Tag: Poem
Edward Lear’s Book of Nonsense
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Edward-Lear-Book-of-Nonsense.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 2/8/2007 Book of Nonsense Transcript One hundred and fifty-five years ago today, in London, at 26 Haymarket, the publisher Thomas McLean released a curious little book. It was entitled, The Book of Nonsense and the author, according to the cover, was a certain Derry Down Derry. […]
Camp Crystal Lake
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Camp-Crystal.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 1/3/2007 Camp Crystal Lake Transcript As soon as our daughter was big enough, which to us meant the summer she was 8, we sent her to Camp Crystal Lake. It’s only a 45 minute drive from where we were living then, and, because it’s […]
Ogden Nash
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Ogden-Nash.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 8/23/2006 Ogden Nash Transcript At one time, Ogden Nash “was America’s most popular and most frequently-quoted contemporary poet.” His loyal followers were legion, and his light verse was widely visible in popular magazines like The Saturday Evening Post and The New Yorker. Between 1925 and 1971, he […]
Of Typewriters and Poems
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lola-Haskins-Typewriters-and-Poems.mp3 Author Lola Haskins Air Date 5/23/2006 Top view thirties retro writers desk with typewriter on old wooden background table top. Of Typewriters and Poems Transcript When our daughter D’Arcy was little, we lived in a rented stone cottage in an English village. Every day while she was at school, […]
Naps
Today, Lola Haskins reads us her poem "Naps."
Parenthood
Here's the next installment in Lola Haskins' cycle of poems about parenting and grandparenting.
At Twenty-Two Months, Ava Launches Her Poetry Career
Today, poet Lola Haskins continues her series of works with a poem about those connections that children begin making at a very early age if we adults listen carefully.
Will
In our continuing series of new poems by Lola Haskins about her grandchildren, her children, parenting, and grandparenting, we have these reflections during these times of presents on what one mother hopes to leave to her children - her gift to them.
The Sock Puppet
Today, we are continuing the cycle of poems that Lola Haskins has written about her grandchildren, her own children, and about grandparenting and parenting.
Ava’s Shells
The poet Lola Haskins joins us again to continue her cycle of poems about her children and grandchildren.