Podcasts about Robert Hass

April's Book: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Other books: Field Guide by Robert Hass (& Eve's Review) The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins Playworld by Adam Ross One or Two by H.D. Everett (Mandylion Press) (Eve's Review) Sophocles I, Sophocles II GatsbyMacbeth & King Lear Bright Lights Big City by Jay McInerney Sponsored by: HakuBaku Ramen Our Instagram: somethingwereadpodOur email: somethingweread@gmail.comMay's Book: Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence Closing poem: “All That's Required By You” by James A. Pearson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our episode today is one of many from the archives. We'll be back tomorrow with more new poetry and reflection! Today's poem is Morning in a City by J. Mae Barizo. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today's poem, an homage to poet Robert Hass, suggests one possible way of retaining is to live in the music of our existence, where memories though fleeting and at our peripheries, still carry indulgences of delight.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

Recorded by Robert Hass for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 31, 2025. www.poets.org

Welcome to our Festive Calendar, a special series of The Reader Podcast. Every day this December we will share with you a seasonal poem or a short extract from a novel or story, read by one of our staff or volunteer Reader Leaders. Today's reading is Six Winter Haiku by Bashō, translated from the Japanese by Robert Hass. They are read by Kara Orford, who works for The Reader. Support our Christmas Appeal and make a difference to the lives of people living with dementia. Please give what you can at www.thereader.org.uk   Production by Chris Lynn. Music by Chris Lynn & Frank Johnson  

When the world gets intense, it's important to take breaks. Join Sharon as she does that by reading three beloved and personally connected poems. We start with a beloved poem by Meditation at Lagunitas by Robert Hass, who Sharon had the opportunity to study under in Berlin. We then turn to Saskia Hamiton and her poem Then. Saskia was another great teacher in Sharon's life and the person who first introduced Sharon to Hass' poetry. We close things out with the physician and poet Willam Carlos Williams and his poem The Red Wheelbarrow. May you find grounding and a little inspiration in the words of these writers.   Resources and Links Robert Hass | “Meditation at Lagunitas” Saskia Hamilton | “Then” from Divide These William Carlos Williams | “The Red Wheelbarrow”   Links and Resources: For show notes: https://pointroadstudios.com/podcast/take-a-break-with-three-poems To connect on Linked In:  @Sharon Lipovsky @Point Road Studios  To connect on Instagram: @pointroadstudios Rate, Review & Subscribe to the podcast on Apple & Spotify

Today's poem is a shape poem dedicated to chefs, but (surprise?) it might be about more than cooking.John Hollander, one of contemporary poetry's foremost poets, editors, and anthologists, grew up in New York City. He studied at Columbia University and Indiana University, and he was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows of Harvard University. Hollander received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Levinson Prize, a MacArthur Foundation grant, and the poet laureateship of Connecticut. He served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and he taught at Hunter College, Connecticut College, and Yale University, where he was the Sterling Professor emeritus of English.Over the course of an astonishing career, Hollander influenced generations of poets and thinkers with his critical work, his anthologies and his poetry. In the words of J.D. McClatchy, Hollander was “a formidable presence in American literary life.” Hollander's eminence as a scholar and critic was in some ways greater than his reputation as a poet. His groundbreaking introduction to form and prosody Rhyme's Reason (1981), as well as his work as an anthologist, has ensured him a place as one of the 20th-century's great, original literary critics. Hollander's critical writing is known for its extreme erudition and graceful touch. Hollander's poetry possesses many of the same qualities, though the wide range of allusion and technical virtuosity can make it seem “difficult” to a general readership.Hollander's first poetry collection, A Crackling of Thorns (1958) won the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets Awards, judged by W.H. Auden. And in fact James K. Robinson in the Southern Review found that Hollander's “early poetry resembles Auden's in its wit, its learned allusiveness, its prosodic mastery.” Hollander's technique continued to develop through later books like Visions from the Ramble (1965) and The Night Mirror (1971). Broader in range and scope than his previous work, Hollander's Tales Told of the Fathers (1975) and Spectral Emanations (1978) heralded his arrival as a major force in contemporary poetry. Reviewing Spectral Emanations for the New Republic, Harold Bloom reflected on his changing impressions of the poet's work over the first 20 years of his career: “I read [A Crackling of Thorns] … soon after I first met the poet, and was rather more impressed by the man than by the book. It has taken 20 years for the emotional complexity, spiritual anguish, and intellectual and moral power of the man to become the book. The enormous mastery of verse was there from the start, and is there still … But there seemed almost always to be more knowledge and insight within Hollander than the verse could accommodate.” Bloom found in Spectral Emanations “another poet as vital and accomplished as [A.R.] Ammons, [James] Merrill, [W.S.] Merwin, [John] Ashbery, James Wright, an immense augmentation to what is clearly a group of major poets.”Shortly after Spectral Emanations, Hollander published Blue Wine and Other Poems (1979), a volume which a number of critics have identified as an important milestone in Hollander's life and career. Reviewing the work for the New Leader, Phoebe Pettingell remarked, “I would guess from the evidence of Blue Wine that John Hollander is now at the crossroads of his own midlife journey, picking out a new direction to follow.” Hollander's new direction proved to be incredibly fruitful: his next books were unqualified successes. Powers of Thirteen (1983) won the Bollingen Prize from Yale University and In Time and Place (1986) was highly praised for its blend of verse and prose. In the Times Literary Supplement, Jay Parini believed “an elegiac tone dominates this book, which begins with a sequence of 34 poems in the In Memoriam stanza. These interconnecting lyrics are exquisite and moving, superior to almost anything else Hollander has ever written.” Parini described the book as “a landmark in contemporary poetry.” McClatchy held up In Time and Place as evidence that Hollander is “part conjurer and part philosopher, one of our language's true mythographers and one of its very best poets.”Hollander continued to publish challenging, technically stunning verse throughout the 1980s and '90s. His Selected Poetry (1993) was released simultaneously with Tesserae (1993); Figurehead and Other Poems (1999) came a few years later. “The work collected in [Tesserae and Other Poems and Selected Poetry] makes clear that John Hollander is a considerable poet,” New Republic reviewer Vernon Shetley remarked, “but it may leave readers wondering still, thirty-five years after his first book … exactly what kind of poet Hollander is.” Shetley recognized the sheer variety of Hollander's work, but also noted the peculiar absence of anything like a personality, “as if the poet had taken to heart, much more fully than its author, Eliot's dictum that poetry should embody ‘emotion which has its life in the poem and not in the history of the poet.'” Another frequent charge leveled against Hollander's work is that it is “philosophical verse.” Reviewing A Draft of Light (2008) for Jacket Magazine, Alex Lewis argued that instead of writing “philosophizing verse,” Hollander actually “borrows from philosophy a language and a way of thought. Hollander's poems are frequently meta-poems that create further meaning out of their own self-interrogations, out of their own reflexivity.” As always, the poems are underpinned by an enormous amount of learning and incredible technical expertise and require “a good deal of time and thought to unravel,” Lewis admitted. But the rewards are great: “the book deepens every time that I read it,” Lewis wrote, adding that Hollander's later years have given his work grandeur akin to Thomas Hardy and Wallace Stevens.Hollander's work as a critic and anthologist has been widely praised from the start. As editor, he has worked on volumes of poets as diverse as Ben Jonson and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; his anthologist's credentials are impeccable. He was widely praised for the expansive American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century (1994), two volumes of verse including ballads, sonnets, epic poetry, and even folk songs. Herbert Mitgang of the New York Times praised the range of poets and authors included in the anthology: “Mr. Hollander has a large vision at work in these highly original volumes of verse. Without passing critical judgment, he allows the reader to savor not only the geniuses but also the second-rank writers of the era.” Hollander also worked on the companion volume, American Poetry: The Twentieth Century (2000) with fellow poets and scholars Robert Hass, Carolyn Kizer, Nathaniel Mackey, and Marjorie Perloff.Hollander's prose and criticism has been read and absorbed by generations of readers and writers. Perhaps his most lasting work is Rhyme's Reason. In an interview with Paul Devlin of St. John's University, Hollander described the impetus behind the volume: “Thinking of my own students, and of how there was no such guide to the varieties of verse in English to which I could send them and that would help teach them to notice things about the examples presented—to see how the particular stanza or rhythmic scheme or whatever was being used by the particular words of the particular poem, for example—I got to work and with a speed which now alarms me produced a manuscript for the first edition of the book. I've never had more immediate fun writing a book.” Hollander's other works of criticism include The Work of Poetry (1993), The Poetry of Everyday Life (1997), and Poetry and Music (2003).Hollander died on August 17, 2013 in Branford, Connecticut.-bio via Poetry Foundation Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

