Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Yankee-Doodle.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 7/3/2002 Yankee Doodle Transcript Yankee Doodle went to town, Riding on a pony. Stuck a feather in his hat and called it Macaroni. If you think about it, it is a little bit odd that the unofficial American anthem is a nonsensical nursery rhyme. […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Poems-for-Womens-History.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 3/21/2002 Poems for Women’s History Month Transcript She was the one who seemed to run in the sky, legs from nothing, from nowhere, her feet surrounded by air. That’s part of a poem by Grace Butcher written in honor of […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Many-Moons-of-Poems-for-the-New-Year.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 1/8/2002 Many Moons of Poems Transcript For many Native Americans, January’s full moon was called the Wolf Moon, the time of year when wolves became particularly restless. In fact, each month’s moon had a different name that was keyed to […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Books-Books-Books.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 12/17/2001 Books, Books, Books Transcript This holiday season, I’m giving books of poetry as presents for everyone. After the events of September 11th, we have turned to poetry (or perhaps I should say we have returned to poetry) because it is the literary form […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Scenes-in-America.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 11/1/2001 Scenes in America Transcript The travelogue storybook became an extremely popular genre in children’s literature in the 1870’s and 80’s, but much earlier than that, British children were being given glimpses into the world outside England. One of the earlier writers of these […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/James-Whitcomb-Rileys-Little-Orphant-Annie.mp3 Author Rosie Russo Air Date 10/31/2001 “Little Orphant Annie” Transcript Little Orphant Annie’s come to our house to stay, An’ wash the cups an’ saucers up, an’ brush the crumbs away, An’ shoo the chickens off the porch, an’ dust the hearth, an’ sweep, An’ make the fire, an’ […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Halloweens-Romantic-History.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 10/30/2001 A Romantic Halloween Transcript Thousands of years ago, on dark November nights, Druids built bonfires among the moors and windswept hills of the British Isles. On these eerie evenings, the ancient precursor to Halloween, the Celtic God of the Dead, Samhain was said […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Poems-for-October.mp3 Author William Jay Smith Air Date 10/26/2001 Poems for October Transcript Since this past spring, we’ve been fortunate to have William Jay Smith as our poet in residence to take us around the year with poetry. Here are two of his poems that evoke October, the first about someone […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Teen-Read-Week-Girls-Talking.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Fiona Barnes) Air Date 10/17/2001 Teen Read Week: Girls Talking Transcript Some “girls” may “just want to have fun,” but a lot of teenage girls are more contemplative and articulate and poetic than the Go-Go’s pop anthem might make them out to be. In […]
William Jay Smith, the distinguished poet for young people, joins us today with some poems about September, that month of both harvests and new beginnings.