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May 5, 2007
This week on A Prairie Home Companion — a special springtime poetry show with Allen Ginsberg reading the words of Walt Whitman, Meryl Streep reading the words of Wendell Berry and Mary Oliver, and Billy Collins and Rita Dove reading their own words. The poetic Randy Newman is on, along with Gillian Welch, Greg Brown and Bob Dorough. Plus, the story of another Bob: a younger, struggling artist with an iffy sense of meter and a tendency to slouch. Join us Saturday for all this and more on a special poetry home companion.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:12:00 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:55:00 | GK Intro Poetry Show |
| 00:02:39 | The Story of Bob |
| 00:10:54 | GK Intro Randy Newman |
| 00:11:18 | "The Great Nations of Europe" and "I Miss You" - Randy Newman |
| 00:18:51 | GK Intro Billy Collins |
| 00:19:27 | "The Revenant" - Billy Collins |
| 00:21:48 | "You Reader," "Afternoon With Irish Cows," "The Lanyard," "Flock," "Surprise," and "No Time" - Billy Collins |
| 00:32:28 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:33:46 | GK Intro Meryl Streep |
| 00:34:23 | Collection of American Poems by Henry Taylor, Mary Oliver, John Updike, Wendell Berry, James Wright, Langston Hughes, Robert Lax, and Julia Kasdorf, read by Meryl Streep and GK |
| 00:43:37 | GK Intro "Cowboys" script |
| 00:44:07 | Lives of the Cowboys script |
| 00:54:57 | GK Intermission Credits |
| 00:57:08 | Intermission: "Dinah," "Under The Stars," "Brill Building Cleanup" |
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| Segment 3 |
| 00:59:03 | GK Welcome Back/ Intro Bob Dorough |
| 01:00:01 | "Devil May Care" - Bob Dorough |
| 01:03:09 | GK Intro "Song of Myself" |
| 01:04:25 | Excerpts "Song of Myself" - read by Allen Ginsberg, Robert Bly and GK (listen to full version) |
| 01:18:50 | "Winter's Come & Gone," "My Morphine" - Gillian Welch and David Rawlings |
| 01:27:01 | "Duluth," "Hockey," "Berry Picking," "An Ill Wind" - Louis Jenkins |
| 01:32:47 | GK Intro Mono |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:33:41 | The News From Lake Wobegon |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:47:13 | GK Intro Greg Brown and Rita Dove |
| 01:48:14 | "Vivid" - Greg Brown |
| 01:51:10 | "Courtship," "The Secret Garden" and "Pastoral" - Rita Dove |
| 01:54:51 | GK Credits |
| 01:55:50 | "Spring and All" - Greg Brown |
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Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" read by Allen Ginsberg, with Garrison Keillor and Robert Bly
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