Podcasts about Edgar Lee Masters

Rev. Marta Morris Flanagan, Lead Minister, preaching Worship service given May 18, 2025 Prayer by Rev. Erica Federspiel Richmond, Parish Minister, preaching Reading: "Mrs. George Reece" by Edgar Lee Masters from Spoon River Anthology https://firstparish.info/ First Parish A liberal religious community, welcoming to all First gathered 1739 This Sunday Marta Flanagan offers her last sermon as Lead Minister at First Parish. Marta has served First Parish since 2009.  On June 8 she is retiring from full-time parish ministry after 39 years of serving Unitarian Universalist congregations.  On Saturday, May 31 First Parish is honoring her in a celebration.  All are invited.   Offering and Giving First The Giving First program donates 50% of the non-pledge offering each month to a charitable organization that we feel is consistent with Unitarian Universalist principles. The program began in November 2009, and First Parish has donated over $200,000 to more than 70 organizations. For May 2025, Massachusetts Bail Fund will share half of the plate. Massachusetts Bail Fund (MBF) pays bail to secure freedom from pre-trial incarceration so that those who cannot afford their bail can be in their community to fight their case. Pre-trial freedom allows individuals, families, and communities to stay productive, together, and stable. Massachusetts jails are filled with people awaiting trial simply because they cannot afford bail. Sitting in jail on bail leads to longer incarceration times, lost jobs, lost housing, and devastating disruption to families. The remaining half of your offering supports the life and work of this Parish. To donate using your smartphone, you may text “fpuu” to 73256. Then follow the directions in the texts you receive. About our Lead Minister: Rev. Marta Flanagan began her ministry as our twentieth called minister at First Parish in the fall of 2009. She is a genuine and forthright preacher. In conversation she is direct and engaging. She speaks of prayer with as much ease as she laughs at human foibles. We call her “Marta.” Marta is a religious liberal, a theist, a feminist, and a lover of the woods. As a student of American history at Smith College she was captivated by the stories of social reformers who were motivated and sustained by their faith. That led her to consider the ministry and to study at Harvard Divinity School from where she was graduated in 1986. She was the first woman minister in the city of Salem, Massachusetts, serving at the First Universalist Church there (1987-1997). She served in a co-ministry at South Church (Unitarian Universalist) in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, (1997-2005) from where she is minister emerita. Marta served as interim minister in Montpelier, Vermont (2008-2009). She is trained as a spiritual director. For three years she lived in the Vermont woods practicing voluntary simplicity and the spiritual life. Marta enjoys the vitality of First Parish and our strong sense of community. She celebrates the yearning for depth and the desire to make a difference in the world that she finds here.

Pensamos en cómo dialogar con los clásicos con la ayuda de Juan Herrero Diéguez, ganador del Premio Adonáis 2024 por Cartografía de nadie (Ed. Rialp), poemario en el que el autor vallisoletano toma La Odisea como punto de partida para hablarnos de nuestro tiempo.Luego, Ignacio Elguero nos propone otros títulos: El plan maestro (Ed. Planeta), que es la nueva novela de misterio de Javier Sierra, el cofrecito de la editorial Anagrama con las tragedias shakespereanas Antonio y Cleopatra y El mercader de Venecia, y Arderá el viento, obra de Guillermo Saccomanno ganadora del Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2025.Además, Javier Lostalé dedica su ventanita poética al volumen que reúne Luz de madera y Quebrada luz, dos poemarios publicados en la década de los noventa que en su momento se vieron eclipsados por la obra novelística de su autor, Manuel Rico, y que ahora recupera la editorial Olifante.En Peligro en La estación nuestro colaborador Sergio C. Fanjul nos recomienda Hijas del hormigón (Ed. Debate), ensayo de Aida Dos Santos que analiza -basándose en doscientos testimonios- las diferentes formas de clasismo, sexismo y violencia que sufren las mujeres de clase trabajadora en la periferia española.Terminamos el programa junto a Mariano Peyrou, que esta vez pone sobre la mesa la Antología de Spoon River, el famosísimo poemario del estadounidense Edgar Lee Masters. Todo un clásico del siglo XX que ahora podemos leer en una flamante edición de Galaxia Gutenberg con traducción, introducción y notas de Eduardo Moga.Escuchar audio

Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city's downtown. But how much do they know about the single most important structure in the history of the Windy City? In engagingly brisk prose, Patrick T. Reardon unfolds the fascinating story about how Chicago's elevated Loop was built, gave its name to the downtown, helped unify the city, saved the city's economy, and was itself saved from destruction in the 1970s. Patrick T. Reardon's book The Loop: The 'L' Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago (Southern Illinois UP, 2020) combines urban history, biography, engineering, architecture, transportation, culture, and politics to explore the elevated Loop's impact on the city's development and economy and on the way Chicagoans see themselves. The Loop rooted Chicago's downtown in a way unknown in other cities, and it protected that area—and the city itself—from the full effects of suburbanization during the second half of the twentieth century. Masses of data underlie new insights into what has made Chicago's downtown, and the city as a whole, tick. The Loop features a cast of colorful Chicagoans, such as legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow, poet Edgar Lee Masters, mayor Richard J. Daley, and the notorious Gray Wolves of the Chicago City Council. Charles T. Yerkes, an often-demonized figure, is shown as a visionary urban planner, and engineer John Alexander Low Waddell, a world-renowned bridge creator, is introduced to Chicagoans as the designer of their urban railway. This fascinating exploration of how one human-built structure reshaped the social and economic landscape of Chicago is the definitive book on Chicago's elevated Loop. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is an Assistant Professor at Alfred State College and the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email tobtoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city's downtown. But how much do they know about the single most important structure in the history of the Windy City? In engagingly brisk prose, Patrick T. Reardon unfolds the fascinating story about how Chicago's elevated Loop was built, gave its name to the downtown, helped unify the city, saved the city's economy, and was itself saved from destruction in the 1970s. Patrick T. Reardon's book The Loop: The 'L' Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago (Southern Illinois UP, 2020) combines urban history, biography, engineering, architecture, transportation, culture, and politics to explore the elevated Loop's impact on the city's development and economy and on the way Chicagoans see themselves. The Loop rooted Chicago's downtown in a way unknown in other cities, and it protected that area—and the city itself—from the full effects of suburbanization during the second half of the twentieth century. Masses of data underlie new insights into what has made Chicago's downtown, and the city as a whole, tick. The Loop features a cast of colorful Chicagoans, such as legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow, poet Edgar Lee Masters, mayor Richard J. Daley, and the notorious Gray Wolves of the Chicago City Council. Charles T. Yerkes, an often-demonized figure, is shown as a visionary urban planner, and engineer John Alexander Low Waddell, a world-renowned bridge creator, is introduced to Chicagoans as the designer of their urban railway. This fascinating exploration of how one human-built structure reshaped the social and economic landscape of Chicago is the definitive book on Chicago's elevated Loop. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is an Assistant Professor at Alfred State College and the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email tobtoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city's downtown. But how much do they know about the single most important structure in the history of the Windy City? In engagingly brisk prose, Patrick T. Reardon unfolds the fascinating story about how Chicago's elevated Loop was built, gave its name to the downtown, helped unify the city, saved the city's economy, and was itself saved from destruction in the 1970s. Patrick T. Reardon's book The Loop: The 'L' Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago (Southern Illinois UP, 2020) combines urban history, biography, engineering, architecture, transportation, culture, and politics to explore the elevated Loop's impact on the city's development and economy and on the way Chicagoans see themselves. The Loop rooted Chicago's downtown in a way unknown in other cities, and it protected that area—and the city itself—from the full effects of suburbanization during the second half of the twentieth century. Masses of data underlie new insights into what has made Chicago's downtown, and the city as a whole, tick. The Loop features a cast of colorful Chicagoans, such as legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow, poet Edgar Lee Masters, mayor Richard J. Daley, and the notorious Gray Wolves of the Chicago City Council. Charles T. Yerkes, an often-demonized figure, is shown as a visionary urban planner, and engineer John Alexander Low Waddell, a world-renowned bridge creator, is introduced to Chicagoans as the designer of their urban railway. This fascinating exploration of how one human-built structure reshaped the social and economic landscape of Chicago is the definitive book on Chicago's elevated Loop. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is an Assistant Professor at Alfred State College and the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email tobtoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city's downtown. But how much do they know about the single most important structure in the history of the Windy City? In engagingly brisk prose, Patrick T. Reardon unfolds the fascinating story about how Chicago's elevated Loop was built, gave its name to the downtown, helped unify the city, saved the city's economy, and was itself saved from destruction in the 1970s. Patrick T. Reardon's book The Loop: The 'L' Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago (Southern Illinois UP, 2020) combines urban history, biography, engineering, architecture, transportation, culture, and politics to explore the elevated Loop's impact on the city's development and economy and on the way Chicagoans see themselves. The Loop rooted Chicago's downtown in a way unknown in other cities, and it protected that area—and the city itself—from the full effects of suburbanization during the second half of the twentieth century. Masses of data underlie new insights into what has made Chicago's downtown, and the city as a whole, tick. The Loop features a cast of colorful Chicagoans, such as legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow, poet Edgar Lee Masters, mayor Richard J. Daley, and the notorious Gray Wolves of the Chicago City Council. Charles T. Yerkes, an often-demonized figure, is shown as a visionary urban planner, and engineer John Alexander Low Waddell, a world-renowned bridge creator, is introduced to Chicagoans as the designer of their urban railway. This fascinating exploration of how one human-built structure reshaped the social and economic landscape of Chicago is the definitive book on Chicago's elevated Loop. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is an Assistant Professor at Alfred State College and the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email tobtoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city's downtown. But how much do they know about the single most important structure in the history of the Windy City? In engagingly brisk prose, Patrick T. Reardon unfolds the fascinating story about how Chicago's elevated Loop was built, gave its name to the downtown, helped unify the city, saved the city's economy, and was itself saved from destruction in the 1970s. Patrick T. Reardon's book The Loop: The 'L' Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago (Southern Illinois UP, 2020) combines urban history, biography, engineering, architecture, transportation, culture, and politics to explore the elevated Loop's impact on the city's development and economy and on the way Chicagoans see themselves. The Loop rooted Chicago's downtown in a way unknown in other cities, and it protected that area—and the city itself—from the full effects of suburbanization during the second half of the twentieth century. Masses of data underlie new insights into what has made Chicago's downtown, and the city as a whole, tick. The Loop features a cast of colorful Chicagoans, such as legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow, poet Edgar Lee Masters, mayor Richard J. Daley, and the notorious Gray Wolves of the Chicago City Council. Charles T. Yerkes, an often-demonized figure, is shown as a visionary urban planner, and engineer John Alexander Low Waddell, a world-renowned bridge creator, is introduced to Chicagoans as the designer of their urban railway. This fascinating exploration of how one human-built structure reshaped the social and economic landscape of Chicago is the definitive book on Chicago's elevated Loop. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is an Assistant Professor at Alfred State College and the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email tobtoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Edgar Lee Masters-ek 1915ean eman zuen argitara ezagun egingo zuen poesia-bilduma, Spoon River Anthology, non alegiazko herri bateko hildako biztanleei ahotsa eman baitzien. Euskaraz plazaratu du Balea Zuriak, Alain Lopez de Lacallek itzulia....

