Tag: Poem
Grandmother Poems
We asked the poem Lola Haskins to share with us some of her thoughts about becoming a grandparent.
Barking Through the Dog Days
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Barking-Through-the-Dog-Days-with-Books.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/3/2005 Barking Through the Dog Days Transcript It’s the “dog days” of summer, that are named for Sirius, the dog star, one of the brightest stars in the heavens at this time of year. But I suspect the dog days are also referring to […]
A Poem Is…
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-Poem-is.mp3 Author Christine Poreba Air Date 7/29/2005 A Poem Is… Transcript Earlier this spring, during National Poetry Month, I spoke with Christine Poreba, a poet who was living in Gainesville, Florida, at the time. I asked her one of those questions that poets often get asked by children and adults: […]
Paul Revere’s Ride
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Listen-my-children-and-you-shall-hear…mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 4/18/2005 Paul Revere’s Ride Transcript In Massachusetts, Patriots Day, April 18th, is celebrated with great fervor and pride. On Lexington Green, the shot heard round the world is fired once more – and is followed by a faithful reenactment of the first battle of […]
First Poems
Remember those first poems we wrote in elementary school? Shelley Fraser Mickle does.
Limericks for St. Patrick’s Day
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Limericks-for-St.-Patricks-Day.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 3/17/2005 Limericks for St. Patrick’s Day Transcript “There was an old man who lived in Nantucket.” Now hold on, don’t worry. This isn’t what you think. I want to clear the name of that poor Old Man once and for all. The original Limerick, […]
Love to Langston
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Love-to-Langston.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 2/1/2005 Love to Langston Transcript It’s the beginning of Black History Month, and it’s also the birthday of one of America’s best-known African American poets, Langston Hughes, who was born in 1902. He’s the subject of a recent biography for young people, Love to […]
Lewis Carroll’s Poetic Puzzles
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lewis-Carrolls-Puzzles.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 1/27/2005 Lewis Carroll’s Poetic Puzzles Transcript Perhaps no four lines are more famous in the realm of children’s poetry than the opening stanza to “Jabberwocky”, – Lewis Carroll’s penultimate moment as a children’s poet – As read by William Rushton from the first chapter […]
“Return Baggage”
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-Poet-Remembers-the-Lost-Children.mp3 Author Ewa Wampuszyc Air Date 1/5/2005 “Return Baggage” Transcript As we begin the year ahead with its new promise, let us take a moment to reflect on the children whose lives have passed so fleetingly — the victims of war, of hunger, of illness, of random tragedy. I can […]
A Halloween Party in 1905
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Celebrating-Halloween-A-Hundred-Years-Ago.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 10/28/2004 A Halloween Party in 1905 Transcript A young girl invites 16 boys and 15 girls to a Halloween party. All invitees happily accept and at six o’clock on October 31, the 31 guests arrive, greeted on the lawn by a life-sized witch. Her […]