Segment 1
00:00:00 - Logo Open
00:00:12 - Tishomingo Blues
00:00:55 - GK Intro
00:02:54 - Cowboys Script
00:13:45 - Will Farley (National Champion of Poetry Out Loud) reads "Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes
00:19:12 - "Rexroth's Daughter," Greg Brown
00:23:28 - GK reads "Andree Rexroth," by Kenneth Rexroth w/ Meta Weiss, cello
00:26:20 - GK Intro Powdermilk
00:26:49 - Powermilk Biscuit Break
Segment 2
00:28:26 - Robert Bly reads a few poems: "Loving the Old Ones," "Wanting Sumptuous Heavens," "The Slim Fir Seeds," and "I Have Daughters and I Have Songs"
00:35:43 - "I'm Gonna Miss Her," Brad Paisley
00:38:02 - GK "Spring Poem" with Gary Raynor
00:42:53 - River script with Billy Collins
00:55:07 - GK Intermission Credits
Segment 3
00:59:18 - GK Welcome Back
01:00:07 - Billy Collins reads "Ballistics" and "Hangover"
01:03:13 - "I've Let Things Slide," Nick Lowe
01:06:23 - Guy Noir with Deborah Garrison
01:21:55 - GK reads Hayden Carruth ("6," "The Fantastic Names of Jazz," "Forty-Five")
01:26:32 - "Indoor Fireworks," Elvis Costello
01:29:31 - GK Intro
01:30:01 - "The Drink," read by Ron Padgett
01:31:02 - "I Wanna Get Married," Nellie McKay
01:35:14 - Maxine Kumin and GK read "The Long Marriage," "Continuum," and "Wagons"
Segment 4
01:38:40 - The News from Lake Wobegon
Segment 5
01:54:03 - GK Credits
01:55:09 - "Calling For Me," Iris DeMent
01:58:35 - GK Recorded Credits
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A Prairie Home Companion for August 15, 2009
August 15, 2009 rebroadcast with Kenneth Rexroth, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, Maxine Kumin, Elvis Costello, Brad Paisley, Nellie McKay, and Nick Lowe
Description
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, a poetry compilation show with a remembrance ofHayden Carruth, a poem by, and song for,Kenneth Rexrothand more Poets Laureate past and present than you can shake a stick at, including:Billy Collins(U.S.),Robert Bly(Minnesota) andMaxine Kumin(U.S./ New Hampshire). Also included are songwriter/poetsElvis Costello,Brad Paisley,Nellie McKayandNick Lowe. Plus the National Champion ofPoetry Out Loud(2009). In Lake Wobegon, Judy Inqvist volunteers to chaperone the sophomore class to the zoo in order to gather material for a poem she's writing.