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New Books in LiteratureCatherine Owen, "Moving to Delilah" (FreeHand Books, 2024)From award-winning poet Catherine Owen, a collection of poems about one woman’s journey from BC to a new life in Alberta, where she buys an old house and creates a new meaning of home. NBN host Hollay Ghadery and Catherine enjoy a lively conversation about poetry, community, and this new collection of poems.In search of stability and rootedness, in 2018 Catherine Owen moved from coastal Vancouver to prairie Edmonton. There, she purchased a house built more than one hundred years earlier: a home named Delilah.Beginning from a space of grief that led to Ow...
2025-03-1248 min
New Books in PoetryCatherine Owen, "Moving to Delilah" (Freehand Books, 2024)From award-winning poet Catherine Owen, a collection of poems about one woman’s journey from BC to a new life in Alberta, where she buys an old house and creates a new meaning of home. NBN host Hollay Ghadery and Catherine enjoy a lively conversation about poetry, community, and this new collection of poems.In search of stability and rootedness, in 2018 Catherine Owen moved from coastal Vancouver to prairie Edmonton. There, she purchased a house built more than one hundred years earlier: a home named Delilah.Beginning from a space of grief that led to Ow...
2025-03-1146 min
Desire As Medicine Podcast25 ~ Desire and The Liberated Woman with Olivia Lara OwenTogether with Olivia Lara Owen, we reminisce about the seeds of desire planted which blossomed into the empowering practices we advocate today. Our conversation is a celebration of individual awakenings and the soul-deep yearnings that have helped us navigated through this life.Her insights into the emotional upheaval experienced during significant life transitions resonate with anyone who's ever dared to redefine themselves. We share not just experiences but also the wisdom found in the throes of change, inviting listeners to ponder the pivotal moments that shape our paths.We turn to the beauty of decision-making...
2024-02-201h 02
Desire As Medicine Podcast22 ~ Behind the Scenes: Olivia Lara Owen Interviews Brenda and CatherineEnjoy a behind the scenes tour on our podcasting journey, guided by our cherished friend and interviewer, Olivia Lara Owen. We share the seed of desire that created this podcast, its transformative influence on us, and the deep bonds of friendship we have created along the way, and how that fuels this project. We laugh a lot about the learning curve of technology, learning to work together and build trust, and the synergy of our combined talents that brings each episode to life.We dive into the terrain of wisdom, humility, and the perpetual c...
2024-01-311h 05
Coffee & GeographyCoffee & Geography S03E23 The Reteach Project ft. Catherine Owen, Ilan Kelman, Mark Maslin & othersIn this special episode, Kit Marie and Catherine Owen tell us about the Reteach Project, a free-to-use resource providing teachers with user-friendly guides, reading lists and recommendations written by subject experts.
For the 2023 Geographical Association Annual Conference, Catherine and Kit Marie gave a lecture about Reteach, and you can hear snippets from that talk. Also, Reteach have launched the Reteach Podcast, and for their Geography series, Kit Marie acts as their guest host interviewing some of the authors whose books appear on the Reteach reading lists. Hear clips from chats with Andrew Caine, Carey Curtis, Kate Stockings, Mark Maslin and...
2023-07-2932 min
Ms. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 3: Part Two on Poetry and Performance by Catherine OwenI woke in the night. I thought about energy, texture and no apologies. Then I had a headache. Then I recovered. So I chat about this. And read a Fisher Price sonnet on the Farm that ends with a line by Robert Frost. Enjoy!
2023-06-0713 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 2: Improv Thoughts on Performance by Catherine OwenI chat randomly for ten minutes on why and how to perform as a poet and then recite Edna St Vincent Millay’s Time Does Not Bring Relief, 1931.
2023-06-0612 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 72: Entrances with Catherine GreenwoodI blather about writing couples and poets who relocate and then introduce Catherine Greenwood and she chats about process and reads a piece with geese and bagpipes and delicious sounds in it!
