Saturday Morning Words + Coffee

Mar 09 2025 38 ep. 7 mins 2
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Talking about literature, art, wine, and beautiful distractions. Hosted by Sean K Berry.

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Frank O'Hara - Lana Turner Has Collapsed

Mar 09 2025 4 mins  
Having a look at Frank O'Hara's poem Lana Turner Has Collapsed. Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing but hailing hits you on the head hard so it was really snowing and raining and I was in such a hurry to meet you but the traffic was acting exactly like the sky and suddenly I see a headline LANA TURN

Robert Frost - Old Man's Winter Night

Nov 23 2024 5 mins  
Taking a look at Robert Frost's Old Man's Winter Night. All out of doors looked darkly in at him Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars, That gathers on the pane in empty rooms. What kept his eyes from giving back the gaze Was the lamp tilted near them in his hand. What kept him from remembering what it was That brought him to that creaking room was age. He stood with bar

Letter from Admiral Morrison about His Son Jim Morrison

Jan 20 2024 9 mins  
In March 1969, Doors singer Jim Morrison was charged with obscenity and indecent exposure stemming from an incident at a concert in Miami, FL. Prior to sentencing, the court asked his father for a letter describing Jim's character and situation. This was his response. Photo: Jim Morrison and his father aboard the USS Bon Homme Richard prior to Jim's fame.

Clare Harner - Immortality

Jan 06 2024 5 mins  
Reading Clare Harner's Immortality, a beautiful poem for a eulogy. Other authors have tried to pass it off as their own, so I talk about that, too. Do not stand By my grave, and weep. I am not there, I do not sleep— I am the thousand winds that blow I am the diamond glints in snow I am the sunlight on ripened grain, I am the gentle, autumn rain. As you awake with morning’s hush

The Master Speed - Robert Frost

May 06 2023 6 mins  
Saturday Morning Words and Coffee. Taking a look at Robert Frost's The Master Speed. No speed of wind or water rushing by But you have speed far greater. You can climb Back up a stream of radiance to the sky, And back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste Nor chiefly that you may go where you will, But in the rush of everything to w

Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mar 19 2022 5 mins  
Reading Ozymandias. What does it teach us about Kings of Kings and hubris? That the sand reclaims everything eventually. I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well

Huckleberry Finn - Chapter 22 - Mark Twain

Jan 29 2022 10 mins  
Reading chapter 22 from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and talking about the dangers of the mob mentality.

William Butler Yeats - A Coat

Jan 22 2022 3 mins  
Saturday morning words and coffee. Reading Yeats' "A Coat" and talking abut reappraising our own work as we go through life. Is it time to "strip down" and simplify? Yeats might tell you, "Yes."

The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost

Jan 15 2022 8 mins  
Robert Frost is a great poet and, in a roundabout way, helped me to take a better road by dropping English lit. Have a decision to make on which path to take? I talk about that here.

The Darkling Thrush - Thomas Hardy

Jan 01 2022 7 mins  
Saturday morning words and coffee. Reading Thomas Hardy's poem from a New Year's Day many years ago. I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-grey, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires. The land's sharp features seeme