We found ourselves between the Olympians and the muses this week, inspired by a dinner with US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, seeing through the eyes of a tortoise with help from Verlyn Klinkenborg, and running off to join the US Curling Federation, as soon as we find our local branch. On this week’s show we [...]
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE The poet, novelist and biographer, Robert Morgan, who was raised in North Carolina, has written many intriguing poems that teach his readers about southern folklore. Here’s just one example. Holy Cussing When the most intense revivals swept the mountains just a century ago, participants described the shouts and barks [...]
(As read and prepared by Alex Tuller for the February 23, 2006 podcast) A friend gave us many fresh eggs the other day. This pleased me because there is not a whole lot that is fresh this time of year. I also was really pleased with the local yogurt I had this morning, so I [...]
On this week’s show we have Leslie Land on white gardens and A Joy of Gardening by Vita Sackville-West (published in 1958 by Harper & Row), Carola Kittridge on the history of Hudson Valley resident John Watts and respecting the king versus paying those taxes, Cari Swanson touts Dutchess County’s rapidly approaching horse season, Alex [...]
She walks in beauty She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that ‘s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow’d to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half [...]
On this week’s show Leslie Land on early snow drops and where to find the, Alex Tuller kicks the winter blahs with a bacon, onion and cheese tart, we have a surprise guest poem, as well as a reading from Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House,” a clip of the week from the Rhinebeck Chamber Music [...]
Nora: It was tonight, when the wonderful thing did not happen; then I saw you were not the man I had thought you were;. I have waited so patiently for eight years; for, goodness knows, I knew very well that wonderful things don’t happen every day. Then this horrible misfortune came upon me; and then [...]
Lean as a drawl, weaving words that mean, questioning the music that life brings to compose his own quest. As left on voicemail by his godfather January 31, 2006 (Played on the February 9, 2006 podcast.)
(As prepared and read by Alex Tuller for the February 9, 2006 podcast) It seems to me that in the middle of winter the only cows and chickens are really putting out anything fresh. Even the goats get the time off. This recipe works well with all sorts of yummy things added or subtracted depending [...]
On this week’s show Leslie Land fine tunes her bran muffin approach and spends some quality indoor time with some quality garden catelogs, Alex Tuller tackles her favorite thing in the world: birthday cake, Dean Temple reads excerpts from a too droll collection of witticisms called The Snob Spotter’s Guide, edited and illustrated by Philippe [...]