2023-04-1421 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 58: Three poems for Aren by Catherine OwenDec 13/84-Mar 13/23. Rest in power drummer and friend.
2023-03-2106 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 41: Catherine Owen’s Material Witness (for Chris)Interesting that this is episode 41 and that’s how old Chris would have been now had he not died at 29. This poem was written to commemorate what could have been our 21st anniversary today though he died before our 9th. The bench isn’t ready to be installed yet actually but the poem is :)
2022-10-3102 min
Into the Black Archive: An Unofficial Doctor Who Podcast🚨🚨DAVID TENNANT AND CATHERINE TATE ARE BACK?! 🚨🚨Join Owen and James as they scramble to recover from the new guest stars just announced to form part of the 60th Anniversary... but who are they?
We discuss how this could work for the shows favour, the excitement for the 60th and how Donna Nobel's return will fit into the cannon!
Join James and Owen as they take a deep dive into Doctor Who’s past, starting from the very beginning. Cheap sets, grumpy old men, unhealthily dedicated teachers, and so much more lie in wait. So, join us as we go deep Into Th...
2022-05-1511 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 5: Catherine Graham in conversationTruly an energetic Zoom chat, the longest yet, with this Toronto poet. About grief, publishing different genres, the importance of a good editor, tentacles and fountains, the organic core, Stafford and Dickinson and Gluck and age and auralities. Chock a block full of this and more and so much laughter!
2022-04-1252 min
The Sociology ShowInterview with Catherine OwenIn this episode, Matthew talks to Catherine Owen about the crossover between the disciplines of Geography and Sociology. As a teacher of both subjects, Catherine explains how a strong understanding of social inequalities and the behaviour of people provides a solid base to learning geography. Catherine also explains how Sociology connects to not only human geography but physical and environmental too.
2022-02-0729 min
EMJ GOLD: Pharma news, views and analysisCatherine Owen on the Future of DataIn this episode, we talk to Catherine Owen, Head of Major Markets at Bristol Myers Squibb, who discusses her path into the pharmaceutical industry and the upcoming changes to its data policies. Catherine explores the collection and storage of data, how we can ensure data systems are in place for the next pandemic, methods to build a new data culture and her key takeaways from the past year in pharma.
2021-12-1424 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 15: Rob Taylor's The Wailing MachinesThe final poem in the Revolving City anthology for Friday! And I talk the anthology beast in general before discussing verbs and the Commercial Drive neighborhood in Taylor's powerful piece about vulnerability and love.
2021-11-1904 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 14: A Conversation with Geoff NilsonIn which we rant and chuckle and explore aspects of form, eco-poetry, the gift economy of art, the problems with publishing, and the need to transcend what's expected and engage with the alternate. It's a raucous epic fueled by cheap wine at the Cannibal cafe in Vancouver!
2021-11-1847 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 13: Homage to Heather SpearsAlthough I sound gooned at the start I can assure you it's a November morning and I am not. I talk about Heather Spears life and work, her death in 2021, her character and life energy. I flub the name of one of her books - it is the Word for Sand not Name. And I read her funny piece about poetry readings. Another amazing female poet and creative gone.
2021-11-1709 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 12: Heather Haley's Fleshpot.Second to last piece from the Revolving City anthology and I hem and haw and um a lot here, partly because I recorded this episode in my parents' garden and was worried about being interrupted and in part due to the fact that I am aiming to explicate staccato rhythms ;) at any rate, I read the poem well. Relish the vulnerability!
2021-11-1603 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 11: Steve Collis' On the Indexical or Hockey Night in the Anthropocene.A climate change poem from The Revolving City anthology by an SFU prof. The delicate ways poetry can address gargantuan issues.
2021-11-1505 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 10: Miranda Pearson's KerrisdalePoem two from The Revolving City anthology features a tony hood, aging denizens, heartbreak and survival. I talk about the poem. I read it. Enjoy!
