# Ws Merwin

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September 30, 2019 How to Help Autumn Crocus Shine, Sarah Hynes, Faith Fyles, Helia Bravo Hollis, WS Merwin, Planting in a Post-Wild World by Thomas Rainer and Claudia West, Add Color with Chrysanthemums, and Robert Louis Stevenson Playing Cards with Kin

I was reading in Facebook yesterday, a friend had planted all of these autumn crocus, colchicums, in her garden. Like any bulb, it takes lots of dedication to get them planted and then you have all of the anticipation - waiting to see if they come up and if they meet your expectations. Anyway, she'…

136 – Your Absence Has Gone Through Me

To date, I’ve only interviewed a few guests who weren't adoptees, and this will be another one. Today you're going to meet Anne-Marie from Southern California who drafted an impassioned submission to be on the Who Am I Really podcast. At first I wanted to stay true to the focus of the show, sharing…

S2E5 | Odd Planets (with Charlotte Rampling, Simone de Beauvoir, Danez Smith, Griffin Dunne, Henry Green, Sarah Manguso, and WS Merwin)

The final episode of Season 2. The incomparable Charlotte Rampling reenacts Simone de Beauvoir’s classic 1965 Paris Review interview; Danez Smith reads their poem “my bitch!”; Sarah Manguso shares her lyric essay “Oceans,” about moving to California, cancer, and writing oceanically; actor Griffin D…

Episode Twenty-Four: In This Sky We Are Born We Are Born

This Episode This episode came from reading a poem by WS Merwin called The Widow. "Everything that does not need you is real". Socialism Instagram | Facebook Begging I'd love to hear what you think of this podcast. I really enjoy doing it, but it'd be great to hear about what you like and do…

Commentary on the craft in Ep #14 - Yesterday by WS Merwin

This is a bonus episode to expand on the poem in Episode #14. I take a shot at explaining how linguistic devices have been used to create an emotional landscape in the poem Yesterday by WS Merwin.

#14 - Two friends talk about the last time they saw their fathers

In this episode, I read - Yesterday by WS Merwin.  This poem made me twitch a little. It was written in 1983, and yet it speaks of a guilt that remains timeless. One that all of us carry with us no matter how little or how much time we spend with our parents. A non preachy conversation written only…

The Shortwave Report March 28, 2025

This week's show features stories from France 24, Radio Deutsche-Welle, NHK Japan, and Radio Havana Cuba. http://youthspeaksout.net/swr250328.mp3 (29:00) From FRANCE- A press review on the first annual World Day For Glaciers. Then European press reviews about the dangerous situation hav…

Great Poems: Maya Angelou's Still I Rise

In this episode, we take Maya Angelou's poem Still I Rise as a catalyst and inspiration. We chat about writing as protest, appropriation, and Maya Angelou's status as phenomenal woman. Writers mentioned include Amanda Gorman, Langston Hughes, WS Merwin, Bob Dylan, Colston Whitehead and Lucy Hannah…

The Poetry Show: Trees

Enlighten Radio Presents   Stand Still   The Bristlecone Pine A Magnificent collection of Tree Visions: Drink the undrinkable; Through a glass, darkly; The Trees are not lost. Joy Harjo, Adrienne Rich, Christian Wimen, WS Merwin, Jane Hirshfield. Poems of Peace. Broadcast Wednesdays, 10 AM on p…