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Garrison Keillor's Podcast

Tim Russell's selection from BRISK VERSE

Garrison Keillor's Podcast

Prairie Home Productions

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

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 1 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:AutographedPersonalizedBook onlyLooking 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

A poem by Garrison Keeler from Brisk Verse, May Snow.

0:06.4

In Minnesota, we don't count on spring in April.

0:09.8

We have a climate of diversity.

0:12.7

It's possible that a May morning's paper will say,

0:16.4

Snow expected tomorrow or Thursday.

0:19.7

We do not complain, we simply say, welcome to Minnesota and

0:24.4

March 4th. Snow in May, but we are pretty much okay. And pretty much okay is good enough here in the

0:32.3

north. If it snows in May, we do not fuss about our misery, whimper, make a stink or whinge or cry.

0:41.2

For everyone else is in the same boat as we, and soon the sun will shine, if not in June, July.

0:48.7

And when the crocuses come up, the tulips and the purple gentian, we feel joy, though it's nothing we'd ever mention.

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