Welcome to Twice 5 Miles Radio; I'm your host, James Navé. Today, I'm delighted to introduce Terra Dyer Gill, an intuitive healer who recently attended my writing workshop at the Lake Eden Retreat. Afterward, we engaged in a profound conversation about the interconnectedness of every particle on Earth, including humans, as cells within a greater whole. In his poem "Fiddler Jones," Edgar Lee Masters writes, "The Earth Keeps some vibration going / there in your heart, and that is you." Terra and I explore this concept, discussing the relationship between the vibrations throbbing within us and those emanating from the Earth. Terra shares her insights on how understanding our internal vibrations can help us align with the universal vibrations surrounding us. The question, "Where do I belong?" powers our conversation, offering reflections and revelations. Tune in for a thought-provoking discussion on finding your place in the universal symphony of vibrations. Enjoy the show.

This summer the Edgar Lee Masters Memorial Museum is hosting a lecture and music series called Masters Back Porch Chautauqua. All events in the series take place on the 3rd Sunday of May through September. Dr. Ethan Stephenson and board member Terri Treacy spoke to Community Voices about the series, the history of Chautauqua, and how visitors can view the Edgar Lee Masters home.For more information visit: https://elmhome.org/https-elmhome-org-event/

In questa puntata, Alessandro Barbaglia si interroga sul Tre: cosa affascina gli scrittori, gli autori, gli sceneggiatori riguardo a questo numero? E poi tra le novità della settimana Sulla boxe di Joyce Carol Oates (66thand2nd) e Il dolore non esiste di Ilaria Bernardini (Mondadori). Chiara Sgarbi invece consiglia Il gran tour di Nancy Moon di Sarah Steele, edito Feltrinelli.L'ospite della puntata è Luca Cena, libraio antiquario di White Lands Rare Books che consiglia tra gli altri Antologia di Spoon River di Edgar Lee Masters, edito Einaudi.SHELF. IL POSTO DEI LIBRIdi Alessandro Barbaglia e Chiara Sgarbi Realizzato da MONDADORI STUDIOSA cura di Miriam Spinnato e Danilo Di TerminiCoordinamento editoriale di Elena MarinelliProgetto grafico di Francesco PoroliMusiche di Gianluigi CarloneMontaggio e post produzione Indiehub studio

Welcome to Episode 206 where we have a fantastic conversation with Rebecca Rego Barry, author of THE VANISHING OF CAROLYN WELLS: Investigations into a Forgotten Mystery Author. One reviewer referred to Barry's book as a “process biography.” It is true, Barry takes you along on her investigation into the life of Carolyn Wells who, it turns out, wrote more than mysteries. She wrote poetry, plays, screenplays, puzzles, children's books, and a YA series. Wells was also a serious book collector in a time when that pursuit was considered the domain of men. With Mother's Day just around the corner, this biography would make a great gift. Along with our friend Kate, we did a buddy read of Carson McCullers' novella, REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE. This was part of our Biblio Adventure to Nyack, NY where McCuller's lived for the last 30 years of her life (which wasn't a very long long life: she died at 50, so she actually lived most of her life in Nyack). We explored the grounds of her home (it is not a public author home at this time) and paid our respects at the Oak Hill Cemetery where Carson is buried next to her mother. We visited Big Red Books, a Little Free Library, Pickwick Books, and the gorgeous Nyack Public Library. (Check out our social media for some pics.) We also recap our Biblio Adventure to NYC which was metamorphosed by an earthquake in New Jersey that was felt throughout the Northeast. As always, we talk about what we've read, are reading, and want to read. Highlights include PIGLET by Lottie Hazell, THE STOLEN CHILD by Ann Hood (out 5/7), MOBY DICK by Herman Melville, HOW TO READ by Monica Wood (out 5/7), SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY by Edgar Lee Masters, BLESS YOUR HEART by Lindy Ryan, THE EDITOR: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America by Sara B. Franklin (out 5/28), and two short stories: “Touchless Bidet” by Omar El Akkad from the collection SMALL ODYSSEYS: Selected Shorts Presents 35 New Stories edited by Hannah Tinti and “A Simple Question” from the collection OLD CRIMES: And Other Stories by Jill McCorkle. If you've been enjoying our podcast, please share it with a friend and consider leaving a review on iTunes or whatever app you use to listen. Thanks for listening, and Happy Reading! Chris & Emily

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1107, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Da Or Ba Or Dee. With Da" Or "Ba" Or "Dee in quotes 1: When Santa gives these creatures P.T.O. in the summer, some travel up to 800 miles for grazing grounds. reindeer. 2: It's the last name of a film character played by both Gary Cooper and Adam Sandler. Deeds. 3: Its name origin is African but this instrument is now widely associated with the music of Latin America. marimba. 4: It's a word describing motorcyclist Bud Ekins, or the name of a Marvel hero. daredevil. 5: Herb Caen referred to San Francisco as this place "by-the-Bay". Baghdad. Round 2. Category: Sports Films 1: Sylvester Stallone was inspired to write this film after seeing underdog Chuck Wepner take on Muhammad Ali. Rocky. 2: In "Knute Rockne: All American", this actor delivered the famous deathbed line "Win one for the Gipper". Ronald Reagan. 3: This 1981 film about 2 participants in the 1924 Olympics ran off with 4 Oscars including Best Picture. Chariots of Fire. 4: Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins struck up a romance after meeting on the set of this baseball flick. Bull Durham. 5: This 1977 film featured Paul Newman as aging hockey coach Reggie Dunlop. Slap Shot. Round 3. Category: Home States 1: Butch Cassidy,Roseanne,Donny Osmond. Utah. 2: Robert Motherwell,Kurt Cobain,Bill Gates. Washington. 3: Thomas Dewey,Henry Ford,Madonna. Michigan. 4: Dana Carvey,Evel Knievel,Jeannette Rankin. Montana. 5: Amelia Earhart,Edgar Lee Masters,Dennis Hopper. Kansas. Round 4. Category: 7, 8 Or 9 1: Number of Snow White's height-challenged housemates. 7. 2: The one that starts with 2 vowels. 8. 3: In the famous Christmas poem, Santa's sleigh is pulled by this many tiny reindeer. 8. 4: Number of classic "Ancient Wonders" that included the Colossus of Rhodes. 7. 5: Some people compare happiness to being on this number cloud. 9. Round 5. Category: As A Young Man 1: …He covered the Boer War for the Morning Post, got captured, escaped and became a national hero. Winston Churchill. 2: …as a pre-teen this "Le Nozze di Figaro" composer wrote a one-act German singspiel. Mozart. 3: …he was tutored by Aristotle and then beat Darius III at Issus. Alexander the Great. 4: …in the 1300s B.C. he made Thebes Egypt's capital and changed his name to honor Amon. Tutankhamon. 5: …he ran his brother's senatorial campaign, then investigated Hoffa and the Teamsters. Bobby Kennedy. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used