This week, we reach into the archives for a 2009 appearance by the late A. S. Byatt.  The author and critic published 11 novels, 6 collections of short stories, and 9 volumes of short stories, as well as editing the Oxford Book of English Short Stories and several other anthologies.  Byatt's best-known novel, Possession, won the Booker Prize and was made into a film; the book she discusses in this City Arts & Lectures appearance, The Children's Book, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.  In 1999, she was made a Dame of the British Empire for her contributions to English literature.  On October 26, 2009, A. S. Byatt came to the Herbst Theater in San Francisco to be interviewed on stage by poet Robert Hass.

Roxi Power talks with Brenda Hillman, winner this month of the Northern California Book Reviewers' Fred Cody Award  for Lifetime Achievement, about her 11th book of poetry with Wesleyan University Press, In a Few Minutes Before Later.   We discuss her new trans-genre tetralogy about time: how to find calm during the Anthropocene by being in time in multiple ways: sinking into the micro-minutes; performing micro-activism; and celebrating the microbiome. We explore her influences–from Blake to Bergson, Clare to Baudelaire, as well as the less celebrated moss, owls, and wood rats that appear frequently in her eco-poetry.  Alive with humor, witness, creative design and punctuation–what Forrest Gander calls “typographical expressionism”--Hillman's poetry teaches us how to abide in crisis from Covid to California fires, living in paradox as a way to transcend despair. Brenda Hillman shares the Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award with with Isabel Allende, Daniel Ellsberg, Michael Pollan, Ishmael Reed, Gary Snyder, Robert Duncan, Alice Walker and others. Winner of the William Carlos Williams Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the International Griffin Poetry Prize (for Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, 2013), the Northern California Book Award (for Extra Hidden Life, among the Days, 2018) and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Academy of American Poets, Brenda Hillman was born in Tucson, Arizona and has been an active part of the Bay Area literary community since 1975.   She has edited an edition of Emily Dickinson's poems for Shambhala Press, and co-edited and co-translated several books.  She is director of the Poetry Program at the Community of Writers in Olympic Valley and is on the regular poetry staff ad Napa Valley Writers Conference. Hillman just retired from teaching in the MFA Program at St. Mary's College in Moraga, CA.  She has worked as an activist for social and environmental justice. She is a mother, grandmother, and is married to poet, Robert Hass.  Photograph by Robert Hass.

What makes haiku "the perfect poetic form"? This episode reads three wonderful haiku by Kobayashi Issa and explores what makes them so moving and fun. We use the beautiful translations of award-winning poet Robert Haas in The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa. To see these haiku and others online, visit The Poetry Foundation here (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50983/selected-haiku-by-issa). To see (and purchase) the book, see HarperCollins here (https://www.harpercollins.com/products/essential-haiku-volume-20-hass?variant=32118145876002). Thank you to HarperCollins for permission to read these translations on our podcast. For more on Kobayashi Issa, visit the Poetry Foundation here (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kobayashi-issa).