2021-11-1204 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 9: Evelyn Lau's Solitary from The Revolving City anthology.Edited by Compton and Saklikar, this Vancouver-based collection of poems and their stories came out in 2015 as a culmination of the Lunch poems reading series at the downtown SFU campus. Lau's poem reminds us of the hell of Van real estate but also the small joys of living alone.
2021-11-1105 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 8: Grief at Personal and Eco Loss in PoetryA Listener's Question from Chika. Actually two questions on whether grief writing can be seen as exploitative and whether personal grief twins with environmental mourning in poems. I aim to address my perspective on this complexity in 10 minutes, drawing on the origins of elegy, elegiac poets, current quotes from Natasha Tretheway on grief and art and the communal fusions of modes of mourning. I love these challenges!
2021-11-1011 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 7: He by John AshberyMaja's Listener's Choice poem! By one of my most obsessed over poets ever. Thus I bumble about telling you how and why Ashbery couldn't tell you. But o the anaphora! What identity Majesties!!
2021-11-0911 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 6: Seamus Heaney's St Kevin and the Blackbird.A Listener's Choice poem from the wondrous Chika. It's ekphrastic. It's spiritual. It can even recall an episode of Family Guy. It's a poem you won't soon forget.
2021-11-0808 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 4: Listener's Question from Maja on Poetry as a Substance and Altered State.In which I ramble pointedly for awhile in attempts to address Maja's query - "is poetry a substance that creates altered states? Do you use substances to create poetry?" Rimbaud appears, Coleridge, Berryman, Stevens and the theorist Viktor Schklovsky. And the muse. Of course.
2021-11-0509 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 4: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. A Listener's Choice from my father, Gerald Owen.In which he recites it, I talk likely at far too great a length about its ambiguities and then I read it too. And append a note after about both our minor errors. And the beauty of the poem, regardless.
2021-11-0407 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 3: Walter de la Mare's Silver. My mother's Listener's Choice poem.I read the title, Mum recites from mostly memory, then I talk about this mysterious piece and read it again. Repetition. The core of the spell.
2021-11-0304 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 2: In which I interview my parents about poetry and life.This rare episode features Madeleine and Gerald Owen, my parents, from their livingroom in Burnaby BC. We chat randomly about poetry, their childhoods, being culture vultures, our familial diversities, puns, music, translation, and the importance of it all. Made with love. And a lot of laughter.
2021-11-0232 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsSeason Three: Episode 1. A summation of Season Two.This is a test. This is only a test. Season three will actually start in a week but this is a recap of Season Two for starters and a dream poem of mine for kicks. Talk to you soon, word musicians!
2021-10-2604 min
Time Between Times Storytelling with Owen StatonTime between Times Storytelling with Owen Staton. Episode Twenty . The Penance of Catherine PedyrWith Halloween just around the corner Ghost story season is almost at its zenith. This week we head to North Gower at the treacherous Salt Marches for the petrifying tale of the Penance of Catherine Pedyr. Not for the faint hearted this tale tells of the horrible fate of one of the areas best known highway robbers.
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2021-10-2219 min
pharmaphorum PodcastBMS’ Catherine Owen on pharma commercialisation: the pharmaphorum podcastEpisode 42 of the pharmaphorum podcast heard from Catherine Owen, who’s senior vice president of major markets at Bristol Myers Squibb, about the future of pharma commercialisation and communications.
2021-10-1525 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 27: Instagram 'poetry'. A listener's question. The end of Season 2.Herewith the close of a shorter season two because hey such is life and it's my podcast so I can do what I want ;) I conclude with a punchy listener's question from Hollay Ghadery on what is up with Insta poems and the genre and practice? In 6 parts I answer this (or not) with research and personal opinion based on a whack of years of thinking and creating. Enjoy the rants. And then form your own thoughts. Read!! I shall return poetry outlaws!!!
2021-09-1314 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 26: Jobs for Poets and Jenna Butler's KeswickChapter 11 (the last chapter) of the Other 23 on all the ways a poet can hold weird and wonderful free-range (or at least different from ONLY teaching in the university system) jobs. Jenna has a farm! And writes delectable poems too. Explore! See what's out there poetry outlaws!!
