Podcast appearances and mentions of Philip Levine

Erika Meitner joins Kevin Young to read “What Work Is,” by Philip Levine, and her own poem “To Gather Together.” Meitner's books include “Useful Junk” and “Holy Moly Carry Me,” which won the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry. She is currently a Mandel Institute Cultural Leadership Program Fellow, and she's the director of the M.F.A. program in creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In this WP Agency Track episode, hosts Cami and Marcus interview Philip Levine, owner of South Florida Web Advisors, discussing his evolution from static sites to WordPress, emphasizing networking, automation, and work-life balance.

Get out your UV lights & swabs--the queens play a game that fuses poems, then guess the poetic DNA samples. Then we spark up a fusion of a different strain!Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Pretty Please.....Buy our books:     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.     James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.SHOW NOTES:Watch Jools Lebron get mindful and demure here, divaDon't soak tampons in vodka. Poems we discuss in the episode include:Philip Levine's "Bitterness"Laura Kasischke's "Champagne"Kay Ryan's "Shark's Teeth"Kenneth Koch's "One Train May Hide Another"Annie Finch's "Wild Yeasts"Dorothea Lasky's "Toast to my friend or why Friendship is the best kind of Love"Danusha Laméris's "Bonfire Opera"Marie Ponsot's "Among Women"Tina Chang's "God Country"Campbell McGrath's "Sunset, Route 90, Brewster County, Texas"Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish"W.B. Yeats's "Leda and the Swan"Gerard Manley Hopkins's "The Windhover"Anne Sexton's "Jesus Awake" & "Wanting to Die" Langston Hughes's "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" & "I, Too"Philip Larkin's "Sad Steps" And Beyonce's "You Won't Break My Soul [Queens Remix]," in which she sampled Madonna's song "Vogue," returning it to the culture where it rightly belongs.

