That’s the Spirit! Essential Attitude: In Honor of Inaugurating a Poet Laureate, W.S. Merwin, broadcast from the hospital bedside vigil of my mother, age 90, who “wants to sleep” but just winked at me:

Robert Frost, in his poem October, beginning the hours of this day slowly, making the morning last, as Poet Paul Simon says on our show’s signature song, to Frost’s “make the day to us less brief,” his slow! Slow! savoring … Continue reading →