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Five extra minutes with GK, October 07, 2009
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This is a refreshing connection with Garrison. I thoroughly enjoy everything he puts his hand to, and the Writer's Almanac was no disappointment. I am mostly fascinated about where GK finds this material? Because of his contributions to life all around us, we are richer in so many ways. I'm so grateful for his willingness to share his gifts with a hungry world searching for escape and delight; He has the ability to connect us to so many places we would never experience otherwise. Speaking for me, I am better for the exposure to all he creates!

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Nov. 24, 2009: The Writer's Almanac


Tue, Nov, 24, 2009

Tuesday’s Poem: “What the Dark-Eyed Angel Knows� by Eleanor Lerman, from The Mystery of Meteors. Tuesday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of the publisher and editor of The Little Review magazine, Margaret Anderson, born in Indianapolis (1886), who never fit in when she was growing up in the small town of Columbus, Indiana. She said, “I saw no reason why I should continue to live in Columbus, Indiana, and not breathe.� So she moved to Chicago and founded a magazine called The Little Review,…

Monday’s Poem: “Where They Were and What They Were Doing� by Matt Cook, from In the Small of My Backyard. Monday’s Literary Notes: Today, the winner of the 2005 National Spelling Bee turns 18. Anurag Kashyap, who was born in India and grew up in San Diego County, California, was in eighth grade when he correctly spelled “appoggiatura� (a musical term that means, according to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, “an embellishing note or tone preceding an essential melodic note or tone and usually…

Sunday’s Poem: “Head Cheerleader� by Jack Ridl, from Losing Season. Sunday’s Literary Notes: It was about 12:30 p.m. on this day in 1963 that President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. It was the first successful assassination of an American president since 1901, and the only presidential assassination ever caught on film. Almost every American alive at the time remembers where they were when they heard the news…

Saturday’s Poem: “XI.� by Wendell Berry, from Leavings. Saturday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of Christopher Reuel Tolkien (1924) born in Leeds, England. He’s the youngest son of J.R.R. Tolkien, who wrote The Lord of the Rings, and he drew the original maps that appeared in his father’s epic fantasy novel. In addition to synthesizing all that complicated information about the imaginary Middle Earth to draw up the illuminating maps, he was also his famous father’s test audience. Since his…

Friday’s Poem: “Farley, Iowa� by Christopher Wiseman, from the longer poem “Standing by Stones� from Crossing the Salt Flats. Friday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of South African novelist Nadine Gordimer, born in Springs, South Africa (1923). She’s the author of more than a dozen short-story collections and more than a dozen novels, most of which explore the issue of race in her homeland of South Africa. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1991, and has served as a member of…

Thursday’s Poem: “Diagnosis� by Sharon Olds, from One Secret Thing. Thursday’s Literary Notes: It was on this day in 1863 that President Abraham Lincoln got up in front of about 15,000 people seated at a new national cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, pulled his speech from his coat pocket and delivered the Gettysburg Address. It consisted of 10 sentences, a total of 272 words and lasted just over two minutes…

Wednesday’s Poem: “My Love For All Things Warm and Breathing� by William Kloefkorn, from Cottonwood County: Poems by William Kloefkorn and Ted Kooser. Wednesday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of novelist and poet Margaret Atwood, born in Ottawa, Ontario (1939). Her father was an entomologist who spent every year from spring to fall studying insects at a forestry research station in northern Quebec. Atwood said, “At the age of six months, I was carried into the woods in a packsack, and this…

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