We were thrilled to have the opportunity to talk to PEN America's Jeremy Young about what a second Trump administration holds in store for higher education. It was an informative—and sobering—conversation. Over the next four years, we should be prepared for a tsunami of ideologically-driven threats to academic freedom, campus free expression and the basic integrity of higher education. If you would rather read than listen, there is a transcript attached below. Show NotesPEN America's *Educational Censorship* page is a terrific resourceOn Christopher Rufo, see Benjamin Wallace-Wells, “How a Conservative Activist Invented the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory,” New Yorker, June 18, 2021 and Michael Kruse, “DeSantis' Culture Warrior: ‘We Are Now Over the Walls,'” Politico, March 24, 2023. For Rufo's take on critical race theory, in his own words, see this YouTube video. Here is the full text of Executive Order 13950, which became the template for most of the anti-CRT (or “divisive concepts”) laws passed in red states. On the Stop WOKE Act, the marquee anti-CRT law signed into law by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in 2022, check out these two Banished episodes:The Sunshine State Descends into Darkness (Again)Will Florida's "Stop WOKE Act" Hold Up in Court?Jeffrey Sachs and Jeremy Young predict the future: “For Federal Censorship of Higher Ed, Here's What Could Happen in 2025” (PEN America, January 2, 2025)For more on the phenomenon of “jawboning,” see this page from FIRE and this page from the Knight First Amendment Institute On “anticipatory obedience,” see this excerpt from Timothy Snyder's 2017 book, On Tyranny On legislative challenges to campus DEI, see the Chronicle of Higher Education DEI Legislation Tracker. (We are quite skeptical of many conventional DEI efforts but state bans are a cure that is far worse than the disease )For a deeper dive on accreditation, see Eric Kelderman, “Trump's Vision for College Accreditation Could Shake Up the Sector” (Chronicle of Higher Education, November 26, 2024)On Title VI investigations by the Office of Civil Rights, see Zach Montague, “Campus Protest Investigations Hang Over Schools as New Academic Year Begins” (New York Times, October 5, 2024)Here is the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism. Kenneth Stern, one of the definition's main authors, explains why he is concerned it is being used to promote campus censorshipOn the prospect of a much heftier endowment tax for the country's wealthiest institutions, see Phillip Levine, “How Trump Could Devastate Our Top Colleges' Finances” (Chronicle of Higher Education, January 13, 2025). Levine addresses the normative question—should college endowments be taxed?—here. TranscriptJeff: So, we're looking forward to a second Trump administration.Jeremy: Are we looking forward to a second Trump administration?Amna: No…towards.Jeff: We are anticipating…I personally am dreading a second Trump administration.Amna: This is Banished and I'm Amna Khalid, along with my colleague Jeff Snyder. Jeff and I were delighted to have the chance to catch up with PEN America's Jeremy Young at the recent American Historical Association conference in New York City. He's one of the most informed and astute analysts of government driven censorship in higher education today. We started by asking him to tell us a little about PEN America.Jeremy: PEN America is a 102 year old organization that exists at the intersection of literature and human rights. It is one of 140 PEN centers around the world which are in a loose network of PEN Centers governed by PEN International. PEN America's mission is to celebrate literature and defend the freedoms that make it possible, of which two of the foremost are academic freedom and freedom of expression.Amna: And what's your specific role?Jeremy: I am the Director of State and Higher Education Policy at PEN America, which means that I oversee our Freedom to Learn program, which leads actions and responses to educational censorship legislation, largely from the state governments, but also from the federal government. Things like DEI bans, critical race theory restrictions, and various other types of restrictions on faculty governance and university autonomy.Amna: We're eager to hear your predictions on what the higher ed sector should be bracing for with the second Trump administration. But first, Jeremy, could you please remind us of the nature of the attacks against higher education during Trump 1.0?Jeremy: In the summer and fall of 2020, this really happened late in the first Trump administration, there was a national panic around critical race theory, and this was created by Chris Rufo and some others really as a response, a backlash, if you will, against the George Floyd protests, the Black Lives Matter movement, the popularity of the 1619 Project, and so on, this sort of moment of racial reckoning. And so Rufo and others (Rufo is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute) decided to use this term critical race theory, which of course is an academic term with a particular set of meanings but to, as he put it, decodify and recodify it, essentially weaponize it to mean things that weren't all that connected to the actual theory of critical race theory and were really just a sort of catchall for criticisms of DEI and other race-based pedagogies and ideas. And so Rufo was able to convince president Trump to issue an executive order 13950 called Race and Sex Stereotyping that laid out a list of nine divisive concepts which bore some passing resemblance to critical race theory, but really were vague, and general, and banned all sorts of practices related to race, gender, and identity, and ideas related to race, gender, and identity that were unclear and difficult to interpret. Originally, this was a restriction aimed solely at trainings in government agencies…the executive order never went into effect. It was stayed by a court and repealed on the first day of the Biden administration. But that language of the divisive concepts then began to appear in state legislatures aimed now squarely at education. At first, at K-12 institutions primarily, and over time, higher education became more and more of the target.In 2023, we started to see a shift toward sort of broad spectrum attacks on higher education, moving away from some of the direct speech restrictions of the critical race theory bans, in part because of court cases that had gone adversely for those restrictions, and instead restricting broad swaths of university governance, including DEI offices, the ability of a university to manage diversity work on its own as a sort of shared governance function, tenure restrictions on faculty governance, restrictions on curriculum, which I think are going to be very prominent in 2025.Amna: You mentioned backlash to the 2020 racial reckoning as a key factor driving the anti-CRT movement. Can you say something more about where this opposition to CRT and now DEI is coming from?Jeremy: I think that there are several causes that are inseparable from one another. I think there are people who actually do want to restrict those particular ideas on campus, who want to advance a sort of triumphalist Western canon narrative of America as the victor, and they're just very opposed to any discussions that paint the United States in any way that is not hyper-patriotic and perfect. There's absolutely some racism, some sexism, some, some discrimination, discriminatory bias that's involved.I also think that there is a real desire to simply crush university power that I think comes out of the educational realignment that we have seen over the last 10 years. Kamala Harris won college educated Americans by 14 points, and four years ago, Joe Biden won them by four, and prior to the 2016 election, there was essentially no difference between the parties, really, at any time in American history on the axis of college education. There is now a sense I think among some conservative forces that instead of the long-time conservative project of reforming universities, having more viewpoint diversity, think of the Koch Centers in various institutions. Instead they're a place where liberals go to get educated, so we should just crush them, right? So I think that's part of it. It's just the goal of taking away universities' autonomy on everything is a key component.And the third component is political gain. And that is the one that has fluctuated the most over this period. Glenn Youngkin won a come from behind victory running on criticizing critical race theory in K-12 schools. And Steve Bannon said in 2021, I think about critical race theory and I see 50 new House seats in the midterm elections. Now, when that didn't happen, I think it began to become clear that these attacks are not as salient as they were thought to be. I think in 2023 and 2024, there was a real move away from that, especially with, also with the collapse of the DeSantis presidential campaign, which was built entirely around this idea of him being, fighting the war on woke. There was a sense that, maybe you still want to do these things, but now it's going to be quiet, it's going to be stealth mode, because there's no political gain to be gotten from having a big press release around this, around the Stop WOKE Act. But the other two motivations, the motivation of restricting certain ideas about race; and the motivation of smashing the power of higher education, those have remained constant.Jeff: Very succinct and helpful. Thank you. You and your colleague Jeffrey Sachs recently wrote an informative and sobering piece about Trump's plans for higher ed in 2025 and beyond. Maybe you could tell us a little about your key predictions. The first one you mention is jawboning. What is jawboning and why should we be worried about it?Jeremy: Jawboning, put simply, is when government officials, instead of passing a law requiring someone who isn't a government official to do something, they simply browbeat or bully or threaten them into doing it. In some ways you can look at the congressional hearings as a form of jawbonings or making threats against presidents at Columbia and Harvard and so on. But the classic example is actually what we're seeing at the state level where lawmakers are simply going to university presidents and say, saying, okay, we're not going to pass a DEI ban or a curriculum restriction. We're going to simply request that you make one on your own or we'll cut your funding. Or we'll pass one next year that's worse than anything you could imagine. It's a very intimate form of censorship, right? It takes restrictions out of the legislative process where they can be challenged at a hearing; out of the judicial process where they can be challenged on constitutional grounds; and every single one of these bills has at least some constitutional infirmities. And instead makes it just a threat, right? We're gonna cut your budget. What are you gonna do about that? It's a very difficult position for presidents to be in because they don't have a lot of leverage.Jeff: I think it was Yale historian Timothy Snyder who coined the term anticipatory obedience.  He said it was a dynamic that's often seen under conditions of rising authoritarianism. So you've got individuals and groups that start to make concessions they think will appease the powers that be. Is there a connection here to jawboning?Jeremy: Yes, so we talk about over compliance and pre-compliance. We're not going to comply with the letter of the law, we're going to comply with the spirit of the law. There is a law in Alabama that passed in 2024 that restricts some elements of DEI, but does not actually ban outright the DEI offices. And every university in Alabama has treated it as though it is an outright ban. And that's significant, in particular, because of the nature of these laws. You know, you go look at a set of statutes in a state legislature or the federal government, what you'll notice is that most laws are very precise. Think about traffic laws. What are you allowed to do on the road? It's very specific. You can drive this many miles an hour this particular way. There's no room for interpretation. There's no room for judgment because the goal is to make you comply with the law. These laws are intentionally vague. They ban broad swaths of ideas which are never defined in the laws.What does it mean to say, for instance, one of the divisive concepts, to say that you're not allowed to say that the United States is fundamentally racist. What does that mean? It doesn't say in the law what that means. It's left up to your interpretation, which means whoever is going to enforce that law gets to decide whether you violate it. That is actually a constitutional violation. It's against the 14th Amendment. And while the courts have found all sorts of infirmities with these laws, that's the one they've found the most consistency. Not freedom of speech, not racial discrimination but vagueness. So over-complying with a vague law is, it's difficult to avoid because these laws lend themselves to over-compliance because they're so vague. But it's also vitally important to avoid doing that.The other thing that we see is pre-compliance, which is just imagining that the legislature is going to pass a law but then whether or not they do it. We intervened with the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, one of the seven accrediting bodies because they were basically enacting what a restriction in Project 2025 that would have forbidden them to have a DEI standard for universities they accredit. And just doing it preemptively.It's not clear whether the education department is able to pass that restriction without legislation. And it's not clear whether legislation or the regulation would survive a court challenge. And they're just saying we'll just take it out. That's pre-compliance. You don't want to do that. And what we argued successfully, is that, again, even if you don't think an accreditor should have a DEI standard, we don't take a position on that. The worst time to get rid of your DEI standard is one month before a new administration that's promised to ban it tells you to. That's the moment when you put up your back and say, no, we're not going to comply with this.Jeff: Jeremy, tell us a little bit more about the new Trump administration's plans to disrupt the conventional work of accreditors.Jeremy: So higher education institutions are accredited by one of seven accrediting bodies, six of which have historically served certain regions, but now under new federal regulations the university can work with any of the seven accreditors. But they still tend to be concentrated in regions.Accreditation is really the only thing that separates a real substantive university from a diploma mill; and the way that accreditation is enforced, is that the Department of Education will only provide federal student financial aid, which 55 percent of all students receive, to schools that it recognizes as legitimate accreditors, which currently is those seven institutional accreditors. They are private or nonprofit organizations. They're run by academics. They have their pluses and minuses, but they are pretty much the guarantor of institutional quality in higher education. And if you look at Project 2025, everything that they say they want to do to higher education is focused on accreditation. They have identified these accreditors as the soft underbelly of higher education. And the simplest thing that they want to do and that they probably will at least try to do is to ban accreditors from having DEI standards, of which six of the seven currently do.But they really want to go further. What they really want to do is to undermine the system of accreditation itself by allowing any jurisdiction, any state, to either charter its own accreditor or serve as its own accreditor. So Ron DeSantis could become the accreditor for all universities in Florida. And now instead of those universities having DEI offices, he can say you cannot be accredited in the state of Florida unless you've banned DEI and basically instituted a classical curriculum, a Hillsdale style classical curriculum. It's a little more complicated than project 2025 makes it sound. Our analysis is that while they may attempt to do it through regulatory action, the process of negotiated rulemaking in the Department of Education is sufficiently complex that it would probably stop them from doing it and so that probably means that they need legislation to change the Higher Education Act, which would be subject to a filibuster.So this is something that we will be watching to see if they try to do it administratively. It may not be possible. And we'll also be watching if they try to slip it into one of those reconciliation bills that are being proposed that would be able to go through without a filibuster.Jeff: So that's how the accreditation system might be weaponized. You and Sacks also identify Title VI enforcement by the Office of Civil Rights as a key area of concern. Maybe we can break this down into its component parts. What is the Office of Civil Rights and what's Title VI?Jeremy: Sure. So the Office of Civil Rights is an office within the Department of Education that ensures that educational institutions meet the requirements of the various civil rights laws. It covers Title VI funding, which is funding that is tied to financial aid for universities, and it makes sure that institutions that are receiving federal financial aid are following these civil rights protections. It is an office does good work and we have a good relationship with the office.We have some concerns about the way that the Biden administration has been investigating and enforcing agreements with universities around antisemitism. We expect things to get far worse in the new administration. We expect that any university that has any sort of protest or any faculty member who expresses pro-Palestinian views is going to be investigated and sanctioned by the Office of Civil Rights. We expect they're going to launch lawsuits. They're going to really go after universities. So it is an office that is going to be used in some really aggressive ways to restrict speech on campus.Jeff: In terms of restricting speech, you and Sachs are especially worried about the trend on the part of colleges and universities, not to mention states and the federal government, to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism. Why is this so concerning to you both?Jeremy: So the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism is a very interesting document. It starts with a description that is quite thoughtful and then it gives a list of examples of things that could be forms of antisemitism or could accompany antisemitism, and that list includes things like singling out the state of Israel for special criticism that other states are not singled out for that do engage in the same actions or just you know criticizing Zionism, things like that. Which in the context of what that definition was designed for yes, sometimes when you see those statements, it's worth perking your ears up and asking, is this accompanying antisemitism or not?What the laws are doing, and this comes from a model bill that the Goldwater Institute wrote in 2016, and it's now being suffused into all these federal and state policies, is to take those examples of possible antisemitism and change it from possible to definite antisemitism. So anytime you criticize the state of Israel, it's antisemitism. And then writing that into law, saying that universities have to treat this as any instance of this broad definition of antisemitism as hate speech or as a form of harassment. The author of that definition, Kenneth Stern has repeatedly said that it is not designed to be used in that way. In fact, he said it's unconstitutional to use it in that way. And yet that's what we're seeing. So that's the concern. It's not that you shouldn't have a definition of anti Semitism, although I will say our statutes tend not to define particular types of hate speech because it's too subjective, right? This is the reason that we have definitions like severe, pervasive, and targeted for harassment. You're looking at a pattern of behavior because each individual case is protected by free expression.Jeff: I understand that the Office of Civil Rights is currently conducting dozens of Title VI investigations stemming from campus protests over the war in Gaza. There are widespread allegations of antisemitism, many of which are accompanied by competing charges of Islamophobia. How do you think we should make sense of this?Jeremy: These are complex situations. Lots of universities are getting them wrong. Some universities are being overly censorious, some not enforcing harassment protections. And it's right and proper for OCR to investigate these things. The problem is that they are not always coming up with the right findings. That they're not always protecting free expression, balancing free expression adequately with the need to protect students from harassment. We're seeing universities implement draconian time, place and manner restrictions on speech. So just the fact that OCR and the Congress are making all these threatening noises about restricting speech leads a lot of universities to do the censor's work for them.Amna: Jeremy mentioned one other thing the new Trump administration has made ramblings about, which is ramping up the endowment tax on the country's wealthiest institutions. Please see an informative Chronicle of Higher Education article by Philip Levine, linked in the show notes.What all these attacks or interventions, depending on your point of view, have in common, is that they seek to undermine the autonomy of colleges and universities. Here's Jeremy.Jeremy: University autonomy is not a principle that is very widely understood in the United States. It's much more common in Europe where there's an autonomy index and all sorts of things as a way of protecting academic freedom. But it's a vital component of academic freedom. We think about academic freedom in the U.S. primarily as being the freedom of an individual faculty member to speak their mind or to engage in their research or teaching. But, in reality, that freedom can only be protected so long as the people overseeing it, the university administration, are free from the ideological control of the government. The key here is ideological control. We aren't saying that the government doesn't have a budgetary responsibility to oversee the university, or that there isn't a role for the government in community relations, or student success, or access and completion, or any of these things. But when it comes to ideas, what ideas can be present on a campus, whether it's in the classroom, whether it's in a DEI office, anywhere on campus, that is not the government's business, and it cannot be the government's business, or ultimately everyone on campus is simply going to be currying favor with whatever political party is in charge.Amna: Jeremy, this has been wonderful and you've been so kind to give us so much time. Thank you.Jeff: Thank you. It's an absolute pleasure.Amna: That was our conversation with Jeremy Young of PEN America on what Trump 2.0 portends for higher education. As of yesterday, Trump's second term has officially begun. Keep your eyes peeled and ears tuned for what's to come next. If you liked what you heard today, be sure to help us spread the word about Banished, and don't forget to comment and rate this show.Once again, this is Banished, and I'm Amna Khalid, along with Jeff Snyder. Until next time. This is a public episode. 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The queens have one thing to say: you better werk!Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Buy our books:     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.     James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.SHOW NOTES:Click here to read Philip Levine's "What Work Is"Read more about Philip LevineRead Ada Límon's poem “How We Are Made” dedicated to Levine, who was her teacher. Límon talks about Levine in this interview.Read the iconic and heartbreaking James L. White poem "Making Love to Myself"You can watch Jimmy Merrill read from his 560-page epic poem “The Changing Light at Sandover” in this 12-minute clip.Read more about the Academy of American Poets's Poem-a-Day series here.Read Carl Phillips's Poem-a-Day that James loves: “That Part in the Music” And check out Poetry Daily: https://poems.com