An episode from 1/31/24: Tonight, as a companion to last episode of poems on being a child, I read a handful of poems about being a parent: “Morning Song,” by Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) “Child Crying Out,” by Louise Glück (1943-2023) “First Snow” read by Louise Glück (audio from here) “This Be the Verse,” by Philip Larkin (1922-1985) “Lucinda Matlock,” by Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) “On My First Sonne” (Epigrammes XLV), by Ben Jonson (1572-1637) “The Pomegranate,” by Eavan Boland (1944-2020) “Surprized by joy – impatient as the wind,” by William Wordsworth (1770-1850) “Eden Rock,” by Charles Causley (1924-2007) “My Young Mother,” by Jane Cooper (1924-2007) “Waiting,” by William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) from King Lear, by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) “Life after Death,” by Ted Hughes (1930-1998) You can support Human Voices Wake Us here, or by ordering any of my books: Notes from the Grid, To the House of the Sun, The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and Bone Antler Stone. Email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/support

L'11 gennaio di 25 anni fa ci lasciava Fabrizio De Andrè. #onderoad oggi lo ricorderà con una puntata dedicata alle sue geografie. Genova e la città vecchia, "i quartieri dove il sole del buon Dio non dà i suoi raggi, ha già troppi impegni per scaldar la gente d'altri paraggi". La Sardegna, un terra che secondo Faber è fatta di "ventiquattro mila chilometri di foreste, di campagne, di coste immerse in un mare miracoloso che dovrebbero coincidere con quello che io consiglierei al buon Dio di regalarci come Paradiso”. E poi Napoli, l'America degli indiani e di Edgar Lee Masters... #fabriziodeandre #genova #sardegna #napoli #nativiamericani #EdgarLeeMasters #geografie

“... ma lasciatemi sognare! ...” di Guido Gozzano, a cura di Maria Teresa Caprile, presentazione di Francesco De Nicola, saggio introduttivo di Vincenzo Gueglio(Gammarò Edizioni, 230 pp., 49 €)“Gli strumenti umani” di Vittorio Sereni, a cura di Michel Cattaneo(Ugo Guanda Editore, 480 pp., 50 €)“L’ultimo secolo di poesia italiana” di Alfonso Belardinelli, a cura di Marianna Comitangelo(Quodlibet, 342 pp., 22 €)“Tutte le poesie” di Sibilla Aleramo(Il Saggiatore, 400 p., € 26,00)“Poesie di viaggio” a cura di Roberto Mussapi(EDT, 242 pp., 16 €)“Rivelerò io cosa dire di me” di Walt Whitman, a cura di Diego Bertelli(Marcos y Marcos, 160 pp., 20 €)“Finché Dio ci vede” di Emanuel Carnevali, a cura di Daniele Gigli(Edizioni Ares, 232 pp., 18 €)“Antologia di Spoon River” di Edgar Lee Masters, a cura di Federica Massia, traduzione di Roberto Sanesi(Lindau, 544 pp., 29 €)“La nuova Spoon River” di Edgar Lee Masters(Low edizioni,120 p., € 15,00)“Spalancare gli occhi sul mondo. Dieci lezioni su Leopardi” di Marco Antonio Bazzocchi(Il Mulino, 238 pp., 18 €)“La malizia del vischio” di Kathleen Farrell(Fazi Editore, 240 p., € 18,50)“Natale nella vecchia Virginia” di Thomas Nelson Page (Mattioli 1885, 144 p., € 10,00)“Le avventure di Oliver Twist” di Charles Dickens(Mattioli 1885, 528 p., € 25,00)“Il suo ultimo Natale. Un delitto sotto l’albero” di Rupert Latimer(Lindau, 304 p., € 19,50)IL CONFETTINO“Il mio Natale da scoprire” di Jacob Vium-Olesen, illustrazioni di Carolina Coroa(Edizioni Paoline, 238 pp., 14,90 €)

“... ma lasciatemi sognare! ...” di Guido Gozzano, a cura di Maria Teresa Caprile, presentazione di Francesco De Nicola, saggio introduttivo di Vincenzo Gueglio(Gammarò Edizioni, 230 pp., 49 €)“Gli strumenti umani” di Vittorio Sereni, a cura di Michel Cattaneo(Ugo Guanda Editore, 480 pp., 50 €)“L’ultimo secolo di poesia italiana” di Alfonso Belardinelli, a cura di Marianna Comitangelo(Quodlibet, 342 pp., 22 €)“Tutte le poesie” di Sibilla Aleramo(Il Saggiatore, 400 p., € 26,00)“Poesie di viaggio” a cura di Roberto Mussapi(EDT, 242 pp., 16 €)“Rivelerò io cosa dire di me” di Walt Whitman, a cura di Diego Bertelli(Marcos y Marcos, 160 pp., 20 €)“Finché Dio ci vede” di Emanuel Carnevali, a cura di Daniele Gigli(Edizioni Ares, 232 pp., 18 €)“Antologia di Spoon River” di Edgar Lee Masters, a cura di Federica Massia, traduzione di Roberto Sanesi(Lindau, 544 pp., 29 €)“La nuova Spoon River” di Edgar Lee Masters(Low edizioni,120 p., € 15,00)“Spalancare gli occhi sul mondo. Dieci lezioni su Leopardi” di Marco Antonio Bazzocchi(Il Mulino, 238 pp., 18 €)“La malizia del vischio” di Kathleen Farrell(Fazi Editore, 240 p., € 18,50)“Natale nella vecchia Virginia” di Thomas Nelson Page (Mattioli 1885, 144 p., € 10,00)“Le avventure di Oliver Twist” di Charles Dickens(Mattioli 1885, 528 p., € 25,00)“Il suo ultimo Natale. Un delitto sotto l’albero” di Rupert Latimer(Lindau, 304 p., € 19,50)IL CONFETTINO“Il mio Natale da scoprire” di Jacob Vium-Olesen, illustrazioni di Carolina Coroa(Edizioni Paoline, 238 pp., 14,90 €)

Recorded by Academy of American Poets staff for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 19, 2023. www.poets.org

Edgar Lee Masters poetaren 'Spoon River Antologia' lehen aldiz ekarri du euskarara Balea Zuriak. Alain Lopez de Lacallek itzuli du. Poeta estatubatuarraren obra nagusia 'Poetika' zikloaren baitan aurkeztu dute,  Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunean....

Edgar Lee Masters poetaren 'Spoon River Antologia' lehen aldiz ekarri du euskarara Balea Zuriak. Alain Lopez de Lacallek itzuli du. Poeta estatubatuarraren obra nagusia 'Poetika' zikloaren baitan aurkeztu dute,  Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunean....

Gianluca Gatta ha letto questa settimana ANTOLOGIA DI SPOON RIVER di Edgar Lee Masters, un romanzo in forma di raccolta poetica che racconta la vita in una cittadina della provincia americana di fine '900 attraverso le parole dei suoi defunti.

This week, another very-important-poet-with-three-names-the-first-of-which-is-Edgar... That's right! It's Edgar Lee Masters. Masters was known for his innovative poetry, specifically, Spoon River Anthology. He challenged the understanding of small town America with his more scandalous writing and put the Midwest on the map as a home for serious Poets. 

Amanda Holmes reads Edgar Lee Masters's poem “Seth Compton.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you'll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

December 7, 2022--On “For the Love of Reading” POEMS WE LOVE": Comforting, Funny, Epic, and Passionate–poetry by Edgar Lee Masters (from Spoon River Anthology), Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker (from Enough Rope), Walt Whitman (from Leaves of Grass), and many more. Read for you by Linda Pack, Kate Magruder, and Nichole Phillips-Rakes.