Part 3 of the summer poems series is JUICY!  "Blackberry-Picking" by Seamus Heaney  "An Invitation" by Clemens Starck "Meditation at Lagunitas" by Robert Hass 

The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually since 1901 to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, “In the field of literature produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction.” Michael Silverblatt spoke with eight Nobel Prize laureates. In part 1 of the Laureates show, we heard from four of them. In this second part, we'll be hearing excerpts from: Kazuo Ishiguro, Mario Vargas Llosa, Doris Lessing, Czesław Miłosz, and Robert Hass speaking about Milosz.

by Robert Hass

Today's poem is Morning in a City by J. Mae Barizo. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today's poem, an homage to poet Robert Hass, suggests one possible way of retaining is to live in the music of our existence, where memories though fleeting and at our peripheries, still carry indulgences of delight.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

Robert L. Hass (born March 1, 1941) is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United Statesfrom 1995 to 1997.[1] He won the 2007 National Book Award[2] and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize[3] for the collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005.[4] In 2014 he was awarded the Wallace Stevens Awardfrom the Academy of American Poets.[5]Bio via WikipediaTo support this show, please visit dailypoempod.substack.comSponsor link: circeinstitute.org/books Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

12.5.22 "Writing Kept Hidden" by Carolyn Forché 12.6.22 "Lost Glove" by Charles Simic 12.7.22 "Why My Mother's Teeth Remained in Cuba" by EJ Vega in Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets 12.8.22 "Provincetown" by Afaa Michael Weaver 12.9.22 "Quartet" by Robert Hass 12.10.22 "sallie ledbetter: a mother's hymn" by Tyehimba Jess 12.11.22 "Saturday at the Border" by Hayden Carruth 12.12.22 from Kyrie by Ellen Bryant Voigt 12.13.22 "The Gate" by Marie Howe 12.14.22 XXXI from The Desert of Lop by Raoul Schrott

Today's poem is John Muir, A Dream, A Waterfall, A Mountain Ash by Robert Hass.

Today's poem is John Muir, A Dream, A Waterfall, A Mountain Ash by Robert Hass.

Today's poem is John Muir, A Dream, A Waterfall, A Mountain Ash by Robert Hass.

Bright on Buddhism Research Series episode 1 - Killing Mosquitoes: Kobayashi Issa's Buddhist Literary Practice Hello and welcome to a new type of episode of Bright on Buddhism. In this series, I will be presenting and discussing some of my own original research, which covers a broad range of topics in Japanese Buddhism, and discussing it in the context of East Asian Buddhism and other disciplines broadly. Resources: 長野郷土史研究会 小林一郎編. “一 茶 発 句 全 集.” JANIS ホームページ. 長野郷土史研究会 小林一郎編, August 14, 2005. http://www.janis.or.jp/users/kyodoshi/issaku.htm. Abé, Ryūichi. “Word” in Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism, (Chicago: Chicago University of Press, 2005), pp.291-310. Blyth, Reginald H. “Buddhism and Haiku.” Monumenta Nipponica 7, no. 1/2 (1951): 311. https://doi.org/10.2307/2382960. Flores, Ralph. “Fictions of Reading,” in Buddhist scriptures as Literature: Sacred Rhetoric and the Use of Theory (Albany, SUNY Press, 2008), pp. 1-16. Harr, Lorraine Ellis. “Haiku Poetry.” The Journal of Aesthetic Education 9, no. 3 (July 1975): 112–19. https://doi.org/https://www.jstor.org/stable/3331909. Hass, Robert, ed. Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashō, Buson and Issa. Translated by Robert Hass. Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2013. Hudson, Robert. "Compassion: Kobayashi Issa." In The Poet and the Fly: Art, Nature, God, Mortality, and Other Elusive Mysteries, 65-86. 1517 Media, 2020. Accessed March 28, 2021. doi:10.2307/j.ctvzcz2qp.7. Huey, Robert N. "Journal of My Father's Last Days. Issa's Chichi No Shūen Nikki." Monumenta Nipponica 39, no. 1 (1984): 25-54. Accessed April 13, 2021. doi:10.2307/2384479. LaFleur, William R. The Karma of Words: Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011. Lanoue, David G. "The Haiku Mind: Issa and Pure Land Buddhism." The Eastern Buddhist, NEW SERIES, 39, no. 2 (2008): 159-76. Accessed March 28, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44362411. Lanoue, David G. Haiku of Kobayashi Issa, 2021. http://haikuguy.com/issa/index.html. Marshall, Ian, and Megan Simpson. “Deconstructing Haiku: A Dialogue.” College Literature 33, no. 3 (2006): 117–34. https://doi.org/https://www.jstor.org/stable/25115369. Ramirez-Christensen, Esperanza U. “Poetics of Renga.” Essay. In Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. Russell, Bruce David. “Reaching Haiku's Pedagogical Nature.” Counterpoints Vol. 193, Curriculum Intertext: Place / Language / Pedagogy (2003), pp. 93-102 193 (2003): 93–102. https://doi.org/https://www.jstor.org/stable/42978057. Stalker, Nancy K. "Edo Popular Culture: The Floating World and Beyond: (Late 17th to Mid-19th Centuries)." In Japan: History and Culture from Classical to Cool, 174-208. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018. Accessed April 28, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctv2n7fgm.10. Bright on Buddhism Episode 18 - https://anchor.fm/brightonbuddhism/episodes/What-is-the-Buddhist-philosophy-of-speech--language--and-words-e1dgqu9 Bright on Buddhism Episode 33 - https://anchor.fm/brightonbuddhism/episodes/What-is-emptiness-e1jc31i Do you have a question about Buddhism that you'd like us to discuss? Let us know by finding us on email or social media! https://linktr.ee/brightonbuddhism Credits: Nick Bright: Script, Cover Art, Music, Voice of Hearer, Co-Host Proven Paradox: Editing, mixing and mastering, social media, Voice of Hermit, Co-Host

