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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. 22, 2009: The Writer's Almanac


Sun, Nov, 22, 2009

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…

Tuesday’s Poem: “Alexandria, 1953� by Gregory Djanikian, from Falling Deeply into America. Tuesday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of the man who created Saturday Night Live — Lorne Michaels, born in Toronto, Canada (1944). He majored in English at the University of Toronto, and then moved to Britain in the 1960s to pursue a career selling cars. His friends and acquaintances in England, who loved his sense of humor and recognized his leadership potential, quickly realized it’d be a huge waste of talent for him to sell cars all of his life. Michaels recruited talent from all sorts of places. Dan Aykroyd was a fellow Canadian, and Chevy Chase, John Belushi, and Gilda Radner had worked on the National Lampoon show. Muppet creator Jim Henson created sketches for the show, and recent Harvard grad Al Franken was signed on as a writer. Michaels put together the first season, 1975–1976, and won an Emmy for it…

Monday’s Poem: “Middle School Band Concert� by Christine Rhein, from Wild Flight. Monday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of the novelist Andrea Barrett, born in Boston, Massachusetts (1954). She is known for writing fiction about botanists, oceanographers, and geologists. In order to finish her novel The Voyage of the Narwhal (1998), about a group of British scientists exploring the Arctic, Barrett traveled to the Arctic herself. Andrea Barrett said: “I think science and writing are utterly…

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