En symbol i en dödsannons, ett vajande strå i motljus på sociala medier. Boel Gerell reflekterar över de utskurna fragmenten som vi och andra gör till berättelsen om vårt liv. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna. Ursprungligen publicerad 2021-03-22. Hörrudu, ska du inte ta en bild? Det är helt fantastiskt ju!Mitt sällskap pekar pockande mot horisonten och havsbandet där solen just är på väg att gå ner. Och jag lyfter motvilligt mobilen, bara för att sänka den igen. Det går inte, är för ljust, för långt borta och för mycket. I stället sätter jag mig på huk i strandrågen och fokuserar på ett enda glänsande strå i motsol och försöker hålla mobilen alldeles stilla så att varje blänk i den egentligen oansenliga växten ska gå fram.Kvar efter kvällens timslånga promenad blir det ensamt vajande strået, putsat, filtrerat och arkiverat i Instagrams herbarium av komprimerade och hårt beskurna minnen. En behändig kvadrat, kant i kant med andra kvadrater som tillsammans bildar något slags berättelse om ett liv. Från promenaden vid havet saknas inte bara den alltför höga himlen utan också skavsåret på vänster lilltå, efter sandalerna som aldrig suttit riktigt bra.Det alltför stora och det alltför lilla hamnar gärna utanför bilden tillsammans med allt annat som spretar åt olika håll och är stort och litet samtidigt. I prydliga rader lägger sig rutorna efter varandra tills det sista fotografiet oundvikligen tagits och det blivit dags att summera resultatet. Vilken av alla dessa bilder representerar bäst helheten? Är det den bästa bilden? Det oftast förekommande motivet? Det som enkelt och lättfattligt kan begripas eller det som vi tror oss veta att fotografen kände mest för?På just detta centrala och mest viktiga tänker jag när jag bläddrar genom tidningens söndagsbilaga och låter blicken vandra över dödsannonserna, som fyller bakvagnen av papperstidningen. En symbol, en vers och några personliga rader: vår älskade, vår mycket älskade, vår far, bror, morfar, farfar, farfarsfar. Mitt allt. Komplexa känslor kokade ner till några enstaka ord, decenniers relationer reducerade till en handfull roller. Och så symbolen på det, som i en enda stiliserad silhuett ska summera ett helt liv.Hur väljer man egentligen? Vad var det viktigaste? Fotbollsföreningen? Partiet? Hunden, den älskade taxen. Kanske veteranbilen, som polerades högblank inför premiärturen i vårsolen. Golfklubborna? Trumpeten eller jaktgeväret. Eller den där ensamma blomman i motljus, dagen på stranden när himlen tycktes för stor. I samma ögonblick som människan går ur tiden rämnar den motsägelsefullt sammanfogade helheten i skärvor, svartsjukt förvaltade av dem som blir kvar. I brist på verklig kunskap antar vi, jämkar samman och lägger till rätta tills det som vi uppfattar som ett faktum i hög grad också är en lögn. Sanningen, om någon sådan finns, får i stället sökas i detaljerna.I det lilla och fortfarande skarpa. I slitaget på knäna i trädgårdsbyxorna, efter ett oändligt antal timmars lukande i rabatterna. I doften som dröjer sig kvar i en morgonrock och de sju raderna på ett vykort som skickades för snart femtio år sedan. Människan är inte längre där men i stilen finns handens rörelser och i ordvalet rösten och för ett kort ögonblick kan något återigen komma till liv.När författaren och kulturjournalisten Marit Kapla tar sig för att skildra den värmländska orten Osebol och dess invånare i boken med samma namn, är det till språkets potential att härbärgera verkligt liv hon sätter sin lit. Den stora berättelsen saknas, det som ges är fragment och brottstycken som talar lika mycket genom sitt innehåll som genom sina glapp och tystnader.  Luften går igen i det grafiska uttrycket och sättningen av texten som mest påminner om prosalyrik.Klassificeringen av boken är intressant, för när den gav Marit Kapla Augustpriset 2019 var det i kategorin skönlitteratur. Men på landets bibliotek sorteras verket ofta in som lokalhistoria och i bokhandeln går det att hitta under memoarer och biografier. Glidningen säger något om det bedrägliga i perspektivet, på ytan en samling till synes rakt återgivna citat från byns invånare. Och samtidigt ett hårt beskuret urval, som bara lämnar en bråkdel kvar av det som ursprungligen sagts.Så vad är då det viktigaste, i en människas berättelse? I Osebol är det ofta det till synes ovidkommande som består. Tillfälligheterna, som gör livet. Små företeelser som i förlängningen får stora konsekvenser. Butiken som slår igen i byn, ett pulserande hjärta ska det visa sig, som hållit orten vid liv. Vattenpölen som lastbilen väjer för den där dagen, för att inte stänka ner den gamle mannen. Varvid släpet kränger över till andra sidan vägen och krockar med en mötande bil. Små saker, som en vattenpöl. Och samtidigt, om inte pölen varit.Ett efter ett lyfts minnena upp på kaffebordet, vänds och vrids och det är inte bråttom. Strax bakom de levandes ryggar dröjer de döda kvar. Närvarande i tingen, som nyss var deras. Husen och marken som människorna brukat i generationer. Tiden är ingenting. Som verk har Osebol mer gemensamt med den grekiska antologin än med dagens hastigt förbiflimrande litterära klotterplank täckta av läppstiftsmärken, selfies och krognotor.Platsen är periferin, vinkeln retrospektiv och just i det specifika och intimt privata blir erfarenheterna allmängiltiga. Fast förankrade i just dessa människor och denna ort och ändå till synes tidlösa, tyngdlöst svävande över sidorna. I den grekiska antologins gravskrifter för jaget ordet och genom ett liknande perspektiv gör sig den amerikanske författaren Edgar Lee Masters till tolk för de döda som vilar i sina gravar i den numera kanoniserade och drygt sekelgamla samlingen Spoon River Anthology.En besläktad berättarmodell använder Börje Lindström i lyriksamlingen På kyrkogården i södra Lappland från 2020. Ur jagets djup klingar de dödas vittnesmål om hårt arbete, gamla oförrätter, svek och svunnen kärlek. Allt silat genom lager av tid och mull och med bara återskenet av den en gång bländande dramatiken kvar. Liksom i Osebol får vi förståelsen för glesbygdens villkor på köpet. Den stora ledan och lyckan i att höra till en plats och vara den som stannar när andra går.Också i Kjell Espmarks senare författarskap väcks de döda till liv igen. I samlingsvolymen En sky av vittnen från 2020 skildras världshistoriens stora händelser genom ögonen på dem som var med. Greppet är effektivt och texterna virtuosa och ändå blir de mänskliga konturerna märkligt vaga. Så är det heller inte på skärpan i detaljerna författaren fokuserar, utan på det större perspektivet. Av människorna blir exempel som ger dramatiken ett ansikte som det heter. Medan Kapla och för den delen Lindström utgår från ansiktet och låter det tala för sig själv.En fråga om fokus och perspektiv, alltså. Grässtrået eller himlavalvet. Den stora berättelsen eller skärvan av ett liv. I sprickorna ges utrymme för läsaren att gå in och göra världen till sin. Var och en med sina vattenpölar, som så lätt hade kunnat undvikas. Om vi bara vetat. I efterhand växer pölen och blir något mer än en pöl. Blir en symbol och en punkt som förblir skarp när allt annat grumlas, slätas ut och går upp i vartannat. Och som vi först när allt är förbi, förstår var det verkligt viktiga.Boel Gerell, författare och kritikerLitteraturMarit Kapla: Osebol, Teg Publishing, 2019Edgar Lee Masters: Spoon River Anthology, Macmillan & Co, 1915Börje Lindström: På kyrkogården i södra Lappland, Heidruns förlag, 2020Kjell Espmark: En sky av vittnen: Låna mig din röst, Norstedts förlag, 2020

In honor of the new Netflix series, we're re-releasing our episode about Christopher Pike's The Midnight Club.In this episode,  Andy and Alyssa venture into their first non-Stine book: Christopher "Kevin" Pike's The Midnight Club (1994). They discuss conversation ventures into chain letters, Starvation Heights, Boccaccio's Decameron (ca. 1353), deals with the devil, Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology (1915), messages from beyond the grave, alternative medicine, mall bookstores, Buddhism,, Stephen King's Carrie (1974), orientalism, 90s AIDS narratives, memento mori, Six Feet Under (2001-05), 1,001 Nights, Bedazzled (1967, 2000), Beatrice Sparks's Go Ask Alice (1971), Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho (1991), Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums (1958), Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess (1905) and The Secret Garden (1911), the X-Files episode "All Things" (2000), racial cross-dressing fantasies, sick lit, John Green's The Fault in Our Stars (2012), Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (2005), Goethe's Faust (1790), supernatural love stories, Cat People (1942, 1982), The Mummy (1932, 1999) and The Mummy Returns (2001), Candyman (1992), William Peter Blatt's The Exorcist (1971), Personal Shopper (2016), Gabrielle Moss's Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of 80s and 90s Teen Fiction (2018), Poland, and Ladybug House hospice for children and young adults. // Music by Haunted Corpse // Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com   Follow @saypodanddie on Twitter and Instagram, and get in touch at saypodanddie@gmail.com

Not everyone was happy about the miracles of Jesus. Edgar Lee Masters imagines what the reactions of three people in the Gospel might have been to the miracles.