2021-09-0907 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 25: Travel and PM Pilarski's The Lizards Hold Court at Delos.Chapter 10 of the Other 23 on that thing we are missing these days: travel and outward adventuring. How does it assist the process of poetry? O in so many ways. Ask those Grecian beasts.
2021-09-0805 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 24: Collaboration and Ars Poetica with Rachel RoseChapter 9 of the Other 23 and a half hours where I talk about the fun and essential act of collaborating with other artists to create dances, books, librettos and other beautiful things. And recite Rachel Rose's anaphoric Ars Poetica. Expand your horizons. Make stuff with others!
2021-09-0705 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 23: Mixing Mediums and Paul Vermeersch's Bad at FlowersChapter 8 of the Other 23 where I talk about the value of painting, dancing, taking photos and playing music for a poet, invoking the words of Joe Rosenblatt and Paul Vermeersch, then reading his vivid and funny poem, Bad at Flowers. Go on. Play with art. Discover what else your poetic sensibilities can create. And happy Friday!
2021-09-0306 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 22: Small Presses and John Pass's SparrowsChapter 7 of the Other 23 where we talk the ins and outs, types and kinds, whys and wherefores of running small presses and printing chapbooks. With John Pass to assist. And his lovely poem, Sparrows.
2021-09-0206 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 21: Radio and Reading Series and Yvonne Blomer's Northern Solstice.Hey it's September and this is Chapter 6 of The Other 23 on hosting radio shows and running reading events as a poet. I chat about university radio, the orality of the art, organizing a poetry series, encouraging a diversity of media and end with Yvonne's series Planet Earth and a planetary poem.
2021-09-0107 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 20: Translation and Steve Noyes' All that was DesiredThere's a fountain. Me turning pages. And talking about translation, mostly drawing upon Steve Noyes' multi-lingual experience, then reading one of his lusciously disruptive poems. Yes it's Chapter 5 of the Other 23 and the last day of August.
2021-08-3105 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 19: Reviews and M Travis Lane's PrintChapter 4 of the Other 23 and I'm outside with the fountain again chatting about the importance of reviews and criticism. The real stuff. Lane knows about this. I read her poem Print too. And it's a beautiful thing.
2021-08-3006 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 18: Research and Even the Brilliant Chimpanzees by Patricia YoungI'm outside, the fountain is spilling into words and I talk the muse and transcendental nature of research. Chapter 3 of the Other 23 and a half Hours. Then Patricia chats about her process through quotations and I read one of her wondrous simian poems.
2021-08-2705 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 17: Memorization and Susan McCaslin's Corona CoronaChapter 2 of The Other 23 and a half hours in which I discuss the act of memorization of poems, out of fashion but essential. It doesn't have to be your own. Take the sounds of others within you. They will be there in the dentist's chair then, while on a walk, when traveling. I talk about reciting Jeffers in Cuba. And mostly about my former teacher Susan and read her wonderful mini-corona. Poetry. It's an oral art form first.
2021-08-2607 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 16: Performance and Catherine Graham's The Red Element.Part 3 of Chapter 1 in the Other 23 and Half Hours collection in which I discuss the value performing has to poetry, whether at a single reading or on tour. Graham also contributes with her wise approach and her ability to memorize. It's WEDNESDAY!
2021-08-2504 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 15: Revision and Hail by Adam DickinsonPart 2 of Chapter 1 in The other 23 and a Half Hours where I chat about the importance of the ear in making changes to a poem, some thoughts about editorial ideology and then recite the tight sonority of a Dickinson piece. Don't be afraid.
2021-08-2405 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 14: Reading from the Other 23 and a Half Hours and a Steve Heighton poem.This episode begins a 12 or so part series on the sections in my collection The other 23 and a Half Hours or Everything you wanted to know that your MFA didn't teach you (Wolsak & Wynn, 2015). I introduce it, talk about the first part on Reading and feature a poem by Steven Heighton called The Last Reader. Outlaw, there are many paths to poems.