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Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Czesław Miłosz was born to Weronika and Aleksander Milosz on June 30, 1911, in Szetejnie, Lithuania (then under the domination of the Russian tsarist government). Milosz graduated from high school in 1929, and in 1930 his first poems were published in Alma Mater Vilnenis, a university magazine. In 1931 he cofounded the Polish avant-garde literary group "Zagary"; his first collection of verse appeared in 1933. He spent most of World War II in Nazi-occupied Warsaw working for underground presses.After the war, he came to the United States as a diplomat for the Polish communist government, working at the Polish consulate first in New York City, then in Washington D. C. In 1950 he was transferred to Paris, and the following year he requested and received political asylum. He spent the next decade in Paris as a freelance writer. In 1953 he published The Captive Mind (Alfred A. Knopf), and his novel, The Seizure of Power (Criterion Books, 1955), received the Prix Littéraire European from the Swiss Book Guild. In 1960 he moved to the United States to become a lecturer in Polish literature at the University of California at Berkeley. He later became professor of Slavic languages and literature. He did not visit Poland again until 1981.In 1980, Milosz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His other honors include an award for poetry translations from the Polish PEN Center in Warsaw, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He has written virtually all of his poems in his native Polish, although his work was banned in Poland until after he won the Nobel Prize. He has also translated the works of other Polish writers into English, and has cotranslated his own works with such poets as Robert Hass and Robert Pinsky. His translations into Polish include portions of the Bible (from Hebrew and Greek) and works by Charles Baudelaire, T. S. Eliot, John Milton, William Shakespeare, Simone Weil, and Walt Whitman. He died on August 14, 2004.From https://poets.org/poet/czeslaw-milosz. For more information about Czesław Miłosz:Previously on The Quarantine Tapes:Elif Shafak about Milosz, at 02:08: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-025-elif-shafakEdward Hirsch about Milosz, at 18:58: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-173-edward-hirschSuketu Mehta about Milosz, at 16:00: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-079-suketu-mehta“The Separate Notebooks”: https://www.amazon.com/Separate-Notebooks-Czeslaw-Milosz/dp/0880010312/“Czeslaw Milosz”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/czeslaw-milosz

History of National Poetry Writing Month National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada. NaPoWriMo, or National Poetry Writing Month, is an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the month of April. This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April, and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project. My History with National Poetry Writing Month I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espesso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. This continued for many years when I ran my own poetry reading at Cannova's in Loves Park Illinois and attended the poetry slams at The green Mill in Chicago Illinois. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2009 I started participating in National Poetry Writing Month which became the basis for my book Wisdom From the Sack and Shaving Crop Circles in My Chest Hair. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021. April 1st Poetry Prompt And last but not least, our optional prompt! I got this one from a workshop I did last year with Beatrix Gates, and I've found it really helpful. The prompt is based on Robert Hass's remarkable prose poem, “A Story About the Body.” The idea is to write your own prose poem that, whatever title you choose to give it, is a story about the body. The poem should contain an encounter between two people, some spoken language, and at least one crisp visual image. April 1st Poem Left Hand Blues  1 April 22  When I crashed my third motorcycle on a Friday night  Under the limitless mid-Texan sky  Tumbling over the handlebars of a bike with an unknown bent frame  Instinctively, I put out my arms to catch myself  But going 60 down a deserted highway the only thing that broke  Was my left wrist and my pride  Observers to this midnight race ran towards the danger  And took my body and my bike to the side of the road  Someone pulled out some cold sweaty beer cans   To control the instantly swelling wrist  And others who had succumbed to the magical elixir  Argued with those who were less inebriated   The drunks thought that good beer was going to be wasted on my gullet  The levelheaded ones used their commanding voices and won out  My bike was collected and put in the bed of a truck  I was pushed into a car and was raced to the hospital  A story was concocted, a lie had to be made  One that would stick   And that lie has brought me to where I am today  Chicks dig scars was what they told me  We'll call you lefty from here on out  I got to keep my hand that night  But I had to lose out on a future that I'll never know  A career cut short,   Lands never traveled  Possibilities never realized  Chicks do dig scars  As my children trace the lines that hold my hand together  They are overly empathetic and murmur apologies and concern  Thinking they can make my major boo boo better with their innocent kisses   And soft caresses  Just like my kisses and soft caresses fix their boo boos  These scars show that I have lived  I have taken chances that I probably shouldn't have  These scars show the death of possibilities  For a life I thought I wanted to live  And a whole realm of regret that I do not have to endure  Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod  

Dion O'Reilly interviews Susan Browne, who reads new poems and old ones from her book Just Living. They talk about Jim Moore's poem, "Whatever Else," a poem that studies the lyric beauty in a difficult world. She quotes Robert Hass who says, "Every line of your poem needs something interesting in it." Obviously true! But just try to do it!

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Czeslaw Milosz was born to Weronika and Aleksander Milosz on June 30, 1911, in Szetejnie, Lithuania (then under the domination of the Russian tsarist government). Milosz graduated from high school in 1929, and in 1930 his first poems were published in Alma Mater Vilnenis, a university magazine. In 1931 he cofounded the Polish avant-garde literary group "Zagary"; his first collection of verse appeared in 1933. He spent most of World War II in Nazi-occupied Warsaw working for underground presses.After the war, he came to the United States as a diplomat for the Polish communist government, working at the Polish consulate first in New York City, then in Washington D. C. In 1950 he was transferred to Paris, and the following year he requested and received political asylum. He spent the next decade in Paris as a freelance writer. In 1953 he published The Captive Mind (Alfred A. Knopf), and his novel, The Seizure of Power (Criterion Books, 1955), received the Prix Littéraire European from the Swiss Book Guild. In 1960 he moved to the United States to become a lecturer in Polish literature at the University of California at Berkeley. He later became professor of Slavic languages and literature. He did not visit Poland again until 1981.In 1980, Milosz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His other honors include an award for poetry translations from the Polish PEN Center in Warsaw, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He has written virtually all of his poems in his native Polish, although his work was banned in Poland until after he won the Nobel Prize. He has also translated the works of other Polish writers into English, and has cotranslated his own works with such poets as Robert Hass and Robert Pinsky. His translations into Polish include portions of the Bible (from Hebrew and Greek) and works by Charles Baudelaire, T. S. Eliot, John Milton, William Shakespeare, Simone Weil, and Walt Whitman. He died on August 14, 2004.From https://poets.org/poet/czeslaw-milosz. For more information about Czeslaw MIlosz:Previously on The Quarantine Tapes:“Ars Poetica?”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49455/ars-poetica-56d22b8f31558“Czeslaw Milosz's Battle for Truth”: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/czeslaw-miloszs-battle-for-truth“Czeslaw Milosz”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/czeslaw-milosz