Hechos con Palabras - Edgar Lee Masters by Radiotelevisión de Veracruz

A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as the poetry took root and thrived. Published by Edgar Lee Masters in 1915, Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town (U Illinois Press, 2021) won praise from modernists while becoming an ongoing touchstone for American popular culture. Stacy charts the ways readers embraced, debated, and reshaped Masters's work in literary controversies and culture war skirmishes; in films and other media that over time saw the small town as idyllic then conflicted then surreal; and as the source of three archetypes—populist, elite, and exile—that endure across the landscape of American culture in the twenty-first century. A wide-ranging reconsideration of a literary landmark, Spoon River America tells the story of how a Midwesterner's poetry helped change a nation's conception of itself. Jason Stacy is a professor of history and social science pedagogy at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. He is the author of Walt Whitman's Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840–1855 and editor of Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition. Daniel Moran earned his B.A. and M.A. in English from Rutgers University and his Ph.D. in History from Drew University. The author of Creating Flannery O'Connor: Her Critics, Her Publishers, Her Readers, he teaches research and writing at Rutgers and co-hosts the podcast Fifteen-Minute Film Fanatics, found at https://fifteenminutefilm.podbean.com/ and on Twitter @15MinFilm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as the poetry took root and thrived. Published by Edgar Lee Masters in 1915, Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town (U Illinois Press, 2021) won praise from modernists while becoming an ongoing touchstone for American popular culture. Stacy charts the ways readers embraced, debated, and reshaped Masters's work in literary controversies and culture war skirmishes; in films and other media that over time saw the small town as idyllic then conflicted then surreal; and as the source of three archetypes—populist, elite, and exile—that endure across the landscape of American culture in the twenty-first century. A wide-ranging reconsideration of a literary landmark, Spoon River America tells the story of how a Midwesterner's poetry helped change a nation's conception of itself. Jason Stacy is a professor of history and social science pedagogy at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. He is the author of Walt Whitman's Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840–1855 and editor of Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition. Daniel Moran earned his B.A. and M.A. in English from Rutgers University and his Ph.D. in History from Drew University. The author of Creating Flannery O'Connor: Her Critics, Her Publishers, Her Readers, he teaches research and writing at Rutgers and co-hosts the podcast Fifteen-Minute Film Fanatics, found at https://fifteenminutefilm.podbean.com/ and on Twitter @15MinFilm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as the poetry took root and thrived. Published by Edgar Lee Masters in 1915, Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town (U Illinois Press, 2021) won praise from modernists while becoming an ongoing touchstone for American popular culture. Stacy charts the ways readers embraced, debated, and reshaped Masters's work in literary controversies and culture war skirmishes; in films and other media that over time saw the small town as idyllic then conflicted then surreal; and as the source of three archetypes—populist, elite, and exile—that endure across the landscape of American culture in the twenty-first century. A wide-ranging reconsideration of a literary landmark, Spoon River America tells the story of how a Midwesterner's poetry helped change a nation's conception of itself. Jason Stacy is a professor of history and social science pedagogy at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. He is the author of Walt Whitman's Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840–1855 and editor of Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition. Daniel Moran earned his B.A. and M.A. in English from Rutgers University and his Ph.D. in History from Drew University. The author of Creating Flannery O'Connor: Her Critics, Her Publishers, Her Readers, he teaches research and writing at Rutgers and co-hosts the podcast Fifteen-Minute Film Fanatics, found at https://fifteenminutefilm.podbean.com/ and on Twitter @15MinFilm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as the poetry took root and thrived. Published by Edgar Lee Masters in 1915, Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town (U Illinois Press, 2021) won praise from modernists while becoming an ongoing touchstone for American popular culture. Stacy charts the ways readers embraced, debated, and reshaped Masters's work in literary controversies and culture war skirmishes; in films and other media that over time saw the small town as idyllic then conflicted then surreal; and as the source of three archetypes—populist, elite, and exile—that endure across the landscape of American culture in the twenty-first century. A wide-ranging reconsideration of a literary landmark, Spoon River America tells the story of how a Midwesterner's poetry helped change a nation's conception of itself. Jason Stacy is a professor of history and social science pedagogy at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. He is the author of Walt Whitman's Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840–1855 and editor of Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition. Daniel Moran earned his B.A. and M.A. in English from Rutgers University and his Ph.D. in History from Drew University. The author of Creating Flannery O'Connor: Her Critics, Her Publishers, Her Readers, he teaches research and writing at Rutgers and co-hosts the podcast Fifteen-Minute Film Fanatics, found at https://fifteenminutefilm.podbean.com/ and on Twitter @15MinFilm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as the poetry took root and thrived. Published by Edgar Lee Masters in 1915, Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town (U Illinois Press, 2021) won praise from modernists while becoming an ongoing touchstone for American popular culture. Stacy charts the ways readers embraced, debated, and reshaped Masters's work in literary controversies and culture war skirmishes; in films and other media that over time saw the small town as idyllic then conflicted then surreal; and as the source of three archetypes—populist, elite, and exile—that endure across the landscape of American culture in the twenty-first century. A wide-ranging reconsideration of a literary landmark, Spoon River America tells the story of how a Midwesterner's poetry helped change a nation's conception of itself. Jason Stacy is a professor of history and social science pedagogy at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. He is the author of Walt Whitman's Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840–1855 and editor of Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition. Daniel Moran earned his B.A. and M.A. in English from Rutgers University and his Ph.D. in History from Drew University. The author of Creating Flannery O'Connor: Her Critics, Her Publishers, Her Readers, he teaches research and writing at Rutgers and co-hosts the podcast Fifteen-Minute Film Fanatics, found at https://fifteenminutefilm.podbean.com/ and on Twitter @15MinFilm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/popular-culture

Ghosts from the fictional town of Spoon River dish dirt on the other inhabitants of the town. This renowned anthology demystifies America's rural life through tales of murder, rape, revenge, joy, love, war, crime, marriage, birth and so much more. Today's readers are:Dr. Siegfried Iseman--Bruno VannieuFiddler Jones--Donald GuadagniDora Williams--Johanna CollierMrs. Williams--Ellen FryerWendell P. Blood--Michael RhysRussian Sonia--Katherine QuevedoPauline Barrett--Luisa PiemonteseMrs. Charles Bliss--Marian HaraRev. Lemuel Wiley--Timothy GouldElsa Wortman--Janice RyanAmos Sibley--Timothy GouldMrs. Sibley--Marian HaraAmelia Garrick--Sarah GreavesJohn Hancock Otis--Charles KowalskiAnthony Findlay--Timothy GouldAlexander Throckmorton--Charles KowalskiJonathan Swift Somers--Renata PavreyEugene Carman--Andi BrooksRoscoe Purkapile--Linda GouldMrs. Purkapile--Vicky MuehlheisenMrs. Kessler--Enne TesseBurt Kessler--Linda GouldLillian Stewart--Katherine QuevedoEdmund Pollard--Radhika IyerIda Frisky--Peggy OtakeSeth Compton--Tim LawRichard Bone--Johanna CollierTom Merritt--Joshua St. ClairMrs. Merritt--Jill TradeElizabeth Childers--Renata PavreyEdith Conant--Snigdha AgrawalHarry Williams--Michael RhysJohn Wasson--J.L. ShortLyman King--Lily ThukralAnn Rutledge--Peggy OtakeRebecca Wasson--Vicky MuehleisenHannah Armstrong--Sarah DittmoreLucinda Matlock--Linda K. Vandermeer KadotaDavis Matlock--Linda GouldHerman Altman--Donald GuadagniWallace Ferguson--Herve SuysSamuel Gardner--Joan Lambert BaileyDow Kritt--Yutaka Jay Miura (age 6)William Goode--J.L. ShortScholfield Huxley--Rebecca OtowaAlfonso Churchill--Sarah GreavesGustav Richter--Joan Lambert Bailey​William and Emily--Timothy and Linda GouldYou can read Spoon River Anthology at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1280Follow us on twitter at: Japanese Ghost Stories @ghostJapanese Instagram: WhiteEnsoJapanFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/kaidankai100/Help me pay the contributors for their work. Donate to the Kaidankai through Ko-Fi. Thank you!https://ko-fi.com/kaidankaighoststories

