Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac Podcast
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Each day, The Writer's Almanac features Garrison Keillor recounting the highlights of this day in history and reads a short poem or two. The Writer's Almanac is produced by Prairie Home Productions and presented by American Public Media.
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Jul. 24, 2008: The Writer's Almanac
Thu, Jul 24, 2008
Thursday's Poem: "The Good Nights" by Joseph Mills from Angels, Thieves, and Winemakers: Wine Poems. Thursday's Literary Notes: It's the birthday of Robert Graves, born in Wimbledon, England (1895). He fought in World War I. Graves spent much of the war in the trenches, amid mud, mustard gas, and corpses. In one battle he was wounded badly and the London Newspapers reported that he was dead. Someone showed him a copy of his own obituary, and Graves decided that he had been spared from death in order to write poetry. In just five years, between 1920 and 1925, he wrote three books of criticism, a ballad opera, a novel, a satire on contemporary poets, and half-dozen volumes of poetry, and also his memoir Goodbye to All That (1929), about his childhood and his experiences in the war. It turned out to be a huge best seller, and he was able to live off his writing for the rest of his life...
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