The Nearly Noon News-Wednesday November 16, 2022
The Nearly Noon News-Tuesday November 15, 2022
The Nearly Noon News-Monday November14, 2022
Friday November 11: Austin Smith
The conclusion on the Poet's Table Podcast with the writer in his own words of poetry. Goodbye for now, friend.
Friday November 4: Elizabeth Bishop
Austin shares the poetry of Nova Scotia born poet Elizabeth Bishop who won the Pullitzer Prize for Poetry in 1956. Dwight Garner argued that she was perhaps "the most purely gifted poet of the 20th century".
Natural Wonders #43
We hear more from Fran Hamerstrom, born in 1907, from her book, My Double Life, Memoirs of a Naturalist. This chapter is called A Letter from My Mother-in-Law, and finds her in the beginning of her time as a field biologist, with her life long partner...
Natural Wonders #38
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold continues to delight. We will hear the August and September chapters, each with a view into a world we may have never been aware of, if it wasn't for our perceptive sensitive author who guides us on such sweet trips afield.
Conversations- Thursday November 10, 2022
Host Ed Holohan chooses a special brodcast from the archives of Life on the Radio which was the predecessor to Conversations. Ed and former co-host Genie Nordskog speak with Prudence Tippins suggesting a strategy for the upcoming Thanksgiving celebration and other...
Farmer/Janus and Barn Elegiac- November 10, 2022
Catherine reads 2 poem from her poetry collection Geosmin that address the loss of farming in Wissconsin's Driftless Region. The Janus in Farmer.Janus refers tot the two-faced Roman god of beginnings, doorways, passages and endings. The farmer looking forward and back...