On this week’s show, Leslie Land blooms with the annuals just like a good garden writer should, Cari Swanson bucks with the broncs at the Goshen Rodeo, Alex Tuller thrives on comfort food with some garlic chive mashed potatoes, Dean Temple reads Leslie Monsour’s “Education of a Poet,” and we have “The List” from Ilana [...]
(As prepared by Alex Tuller for the May 25, 2006 podcast)
Our ingredient this week is garlic chives. You can use normal chives too for this, but I just installed a nice bunch of garlic chives in my garden, thanks to Leslie, and I thought I ought to use them.
You can use just about any potato [...]
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE
Everywhere I travel I meet people who want to write poetry but worry that what they write won’t be “any good.” No one can judge the worth of a poem before it’s been written, and setting high standards for yourself can keep you from writing. And if you don’t write [...]
We have a short show this week because everyone (except me) got the week off. We do have our weekly reading from Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry, and we have a very special visit from Charlotte Dinwiddie of the Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society. They will be having their benefit this weekend, with a performance [...]
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE
Most of us have taken at least a moment or two to reflect upon what we have learned from our mothers. Through a catalog of meaningful actions that range from spiritual to domestic, Pennsylvanian Julia Kasdorf evokes the imprint of her mother’s life on her own. As the poem closes, [...]
On this week’s show Leslie Land eats the asparagus from her garden and tells you how to grow your own, Cari Swanson doesn’t seem to remember her recommendation for the Derby but she has local bullriding and rodeos to tell you all about, Alex Tuller makes venison cutlets with grilled asparagus (because we like to [...]
(As read and prepared by Alex Tuller and Dean Temple for the May 11, 2006 podcast)
Fire up your arms and shoot some deer! Then go out and pick your asparagus and fire up the grill.
For the asparagus, get a couple of pounds and trim off the bottom. I just snap the ends off. Smash a [...]
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE
Contrary to the glamorized accounts we often read about the lives of single women, Amy Fleury, a native of Kansas, presents us with a realistic, affirmative picture. Her poem playfully presents her life as serendipitous, yet she doesn’t shy away from acknowledging loneliness.
At Twenty-Eight
It seems I get by on more [...]
Welcome to our first anniversary show at the Virtual Hudson Valley podcast! On this week’s show Leslie Land has part 2 of her two part series on strawberries – and we should be eating some some time soon, Cari Swanson revisits Kentucky, taking a look at last week’s Rolex event and this week’s Derby (mmm [...]
(As read and prepared by Alex Tuller for the May 4, 2006 podcast)
There are mushrooms out there, go get the fresh ones that are local. If you know what you are doing, then go find them and pick them.
This is a bright delicious bowl of food that I accompany with a salad, crunchy bread and [...]