2021-08-2307 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 14: Chris Hutchinson interview and the poem Another Trip to the Undersea KingdomI chat with Chris in my front yard about renegade sonnets, reckless Can lit behavior, the past in Vancouver and Canada's poetry scene (resonating with the Past Lane homage!), selling art on the streets and the ache for crowds again. Thanks for the engaging ramble! And the listening hibiscus relished it too :)
2021-08-2030 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 13: Patrick Lane HomagePart off the cuff and part read from a little memoir of the days I knew Pat Lane (1939-2019), this is the Season 2 homage episode to a renowned Canadian poet I once had the fortune to work with. I also read The Far Field, a poem from his 1991 book Mortal Remains. And excuse myself first for trying to recall too many titles from memory. Ahhhhh memories. Enjoy this renegade!
2021-08-1912 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 12: Philip Levine's They Feed They LionA master of anaphora and refrain, listen to Levine speak about the origins of this sonorous political poem and then its recitation. The final piece from the Jorie Graham anthology Earth Took of Earth (1994). And it's a sunny Wednesday.
2021-08-1807 min
The Catherine Plano PodcastEpisode 276: Your Kick Life with Andrea OwenCatherine is here today with Andrea Owen. Andrea Owen is an author, global speaker, and professional certified life coach who helps high-achieving women maximize unshakeable confidence, and master resilience.
She has taught hundreds of thousands of women tools and strategies to be able to empower themselves to live their most kick- life through speaking, her books, coaching, and her wildly popular podcast with close to 3 million downloads.
She is the proud author of How To Stop Feeling Like: 14 Habits That Are Holding You Back From Happiness which has been translated into 18 languages and is available i...
2021-08-1700 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 11: Frank O Hara and The Day Lady DiedA famous piece from Mr Lunch Poems in the Graham anthology. O Hara's compositional style might seem easy to mimic but it isn't. Unlike most Instagram word machines! In remembrance of Billie Holiday.
2021-08-1704 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 10: Donald Justice and PoemIt's not addressed to you, this poem. But listen to it anyway! Mr Justice from the Graham anthology. We have a few more from there this week and then, onwards to an homage! Happy rainy Monday.
2021-08-1607 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 9: Richard Hugo and the Freaks at Spurgin Road FieldIt's Friday the 13th! I speak of the relentless insufficiencies and inevitable ineffabilities of trying to articulate any good poem. Then read a piece about supposed freaks from the Graham anthology. Seems about right.
2021-08-1307 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 8: Denise Levertov's The WingsI start with a Graham quote about the prevalence of water in her anthology selections then discuss and read a piece on wings and a woman's self identity. Enjoy!
2021-08-1206 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 7: James Dickey's At Darien Bridge.Chain gangs? Ghosts? A watery feeling? Is it Wednesday??? Dickey was a tough guy but he wrote some moving poems. Like this one, from the Graham anthology Earth took of Earth. And happy dead birthday Frank who died in 03 at 28.
2021-08-1105 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 6: John Berryman Dream Song #29.O that Henry! We are back to the Graham anthology with Berryman's most enduring and creepy persona poem. Also it's haunting. We all have our own Henrys. Mine's a ravenous squirrel!
2021-08-1005 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 5: William Stafford's Traveling through the DarkThis is a Listener's choice poem requested by Andrew Boden. One of my early faves too. Life, it brings so many challenging decisions. Even in my interpretations, I stumble. Happy Monday!
2021-08-0909 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 4:ee cummings and Somewhere I Have Never Traveled Gladly Beyond.How about some good old weird cummings today in his love mode. One apparently not comprehensible by some students! I also talk of the obvious ineffabilities within poetic articulation and read more bits of Graham's anthology intro from which this piece comes. If only YOUR partner was this romantic....right?
2021-08-0607 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 3: #510 by Emily Dickinson.Another gorgeous poem from the Graham anthology in which Ms Emily defines death while remaining elusive. She never fails to stun. Like my mother. Whose birthday it is!
