Sorry no show on March 29

This week I will be away.
I enjoyed the last few weeks of reading various lyrics to hymns, pop music of the last hundred years and then last week with the lyrics of Stephen Sondheim. The lyrics without the music, they have a life of their own, sometimes one can only understand them with a tune behind them, or the tune rings through the words, other times they live well all on their own.
The monuments of words, the way we express our soul, it is so often with the sound fashioned into words. And when they combine with music it filters deep into the depths of our memory, body and spirit.

snow on this thursday

I was off this week because of the snow on Thursday. Maybe it was too bad to go out, maybe the thought of having an excuse caused me to stay in bed. It was nice. It could be debated. It was nasty out, how bad at 6 a.m. was a bit of a debate, and I chose the more horizontal choice. Sorry, kindof.

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.

Feb 2

Feb 2 is looking to be a James Joyce day. It is his birthday and so I am looking at his poetry and short stories. I had thought of adding Langston Hughes into the readings, but his birthday is Feb. 1 and I thought a whole day next year would be better.

I had thought that perhaps a reading of Molly Bloom's soliloquy but thought that the radio station might not appreciate it and that it might be a bit weird to have a man read it anyway. Just some idle thoughts and fun.

It is interesting to learn more about him and his writing. Having read him in college but not since, I find that he is one of the authors of my past that is a shadow in my life. It is good to look at his effect on me and my assumptions of him.

Jan 26 to be readings on Lewis Carroll

What an interesting person Lewis Carroll was.
From Wikipedia: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( /ˈtʃɑrlz ˈlʌtwɪdʒ ˈdɒdʒsən/ charlz ludt-wij doj-sən;[1][2] 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll (/ˈkærəl/ karr-əl), was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy, and there are societies dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life in many parts of the world, including the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States, and New Zealand.

He was a deacon in the Anglican Church, was an inventor, mathmatician and very creative chap. I am going over various writings of his to determine what I might read of his. Any suggestions?