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Garrison Keillor's Podcast

Launching Garrison's newest book, BRISK VERSE. Send your video too.

Garrison Keillor's Podcast

Prairie Home Productions

Society & Culture, Fiction, Comedy Fiction, Improv, Comedy

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Dear Brisk Verse Buyers,Garrison Keillor’s latest book, Brisk Verse, is (as he says) “good for reading aloud to friends and associates, neighbors, colleagues bartenders, passersby, even strangers in libraries or on airplanes.”Let’s put that to the test — and spread the fun. When you receive your book, if you are so inclined, pick a favorite poem. Then share it by videotaping yourself reading it out loud. Send your video (one poem only) to [email protected]. We will select a few to use on our social media over the next few months.  Deadline May 30th (we hope the books will ship sooner than the estimated May 15th date).  And if you haven’t yet placed your order, check it out here:Autographed Personalized Book only Looking forward to seeing your videos. (mp4, mov, quicktime - record straight from your phone - just have fun!)

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit garrisonkeillor.substack.com/subscribe

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0:00.0

Summer Night by Garrison Keeler from his book Briskverse.

0:07.0

Shphek!

0:12.0

Northern Town on a summer night,

0:20.0

Gardiniasas pink and white,

0:23.6

shotgun in homes on a quiet street.

0:30.6

And the air is sweet.

0:34.6

Birches and maple tree.

0:42.3

In their shade sit you and me.

0:44.3

Our two hands intertwine like the honeysuckle vine.

0:49.3

Boar boar

0:52.3

Boar frogs on the river shore.

1:01.0

Mockingbird in the sycamore, singing songs to their mates at a grasshopper.

1:16.6

ruminates. The far-off whistle of a southbound train. Woo!

1:20.6

You lean in close and say my name.

1:28.3

God forbid our love gets old.

1:31.3

Hands go free and hearts grow cold.

1:35.3

Day by day is how we live, do our best and the rest forgive.

1:52.0

Crickets murmur in the grass and the train goes through and the hours pass.

2:00.0

Hand in hand, head to head.

2:03.6

Much we know need not be said.

2:06.6

Here and now, it's completely clear.

2:12.6

Today is the best day of the year.

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