Czeslaw Milosz

July 7 Chris Fahy reading

July 14 Henry David Thoreau and Pablo Neruda

July 21 trip to Portland no show

July 28 Gerard Manly Hopkins, Beatrix Potter

Aug 4 at sea no show

Aug 11 Hemingway short story

Aug 18 - Ted Hughes and Ogden Nash

Aug 25 - Brett Hart

September 1 - Sarah Orne Jewett

September 8 - Mary Oliver

September 15 - Robert McCloskey, Robert Benchley

September 22 - Stevie Smith (with Erika Pfander reading)

September 29 - TS Eliot

Oct 6 James Whitcomb Riley

Oct 13 Don Tescher

Oct 20 Arthur Rimbaud, Robert Pinsky

Oct 27 Dylan Thomas and Sylvia Plath

Nov 3 Moby Dick

Nov 10 War Poetry

Nov 17 George Chappell

Nov 24 Local Poets

Dec 1 Woody Allen Dec 8 James Thurber,

Dec 15

Dec 22 Jean Shepherd’s Christmas story

Dec 29 Rudyard Kipling

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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

November 14 Robert Louis Stevenson

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