2021-08-0506 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 2: Navajo Indian Chant (1794)The first piece I'll be reading from the Jorie Graham anthology Earth Took of Earth (1996). An oral dance of seasonal rhythm. Recited amid occasional beeps of construction. Shall I pick it up? Shall you?
2021-08-0404 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsSeason Two, Episode One: Inabilities to Concentrate in Things that Make me Go Grrrrr.Welcome back to my awkward lil podcast of fiercely poetic things! Starting this season with a new random series on aspects of the art world that irk and how this connects to what poets require to make poems. It all began with a Van Gogh exhibit..... enjoy!
2021-08-0306 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 80: A Wrap of Season One and The Metal Nest.It's the final and eightieth episode of Season One that I recorded between March and June of 2021. Here we have a summation of the past 79 episodes, a looking forward to things I might do with Season Two when it gets going again in August and one of my recent poems in notebook form, The Metal Nest, read to do homage to the tenacity of sparrows, an endurance we have all needed this year. See you next season Poetry Outlaws and Word Musicians :)
2021-06-2605 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 79: Dennis Lee and On Tuesdays I Polish my Uncle.Ok I say it's the final episode of Season One but I AM doing an episode 80 tomorrow with a wrap up, a look ahead and a recent poem of mine! This however is the last Dennis Lee piece for now! Such rollicking tongue fun :) And it's a hot Friday.
2021-06-2503 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 78: If you should meet by Dennis LeeAnother funny serious poem from Alligator Pie (1974) that tells you how to console nonsensical (or real?) monsters. Happy birthday to Dante who also loves words.
2021-06-2402 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 77: Dennis Lee and two poems.Another children's author three parter where I talk about my love for Dennis Lee's work, especially in Alligator Pie and the early books from the 70s, meeting him as an adult and the way things have become more sadly PC. Then I recite from memory Suzy Grew a Moustache and from the text, In Kamloops. A poem from which I learned Canadian geography. It's Wednesday! And sunny.
2021-06-2304 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 76: A LIVE conversation with Paul Pearson!During my back yard summer series of the 94th street Trobairitz event, local Edmontonian poet Paul Pearson reads his piece Man Ray and the Jewels of Opar and we chat (and laugh. And death-heckle) about the duty to inclusiveness, multiplicities of voice, Pat Lane, how to make a living as a poet (hint. Be rob mclennan ;), the Olive series, growing up in the backwoods and why he doesn't like punctuation or capital letters. All to the accompaniment of birds, beeping construction trucks and the clappings and hootings of the 14 people in attendance. Such fun! It's a beautiful thing.
2021-06-2219 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 75: They put a brassiere on the camel by Shel Silverstein.The last of three Silverstein pieces. It's a little subversive. Our world. So confusedly PC and full of cancellations without context. Alas. Happy Monday! It's the final full week of Season One of the podcast pre my July getaway!!
2021-06-2103 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 74: Shel Silverstein and Hippos Hope.Let's start Friday all hyper-like with a fun sound poem by Shel that gives us options and choices for our actions and decisions in life! I'm gonna fly, myself.
2021-06-1803 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 73: Shel Silverstein and Backwards Bill.The first of three poems I'm reading from the American kids' versifier Shel Silverstein. It's Backwards Bill who acts like the world does today! With a chat about the importance of the imagination and rhyme. And a bonus poem about wavy hair!
2021-06-1704 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 72: Alice Major: a conversation!Today I have a blast in my bird-full garden chatting with the eminent and enjoyable Edmontonian poet Alice Major. She reads a haibun about astronomy, we chat scientific lexicons, the poetry fest, the League of Canadian poets, memory, the importance of community and the validity of being kind. The magpies concur! Join us. It's fun...and educational!
2021-06-1640 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 71: PK Page. An homage with T-bar and The Castle.Today I remember PK Page (1916-2010) whom I met several times in the 90s. I talk her bio, influence, graciousness, her ear, then amid lulling tune interludes I recite one of her famous pieces T-bar from the 50s and a later one, a villanelle, The Castle. Thanks stunning being of language and grace.