Frenz, as promised, here is Carl Phillips' reading our first-ever haiku on The Poet Salon, Kobayashi Issa's "[The world of dew]" or "On the Death of a Child."  CARL PHILLIPS is the author of fourteen books of poetry, most recently Pale Colors in a Tall Field (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020). He has won the Kingsley Tufts Award and been a finalist for the National Book Award. He currently teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. Japanese poet KOBAYASHI ISSA, also known as Kobayashi Yataro and Kobayashi Nobuyuki, was born in Kashiwabara, Shinanao province. He eventually took the pen name Issa, which means “cup of tea” or, according to poet Robert Hass, “a single bubble in steeping tea.” Issa's haiku are as attentive to the small creatures of the world—mosquitoes, bats, cats—as they are tinged with sorrow and an awareness of the nuances of human behavior. In addition to haiku, Issa wrote pieces that intertwined prose and poetry, including Journal of My Father's Last Days and The Year of My Life.  

Peter Dale ScottFor those primarily interested in my recent political prose, go to my Current Publications Web Page, formerly entitled “Iraq, al-Qaeda, 9/11”. For those primarily interested in my poetry, go to My Selected Writings webpage. In fact the two genres inter-relate, as exhibited by both my most important prose book, The American Deep State, and my most recent books of poetry, Minding the Darkness, Mosaic Orpheus, Tilting Point, and Walking on Darkness.For a useful overview of my political and poetic work on the Poetry Foundation website, click here. Click here to read about me on Wikipedia. .Click here to see a description and above all reviews of my book, The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big Oil, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy.Click here for a website which accesses a series of videos in which I read and discuss my long poem Coming to Jakarta, and also my book of shorter poems, Tilting Point.To hear my September 2011 reading of my poetry in Longfellow House, Cambridge, click here.For occasional political comments and news about upcoming books and activities, follow my Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/peterdalescott.BiographyPeter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and English Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is a poet, writer, and researcher. He was born in Montreal in 1929, the only son of the poet F.R. Scott and the painter Marian Dale Scott. He is married to the author and psychologist Ronna Kabatznick; and he has three children, Cassie, Mika, and John Scott, by a previous marriage to the Soto Zen roshi Maylie [Marshall] Scott. Before teaching as an English Professor at the University of California, he served for four years as a Canadian diplomat, at UN Assemblies and in Warsaw, Poland.His prose books include The War Conspiracy (1972), The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond (in collaboration, 1976), Crime and Cover-Up: The CIA, the Mafia, and the Dallas-Watergate Connection (1977), The Iran-Contra Connection (in collaboration, 1987),Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America (in collaboration, 1991, 1998), Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1993, 1996), Deep Politics Two (1994, 1995, 2006), Drugs Oil and War (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, March 2003), The Road to 9/11 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), and The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War (Ipswich, MA: Mary Ferrell Foundation Press,(2008), American War Machine (2010), and The American Deep State, 2014.His chief poetry books are the three volumes of his trilogy Seculum: Coming to Jakarta: A Poem About Terror (1989), Listening to the Candle: A Poem on Impulse (1992), and Minding the Darkness: A Poem for the Year 2000. In addition he has published Crossing Borders: Selected Shorter Poems (1994, published in Canada as Murmur of the Starsi), Mosaic Orpheus (2009), Tilting Point (2012), and Walking on Darkness. In November 2002 he was awarded the Lannan Poetry Award.An anti-war speaker during the Vietnam and Gulf Wars, he was a co-founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at UC Berkeley, and of the Coalition on Political Assassinations (COPA).His poetry has dealt with both his experience and his research, the latter of which has centered on U.S. covert operations, their impact on democracy at home and abroad, and their relations to the John F. Kennedy assassination and the global drug traffic. The poet-critic Robert Hass has written (Agni, 31/32, p. 335) that “Coming to Jakarta is the most important political poem to appear in the English language in a very long time.”If you have any comments or questions, I would be glad to hear from you at pdscottweb@hotmail.com.I do believe that international public opinion, when it becomes powerful enough, will become the most effective restraint to the excesses and follies of particular governments.5 years ago #adnan, #contra, #dale, #ed, #iran, #khashoggi, #opperman, #peter, #report, #scott