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In this episode, we read and discuss Philip Levine's most famous poem, "What Work Is." We consider his deft use of the second-person perspective, the sociability and narrative energy of his poetry, and his deep concern for the insecurity that defines the lives of so working-class laborers. Click here to read "What Work Is": https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52173/what-work-is Photo credit: Geoffrey Berliner "What Work Is" was published in What Work Is (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/100554/what-work-is-by-philip-levine/) (Knopf, 1991). Thanks to Penguin Random House for granting us permission to read this poem.

Letture: Valerio Magrelli, Mariangela Gualtieri, Ada Limon, Philip Levine. Musica: The National, Roger Eno, Olivia Vedder, Arcade Fire, Beck.

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Episode #48. Host Jonathan Hughes and co-host Julie Shields-Rutyna first discuss MEFA's prepaid tuition program, the U.Plan. Then, they go to the MEFA Mailbag and answer a question about letters of recommendation. Finally, Jonathan and Julie talk to Jill Desjean of NASFAA and Philip Levine of Wellesley College about FAFSA Simplification, including the adjustments to the form, the changes in terminology, and what families can expect when the FAFSA is available in December. Timestamp (0:00)

Tomás Q. Morín is the author of the collection of poems Machete and the memoir Let Me Count the Ways, as well as the poetry collections Patient Zero and A Larger Country. He is co-editor with Mari L'Esperance of the anthology, Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine, and translator of The Heights of Macchu Picchu by Pablo Neruda. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Rice University and Vermont College of Fine Arts.

This episode explores new research, which has found that human-initiated wildfire smoke is responsible for around 20,000 premature deaths per year in the United States. --- Read this episode's science poem here.     Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘SMOKE' by Philip Levine here. --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: sam.illingworth@gmail.com   Twitter: @samillingworth 

Today's poem is Our Valley by Philip Levine. This episode was originally released on October 14, 2021.