2021-06-1510 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 70: Karen Moe's question: Poetry and Revolution?The creator of Vigilance magazine, among many other revolutionary acts, and a long-term art compatriot of mine, Ms Moe asks me what poetry has to do with revolution! Apart from reading the segment from Stephen Spender, I stutter totally off the cuff, in the windy yard, for 10 minutes worth of pondering how revolution does and may not happen through the most lyrical form of language. To thinking!!! Happy Monday.
2021-06-1411 min
Coffee & GeographyCoffee & Geography S01E02 Catherine Owen (UK)Kit talks to 'Geog Mum' Catherine Owen (she/her) over a cup of English Tea Shop White Tea with Blueberry & Elderflower, chatting about protecting her village from flooding, Uganda, RuPaul's Drag Race and hip-hop, amongst other things! Catherine is a Geography high school teacher and head of department who resides in Somerset, UK. Mum to Jack and Megan, and loves spending time with the family - hence her Twitter handle. Catherine chairs the Geographical Association's (GA) International Special Interest Group and has been lucky enough to write and present for the GA on many occasions. She...
2021-06-1252 min
Coffee & GeographyCoffee & Geography S01E02 Catherine Owen (UK)Kit talks to 'Geog Mum' Catherine Owen (she/her) over a cup of English Tea Shop White Tea with Blueberry & Elderflower, chatting about protecting her village from flooding, Uganda, RuPaul's Drag Race and hip-hop, amongst other things!
Catherine is a Geography high school teacher and head of department who resides in Somerset, UK. Mum to Jack and Megan, and loves spending time with the family - hence her Twitter handle. Catherine chairs the Geographical Association's (GA) International Special Interest Group and has been lucky enough to write and present for the GA on many occasions. She also writes/presents for...
2021-06-1252 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 69: WS Merwin and For the Anniversary of my Death.The last poem I'm reading from the Milosz anthology The Book of Luminous Things and from the section on Non-Attachment. Merwin is often stunning in his evocation of concepts one may not ever have thought of before. Like death anniversaries. Hey it's Friday. And sunny finally. Enjoy!
2021-06-1107 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 68: Sharon Olds and I go back to May 1937.From the People with People part of the Milosz anthology, recorded on a May day of snow is Olds' piece about her parents and the continuity of generations. It's a bit of a longer one. Enjoy! And yes the snow is long gone in June.
2021-06-1008 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 67: Louis Simpson and After MidnightFrom the Place section in the Milosz anthology, a defamiliarized piece about an American street at night. Moody. Like the sky today.
2021-06-0905 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 66: John Haines and The Train Stops at Healey Fork.The Travel section of the Milosz anthology and a piece about the ghosts of the iron horse by Mr Haines. We will leave our homes again soon. Even if it's raining.
2021-06-0807 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 65: William Carlos Williams and his Red Wheelbarrow.The secret of a thing section in the Milosz anthology of luminousness and the much discussed Imagist poem The Red Wheelbarrow by DR WCW. The white chickens are everything. Have a jolly Monday.
2021-06-0706 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 64: Robert Frost and The Most of It.It's Friday but I'm still in the nature section of the Milosz anthology. And with Frost crashing through the underbrush. Nature ain't easy.
2021-06-0405 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 63: Emily Dickinson and poem number 1026.Which is a Narrow Fellow in the Grass, her amazing poem about a snake encounter from the Milosz anthology of Luminous Things and the Nature section. Hear the cat purr.
2021-06-0305 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 62: Galway Kinnell and Daybreak.A poem from the Nature section of the Milosz anthology where he celebrates luminous things. Here I stutter (over-coffeed?) a bit through a discussion of Kinnell's beautiful extended metaphor about starfish and stars. Sip sip sip.