Ghosts from the fictional town of Spoon River dish dirt on the other inhabitants of the town. This renowned anthology demystifies America's rural life through tales of murder, rape, revenge, joy, love, war, crime, marriage, birth and so much more. Ollie McGee read by Eucharia DonneryAmanda Barker read by Luisa PiemonteseChase Henry & Judge Somers read by Charles KowalskiPetit the Poet read by Snigdha AgrawalBenjamin Pantier & Andy the Nightwatch ready by Andi BrooksMinerva read by Sharlene OyagiIndignation Jones read by Timothy GouldDoctor Meyers read by Joshua St. ClairMrs. Meyers read by Jill TradeKnowlt Hoheimer read by Herve SuysPercy Bysshe Shelley read by Enne TesseJulia Miller read by Ellen FryerZenas Witt read by Taishin Frances MatsuzakiMargaret Fuller Slack read by Rebecca OtowaAce Shaw read by Bruno VannieuLois Spears read by Lily ThukralThe Hill, Hod Putt, Cassius Hueffer, Serepta Mason, Daisy Fraser, Mrs. Benjamin Pantier, Butch Weldy, Lydia Puckett, Sarah Brown and Justice Arnett read by Linda GouldYou can read Spoon River Anthology at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1280Follow us on twitter at: Japanese Ghost Stories @ghostJapanese Instagram: WhiteEnsoJapanFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/kaidankai100/Help me pay the contributors for their work. Donate to the Kaidankai through Ko-Fi. Thank you!https://ko-fi.com/kaidankaighoststories

Theatre professor Todd Quick previews “Spoon River Project,” a musical adaptation of the Edgar Lee Masters classic. See it April 7-10 at Wells Theater. Tickets: https://www.monmouthcollege.edu/academics/theatre/current-production-season/

A reading of five poems from five different poets. They are: “Minerva Jones,” by Edgar Lee Masters (from his Spoonriver Anthology) “Ulysses,” by Alfred Tennyson “A London Summer Morning,” by Mary Robinson “A Hymn to My God in a Night of my Late Sickness,” by Henry Wotton “The Lie,” by Walter Raleigh Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/humanvoiceswakeus/support

Today in botanical history, we celebrate an English earl, an English poet, a forgotten garden, and a national floral emblem. We hear a floral excerpt from a best-selling fiction book - it's a little love story about an extraordinary woman who gave birth to a painter who became the Father of Impressionism. We Grow That Garden Library™, with a book that came out in 2015 and seems to grow ever more relevant. And then we'll wrap things up with an American poet and some of his garden-inspired work.   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart To listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to “Play the latest episode of The Daily Gardener Podcast.” And she will. It's just that easy.   The Daily Gardener Friday Newsletter Sign up for the FREE Friday Newsletter featuring: A personal update from me Garden-related items for your calendar The Grow That Garden Library™ featured books for the week Gardener gift ideas Garden-inspired recipes Exclusive updates regarding the show Plus, each week, one lucky subscriber wins a book from the Grow That Garden Library™ bookshelf.   Gardener Greetings Send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes, and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org   Facebook Group If you'd like to check out my curated news articles and original blog posts for yourself, you're in luck. I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. So, there's no need to take notes or search for links. The next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community, where you'd search for a friend... and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Curated News Small Flowering Shrubs with Big Impact | Garden Gate Magazine | Susan Martin   Important Events September 23, 1717  Birth of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, English writer, art historian, and Whig politician. His father served as the first British Prime Minister. As an adult, he designed a picturesque summer home for himself in southwest London, which he called Strawberry Hill. Horace's little castle caused a sensation, and he opened his home to four lucky visitors each day. An 1842 admission ticket spelled out rules for tourists: The House and Garden are never shown in an evening;  and persons are desired not to bring children with them. The Gothic Revival architecture complete with a round tower was a nod to his accomplished ancestry and is gorgeous inside and out. The stained glass and the library are two favorite aspects among visitors. Horace was a hardworking writer and a serious scholar. Horace coined the word serendipity after he finally located a painting he wanted for his home. He wrote the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764), ten years later. In addition to his other works, Horace wrote The History of the Modern Taste in Gardening (1771). A fan of natural gardens, he famously observed that his garden hero William Kent was the first garden designer to “[leap] the fence, and [see] that all of nature was a garden.”  Horace immensely enjoyed his five-acre romantic garden at Strawberry Hill, which he affectionately called his “enchanted little landscape” and his “land of beauties.” In addition to a grove of lime trees, the garden featured a sizeable Rococo shell seat with a back designed to look like an enormous shell. Today the one-of-a-kind bench has been recreated, and copies are available for gardeners to place in their own gardens. The oldest tree on the grounds is called the Walpole Oak, and a servant is said to have hung himself from the tree after stealing silver.   In 2019, the first Strawberry Hill House Flower Festival offered local florists a chance to share their creations inside Horace's Gothic masterpiece. The event is now an annual celebration of flowers. Today Strawberry Hill House hosts a community garden. Rose lovers can enjoy their own nod to Horace Walpole with the bubblegum-pink David Austin rose Strawberry Hill. As for Horace, this industrious man often found inspiration in gardens, and he once wrote, One's garden... is to be nothing but riant, and the gaiety of nature. Horace was also a fan of greenhouses and, in particular, the control they afforded gardeners. In a letter to William Mason on July 6, 1777, he wrote, Don't let this horrid weather put you out of humour with your garden, though I own it is a pity we should have brought it to perfection and [then] have too bad a climate to enjoy it. It is strictly true this year, as I have often said, that ours is the most beautiful country in the world, when [it is] framed and glazed... Finally, it was Horace Walpole who wrote, When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.   September 23, 1861  Birth of Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (pen name Anodos), English writer, polyglot, and poet. She was the great-grandniece of the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In her poem September, she wrote, Now every day the bracken browner grows, Even the purple stars Of clematis, that shone about the bars, Grow browner; and the little autumn rose Dons, for her rosy gown, Sad weeds of brown. Now falls the eve; and ere the morning sun, Many a flower her sweet life will have lost, Slain by the bitter frost, Who slays the butterflies also, one by one, The tiny beasts That go about their business and their feasts. She also wrote an utterly charming little garden poem called Gibberish. Many a flower have I seen blossom, Many a bird for me will sing. Never heard I so sweet a singer, Never saw I so fair a thing. She is a bird, a bird that blossoms, She is a flower, a flower that sings; And I a flower when I behold her, And when I hear her, I have wings.   September 23, 1958   On this day, the Dayton Daily News (Ohio) shared a little article about an old park that had been created to teach botany students. Back in 1930, Brother William Beck, a member of the University of Dayton biology department, filled two purposes with one park. The campus green needed re-landscaping and botany classes needed nearby, well-stocked gardens to study.  [William] set to work on his project, with the aid of local nurseries, and collected over 200 varieties of plants and shrubs in the central campus park, labeling all of them with their Latin names and English derivatives. Since that time, the University of Dayton… tended such out-of-the-ordinary plants as a Logan elm (a transplanted sprout from the famous tree); a coffee tree; pyramidal oaks; black alders; and ginkgo trees, to name a few.  Brother Beck's well-worked-out plan seems to have been practically forgotten through the years. Botany classes no longer wind among the shrubbery...   September 23, 1986  On this day, Congress selected the rose as the American national flower. The Journal News (White Plains, New York) reported that, The House, brushing aside the claims of marigolds and dogwood blossoms, corn tassels and columbines, ended decades of indecision Tuesday and crowned the rose, that thorny beauty, America's national flower. The voice-vote decision... [ended] a debate over an appropriate "national floral emblem" for the United States that had flickered off and on since the late 19th century.   Unearthed Words Even now, as the graves of these women went untended and their passings unmourned, the seeds they had scattered turned the hillsides red and orange from May to September. Some called the pirates' bounty flame trees, but to us, they were known as flamboyant trees, for no one could ignore their glorious blooms, with flowers that were larger than a man's open hand. Every time I saw them, I thought of these lost women. That was what happened if you waited for love. ― Alice Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites   Grow That Garden Library Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening by Will Bonsall This book came out in 2015, and the subtitle is Innovative Techniques for Growing Vegetables, Grains, and Perennial Food Crops with Minimal Fossil Fuel and Animal Inputs. In this book, Maine farmer and homesteader Will Bonsall shares his expertise in self-reliance. In this aspect of living (along with energy), Will is a master. As Will likes to say, "My goal is not to feed the world, but to feed myself and let others feed themselves." Will is open to experimentation, and he shares his hard-fought wisdom in a friendly and conversational way. Will's an inventive pragmatist, and his flexibility and innovative thinking have allowed him to tackle seemingly impossible challenges in his down-to-earth way. If you're ready to become more self-reliant and less swayed by world supply chains, economic bubbles, and food scarcity, Will's book is a reference you will want to have on your shelf. This book is 400 pages of back to the land and garden prosperity with Will Bonsall as your personal guide. You can get a copy of Will Bonsall's Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening by Will Bonsall and support the show using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $25.   Today's Botanic Spark Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart September 23, 1869  Birth of Edgar Lee Masters, American attorney, poet, and writer. His most famous work was his collection of poems that narrate the epitaphs of a fictional town named Spoon River in The Spoon River Anthology (1915). Edgar grew up in Lewistown, Illinois, which is near an actual Spoon River. The book features an epitaph for a fictional nurseryman - a lover of trees and flowers - named Samuel Gardener, which ends with these words: Now I, an under-tenant of the earth, can see          That the branches of a tree          Spread no wider than its roots.          And how shall the soul of a man Be larger than the life he has lived? Edgar once wrote a poem about love, which began, Love is a madness, love is a fevered dream, A white soul lost in a field of scarlet flowers. His poem, Botanical Garden, is a conversation with God and ends with these words: “If it be comforting I promise you Another spring shall come." "And after that?" "Another spring - that's all I know myself, There shall be springs and springs!"   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener. And remember: “For a happy, healthy life, garden every day.”

Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city's downtown. But how much do they know about the single most important structure in the history of the Windy City? In engagingly brisk prose, Patrick T. Reardon unfolds the fascinating story about how Chicago's elevated Loop was built, gave its name to the downtown, helped unify the city, saved the city's economy, and was itself saved from destruction in the 1970s. Patrick T. Reardon's book The Loop: The 'L' Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago (Southern Illinois UP, 2020) combines urban history, biography, engineering, architecture, transportation, culture, and politics to explore the elevated Loop's impact on the city's development and economy and on the way Chicagoans see themselves. The Loop rooted Chicago's downtown in a way unknown in other cities, and it protected that area—and the city itself—from the full effects of suburbanization during the second half of the twentieth century. Masses of data underlie new insights into what has made Chicago's downtown, and the city as a whole, tick. The Loop features a cast of colorful Chicagoans, such as legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow, poet Edgar Lee Masters, mayor Richard J. Daley, and the notorious Gray Wolves of the Chicago City Council. Charles T. Yerkes, an often-demonized figure, is shown as a visionary urban planner, and engineer John Alexander Low Waddell, a world-renowned bridge creator, is introduced to Chicagoans as the designer of their urban railway. This fascinating exploration of how one human-built structure reshaped the social and economic landscape of Chicago is the definitive book on Chicago's elevated Loop. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is an Assistant Professor at Alfred State College and the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email tobtoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city's downtown. But how much do they know about the single most important structure in the history of the Windy City? In engagingly brisk prose, Patrick T. Reardon unfolds the fascinating story about how Chicago's elevated Loop was built, gave its name to the downtown, helped unify the city, saved the city's economy, and was itself saved from destruction in the 1970s. Patrick T. Reardon's book The Loop: The 'L' Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago (Southern Illinois UP, 2020) combines urban history, biography, engineering, architecture, transportation, culture, and politics to explore the elevated Loop's impact on the city's development and economy and on the way Chicagoans see themselves. The Loop rooted Chicago's downtown in a way unknown in other cities, and it protected that area—and the city itself—from the full effects of suburbanization during the second half of the twentieth century. Masses of data underlie new insights into what has made Chicago's downtown, and the city as a whole, tick. The Loop features a cast of colorful Chicagoans, such as legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow, poet Edgar Lee Masters, mayor Richard J. Daley, and the notorious Gray Wolves of the Chicago City Council. Charles T. Yerkes, an often-demonized figure, is shown as a visionary urban planner, and engineer John Alexander Low Waddell, a world-renowned bridge creator, is introduced to Chicagoans as the designer of their urban railway. This fascinating exploration of how one human-built structure reshaped the social and economic landscape of Chicago is the definitive book on Chicago's elevated Loop. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is an Assistant Professor at Alfred State College and the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email tobtoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/architecture

Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city's downtown. But how much do they know about the single most important structure in the history of the Windy City? In engagingly brisk prose, Patrick T. Reardon unfolds the fascinating story about how Chicago's elevated Loop was built, gave its name to the downtown, helped unify the city, saved the city's economy, and was itself saved from destruction in the 1970s. Patrick T. Reardon's book The Loop: The 'L' Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago (Southern Illinois UP, 2020) combines urban history, biography, engineering, architecture, transportation, culture, and politics to explore the elevated Loop's impact on the city's development and economy and on the way Chicagoans see themselves. The Loop rooted Chicago's downtown in a way unknown in other cities, and it protected that area—and the city itself—from the full effects of suburbanization during the second half of the twentieth century. Masses of data underlie new insights into what has made Chicago's downtown, and the city as a whole, tick. The Loop features a cast of colorful Chicagoans, such as legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow, poet Edgar Lee Masters, mayor Richard J. Daley, and the notorious Gray Wolves of the Chicago City Council. Charles T. Yerkes, an often-demonized figure, is shown as a visionary urban planner, and engineer John Alexander Low Waddell, a world-renowned bridge creator, is introduced to Chicagoans as the designer of their urban railway. This fascinating exploration of how one human-built structure reshaped the social and economic landscape of Chicago is the definitive book on Chicago's elevated Loop. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is an Assistant Professor at Alfred State College and the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email tobtoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city's downtown. But how much do they know about the single most important structure in the history of the Windy City? In engagingly brisk prose, Patrick T. Reardon unfolds the fascinating story about how Chicago's elevated Loop was built, gave its name to the downtown, helped unify the city, saved the city's economy, and was itself saved from destruction in the 1970s. Patrick T. Reardon's book The Loop: The 'L' Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago (Southern Illinois UP, 2020) combines urban history, biography, engineering, architecture, transportation, culture, and politics to explore the elevated Loop's impact on the city's development and economy and on the way Chicagoans see themselves. The Loop rooted Chicago's downtown in a way unknown in other cities, and it protected that area—and the city itself—from the full effects of suburbanization during the second half of the twentieth century. Masses of data underlie new insights into what has made Chicago's downtown, and the city as a whole, tick. The Loop features a cast of colorful Chicagoans, such as legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow, poet Edgar Lee Masters, mayor Richard J. Daley, and the notorious Gray Wolves of the Chicago City Council. Charles T. Yerkes, an often-demonized figure, is shown as a visionary urban planner, and engineer John Alexander Low Waddell, a world-renowned bridge creator, is introduced to Chicagoans as the designer of their urban railway. This fascinating exploration of how one human-built structure reshaped the social and economic landscape of Chicago is the definitive book on Chicago's elevated Loop. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is an Assistant Professor at Alfred State College and the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email tobtoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city's downtown. But how much do they know about the single most important structure in the history of the Windy City? In engagingly brisk prose, Patrick T. Reardon unfolds the fascinating story about how Chicago's elevated Loop was built, gave its name to the downtown, helped unify the city, saved the city's economy, and was itself saved from destruction in the 1970s. Patrick T. Reardon's book The Loop: The 'L' Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago (Southern Illinois UP, 2020) combines urban history, biography, engineering, architecture, transportation, culture, and politics to explore the elevated Loop's impact on the city's development and economy and on the way Chicagoans see themselves. The Loop rooted Chicago's downtown in a way unknown in other cities, and it protected that area—and the city itself—from the full effects of suburbanization during the second half of the twentieth century. Masses of data underlie new insights into what has made Chicago's downtown, and the city as a whole, tick. The Loop features a cast of colorful Chicagoans, such as legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow, poet Edgar Lee Masters, mayor Richard J. Daley, and the notorious Gray Wolves of the Chicago City Council. Charles T. Yerkes, an often-demonized figure, is shown as a visionary urban planner, and engineer John Alexander Low Waddell, a world-renowned bridge creator, is introduced to Chicagoans as the designer of their urban railway. This fascinating exploration of how one human-built structure reshaped the social and economic landscape of Chicago is the definitive book on Chicago's elevated Loop. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is an Assistant Professor at Alfred State College and the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email tobtoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city's downtown. But how much do they know about the single most important structure in the history of the Windy City? In engagingly brisk prose, Patrick T. Reardon unfolds the fascinating story about how Chicago's elevated Loop was built, gave its name to the downtown, helped unify the city, saved the city's economy, and was itself saved from destruction in the 1970s. Patrick T. Reardon's book The Loop: The 'L' Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago (Southern Illinois UP, 2020) combines urban history, biography, engineering, architecture, transportation, culture, and politics to explore the elevated Loop's impact on the city's development and economy and on the way Chicagoans see themselves. The Loop rooted Chicago's downtown in a way unknown in other cities, and it protected that area—and the city itself—from the full effects of suburbanization during the second half of the twentieth century. Masses of data underlie new insights into what has made Chicago's downtown, and the city as a whole, tick. The Loop features a cast of colorful Chicagoans, such as legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow, poet Edgar Lee Masters, mayor Richard J. Daley, and the notorious Gray Wolves of the Chicago City Council. Charles T. Yerkes, an often-demonized figure, is shown as a visionary urban planner, and engineer John Alexander Low Waddell, a world-renowned bridge creator, is introduced to Chicagoans as the designer of their urban railway. This fascinating exploration of how one human-built structure reshaped the social and economic landscape of Chicago is the definitive book on Chicago's elevated Loop. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is an Assistant Professor at Alfred State College and the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email tobtoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

From the church calendar, we notice Rose of Lime, first person born in the Americas to be canonized by the Catholic Church, And King Louis of France - the only French king to e made a saint. August 24 is waffle day; for literary birthdays this week we have Ray Bradbury and Edgar Lee Masters. There's also something called "The Great Moon Hoax" - fitting for a week with the full moon shining through the windows!