Ken reads a Philip Levine poem, plus several of his new poems

You know by now that poets can turn their eyes and pens to the ordinary as well as the sublime... but how many poems have you read about WORK? Keith Hansen brings us three of those today. I'm a little jealous that Keith beat me to sharing "What Work Is" by Philip Levine. That one's a mysterious gem.    Clemens Starck "Slab on Grade" Philip Levine "What Work Is" Marge Piercy "To Be Of Use"   

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Laura Van Prooyen is author of three collections of poetry: Frances of the Wider Field (Lily Poetry Review Books) Our House Was on Fire (Ashland Poetry Press) nominated by Philip Levine and winner of the McGovern Prize and Inkblot and Altar (Pecan Grove Press). She is also co-author with Gretchen Bernabei of Text Structures from Poetry, a book of writing lessons for educators of grades 4-12 (Corwin Literacy). Van Prooyen is the Managing Editor for The Cortland Review, and she teaches in the low-residency MFA Creative Writing program at Miami University. She lives in San Antonio, TX. www.lauravanprooyen.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cbaw/support

Billy Corben goes off on Philip Levine and Dan Gelber as Miami Beach tries to implement a ban the sale of alcohol after 2 a.m. Billy also discusses the policing of Ocean Drive and South Beach's racist history of preventing Black and Brown people from enjoying their visit.. #BecauseMiami Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's poem is Our Valley by Philip Levine.

Today's poem is Our Valley by Philip Levine.

In which Holly and Brian talk about shoes, wraps, straps, pants, and all the accouterment surrounding training and weightlifting. We're by no means the end all be all of what is the latest stuff to throw on your body and lift heavy things, but we've got some years of doing this and have some thoughts that might be useful to you. Also, we go off topic a lot and talk about training outside of the gym, chilling more, and actually recovering from time to time. Inspired? F YEA! Jump into Remote Training HERE Want more support? Brian is currently accepting 1:1 athletes or come try out a class HERE! 1 Rep Snacks Our Garden: Tomatoes Run Everything Labs: Vegan Protein Weightlifter of the Week Caine Wilkes Linda!!!! Media Corner "What Work Is" by Philip Levine available locally in the bay area or on amazon. "Way of the Peaceful Warrior" by Dan Millman available locally in the bay area or on amazon. Remote Training! Reach Out! Brian Twitter, Insta Holly Insta Personal, Gym, Nature Porn https://www.theresilientstrength.life theresilientstrength@gmail.com

The wonderful colors of May -- beginning with delicate greens and then deepening to fuller textures and hues blossoming everywhere -- are one of the reasons why May is my favorite month. Lilacs are another. To celebrate the return of all of the natural joys of May, I read poems about lilacs by Walt Whitman, Amy Lowell, Philip Levine, John Hiatt, and Kornelijus Platelis. I end the program with one of my own poems.

Today, as an adjunct to my programs last fall about poverty, and to continue my look at poetry inspired by immigration, I read poems about the conditions and destinies of working people. They are by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Philip Levine, Kenneth Patchen, Langston Hughes, Rose Pastor Stokes, and Bob Hicok. I end the program with one of my own poems.

Laura Van Prooyen's collections of poetry are Frances of the Wider Field (Lily Poetry Review Books 2021), Our House Was on Fire, nominated by Philip Levine, awarded the McGovern Prize (Ashland Poetry Press 2015), and Inkblot and Altar (Pecan Grove Press 2006). She is also co-author, with Gretchen Bernabei, of Text Structures from Poetry—a book of writing lessons for grades 4-12 (Corwin Literacy 2020). Laura has over 20 years experience teaching poetry and writing in a variety of academic settings including: Dominican University, Henry Ford Academy: The Alameda School for Art + Design, Chicago Public Schools, Del Valle High School, and University of Illinois at Chicago. She also facilitated therapeutic writing sessions for soldiers with PTSD in an Intensive Outpatient Program for three years at Brook Army Medical Center. Having been raised in a tight-knit Dutch community just outside of Chicago, Van Prooyen now lives in San Antonio, TX. She earned a B.A. at Purdue University, an M.A. at The University of Illinois at Chicago, and an M.F.A. in Poetry at Warren Wilson College. Laura serves as the Managing Editor of The Cortland Review and teaches in the Low-Residency Creative Writing MFA Program at Miami University in Ohio. She is launching Next Page Press, with the first title to be released late 2021.https://lauravanprooyen.com/ Host, Kelly Fordon, latest book is a short story collection called I Have the Answer (Wayne State University Press, 2020). Her novel-in-stories, Garden for the Blind, (WSUP, 2015) is a 2016 Michigan Notable Book, a 2016 Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Finalist, a Midwest Book Award Finalist, Eric Hoffer Finalist, and an IPPY Awards Bronze Medalist in the short story category. Her first full-length poetry collection, Goodbye Toothless House, (Kattywompus Press, 2019) was chosen as an Eyelands International Prize Finalist and an Eric Hoffer Finalist for poetry and was adapted into a play by Robin Martin, which was produced in Michigan in 2019, and published in The Kenyon Review Online. She is also the author of three poetry chapbooks. On the Street Where We Live won the 2012 Standing Rock Chapbook Award and the latest one, The Witness, won the 2016 Eric Hoffer Award for the Chapbook and was shortlisted for the Grand Prize. Her work has been published widely in literary journals and has received a Best of the Net Award, as well as Pushcart Prize nominations in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. She teaches at Springfed Arts and The InsideOut Literary Arts Project in Detroit, as well as online, where she also runs a monthly poetry and fiction blog. www.kellyfordon.com

This episode explores new research, which has read an unopened letter from Renaissance Europe – without breaking its seal or damaging it in any way. --- Read this episode's science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read ‘Letters for the Dead' by Philip Levine here.   --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: Email: sam.illingworth@gmail.com   Twitter: @samillingworth 

My program today considers transitions. Poems about the month of March often consider transitions from one state of being to another, from winter to spring on the outside and from various metaphoric and symbolic states on the inside. I read such poems today by William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, Antonio Machado, Pablo Neruda, Anna Akhmatova, Philip Levine, and Kornelijus Platelis. I end the program with one of my own poems.

Former Miami Beach,FL,Mayor, Philip Levine, Other News. 02-26-2021. Alexander News Show. Lets discuss Former City of Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levin time as Mayor of Miami Beach. The fact is i have a issue with him being appointed to be Ms.Mayor Cavas Aide to help with Lifting up Cruise Industry at Port of Miami out of Economic hardship. Please email Show to Alexandernewshow@gmail.com and follow it on Twitter @Alexandernewssh. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-carlos/support

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This content is for Members only. Come and join us by subscribing here In the meantime, here’s some more details about the show: It’s a warm welcome then to the man himself: Dr. Brad Stone - the JazzWeek Programmer of the Year 2017, who's here every Thursday to present The Creative Source - a two hour show, highlighting jazz-fusion and progressive jazz flavours from back then, the here and now, plus occasional forays into the future. Please feel free to get in touch with Brad with any comments or suggestions you might have; he’ll be more than happy to hear from you: brad@soulandjazz.com or follow him via Facebook or Twitter. Enjoy! The Creative Source 29th October 2020 Artist - Track - Album - Year Michael Olatuja    Even Now Prayer    Lagos Pepper Soup    2020 Yellowjackets + WDR Big Band    Revelation    Jackets XL    2020 U.S. Air Force Band "Airmen of Note"    Getting' to It (feat. Christian McBride)    The 2020 Jazz Heritage Series    2020 Joel Ross    Home    Who Are You?    2020 System 6    How They Talk    Bennie's Lament    2020 Manteca    Meanwhile Tomorrow    The Twelfth of Never    2016 Alan Broadbent Trio    Lady Bird    Trio in Motion    2020 Brandi Disterheft Trio w/ George Coleman    Pedulum at Falcon's Lair    Surfboard    2020 Peter Bernstein    Harbor No Illusions    What Comes Next    2020 Gregory Tardy    It Is Finished    If Time Could Stand Still    2020 The Peter Leitch New Life Orchestra    Penumbra    New Life    2020 Richard Baratta    If I Only Had a Brain    Music in Film: The Reel Deal    2020 Jorge Garcia    Living in the Past    Crossover    2019 Teodross Avery    Ugly Beauty    Harlem Stories: The Music of Thelonious Monk    2020 Dylan Canterbury    Inconspicuous    Going Places    2020 Adam Kolker    Lost    Lost    2020 Mario Romano    Via Romano    The Journey So Far    2020 Benjamin Boone    The Sun One (Homage to Sun Ra)    The Poets Are Gathering    2020 Cosmic Vibrations (feat. Dwight Trible)    Nature's Vision    Pathways & Passages    2020 Benjamin Boone    Branch Library    The Poets Are Gathering    2020 Benjamin Boone & Philip Levine    Arrival    The Poetry of Jazz    2018 The post The Creative Source (#CreativeSource) – 29th October 2020 appeared first on SoulandJazz.com | Stereo, not stereotypical ®.

