Welcome back to the Lit for Christmas party, the podcast where the Christmas spirits flow all year long!
For this third episode, Amanda and Marty get lit on Irish Roses and also get down and dirty about Seamus Heaney's poetry collection Wintering Out for National Poetry Month. Get out your Irish whiskey, put on something green, and join us in the kitchen for some bad Irish puns, Heaney hero worship, talk about Amanda's cake-making skills, and the answer to the eternal question--did Marty take his Christmas tree down yet?
BONUS POINTS: Count how many times the jingle bell fairy steps in to wash out Marty and Amanda's mouths.
APOLOGY: Marty apologizes for his terrible attempt at an Irish accent.
RECIPE FOR THE IRISH ROSE:
Ingredients:
Ice
1 oz. lime juice
1 oz. pomegranate syrup
1 oz. Irish whiskey
6 oz. of ginger ale
Directions:
Lit for Christmas Party Hosts:
Amanda got her undergrad at U of M in English, MFA from Goddard College, and JD from Wayne State University Law School. She's a writer, fleece-legging addict, private poetry hoarder, public child herder, heirloom seed collector, candle dripper, cocktail mixer, and Christmas geek.
Marty has an Master's in fiction writing, MFA in poetry writing, and teaches in the English Department at Northern Michigan University in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He served two terms at Poet Laureate of the Upper Peninsula, and has published the poetry collection The Mysteries of the Rosary from Mayapple Press. For more of Marty's thoughts and writing visit his blog Saint Marty (saintmarty-marty.blogspot.com) or listen to his other podcast Confessions of Saint Marty, alsoon Anchor.fm. Marty is a writer, blogger, wine sipper, easy drunk, and poetry obsessor who puts his Christmas tree up in mid-October and refuses to take it down until the snow starts melting.
Music for this episode:
"Jingle Bells Jazzy Style" by Julius H, used courtesy of Pixabay.
"A Christmas Treat" by Magic-828, used courtesy of Pixabay.
A Christmas Carol sound clips from:
The Campbell Theater 1939 radio production of A Christmas Carol, narrated by Orson Welles and starring Lionel Barrymore.
To-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral sound clip from:
Swinging on a Star. Bing Crosby, Decca Records, 1944.
This month's Christmas lit:
Heaney, Seamus. Wintering Out. Faber & Faber, 1972.
