Every year since 2017, I have loved the The Universe in Verse. This year there is a new iteration: “For four seasons, it remained a live gathering — thousands of embodied universes of thought and feeling, huddled together in a finite space built in a faraway time when Whitman’s living atoms walked the streets outside.
Category: Winter Reading 2022
A neighbor friend passed this along to me as a printout from the Brown University library dated 1971. This is a fun read for us who love language, the understanding of science and communication generally. A couple of quotes that stuck with me include: “When two years and three months old, he became a great
Celebrating two, as Gertrude would say, geniuses, who share a birthday today! And if you want to read a bit about this book, which I have not gotten my hands on, there’s an NPR review titled “Gertrude Stein’s Silly — and Stilted — ‘To Do’” But, hey, how many times has Stein been accused of
Here’s a link to our last show reading The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck. That was fun 🙂 https://kdrt.org/audio/part-7-moon-down-john-steinbeck-finale
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Well, I have only made it to 6 books in the challenge but I have learned so much over the last several weeks. My final book for the challenge is Touching Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh. I have been reading his work for quite a long time and was profoundly…
We are nearly there! I give myself a C+ on the overall effort– with the early hours and low light producing, the mistakes abound. But hey, here’s to finishing what we start. https://kdrt.org/audio/part-6-moon-down-john-steinbeck
Well, gotta love the idea of poems in the Amtrak Station but zowie, January 2022 is dedicated to Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons! Read about it here: https://www.flowchartfoundation.org/amtrak-poetry I have adored “A Long Dress.” for many a ModPo year. I’ve read OBJECTS, FOOD, and some of ROOMS in my own copy of Tender Buttons (The Centennial
I received an email from a local art gallery about an exhibit of Rydingsvard’s work, and I was attracted enough by the images of a few of her pieces on display to follow a link to a video about her. I thought it was going to be 57 minutes long, but it’s just a very
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