This week I take a look at the poem What Work Is by Philip Levine. I'll be focusing on how Levine tried his best to present the working classes in a new and dignified light, how he used an economy of language and love of physical description to engage his listen then, most importantly, how he examined the toll intense labour and poverty had on the human condition.A copy of the poem can be found here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52173/what-work-isThe shownotes for today's episode, with full references can be found here: https://wordsthatburnpodcast.com/You can get in touch with me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wordsthatburnpodcast/ or by email : wordsthatburnpodcast@gmail.comThe music in this weeks episode is Solace by Scott Buckley and is used under creative commons license. Enjoy his music here: https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/ Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Since 1931, the California Book Awards have honored the exceptional literary merit of California writers and publishers. Each year a select jury considers hundreds of books from around the state in search of the very best in literary achievement. This year, we will be saluting the winners virtually. The California Book Awards have often been on the vanguard, honoring previously unknown authors who go on to garner national acclaim. John Steinbeck received three gold medals—for Tortilla Flat in 1935, In Dubious Battle in 1936 and The Grapes of Wrath in 1939. Award winners in recent years include Adam Johnson, Jared Diamond, Karen Fowler, Kay Ryan, Bill Vollman, Joyce Maynard, Andrew Sean Greer, Yiyun Li, Adrienne Rich, Chalmers Johnson, Richard Rodriguez, Michael Chabon, Philip Levine, Rebecca Solnit, Galen Rowell, Jonathan Lethem, Peter Orner and Kevin Starr. Join us for this special celebratory event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda Holmes reads Philip Levine’s poem, “Let Me Begin Again.” 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In The Spinning Place (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2019), Chelsea Wagenaar explores the power of language—in terms of its possibilities and what it fails to express. As a being with a body in the world, there are so many experiences that are inexpressible. These poems attempt to touch upon those experiences, relating what it means to have a body, one that carries so many things, from children in the womb to the emotional weight of our relationship to others and the world around us. As Wagenaar lyrically examines everyday moments, her words reach for an ecstatic experience of the sacred. Moon-sliced star-pocked streetlit bleat, coal train moving like its own ghost along the tracks. 2:00, 3:00, my shadow sways as I catch myself, hand on the wall, pulled from bed by your nocturnal haunt, you at your crib rail, blanket clutched, more sound than body. — from “Night Shift”   Chelsea Wagenaar is the author of two collections of poetry, most recently The Spinning Place was winner of the 2018 Michael Waters Prize. Her first collection, Mercy Spurs the Bone, was selected by Philip Levine to win the 2013 Philip Levine Prize. She holds degrees from the University of Virginia and the University of North Texas, and currently teaches at Valparaiso University. Her recent work appears or is forthcoming in Image and The Southern Review. Andrea Blythe is a cohost of the New Books in Poetry podcast. She is the author of three chapbooks, Twelve: Poems Inspired by the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale (Interstellar Flight Press), Your Molten Heart / A Seed to Hatch (Kickstarter funded, 2018), and the collaboratively written Every Girl Becomes the Wolf (Finishing Line Press, 2018), authored alongside Laura Madeline Wiseman. She cohosts the New Books in Poetry podcast and is the founder of Once Upon the Weird. Find her online at andreablythe.com or on Twitter/Instagram @AndreaBlythe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In The Spinning Place (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2019), Chelsea Wagenaar explores the power of language—in terms of its possibilities and what it fails to express. As a being with a body in the world, there are so many experiences that are inexpressible. These poems attempt to touch upon those experiences, relating what it means to have a body, one that carries so many things, from children in the womb to the emotional weight of our relationship to others and the world around us. As Wagenaar lyrically examines everyday moments, her words reach for an ecstatic experience of the sacred. Moon-sliced star-pocked streetlit bleat, coal train moving like its own ghost along the tracks. 2:00, 3:00, my shadow sways as I catch myself, hand on the wall, pulled from bed by your nocturnal haunt, you at your crib rail, blanket clutched, more sound than body. — from “Night Shift”   Chelsea Wagenaar is the author of two collections of poetry, most recently The Spinning Place was winner of the 2018 Michael Waters Prize. Her first collection, Mercy Spurs the Bone, was selected by Philip Levine to win the 2013 Philip Levine Prize. She holds degrees from the University of Virginia and the University of North Texas, and currently teaches at Valparaiso University. Her recent work appears or is forthcoming in Image and The Southern Review. Andrea Blythe is a cohost of the New Books in Poetry podcast. She is the author of three chapbooks, Twelve: Poems Inspired by the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale (Interstellar Flight Press), Your Molten Heart / A Seed to Hatch (Kickstarter funded, 2018), and the collaboratively written Every Girl Becomes the Wolf (Finishing Line Press, 2018), authored alongside Laura Madeline Wiseman. She cohosts the New Books in Poetry podcast and is the founder of Once Upon the Weird. Find her online at andreablythe.com or on Twitter/Instagram @AndreaBlythe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In The Spinning Place (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2019), Chelsea Wagenaar explores the power of language—in terms of its possibilities and what it fails to express. As a being with a body in the world, there are so many experiences that are inexpressible. These poems attempt to touch upon those experiences, relating what it means to have a body, one that carries so many things, from children in the womb to the emotional weight of our relationship to others and the world around us. As Wagenaar lyrically examines everyday moments, her words reach for an ecstatic experience of the sacred. Moon-sliced star-pocked streetlit bleat, coal train moving like its own ghost along the tracks. 2:00, 3:00, my shadow sways as I catch myself, hand on the wall, pulled from bed by your nocturnal haunt, you at your crib rail, blanket clutched, more sound than body. — from “Night Shift”   Chelsea Wagenaar is the author of two collections of poetry, most recently The Spinning Place was winner of the 2018 Michael Waters Prize. Her first collection, Mercy Spurs the Bone, was selected by Philip Levine to win the 2013 Philip Levine Prize. She holds degrees from the University of Virginia and the University of North Texas, and currently teaches at Valparaiso University. Her recent work appears or is forthcoming in Image and The Southern Review. Andrea Blythe is a cohost of the New Books in Poetry podcast. She is the author of three chapbooks, Twelve: Poems Inspired by the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale (Interstellar Flight Press), Your Molten Heart / A Seed to Hatch (Kickstarter funded, 2018), and the collaboratively written Every Girl Becomes the Wolf (Finishing Line Press, 2018), authored alongside Laura Madeline Wiseman. She cohosts the New Books in Poetry podcast and is the founder of Once Upon the Weird. Find her online at andreablythe.com or on Twitter/Instagram @AndreaBlythe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's poem is They Feed They Lion by Philip Levine.

