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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, […]

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.