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Your favorite verse

MIDDAY TODAY: April 16, 2009      88.1 fm   WYPR   WYPO  WYPF

1:00-2:00 pm Eastern: What's your favorite poem and, within that poem, what is your favorite verse or passage? What's your favorite paragraph or sentence in all of literature? I'd like to hear it. Brief poems welcome. Verses or passages welcome. Take a minute this morning and think about it. Try not to think of pirates, or the Orioles losing 19-6, or the check you had to mail off to the IRS yesterday. Let go of recession anxiety for a moment. Try to think of some little piece of verse -- or prose -- that brings you a little peace. Today's second hour notes National Poetry Month and, coming this Saturday, the Baltimore City Lit Fest. So we're going to indulge ourselves with a little poetry, or a wonderful passage from a short story or novel, maybe a great opening line or two. I'll read yours if you send it here or send it by e-mail to the radio station. The address is midday@wypr.org

Please, we can only read short excerpts on the air. Take a moment. Make my day, and yours.

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Posted by Dan Rodricks at 8:16 AM | | Comments (1)
        

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Thank you for an enjoyable hour of poetry-reading! It is so hard to settle on a favorite - poems by Frost, Henley, Whitman and Milosz were all in the final running, but in the end the immortal Bard won out with "Sonnet 116":
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds . . .
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved."

Posted by: VJH | April 16, 2009 9:39 AM

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Jan. 8, 2009, marked 30 years for Dan Rodricks' column in The Baltimore Sun. Over three decades, Dan has won numerous regional and several national awards for his reporting and commentary -- in print and on the air. "I've had opportunity to write a column and work in both radio and television, never having to leave my adopted hometown of Baltimore to have those experiences," he says. "I consider myself very fortunate." In addition to writing a twice-weekly column for The Baltimore Sun and his Random Rodricks blog, Dan is currently the host of Midday, on WYPR-FM, National Public Radio in Baltimore. An artful story-teller and social critic, he has observed local, state and national political and cultural trends for three decades, and has a lot to say about almost everything.
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