Estamos formados bajo la lluvia en una larga fila en Ford Highland Park. Buscando trabajo. Sabés lo que es el trabajo: si tenés edad de leer esto sabés lo que es el trabajo, por más que no trabajes. Olvidate de vos. Esto es sobre esperar, apoyarse en un pie, después el otro. Sentir la llovizna que te cae como rocío en el pelo, te nubla la vista hasta que creés ver a tu propio hermano más adelante, a unos diez lugares. Te restregás los anteojos con los dedos y claro que es el hermano de alguien más, con la espalda menos ancha que el tuyo, pero con la misma postura triste y encorvada, la sonrisa que no alcanza a esconder la terquedad, la triste negativa a ceder ante la lluvia, las horas malgastadas esperando, sabiendo que en algún lado más adelante espera un hombre que te va a decir, “No, hoy no estamos tomando gente”, por cualquier motivo que se le ocurra. Vos amás a tu hermano, ahora de repente apenas soportás el amor por tu hermano que te inunda, que no está al lado tuyo ni detrás ni adelante porque está en casa tratando de dormir un poco después del sufrido turno noche en la planta de Cadillac así le da tiempo a levantarse antes del mediodía para estudiar alemán. Trabaja ocho horas cada noche para poder cantar a Wagner, la ópera que vos más detestás, la peor música jamás inventada. ¿Cuánto hace que no le decís que lo querés, que no abrazás su espalda ancha, abrís los ojos grande y pronuncias esas palabras y a lo mejor le das un beso en la mejilla? Nunca hiciste algo tan sencillo, tan obvio, no porque seas demasiado joven o demasiado bobo, tampoco porque estés celoso o seas mezquino, ni siquiera incapaz de llorar adelante de otro hombre, no, sólo porque no sabés lo que es el trabajo.

Hosts Marjorie Lotfi Gill and Claire Urqhuart discuss Leila Aboulela's short essay from the book Imagine A Country: Ideas for a Better Future (ed. Val McDermid & Jo Sharp) and the poems 'Coffee Ceremony' by Anne Hay and 'What Work Is' by Philip Levine in this episode of Open Book Unbound. Find out more about us on our website: www.openbookreading.com/unbound Music: Ragland. Image credit: Susan Torkington

Production and Sound Design by Kevin SeamanSMOKEBy Philip LevineCan you imagine the air filled with smoke?It was. The city was vanishing before noonor was it earlier than that? I can't say becausethe light came from nowhere and went nowhere.This was years ago, before you were born, beforeyour parents met in a bus station downtown.She'd come on Friday after work all the wayfrom Toledo, and he'd dressed in his only suit.Back then we called this a date, some timesa blind date, though they'd written back and forthfor weeks. What actually took place is now lost.It's become part of the mythology of a family,the stories told by children around the dinner table.No, they aren't dead, they're just treated that way,as objects turned one way and then anotherto catch the light, the light overflowing with smoke.Go back to the beginning, you insist. Whyis the air filled with smoke? Simple. We had work.Work was something that thrived on fire, that withoutfire couldn't catch its breath or hang on for life.We came out into the morning air, Bernie, Stash,Williams, and I, it was late March, a new warwas starting up in Asia or closer to home,one that meant to kill us, but for a momentthe air held still in the gray poplars and elmsundoing their branches. I understood the moonfor the very first time, why it came and went, whyit wasn't there that day to greet the four of us.Before the bus came a small black bird settledon the curb, fearless or hurt, and turned its beak upas though questioning the day. "A baby crow,"someone said. Your father knelt down on the wet cement,his lunchbox balanced on one knee and stared quietlyfor a long time. "A grackle far from home," he said.One of the four of us mentioned tenderness,a word I wasn't used to, so it wasn't me.The bus must have arrived. I'm not there today.The windows were soiled. We swayed this way and thatover the railroad tracks, across Woodward Avenue,heading west, just like the sun, hidden in smoke.

We read this poem at our Passover seder every year, a meditation on what it is to be human, on the work it takes to put one foot in front of the other, even when you're looking at dry land. That work is harder than you think. And more human.

In this, the eighth, edition of This is Just To Say, The Closet Recordings, poet and novelist Carrie Fountain reads, “The Mercy” by Philip Levine.

In this, the eighth, edition of This is Just To Say, The Closet Recordings, poet and novelist Carrie Fountain reads, “The Mercy” by Philip Levine.

Join me for a conversational, evocative poem, ostensibly about gin, but really about the nature of time--and the final compensation we get in this life. Not causality, not reason, not rationality, but something more winsome, more redemptive.

In this, the eighth, edition of This is Just To Say, The Closet Recordings, poet and novelist Carrie Fountain reads, “The Mercy” by Philip Levine.

A Poem about what a job is and what work is, At least that's how I took it.

We need more poems in day to day life, especially now when everyone has time to contemplate the deep distillations of experience that poets create. In this FRDH podcast, Michael Goldfarb reads poems by William Blake, John Clare and Philip Levine about lambs, springtime, mercy and love. Something we can all use in this time of self-isolation and disease.

Philip Levine's deceptively simple "The Simple Truth" lays out what makes us human: the ability to taste simple boiled potatoes, seasoned with butter and salt. It has been a part of my life for decades now. It is lodged in my soul. I can't wait to share it with you.

In this episode of Inside the Music: The Reno Phil Podcast, Music Director and Conductor Laura Jackson and Chris Morrison discuss the third concerts of the Reno Phil's 2019-20 season. On January 18 and 19, 2020, Laura Jackson and the Reno Phil perform Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Something for the Dark, inspired by a poem by Philip Levine, an evocative journey about hope, endurance and renewal. Also, violinist Esther Yoo, recently named one of Classic FM’s Top Artists under 30, performs Tchaikovsky’s beloved Violin Concerto, a thrilling display of virtuosity and melodic beauty. The program closes with Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 4, the "Inextinguishable," a dramatic work written in the midst of World War I - highlighted by a dramatic duel between two timpanists in the fourth movement - that conveys the idea of an “inextinguishable” life force that withstands suffering and persists through adversity.

Today's poem is Our Valley by Philip Levine.

Since 1931, the California Book Awards have honored the exceptional literary merit of California writers and publishers. Each year a select jury considers hundreds of books from around the state in search of the very best in literary achievement. The California Book Awards have often been on the vanguard, honoring previously unknown authors who go on to garner national acclaim. John Steinbeck received three gold medals—for Tortilla Flat in 1935, In Dubious Battle in 1936 and The Grapes of Wrath in 1939. Recent award winners include Adam Johnson, Jared Diamond, Karen Fowler, Kay Ryan, Bill Vollman, Joyce Maynard, Andrew Sean Greer, Yiyun Li, Adrienne Rich, Chalmers Johnson, Richard Rodriguez, Michael Chabon, Philip Levine, Rebecca Solnit, Galen Rowell, Jonathan Lethem, Peter Orner and Kevin Starr. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pork Chop Kings, High-T Dave and Low-T John, recap the final Democratic Debate in the race for Florida's Governorship. Will they be seduced by the bland centrist delusions of Gwen Graham and Philip Levine or Andrew Gillum's tepid brand of hush-hush Democratic Socialism that somehow doesn't include an endorsement of Medicare for All or any concrete affordable housing policies? Perhaps there is a third way... the High-E maverick snake-handler from Orlando known as Chris King, John sure seems to think so, but he has been charmed by men pretending to be pastors before.  Oh yeah and also there is a fourth way now: free backpacks as far as the eye can see. That's right, folks, Jeff Greene. Sort of like your friend from middle school's nice dad who lets you eat whatever you want at sleepovers except he made $4billion trading credit default swaps while everyone in FL got their house foreclosed on.  Also of note, John recaps the state-sanctioned murder of Markeis McGlockton and David yells at old people. The boys call for the seizure of of all the Fanjul family assets and dream of a Really REALLY Big Sugar. 

