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Why Am I Telling You This?
Hosted by C.M. Rivers · EN
Pause with C.M. Rivers for a moment of poetry or an occasional report from his observatory, which houses notebooks in lieu of telescopes.
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Letters From Pops, Chapter 8: Lunch With John Lennon
Mar 5, 202300:07:56Tap to summarizeDuring the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement. With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an abrupt halt, he began writing about his life: stories about his childhood, memories of family, adventures that took him from coast to coast in the U.S., to Vietnam and Denmark. In Season 3 of "Why Am I Telling You This?", C.M. reads what his father sent him in a series called "Letters From Pops".
Transcribe →Letters From Pops, Chapter 7: A Succession of Pitiful Attempts
Feb 26, 202300:06:35Tap to summarizeDuring the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement. With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an abrupt halt, he began writing about his life: stories about his childhood, memories of family, adventures that took him from coast to coast in the U.S., to Vietnam and Denmark. In Season 3 of "Why Am I Telling You This?", C.M. reads what his father sent him in a series called "Letters From Pops".
Transcribe →Letters From Pops, Chapter 6: The Helmsman
Feb 19, 202300:08:13Tap to summarizeDuring the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement. With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an abrupt halt, he began writing about his life: stories about his childhood, memories of family, adventures that took him from coast to coast in the U.S., to Vietnam and Denmark. In Season 3 of "Why Am I Telling You This?", C.M. reads what his father sent him in a series called "Letters From Pops".
Transcribe →Letters From Pops, Chapter 5: The Flying Seven
Feb 12, 202300:07:51Tap to summarizeDuring the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement. With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an abrupt halt, he began writing about his life: stories about his childhood, memories of family, adventures that took him from coast to coast in the U.S., to Vietnam and Denmark. In Season 3 of "Why Am I Telling You This?", C.M. reads what his father sent him in a series called "Letters From Pops".
Transcribe →Letters From Pops, Chapter 4: Captain Buddy and the Stingray
Feb 5, 202300:05:48Tap to summarizeDuring the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement. With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an abrupt halt, he began writing about his life: stories about his childhood, memories of family, adventures that took him from coast to coast in the U.S., to Vietnam and Denmark. In Season 3 of "Why Am I Telling You This?", C.M. reads what his father sent him in a series called "Letters From Pops".
Transcribe →Letters From Pops, Chapter 3: A Winter Memory
Jan 29, 202300:07:22Tap to summarizeDuring the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement. With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an abrupt halt, he began writing about his life: stories about his childhood, memories of family, adventures that took him from coast to coast in the U.S., to Vietnam and Denmark. In Season 3 of "Why Am I Telling You This?", C.M. reads what his father sent him in a series called "Letters From Pops".
Transcribe →Letters From Pops, Chapter 2: What's A Beach?
Jan 22, 202300:08:11Tap to summarizeDuring the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement. With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an abrupt halt, he began writing about his life: stories about his childhood, memories of family, adventures that took him from coast to coast in the U.S., to Vietnam and Denmark. In Season 3 of "Why Am I Telling You This?", C.M. reads what his father sent him in a series called "Letters From Pops".
Transcribe →Letters From Pops, Chapter 1: I Turn Ten
Jan 15, 202300:12:13Tap to summarizeDuring the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement. With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an abrupt halt, he began writing about his life: stories about his childhood, memories of family, adventures that took him from coast to coast in the U.S., to Vietnam and Denmark. In Season 3 of "Why Am I Telling You This?", C.M. reads what his father sent him in a series called "Letters From Pops".
Transcribe →The Hands That Make Things
Jul 31, 202200:02:59Tap to summarizeSeason Two of "Why Am I Telling You This?" concludes with a poem about the visible and the invisible, the mysterious and the ordinary, body and spirit, and the fleetingness of life. Excerpted from How To Carry Soup: Poems, by C.M. Rivers (Homebound Publications). "The Hands That Make Things" first appeared in IthacaLit: A Journal of Literature and Art.
Transcribe →No Small Wonder
Jul 23, 202200:03:15Tap to summarizeC.M. begins this poem by turning his attention to a small gathering of natural wonders that are often overlooked, then allows the poem to shift in tone to a diary entry written in second-person.
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