A Prairie Home Companion for May 5, 2007 from American Public Media

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

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"

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

Segment 4

01:33:41 The News From Lake Wobegon

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