A hopeful, hard-working, Boston-transplant, Philip Levine will be the first to say he wasn't a ‘stellar student,' instead, he would probably attribute his ascension to the upper echelon of Florida politics to his convictions and mentality of hard work. His background in politics and history have led him to ‘think big and act small,' which is why when he saw paralysis on the part of Miami Beach legislature to address climate change, he took up the fight and ran for mayor. Philip is fluent in Floridian. Although his stint at the U of F was brief, he does have valuable advice for students, “I always say, “Study what you would enjoy the most. Study what you would wake up in the morning and be excited to go to class. Because if you want to go into business, you don't need a business degree. Matter of fact, I'll give you a business degree right now. You buy something for a dollar, you sell it for two. You write it down, it's called accounting. And it doesn't make a difference which business you're in.”” One innovative strategy that Levine employed during his campaign was his Living Room Speaking Tour. When he ran for mayor of Miami Beach, Levine knocked on over 6,000 doors, so in order to increase the efficiency, he has people invite over their friends and neighbors to talk with him about this issues in Florida. “They're the ones that kind of give you your PhD on Florida,” he says.

A hopeful, hard-working, Boston-transplant, Philip Levine will be the first to say he wasn’t a ‘stellar student,’ instead, he would probably attribute his ascension to the upper echelon of Florida politics to his convictions and mentality of hard work. His background in politics and history have led him to ‘think big and act small,’ which […] The post 33. Former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine appeared first on Fluent in Floridian.

THE SPEED OF THE LEADER DETERMINES THE RATE OF THE PACK. Philip is now running for Governor with a progressive vision to move Florida forward as a leader in the 21st century economy. He wants to revitalize the economy, envisioning a Florida with better-paying jobs, more competitive public schools, and an entrepreneurial approach to protecting our environment. In the past, he funded his own campaign, refusing money from special interests, and easily won re-election to two terms with a majority of the vote. On this episode we had a really amazing conversation. Before he was ever in public office, Philip was an entrepreneur, creating multiple companies and scaling them to great success. He let me in on some incredible information a lot of people don't know about him, including how he gave back to one of the most influential people from his childhood. Philip goes into detail on how he led a successful election campaign, the lesson he learned from Bill Clinton, and how you can become a better communicator. If you want to hear how you can be a better entrepreneur and better humanitarian at the same time then you need to listen to Episode 602. Some Questions I Ask: What made you want to transition from entrepreneur to mayor? (6:50) How do you enroll people in a single company that's going to be gone a year later? (10:20) When did you first connect with Bill Clinton? (14:55) What's something Clinton isn't notorious for that makes him different? (19:28) Who was your greatest teacher growing up? (26:32) What's the biggest lesson your mother taught you? (28:52) Do you think everyone should serve in public office at some point? (33:47) What's an entrepreneurial approach to helping our environment? (38:04) What's the biggest challenge that you've had to overcome? (41:36) In This Episode You Will Learn: How Philip's background in marketing gave him an edge (9:30) When he first felt the need help people (13:46) The greatest lesson he learned from Bill Clinton (17:03) How to train yourself to be a better communicator (22:53) Which of his parents was the more inspiring teacher (27:36) What got him so involved in the environment (30:28) How you can get involved in your community (34:08) What Philip thinks we need the most as a society (41:12) What he is most proud of that most people don't know about him (42:48) And much, much more

Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine has a different message for Floridians.

Episode 2: where I am joined by Ben Montalbano from Matthäus to talk about his songwriting influences: from Bach & Paul Simon to Blake Mills & poet Philip Levine. At the end of the episode we get to hear a the band's brand new single "To the Years." thank you so much to @sanmatthaus :)

In Miami Beach, they call it “sunny-day flooding.” You'll be hanging out downtown under clear blue skies—only to see, whoa, the streets slowly filling with water. Miami Beach, Florida, is a coastal city built on porous limestone, so as climate change melts polar ice into the oceans, water is literally pushed up out of the ground. “It's an eerie, scary, unnerving feeling, like something out of a sci-fi movie,” says Philip Levine, mayor of the city of 90,000.

In this episode, Rachel Zucker speaks with John Murillo, author of Up Jump the Boogie, about his initiation as a priest in La Regla de Ocha, his writing process, Philip Levine and other poets he loves, his thoughts on the ethics of writing poetry, and duende. Murillo explores the interstices of narrative and lyric poetry, the structure of love poems, how to navigate the line between one’s own story and the stories of others and what it means to be in someone’s poetry tribe.

We had a spoken word track-centric edition of Poetry Super Highway Live this month, though we did find time to host Michael from Birmingham, Alabama, Victor from Montana, and Steve from Palm Springs, California as well as spoken word poetry tracks from Philip Levine, Wanda Coleman, Jerry Garcia, Brendan Constantine (remixed) and yours truly, Rick Lupert, playing a couple of tracks from my spoken word album "Rick Lupert Live and Dead."

Andrea Cohen joins Paul Muldoon to read and discuss Philip Levine's "The Mercy," and her own poem “Major to Minor.”

In this week's episode, I talk to the memoirist, novelist, and journalist Marya Honrbacher, Photo © Mark Trockman (trockstock.com) plus J.J. Anselmi reads his personal essay, "Atrophy," and I offer a tribute to the late Philip Levine. TEXTS DISCUSSED Read Marya Hornbacher's wonderful Smithsonian profile of Oscar Peterson here. NOTES J.J. Anselmi's "Atrophy" first appeared online in Cleaver Magazine. Rest in peace, Philip Levine. Abe Chang with Phil Levine. Read Aaron Belz's discussion of his correspondence with Philip Levine here. Check out Orlando Shakes' wonderfully colorful production of Merry Wives, which runs from February 4 to March 7, 2015. Photo by Tony Firriolo.

Phew! Not enough time to get to all of our callers during this show (which is a great problem to have!) Thanks to our callers from Merric, NY, Bangor, Maine, Casper, Wyoming, Hollywood, CA, Australia, Ireland, Richmand, IN and Brookline, MA for making this a super-packed show. We also played an audio clip from Philip Levine who passed away today, reading his poem "The Mercy."

