Purple Cow

Howdy listners, here is the most recent and last show of the semester:

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Basically we had a two-part show, the first part including poems by these famous people:
Wallace Stevens, “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock”
T.S. Eliot, “Journey of the Magi”
Charles Simic, “Riddle”
Robert Graves, “To Juan at the Winter Solstice”
Gertrude Stein, “If I Told Him: A Complete Portrait of Picasso” (love)
William Carlos Williams, “A Love Song”
Czeslaw Milosz, “Ars Poetica?”
John Ashberry, “My Philosophy of Life”
Robert Penn Warren, “The Nature of a Mirror”
Anne Waldman, “Lady Tactics”
John Berryman, “The Lay of Ike” and “The High Ones Die”
Randall Jarrell, “Next Day”
Joshua Marie WIlkinson, “A Moth in the Projectorlight” (read by Ms. Paffenhofer)
Yusef Komunyakaa, “My Father’s Love Letters”
James Tate, “The Lost Pilot”

The second part of the show (starts at 36:00) featured the original work of undergraduate creative writers Colin Fawley reading an excerpt of fiction, Melissa McDaniel who read nonfiction and a poem, Khaled Khlifi reading poems, Caitlyn Crossley reading poems, and Daniel Jordan reading poems (not fiction!). Thanks to the ohsome Colin, Khaled, Caitlyn, Melissa, and Daniel!!!

That’s it for Purple Cow for Fall 2009, we’ll be back in January, hopefully at a new time (I like poetry in the morning, don’t you?)! Keep reading those poemzz, snap-snap. love you all.