Peter Dale Scott For those primarily interested in my recent political prose, go to my Current Publications Web Page, formerly entitled “Iraq, al-Qaeda, 9/11”. For those primarily interested in my poetry, go to My Selected Writings webpage. In fact the two genres inter-relate, as exhibited by both my most important prose book, The American Deep State, and my most recent books of poetry, Minding the Darkness, Mosaic Orpheus, Tilting Point, and Walking on Darkness. For a useful overview of my political and poetic work on the Poetry Foundation website, click here. Click here to read about me on Wikipedia. . Click here to see a description and above all reviews of my book, The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big Oil, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy. Click here for a website which accesses a series of videos in which I read and discuss my long poem Coming to Jakarta, and also my book of shorter poems, Tilting Point. To hear my September 2011 reading of my poetry in Longfellow House, Cambridge, click here. For occasional political comments and news about upcoming books and activities, follow my Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/peterdalescott. Biography Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and English Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is a poet, writer, and researcher. He was born in Montreal in 1929, the only son of the poet F.R. Scott and the painter Marian Dale Scott. He is married to the author and psychologist Ronna Kabatznick; and he has three children, Cassie, Mika, and John Scott, by a previous marriage to the Soto Zen roshi Maylie [Marshall] Scott. Before teaching as an English Professor at the University of California, he served for four years as a Canadian diplomat, at UN Assemblies and in Warsaw, Poland. His prose books include The War Conspiracy (1972), The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond (in collaboration, 1976), Crime and Cover-Up: The CIA, the Mafia, and the Dallas-Watergate Connection (1977), The Iran-Contra Connection (in collaboration, 1987),Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America (in collaboration, 1991, 1998), Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1993, 1996), Deep Politics Two (1994, 1995, 2006), Drugs Oil and War (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, March 2003), The Road to 9/11 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), and The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War (Ipswich, MA: Mary Ferrell Foundation Press,(2008), American War Machine (2010), and The American Deep State, 2014. His chief poetry books are the three volumes of his trilogy Seculum: Coming to Jakarta: A Poem About Terror (1989), Listening to the Candle: A Poem on Impulse (1992), and Minding the Darkness: A Poem for the Year 2000. In addition he has published Crossing Borders: Selected Shorter Poems (1994, published in Canada as Murmur of the Starsi), Mosaic Orpheus (2009), Tilting Point (2012), and Walking on Darkness. In November 2002 he was awarded the Lannan Poetry Award. An anti-war speaker during the Vietnam and Gulf Wars, he was a co-founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at UC Berkeley, and of the Coalition on Political Assassinations (COPA). His poetry has dealt with both his experience and his research, the latter of which has centered on U.S. covert operations, their impact on democracy at home and abroad, and their relations to the John F. Kennedy assassination and the global drug traffic. The poet-critic Robert Hass has written (Agni, 31/32, p. 335) that “Coming to Jakarta is the most important political poem to appear in the English language in a very long time.” If you have any comments or questions, I would be glad to hear from you at pdscottweb@hotmail.com. I do believe that international public opinion, when it becomes powerful enough, will become the most effective restraint to the excesses and follies of particular governments. 5 years ago #adnan, #contra, #dale, #ed, #iran, #khashoggi, #opperman, #peter, #report, #scott

Silvina López Medin introduces poems that reflect on the writing process and the openings we encounter therein when boundaries blur between speaker and listener, creator and creation. She shares Robert Hass on going to the movies and Greek rhetorical devices (“Heroic Simile”), Adélia Prado on the earthy charms of poetry (“Seduction,” read by Prado's translator Ellen Doré Watson), and Anne Carson on making marks (“Short Talk On Homo Sapiens”). López Medin concludes with her poem “I Am Writing This in My Head, My Hands Inside Gloves That Don't Match,” which considers how the lost lingers in what remains.You can find the full recordings of Hass, Prado as read by Watson, and Carson reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:Robert Hass (1979)Adélia Prado, read by her translator Ellen Doré Watson (1992)Anne Carson (2001)

In this episode, Bob sits down with Michael Klam and Dr. Anthony Blacksher, co-creators of Conversations with Poets, a new 8 part poetry series made in partnership with the City of San Diego's Commissions for Arts & Culture. They discuss their beginnings in poetry, San Diego's new poet laureate, and what to expect from Conversations with Poets. Also, Scott catches up with poets Jim Hurley and Robert Hass to discuss the arrival of the new Robert Frost Society collection at SDPL. Conversations with Poets Michael KlamDr. Anthony BlacksherCommission for Arts & Culture Ron SalsburyPoetry of Resilience Robert Frost SocietyMarilyn and Gene Marx Special Collections CenterSupport the RFSJim HurleyRobert Bernard Hass 

This episode includes poems from Robert Hass's 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning book: Time and Materials.

“I looked up from my bed and saw a bee banging against the window trying to get out. I tried to show it the way, but it didn't understand it needed to follow.”

The Failure of Buffalo to Levitate by Robert Hass, US Poet Laureate from 1995 to 1997.

Connor and Jack get meta and lose both the forest and the trees while dancing with Robert Hass' poem, "The Problem of Describing Trees." They discuss the poem's use of self-reflexivity, scientific language, tango with a Yeats allusion, and reflect on #poetrytwitter. More on Robert Hass here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-hass The Problem of Describing Trees By: Robert Hass The aspen glitters in the wind. And that delights us. The leaf flutters, turning, Because that motion in the heat of summer Protects its cells from drying out. Likewise the leaf Of the cottonwood. The gene pool threw up a wobbly stem And the tree danced. No. The tree capitalized. No. There are limits to saying, In language, what the tree did. It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us. Dance with me, dancer. Oh, I will. Aspens doing something in the wind. Find us at our website: www.closetalking.com/ Find us on Facebook at: facebook.com/closetalking 
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Michelle Whittaker presents recordings of poems that display their writers’ skill with both narrative and sound as they each consider the body as a site of conflict and grace. Whittaker considers the way Robert Hass employs sound to communicate strong emotion (“A Story About the Body”), connects with Ellen Bryant Voigt’s memories of seeing a family member’s scars (“Lesson”), and celebrates Michael S. Harper’s reflective pairing of narrative tension and cycling sounds (“The Borning Room”). To close, Whitaker reads her poem “In the Afterlight,” itself a complexly layered composition of sound and image. Listen to the full recordings of Hass, Voigt, and Harper reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:Robert Hass (1984)Ellen Bryant Voigt (2003)Michael S. Harper (1973)

Arthur Sze joins Kevin Young to read “The Problem of Describing Trees,” by Robert Hass, and his own poem “Vectors.” Sze has received the Landon Literary Award, the Jackson Poetry Prize and, in 2019, the National Book Award in Poetry.