Crystal Simone Smith, poet and Managing Editor of Backbone Press,  discusses her new chapbook, “Running Music” (Longleaf Press, 2014) which explores her experiences as a  runner, family, and grief. As one who began writing professionally as an adult, Smith says, “It’s never too late to find poetry.” Podcast Notes: Crystal Simone Smith was raised in Prince George’s County, Maryland and educated in North Carolina at Bennett College, UNC-Greensboro, and Queens University of Charlotte. She is also Managing Editor for Backbone Press and currently lives in Durham, NC, where she teaches Composition and Creative Writing. http://crystalsimonesmith.com Resources Warren Wilson Low Residency MFA: http://www.wwcmfa.orgThe Sun Magazine: http://thesunmagazine.org Inspirational Poets Lucille Clifton: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/lucille-clifton Sharon Olds: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/sharon-olds Publications Routes Home (Finishing Line Press) by Crystal Simone Smith Finishing Line Press: https://finishinglinepress.com Running Music (Longleaf Press) by Crystal Simone SmithLongleaf Press: http://www.methodist.edu/longleaf/index.htm  Haiku Poetry Form Lenard D. Moore, poet: http://www.hsa-haiku.org/member/Meet-LenardMoore.htm Haiku Society of America: http://www.hsa-haiku.org  Inspirational Poetry “Mother to Son” Langston Hughes: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177021 Blacks by Gwendolyn Brooks: http://www.amazon.com/Blacks-Gwendolyn-Brooks/dp/0883781050  Crystal’s Book Recommendations Mother Love by Rita Dove: http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Mother-Love/ Sonnet form: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/poetic-form-sonnet What Work Is by Philip Levine http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/100554/what-work-is/  North Carolina Poetry Networks North Carolina Poetry Society: http://www.ncpoetrysociety.org  Producers: Ray Crampton and Abigail Browning Produced by: tatestreet.orghttp://tatestreet.org Music Provided by: Jonathan Stout and his Campus Five featuring Hilary Alexanderhttp://www.campusfive.com Podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tatestreetorg Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/tatestreetorg Podcast Email: mailto:writeus@tatestreet.org  

Taboo Talk, a Christian talk show featuring Lady Charmaine Day (Pastor, Wife, Publisher, Author and Radio Host www.ladycharmaineday.com). Taboo Talk helps individuals transform their mind, body, and spirit utilizing the principles of Jesus Christ!  About Sandy McLaren Day. Sandy McLaren Day grew up on Long Island in Freeport, New York.  She is one of four children and as a youngster always utilized writing as a retreat away from the trials and tribulations of life. It served as a form of therapeutic healing.  Her desire to become a poet always lingered beneath the surface of her conscious mind, but it was not until senior year at Freeport High School that Sandy ventured into the spotlight.  She competed in a school-sponsored event that emulated amateur night at the Apollo and won the second place prize. This served as a platform to other performances that she participated in both at Temple University in Philadelphia and Queens College in Flushing, New York which is now her Alma-mater.  Sandy currently possesses a BA from Queens College where she majored in Interdisciplinary Studies (Africana Studies & English). She has been inspired by and enjoys reading the poems of other great poets such as Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Maya Angelou and Philip Levine. Sandy is also a wife and mother of two beautiful girls. Sandy is the author of Crimes Against Humanity! To get copies of her book or for more information about Sandy McLaren Day visit www.sandymclarenday.com.  Follow her on facebook at www.facebook.com/sandymclarenday. Her book is also available as an e-book on Amazon.com and www.barnesandnoble.com.

Born in Kobe, Japan to a Japanese mother and a French Canadian-American father, Mari L'Esperance is the author of The Darkened Temple (awarded a Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and published in September 2008 by the University of Nebraska Press) and an earlier collection Begin Here (awarded a Sarasota Poetry Theatre Press Chapbook Prize). Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine, co-edited with Tomás Q. Morín, was published by Prairie Lights Books in May 2013. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and recipient of awards from the New York Times, New York University, Hedgebrook, and Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, L'Esperance lives in the Los Angeles area.

Philip Levine reads a poem by Ellen Bass and his own work, and has a discussion with the New Yorker poetry editor, Paul Muldoon.

Authors from the 2012 National Book Festival share their personal stories on the books that shaped their lives. Speakers include James Dashner, Philip Levine, Lois Lowry, Susan Tejada, Michael Connelly, Esme Raji Codell, Donna Britt, Mac Barnett, Adam Rex and David Ezra Stein. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5959

Philip Levine, 18th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress, concludes the Library's literary spring season. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5557.

Poet Laureate Philip Levine appears at the 2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5734.

Ben & Daniel talk with poet Patrick Rosal, author of “Boneshepherds” and “My American Kundiman.” Rosal talks about how “Boneshepherds” is a mix of anger, rage, love, and tenderness. He also explains why his Uncle Charlie is as big as influence as figures such as Neruda and Philip Levine. Plus, Rosal reads a poem from “Boneshepherds” – “Bienvenido: Santo Tomas,” a poem written for his Uncle Charlie. www.patrickrosal.com. This week’s Poetic License comes from Daniel Chacon, who talks about walking through a nice neighborhood that maybe wasn’t so nice after all.

U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine joined Sacramento Bee editorial page editor Stuart Leavenworth in Fresno to discuss whether social isolation is a threat to democracy. In a wide-ranging conversation they discussed poetry, Levine's youth in Detroit, the community he came to love in Fresno, and the future of American democracy.

Daniel & Ben talk with Poet Laureate of the United States, Philip Levine. Levine talks about his love of New York City, why he always wanted to be a poet, his life as the U.S. Poet Laureate, and how the Diego Rivera murals in Detroit influenced him as a young man. Levine also contributes this week’s Poem of the Week, reading his own poem, “Llanto” (for Ernesto Trejo).

The 18th Poet Laureate reads from his work and discusses life, literature, and his time in the Golden State. Presented in collaboration with the California Center for the Book and the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress

Wesley McNair appears at the 2011 National Book Festival. Speaker Biography: Wesley McNair is poet laureate of Maine and has authored or edited 18 books, including poetry, essays and anthologies. His most recent volume of verse is "Lovers of the Lost: New & Selected Poems." His poetry has appeared in the Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prize annual, the Writer's Almanac, NPR's Weekend Edition and more than 60 anthologies. He has held grants from the Fulbright and Guggenheim foundations, two Rockefeller fellowships and two NEA grants in creative writing. Selected for a United States Artists Fellowship in 2006, he has been called by Philip Levine "one of the great storytellers of contemporary poetry." For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5364.

Philip Levine, whose poetry has honored the working man for almost half a century, gives his inaugural reading as the 18th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced the Laureate's appointment on Aug. 10. Speaker Biography: Philip Levine is the author of 20 collections of poems, including most recently "News of the World" (2009), which The New York Times Sunday Book Review describes as "characteristically wise." Levine won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for "The Simple Truth," the National Book Award in 1991 for "What Work Is" and in 1980 for "Ashes: Poems New and Old," the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1979 for both "Ashes: Poems New and Old" and "7 Years From Somewhere," and the 1975 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for "Names of the Lost." For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5333.

Poet Philip Levine reads from his own work.

Recordings of Philip Levine, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded September 13, 2007, New York, NY.

Breath (Knopf) Philip Levine reminisces about his childhood--about how a working class boy came to poetry.

David Tucker reads from and discusses Late For Work. Tucker wrote the poems in this collection throughout his twenty-eight-year career as a reporter and editor at various newspapers, including the New Jersey Star-Ledger and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He is the winner of the 2005 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference's prestigious Bakeless Prize for poetry, judged by Philip Levine.

David Tucker reads from and discusses Late For Work. Tucker wrote the poems in this collection throughout his twenty-eight-year career as a reporter and editor at various newspapers, including the New Jersey Star-Ledger and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He is the winner of the 2005 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference's prestigious Bakeless Prize for poetry, judged by Philip Levine.

Levine, one of the most highly regarded of all living American poets, is best known for poems about working life in America. Levine?s many collections include "Breath" (2004), "The Mercy" (1999), "The Simple Truth" (1994, winner of the Pulitzer Prize), "What Work Is" (1991, winner of the National Book Award) and "New Selected Poems" (1991). Edward Hirsch wrote in the New York Times, "In a reactionary and forgetful time, these radiantly human and memorializing poems can help us understand our lives." Recorded March 9, 2006.