2021-06-0204 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 61: Czeslaw Milosz anthology poems. Robinson Jeffers' Carmel Point.In which I begin the reading of a selection of 9 short poems from the 1996 Milosz anthology, The Book of Luminous Things. He was a great poet. He has fairly magnificent taste. This first section is called Epiphany and hey who can't resist another Jeffers poem about Inhumanism and beauty. Happy June.
2021-06-0107 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 60: Listener's Choice poem: Girl Dreams by Nancy Jo Cullen.From her 2002 collection Science Fiction Saint comes Nancy Jo Cullen and her 2 page piece Girl Dreams on binaries and the patriarchy and some guy called Dennis. Requested by the amazing Leslie Greentree! I ramble on but end up saying a few worthwhile tidbits here and there. It's the last day of May :)
2021-05-3113 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 59: WB Yeats' The Second ComingA delightful final classic from Yeats to conclude the We Animals anthology offerings and the Fantasy section. Do we feel this way these days...an ominous approach? Or is it joyous? Either way, Happy Friday.
2021-05-2806 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 58: Elizabeth Bishop's The Man Moth.The first of two final pieces from the We Animals anthology and from the Fantasy section. I manage to ramble on a lot about Bishop's magical and strange piece. Have a creepy Thursday!
2021-05-2709 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 57: Wallace Stevens Less and Less Human O Savage Spirit.From the Communion section in the We Animals anthology. Stevens...was he a savage spirit? A curmudgeon farmer? Or just a brilliant creator of memorable lines that speak to our connections and divisions within nature.
2021-05-2607 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 56: James Wright and Two Horses Playing in the Orchard.From We Animals. Another from the Fraternity section. Horses. Apples. A sense of kinship. My cat Solstice appears. It's the beginning of another week.
2021-05-2504 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 55: Robinson Jeffers Animals.Get a little Fraternity into your Friday with another poem from the We Animals anthology called Animals by one of my deep and abiding faves, the Californian poet Robinson Jeffers who died in 62. Listen to his inhuman majesties!
2021-05-2105 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 54: Robert Frost's To Do this to Bird's Song was Why she Came.Another piece from We Animals by the curmudgeon farmer Robert Frost and his poem about a woman and love and yes Dominion. Is it creepy? It may be! And there are real birds in it!
2021-05-2004 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 53: John Hollander's Adam's Task.The second piece from the We Animals anthology and from the section called Dominion. It's the fun serious auralities of John Hollander's Adam's Task. And it actually snowed yesterday. I can't hear any birds. My dominion over the garden has ceased for now.
2021-05-1907 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 52: Wendell Berry's The Peace of Wild ThingsA new set of poems from the 1989 anthology ed by Nadya Eisenberg called We Animals: Poems of our World. This Berry piece comes from the first section on reverence. A great way to start your day!
2021-05-1805 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 51: An interview with Kelly Shepherd, parts one & two.Kelly, Edmontonian poet, reads Self Portrait in Fur on my sunny, squirrel and bird frequented patio and we talk a jam packed 40 minutes about environmental poetry, our distaste for certain poetic modes like slam; I mention my loathing for the contrived nature of Mary Oliver and the absurdity of prizes based on relatively bad dead poets. We also talk "career" trajectory in poetry land, chapbooks and the necessity of honouring those poets who have stuck to creating over an extensive period of time. There are some chair creaks and I say YOU KNOW too much but hey this is all...
2021-05-1739 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 50: Syllabics and Daniel David Moses The HandsIt's Ms Lyric's 50th episode!! In which I fumble through a chat about syllabics. You see I adore rhythm but am awful with numbers! At any rate a fascinating poem and thanks to the editors of the In Fine Form anthology, second edition! Have a jolly Friday :)
2021-05-1404 minMs. Lyric's Poetry OutlawsEpisode 49: The Stanza and Earle Birney's From the Hazel Bough.The second to last form from the In Fine Form anthology that also constructs forms and is, in quite a few senses, the essence of a poem, how the line breaks. I'm interrupted by a phone call but mostly keep my train of thought to read Birney's delightful quatrains in his poem about a lost era.
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