For today's pod-meal, Myq discusses his storied history with baseball, Archie, Savage Dragon, other comics, grapes, how science works, the passage of time, poet Robert Hass, phood groups, and phun with phonetics. Alternate Titles: Stories In Baseball Dawson's Peak Archie-Types By the Rules of Our Friendship Baseball Cards Mike Less? More As Much As Actual  

About Vikram Chandra:My next guest on The One Percent Project is the world-renowned author, professor and tech entrepreneur Vikram Chandra.  His first book Red Earth and Pouring Rain, published in 1995 was received with outstanding critical acclaim. It won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book and the David Higham Prize for Fiction. In 2006, he published Sacred Games,  which won the Hutch Crossword Award for English Fiction and a Salon Book Award. In 2016, Sacred Games was chosen by Netflix to be their first original series from India. Vikram has been teaching creative writing for 25+ years first at George Washington University and now at UC Berkley. He is the co-founder and CEO of Granthika Co., a  revolutionary software startup that is re-inventing writing and reading for the digital age. I enjoyed speaking to Vikram about his early life, his work and his entrepreneurial journey.Rapid Fire:Most favorite comic book.I have to say ‘Phantom'- ‘Vetal'Advice that you would like to give Arthur Doyle, Sherlock Holmes?Get more women in there.A book, blog, or an author other than you who you will highly recommend for creative writing?Book, that's a tough one. I actually have a list of like 12 books. I guess, you know, I would say... okay, probably I guess I would say the book that I recommend to everyone is Janet Burroway's ‘Writing Fiction'. It's a wonderful craft book. Absolutely, it covers the field in a really clarify... I mean, a really clear way without dumbing it down.The hardest thing about your job?Well, actually writing every day. So, I have a friend. He's a colleague in the Department of English at Berkeley, Robert Hass, Bob Hass. He's a great American poet. And he has this... this lines that he says, “Writing is hell, but not writing is also hell. The only tolerable state is just having written.”Is there a third season of ‘Sacred Games'?The writer is the last one to know. So, unless there'll be an answer, I won't know. And if I knew, I couldn't tell you because they will send their ninjas after me.

Joyce Carol Oates, author of more than 70 works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, joined Poet Laureate and Berkeley English professor Robert Hass in March 2019 to discuss her 2018 book Hazards of Time Travel. Set in a dystopian America in 2039, the novel tells the story of a 17-year-old who, after her subversive valedictorian speech, is exiled to rural Wisconsin in 1959."It seems like dystopian novels are mostly about extrapolating scary political trends in the present into the future," said Hass. "1984. The Handmaid's Tale. It felt like you found yourself more interested in exploring 1959.""Or the sort of foundation for the present," replied Oates, a professor emerita of humanities at Princeton University who has taught as a visiting professor of English at Berkeley. "... Because when I wrote the novel — I was working on it in 2011 — I had no idea at all, as none of us did, that we would have a different kind of political situation today."... My novel was written before the campaign of 2016, which was a vicious and wildly divisive campaign from which we will probably never recover. No, I was actually looking ahead toward a surveillance state, which doesn't have that populist personality demagogue, who's like a clown, a sadistic clown, who's very vicious and funny in an ignorant way, playing to the populous."In my vision, it's more of a surveillance state, where the government is actually impersonal, and you never see a personality. ... It's more like, it's just all around us. We'e in a mesh, a web, of being surveyed and recorded all the time."This conversation was part of Berkeley Book Chats, a series presented by the Townsend Center that features faculty members discussing recently completed publications, performances or recordings.Listen to the talk and read a transcript on Berkeley News. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Robert L. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He won the 2007 National Book Award and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize.

Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman Misery and SplendorBY ROBERT HASSSummoned by conscious recollection, shewould be smiling, they might be in a kitchen talking,before or after dinner. But they are in this other room,the window has many small panes, and they are on a couchembracing. He holds her as tightly  as he can, she buries herself in his body.Morning, maybe it is evening, lightis flowing through the room. Outside,the day is slowly succeeded by night,succeeded by day. The process wobbles wildlyand accelerates: weeks, months, years. The light in the roomdoes not change, so it is plain what is happening.They are trying to become one creature,and something will not have it. They are tenderwith each other, afraidtheir brief, sharp cries will reconcile them to the momentwhen they fall away again. So they rub against each other,their mouths dry, then wet, then dry.They feel themselves at the center of a powerfuland baffled will. They feelthey are an almost animal,washed up on the shore of a world—or huddled against the gate of a garden—to which they can’t admit they can never be admitted.

Todos los nuevos pensamientos son acerca de la pérdida. En eso se parecen a todos los viejos. La idea, por ejemplo, de que cada detalle borra la luminosa claridad de una idea general. De que ese pájaro carpintero con cara de payaso, que está horadando la corteza muerta y ya tallada de ese abedul negro, por su sola presencia, es una suerte de desprendimiento trágico de un mundo primigenio hecho todo de luz indivisa. O aquel otro concepto de que como no existe en este mundo nada que equivalga a la zarza de la mora, toda palabra es elegía de lo que significa. Anoche, tarde, hablábamos con un amigo de eso, y había en su voz un dejo de tristeza, un tono casi quejumbroso. Después de un rato comprendí que cuando se habla de esta forma todo termina disolviéndose: justicia, pino, mujer, cabello, vos y yo. Pensé en una mujer con la que hacía el amor, y me acordé de cómo, algunas veces al agarrarle los pequeños hombros con las manos, sentía un violento asombro ante su presencia, como una sed de sal, del río de mi infancia, con sus islas de sauces, la música pueril de la lancha de paseo, las zonas pantanosas en las que capturábamos aquellos pececitos color naranja y plata que se llamaban peces sol. Nada tenía que ver con ella. Anhelo, le decimos, porque el deseo está lleno de infinitas distancias. Me parece que yo fui lo mismo para ella. Pero me acuerdo tanto de la forma en que sus manos partían el pan, o aquello que su padre le dijo que la había lastimado, las cosas que soñaba. Hay algunos momentos en que el cuerpo y las palabras] son igualmente numinosos, días que son como la continuación de la carne, Tanta ternura, de esas tardes y esas noches, diciendo mora, mora, mora, mora.

