May 23

photo from nobelprize.org

Thursday, May 23rd is looking to be a day for Joseph Brodsky poetry.

thursday may 16

It is Studs Terkel and Adrienne Rich's birthdays so I will be reading from some of their work.
Also, I have raised the question of offering this show monday through friday from 7 to 8 am.
Having it offered more days would mean I would need more help, but that might be a good thing.

photo from the guardian uk

photo from porter square books

Emily Dickinson is on for May 9th!

I always look forward to the opportunity to read Emily Dickinson.  Thursday, May 9th is the day, this year.
Granted her birthday is December 10, 1830 but she died on May 15th, 1886 so I am moving it to the 9th in order to remember her as we come up on the 127th anniversary of her death.  As you can see, it doesn't take much for me to celebrate and read Emily Dickinson.

Thursday May 2

I generally know May Sarton from her journals, yet she considered herself first a poet. So this day was dedicated to her poetry. On her tombstone, it simply lists her as a poet.
Nice.
What a wonderful voice in the world of words.

April 18, 2013 Leonard Cohen

My wife came home with a wonderful book with the poem by Leonard Cohen, Dance me to the end of love as the text and pictures by Matisse. It was wonderful. I began wondering more about the writings of Leonard Cohen. His song Suzanne was a favorite of mine when I was a young teenager, and his Hallelujah has become a wonderful hit. But apart from his music, I know very little of his other writings.
I have known a little about him, that he was from Canada, but not much more. So, it became evident who I was going to read this Thursday. I was holding out for a local poet, but was instead blessed at the last minute by this wonderful writer.

April 4 2013

Today is Maya Angelou's birthday.  The whole show will be dedicated to her  poetry. This is an example of why I started this show. When listening to the Writer's Almanac, I would hear of someone's birthday but never hear any of their work. This thought is what led to this radio show. It is an attempt to celebrate the words of those people we remember on their birthday, or some anniversary and as a way to discover their work, that I so often have only heard about but never read much.

march 28

Thursday, March 28 was a wonderful time to discover Maxim Gorky, the great Russian writer. I read from his diary various stories of his.