Latest WDRT Podcasts
October 22nd, 2024
This is my 4th reading from The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir written the year before he died in 1914.
This chapter, called A Paradise of Birds, describes his experiences as a boy at his Fountain Lake home, seeing bobolinks, bobwhite quail, and passenger pigeons, “of all God’s feathered people that sailed the Wisconsin sky, no other seemed to us so wonderful”, and I end by reading Aldo Leopold’s deeply moving talk called On a Monument to the Pigeon, given at the dedication of the Passenger Pigeon Monument at Wyalusing State Park in May of 1947.
October 20th – 26th, 2024
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An Interview with Mosab Abu Toha
Listen to acclaimed Palestinian poet, short story writer and essayist, Mosab Abu Toha, as he speaks of life and death in Gaza through his poetry and life’s experience.
His first collection of poetry, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and won the Palestine Book Award, the American Book Award, and the Walcott Poetry Prize. Abu Toha is also founder of the Edward Said Library in Gaza, which he hopes to rebuild. He recently won an Overseas Press Club Award for his “Letter from Gaza” columns for The New Yorker.
