October 2011
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Audio for Terry’s interview with Marie Howe is now available. Howe reads several of her poems.
Fresh Air Offices, 2:24PM
- Coworker: That's a really nice sweater.
- Mel: Thanks. It has thumb holes.
- Coworker: That's how hobos used to dress.
“Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we’re going to die. The most mysterious aspect of being alive might be that — and poetry knows that.”
—On today’s Fresh Air, poet Marie Howe discusses several of her poems, which deal with topics such as loss, love, spirituality, gender, sexuality and intimacy.
Reporting In Libya And Dodging Bullets, Bombs →
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Some recent coverage of Libya on Fresh Air includes
- going behind the scenes with reporter CJ Chivers and reporter Richard Engel
- an inside look at Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and his 42-year rule with Dartmouth professor Dirk Vandewalle
- explaining how the future of Libya has become a key part in the rapidly changing transformation of the Arab world
35,000!!!
In honor of us (almost) passing 35,000 followers, here’s an article on how to survive a 35,000 foot free fall, a 35,000 year old figure, and a picture I once took in an airplane at 35,000 feet.
“That’s the one tax deduction that judges have, if I can remember. If you buy new robes, that’s a business expense and can be deducted.”
—Justice Stevens on his robes. (Previously: Justice Breyer on Wait Wait, on his robes)
“I want to write a song
for that thick silence in the dark, and the first pure thrill of unreluctant desire,
just before we’d made ourselves stop.” —
for that thick silence in the dark, and the first pure thrill of unreluctant desire,
just before we’d made ourselves stop.” —
Marie Howe (via givemeyourvertical)
Tomorrow: poet Marie Howe
Halloween Costume Ideas?
What are you going as this year, Internet? Last year I went as Ernie of Ernie and Bert (and yes, I had a Bert.) But this year? I have no idea what we’re doing….
“There’s been some change in my views about the death penalty, but I think there’s more of a change in the jurisprudence of the Court that made me eventually reach the conclusion that the death penalty, as it is presently administered, is unconstitutional.”
—Justice John Paul Stevens voted to uphold the death penalty in 1976. On today’s Fresh Air, he discusses his evolving viewpoints over his 35 years on the Supreme Court.
“The Court has held, I think incorrectly, that the First Amendment protects the right to use money just as though money were speech.”
—On today’s Fresh Air, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens talks about his dissenting opinion in the Citizens United ruling.