Today's poem is one I found when reading Robert Hass' book, A Little Book on Form. It's called "poem with lines in any order" and its by Robert Pinsky. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Peter Dale ScottFor those primarily interested in my recent political prose, go to my Current Publications Web Page, formerly entitled “Iraq, al-Qaeda, 9/11”. For those primarily interested in my poetry, go to My Selected Writings webpage. In fact the two genres inter-relate, as exhibited by both my most important prose book, The American Deep State, and my most recent books of poetry, Minding the Darkness, Mosaic Orpheus, Tilting Point, and Walking on Darkness.For a useful overview of my political and poetic work on the Poetry Foundation website, click here. Click here to read about me on Wikipedia. .Click here to see a description and above all reviews of my book, The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big Oil, and the Attack on U.S. Democracy.Click here for a website which accesses a series of videos in which I read and discuss my long poem Coming to Jakarta, and also my book of shorter poems, Tilting Point.To hear my September 2011 reading of my poetry in Longfellow House, Cambridge, click here.For occasional political comments and news about upcoming books and activities, follow my Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/peterdalescott.BiographyPeter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and English Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is a poet, writer, and researcher. He was born in Montreal in 1929, the only son of the poet F.R. Scott and the painter Marian Dale Scott. He is married to the author and psychologist Ronna Kabatznick; and he has three children, Cassie, Mika, and John Scott, by a previous marriage to the Soto Zen roshi Maylie [Marshall] Scott. Before teaching as an English Professor at the University of California, he served for four years as a Canadian diplomat, at UN Assemblies and in Warsaw, Poland.His prose books include The War Conspiracy (1972), The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond (in collaboration, 1976), Crime and Cover-Up: The CIA, the Mafia, and the Dallas-Watergate Connection (1977), The Iran-Contra Connection (in collaboration, 1987),Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America (in collaboration, 1991, 1998), Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1993, 1996), Deep Politics Two (1994, 1995, 2006), Drugs Oil and War (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, March 2003), The Road to 9/11 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), and The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War (Ipswich, MA: Mary Ferrell Foundation Press,(2008), American War Machine (2010), and The American Deep State, 2014.His chief poetry books are the three volumes of his trilogy Seculum: Coming to Jakarta: A Poem About Terror (1989), Listening to the Candle: A Poem on Impulse (1992), and Minding the Darkness: A Poem for the Year 2000. In addition he has published Crossing Borders: Selected Shorter Poems (1994, published in Canada as Murmur of the Starsi), Mosaic Orpheus (2009), Tilting Point (2012), and Walking on Darkness. In November 2002 he was awarded the Lannan Poetry Award.An anti-war speaker during the Vietnam and Gulf Wars, he was a co-founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at UC Berkeley, and of the Coalition on Political Assassinations (COPA).His poetry has dealt with both his experience and his research, the latter of which has centered on U.S. covert operations, their impact on democracy at home and abroad, and their relations to the John F. Kennedy assassination and the global drug traffic. The poet-critic Robert Hass has written (Agni, 31/32, p. 335) that “Coming to Jakarta is the most important political poem to appear in the English language in a very long time.”If you have any comments or questions, I would be glad to hear from you at pdscottweb@hotmail.com.I do believe that international public opinion, when it becomes powerful enough, will become the most effective restraint to the excesses and follies of particular governments.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

Robert Hass and Czeslaw Milosz share the stage to discuss poetry, philosophy, and the writing process, including excerpts from their work.

In partnership with City Lights Books, who first published Frank O'Hara's “Lunch Poems” 50 years ago, this special event features readings from a newly expanded edition that also includes communiqués by O'Hara pulled from the City Lights archive housed at the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. Participants include: Jayne Gregory, Robert Hass, Owen Hill, Elaine Katzenberger, Evan Klavon, Giovanni Singleton, Julianna Spahr, Joseph Bush and Matthew Zapruder. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 28889]

Hosted by Robert Hass and University Librarian Thomas C. Leonard, this event features distinguished faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines introducing and reading a favorite poem. This year's participants: La Dawn Duvall (Visitor & Parent Services), Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of Students Joseph Defraine Greenwell, Steven Finacom (Capital Projects), Alex Mastrangeli (English), Steve Mendoza (University Library), Carolyn Merchant (Environmental Science, Policy, & Management), Associate University Librarian Erik Mitchell, Shannon L. Monroe (University Library), and Kimmen Sjölander (Bioengineering) Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 28830]

On this week's show, I answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant, Plus Clint Peters writes about how reading Montaigne changed his life. NOTES Check out David James Poissant's wonderful story collection, The Heaven of Animals. According to NPR, Robert Hass has won the Wallace Stevens prize. According to The Guardian, Doris Lessing willed 3,000 books to a library in Harare, Zimbabwe. Meanwhile, Florida Polytechnic is opening with a library that has zero print books (Guardian). Also according to The Guardian, Martin Amis's controversial new book, Zone of Interest, is having some publishing difficulties. I incorrectly called Bullets and Burgers a shooting range, when according to The Times, Burgers and Bullets is the name of the tour guide service that brings people to a shooting range about 25 miles outside of Vegas, in Arizona, where a nine year-old girl accidentally shot her shooting instructor with an Uzi after he set the gun to repeater action.

Former US Poet Laureate, Robert Hass explores certain obsessions in his first collection of essays.

Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005 (Ecco) If it can still be said that a poet can have a humanizing influence on his culture, Robert Hass is such a poet. Here, as we discuss the poems in his National Book Award-winning collection, the beautiful, moving humanity of Hass' voice emerges, making us wish we were better people.