Podcast appearances and mentions of Richard Berengarten

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This is the second half of the two part series where poet and retired professor Neli Moody discusses poetry through the lens of Black History Month. Thanks for listening! Neli Moody is a poet and writer of short stories, essays, and plays. She is a retired university composition and creative writing teacher. Her work has been published in Reed Magazine, Brick and Mortar Review, Konch Magazine, and the Adirondack Review. She won many prizes while in the M.F.A. program at SJSU. Her eclectic interests including: many forms of dance (jazz, ballet, African, hula, and modern), language (French, Italian and Hawaiian), music, art and cooking inform her work. Her journey into her own multi-racial history via the natural world is at the core of her writing. It is the desire to know her origins and her love of the music of language that drives her poetry. An essay on architecture and poetry on the work of British poet Richard Berengarten, “A Syntax of Stones: Pretext, Edifice and the Sacred Space in Richard Berengarten’s Avebury” in the Salt Companion to Richard Berengarten. Her most recent collection explores the racial, cultural, and historical complexities and paradoxes of American identity.

This is part one of two sessions with Neli Moody. Neli's wealth of knowledge about African-American / Black poetry is extremely exciting. Consider these podcasts mini lectures. They're seriously a wonderful treat. Neli Moody is a poet and writer of short stories, essays, and plays. She is a retired university composition and creative writing teacher. Her work has been published in Reed Magazine, Brick and Mortar Review, Konch Magazine, and the Adirondack Review. She won many prizes while in the M.F.A. program at SJSU. Her eclectic interests including: many forms of dance (jazz, ballet, African, hula, and modern), language (French, Italian and Hawaiian), music, art and cooking inform her work. Her journey into her own multi-racial history via the natural world is at the core of her writing. It is the desire to know her origins and her love of the music of language that drives her poetry. An essay on architecture and poetry on the work of British poet Richard Berengarten, “A Syntax of Stones: Pretext, Edifice and the Sacred Space in Richard Berengarten’s Avebury” in the Salt Companion to Richard Berengarten. Her most recent collection explores the racial, cultural, and historical complexities and paradoxes of American identity.

Richard Berengarten (aka Richard Burns) was born in London in 1943. The author of more than twenty books, Berengarten has been something of a maverick in contemporary British poetry. Two of his books are regarded as contemporary classics: “The Manager” and “The Blue Butterfly,” an elegy for victims of a Nazi massacre in former Yugoslavia. A book of essays about his work, “The Salt Companion to Richard Berergarten,” has recently appeared. He is a Bye-Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge. This is his first reading in the Bay Area in almost twenty years. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 22619]

Richard Berengarten (aka Richard Burns) was born in London in 1943. The author of more than twenty books, Berengarten has been something of a maverick in contemporary British poetry. Two of his books are regarded as contemporary classics: “The Manager” and “The Blue Butterfly,” an elegy for victims of a Nazi massacre in former Yugoslavia. A book of essays about his work, “The Salt Companion to Richard Berergarten,” has recently appeared. He is a Bye-Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge. This is his first reading in the Bay Area in almost twenty years. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 22619]

Richard Berengarten (aka Richard Burns) was born in London in 1943. The author of more than twenty books, Berengarten has been something of a maverick in contemporary British poetry. Two of his books are regarded as contemporary classics: “The Manager” and “The Blue Butterfly,” an elegy for victims of a Nazi massacre in former Yugoslavia. A book of essays about his work, “The Salt Companion to Richard Berergarten,” has recently appeared. He is a Bye-Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge. This is his first reading in the Bay Area in almost twenty years. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 22619]

Richard Berengarten (aka Richard Burns) was born in London in 1943. The author of more than twenty books, Berengarten has been something of a maverick in contemporary British poetry. Two of his books are regarded as contemporary classics: “The Manager” and “The Blue Butterfly,” an elegy for victims of a Nazi massacre in former Yugoslavia. A book of essays about his work, “The Salt Companion to Richard Berergarten,” has recently appeared. He is a Bye-Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge. This is his first reading in the Bay Area in almost twenty years. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 22619]

Richard Berengarten (aka Richard Burns) was born in London in 1943. The author of more than twenty books, Berengarten has been something of a maverick in contemporary British poetry. Two of his books are regarded as contemporary classics: “The Manager” and “The Blue Butterfly,” an elegy for victims of a Nazi massacre in former Yugoslavia. A book of essays about his work, “The Salt Companion to Richard Berergarten,” has recently appeared. He is a Bye-Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge. This is his first reading in the Bay Area in almost twenty years. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 22619]

Richard Berengarten (aka Richard Burns) was born in London in 1943. The author of more than twenty books, Berengarten has been something of a maverick in contemporary British poetry. Two of his books are regarded as contemporary classics: “The Manager” and “The Blue Butterfly,” an elegy for victims of a Nazi massacre in former Yugoslavia. A book of essays about his work, “The Salt Companion to Richard Berergarten,” has recently appeared. He is a Bye-Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge. This is his first reading in the Bay Area in almost twenty years. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 22619]