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/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.
We’re right in the middle of that hot spell of summer that the ancients called the “dog days,” and William Jay Smith has some poems for us today about this steamy time.
William Jay Smith is one of our leading poets for young people. He joins us today with some poems to begin the month of July.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/John-Ciardi-The-Man-Who-Sang-the-Sillies.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 6/25/2001 John Ciardi Transcript “Once long ago in a far away beginning ‘by the sea’ In, of course, a kingdom, one fine day With (why not?) A lark in a tree (Yes all the poems I ever see Put all their larks in the […]