My favorite novel is Gilead by Marilynn Robinson.  It is up there in my pantheon with Les Miserables and Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters.  Spoon River Anthology is a dialogue from the grave, short one-page, free-verse statements from the deceased about their lives.  After a while you realize they are interacting with each other, in death as they did in life.  It is one of the most creative books I have ever read.  All three of these are books I have read more than once.  Each time, they are new.  (Which is a characteristic of world-class literature). Gilead is about a Congregationalist minister, John Ames.  He is an older man who lost his beloved wife and daughter during childbirth.  He has never quite gotten over that loss but then, decades later, a young woman appears in his church one morning.  A March-October marriage?  Can this possibly work?  In fact, it does and they have a son.  But then John gets a diagnosis.  He has a heart condition that will soon take his life.  "Why do you have to be so old? his loving young wife asks.  She would have loved having another 30 years with John.  But he recognizes reality.  He realizes that he will never be able to tell his son, now six, all the stories of his family history that he would ordinarily tell him.  Nor will his son have more than a fleeting memory of his father.  John decides to write a letter to the son telling him all the things he would have told him had he had the time, and discussing with him all the issues -- religious, philosophical, historical, personal  – that he would have discussed with him as he got older.  Gilead is the note that John left for his son.  Those who know me know that I spend a lot of time in graveyards.  I frequently lead graveyard walks for friends and students.  When I discuss gravestones I always say that a gravestone is not about death.  It is about life.  It is about who we were, what was important to us, and how we want to be remembered.  This letter is the gravestone that Ames leaves for his son.  Who I was, what was important to me, how I want to be remembered.  By the way, Jane and I put our gravestone into place a few years ago.  It has the normal information:  names, dates, professions.  It includes the names of our two sons and our four grandchildren.  It has the date of our marriage.  And it has the slogan, “We were given the gift of time, and used it well.”  I stole the first part of that from Ted Kennedy's memoir.  He had three older brothers, all of whom died violently (one in war, two from assassination). He said, “I was given the gift of time,” which his brothers were not.  His memoir is a reflection on his life, the achievements that would never have occurred had he died at the age that his brothers died.  We added the last part to our stone to make it clear that we were grateful for our time. John Ames was not given that gift. Do you have a thought?  You can send me a reaction at Stocktonafterclass@gmail.com

On Episode 60 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete has the pleasure to speak with the talented writer Andrew Liu. The two talk about Andrew's poetry, which is multifaceted and inspired by so many disparate people and art and experiences and traditions. Andrew speaks to both the cerebral and emotional in his poetry and its connections to the idea of the muse, the Kaguya tradition, writing about paradox, and so much more.     Andrew Liu is a 2020 MFA graduate of CSU Long Beach's Creative Writing - Poetry program. He is published in two student magazines: East Los Angeles City College's Milestone and CSU Long Beach's Riprap. You can read his MFA thesis, California Metaphysics, which collects some of his best poems, on CSULB's thesis database (https://www.proquest.com/docview/2455809945/C36DDE5A65C748F1PQ/1). You can also view a recording of a virtual reading of selected poems organized by Andrew Liu and his friend Jesse Tovar on Youtube: https://youtu.be/duw83IwH5fk.  Show Notes and Links to Andrew Liu's Work   Andrew Liu's Cal State Long Beach Thesis-California Metaphysics   Andrew performs on Jan 8, 2021: My Place Cafe Events   At about 3:15, Andrew talks about growing up in the San Gabriel Valley, learning English as a second language, and the eventual eclipsing of Taiwanese by English; he also talks about his “contentious” relationship with languages and the precarious Taiwanese    At about 9:45, Andrew talks about his linguistic history and how it might affect his writing; in addition, this leads to his discussion of language as a barrier and an enhancer of imagery   At about 12:00, Andrew hones in on how he saw himself as a poet through his varied interests as a child, as well as through help from Ms. Burkhart and the YAWP (Young Aspiring Writers Program)   At about 13:30, Andrew discusses writers who have given him “chills at will,” including Edgar Lee Masters, whose work connected to Andrew's ruminations on identity   At about 17:30, Andrew comments on the times at which when he saw himself apply the form to the imagination, including community college as an freeing and formative experience    At about 22:00, Andrew talks about the hierarchy of “manly” vs. “unmanly,” gay vs. straight, childhish vs. “grown up” and how his work plays on these opposites   At about 27:00, Andrew talks about the tropes of the “manchild” and the patriarchal control that shrugs and says, “boys will be boys” and how he writes to combat these as forms of protest   At about 30:00, Andrew talks about writing in the “surreal” time of Trumpism   At about 31:00, Andrews draws connections between childhood and adulthood, and his view of the fluidity of the two   At about 32:25, Andrew talks about the search for his writer's autonomy and a transformational experience in hearing a high school classmate's commanding performance, as well as his response poem in 12th grade in a “classics slam” to Ha Jin's poem, “Ways of Talking”   At about 36:00, Andrew discusses inspirations for his thesis poetry collection-”California Metaphysics”   At about 39:00, Andrew talks about muses in his writing, particularly the problematic ways in which it is often used   At about 41:00, Andrew talks about his appreciation of Kaguya, particularly The Tale of the Princess Kaguya and the triumphs, resolve, and tragedies of Princess Kaguya; he connects the passivity and activity of the princess and its connection to his view of the muse    At about 44:15, Andrews reads an excerpt from “Ossified Landscape w/ Faceless Girl, alt. Kaguya”   At about 46:30, Pete and Andrew discuss the idea of Takahata and others “interpreting” the traditional and ancient Kaguya storyline, and Andrew talks about his concerted use of parentheses in his poem   At about 52:05, Pete and Andrew discuss The Eternal Sunshine of the Mind, and its role as one of Andrew's favorite movies and connections to Andrew's work, specifically “Ossified Landscape…”   At about 54:40, Pete details craft successes from Andrew and asks Andrew for feedback; Andrew discusses erasure and identity and the ephemerality, with regard to the two movies mentioned above, as well as Jeremy Renner's Arrival, based on Ted Chiang's short story “Story of your Life”   At about 1:03:00, Andrew talks about ephemerality as seen in art, as well as his use of the moon as a symbol in his work   At about 1:07:55, Andrew connects the “paradise myth” to Danez Smith's epic poem, “summer, somewhere”   At about 1:09:00, Pete and Andrew discuss Andrew's poem “ ‘C' for California” after Andrew reads it; Andrew talks about the poem as part of the academic tradition of poetry and the influence of Stand Up Poetry, pioneered by Andrew's Cal State Long Beach mentor, Charles Harper Webb; the conversation then delves into nature's connections to Andrew's and other literature   At about 1:22:15, Andrew talks about future projects and the potential for his thesis You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. 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Join Jennie and Dianne as they read select and rather juicy poems from The Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters. These poems are written from the perspective of those buried in the cemetery of the fictional town of Spoon River. Meet husbands and wives who drive each other crazy, the madam of a brothel who must pay regularly to support the public school, the tragic story of a young woman whose "virtue" is stolen and dies a tragic death at the hands of the doctor who was only trying to help and how it all drove her father to his own grave. Happy listening and happy new year! 

In this wide-ranging and fun episode, John and Jude share books with some of the most wild, weird and original premises they've come across. Mind-bending dystopian epics, imaginative speculations on the nature of time and mortality, harebrained schemes hatched in the jungle and picaresque novels featuring murderous mutants - it's all here in this bizarre bouillabaisse of a show! Bon áppetit!! BOOKS DISCUSSED/MENTIONED/RECOMMENDED IN THIS EPISODE: From John Current read: The Thirty Years War, C. V. Wedgwood Wild/imaginative books: Toilers of the Sea, Victor Hugo; Einstein's Dreams, Alan Lightman; The Financial Lives of the Poets, Jess Walter; Madness is Better Than Defeat, Ned Beauman; The Postmortal, Drew Magary; Our Town, play by Thornton Wilder; The Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Masters; Moravagine, Blaise Cendrars; The Memory of Fire trilogy, Eduardo Galeano Next read: The Plague, Albert Camus From Jude Current read: Moby , Herman Melville Wild/imaginative books: Inverted World, Christopher Priest; Railsea, China Miéville; The Stone Raft and Death with Interruptions, José Saramago; M31: A Family Romance, Stephen Wright; Conquest of the Useless, Werner Herzog Next read: Get That N----- Off the Field: An Oral History of the Negro League, Art Rust, Jr.