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A Lovely Wallpaper

Abby Walthausen

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Fréquence : 1 épisode/42j. Total Éps: 18

"A Lovely Wallpaper" offers up guided memorizations, featuring a new poem each episode. Proposing memory work as a challenge to the ephemeral language of our moment, host Abby delivers an exploration of each new poem in two parts. In the first act, she chats with a guest about poetry and memory. In the second act, she presents the episode's poem, as read by her guest, in a special format designed to work as a roadmap to learning it by heart.

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Episode 18: "A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day" with Robert Harrison

dimanche 21 décembre 2025 • Durée 52:14

In this episode, Abby interviews Robert Harrison, professor of Italian and French Literature at Stanford University, about darkness, light, the winter solstice, and his long running radio program "Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)." Together they present "A Nocturnal upon St. Lucys' Day" by John Donne.
Recitation begins at 36:21.

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"Try to Praise the Mutilated World" with Selma Asotić

mercredi 26 novembre 2025 • Durée 01:19:32

In this episode, Abby interviews poet Selma Asotić about her English language debut Say Fire, a beautiful book about families, language, and trauma in post-war Sarajevo. Together, they present "Let Us Praise the Mutilated World" by Adam Zagajewski.
Recitation begins 1:05:10

Try to Praise the Mutilated World

By Adam Zagajewski
Translated By Clare Cavanagh

Remember June's long days,
and wild strawberries, drops of rosé wine.
The nettles that methodically overgrow
the abandoned homesteads of exiles.
You must praise the mutilated world.
You watched the stylish yachts and ships;
one of them had a long trip ahead of it,
while salty oblivion awaited others.
You've seen the refugees going nowhere,
you've heard the executioners sing joyfully.
You should praise the mutilated world.
Remember the moments when we were together
in a white room and the curtain fluttered.
Return in thought to the concert where music flared.
You gathered acorns in the park in autumn
and leaves eddied over the earth's scars.
Praise the mutilated world
and the gray feather a thrush lost,
and the gentle light that strays and vanishes
and returns.

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Ghost Story from William Maxwell’s "The Château" — with Christine Schutt

mercredi 15 octobre 2025 • Durée 19:15

This special October episode features a ghost story from William Maxwell’s novel The Château. It’s set in a harsh, old-fashioned classroom where kids recite their lessons, and its haunting force is a shapeshifting memory double—very much in our “A Lovely Wallpaper” wheelhouse. Guest reader: Christine Schutt, author of Pure Hollywood, Prosperous Friends, All Souls, and several more. No poem, no interview this time—just understated, literary thrills and chills!

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"The Garden" with Marie Warsh

vendredi 26 septembre 2025 • Durée 53:12

In this episode, Abby interviews art historian Marie Warsh about her book Central Park's Adventure-Style Playgrounds, about growing up surrounded by poetry and art on the Lower East side, and about her work to revive the legacies of unsung female artists. Together, they present an excerpt of “The Garden” by Bernadette Mayer, Marie's mother.
Recitation begins at 45:50

from "The Garden" by Bernadette Mayer

If all our eyes had the clarity of apples
In a world as altered
As if by the wood betony
And all kinds of basil were the only riders of the land
It would be good to be together
Both under and above the ground
To be sane as the madwort,
Ripe as corn, safe as sage,
Various as dusty miller and hens & chickens,
In politics as kindly fierce and dragonlike as tarragon,
Revolutionary as the lily.

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"Mushrooms" with James Oliver

vendredi 8 août 2025 • Durée 01:00:20

In this episode, Abby interviews radical mycologist James Oliver about mushrooms and his work healing post-fire sites with mycelium at The Center for Applied Ecological Remediation (CAER). Together, they present the poem "Mushrooms," by Sylvia Plath.
Recitation begins at 47:22

Mushrooms
Sylvia Plath

Overnight, very
Whitely, discreetly,
Very quietly
Our toes, our noses
Take hold on the loam,
Acquire the air.
Nobody sees us,
Stops us, betrays us;
The small grains make room.
Soft fists insist on
Heaving the needles,
The leafy bedding,
Even the paving.
Our hammers, our rams,
Earless and eyeless,
Perfectly voiceless,
Widen the crannies,
Shoulder through holes. We
Diet on water,
On crumbs of shadow,
Bland-mannered, asking
Little or nothing.
So many of us!
So many of us!
We are shelves, we are
Tables, we are meek,
We are edible,
Nudgers and shovers
In spite of ourselves.
Our kind multiplies:
We shall by morning
Inherit the earth.
Our foot's in the door.

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"The Pity of Love" with Mary Lattimore

mercredi 18 juin 2025 • Durée 42:51

In this episode, Abby interviews harpist and composer Mary Lattimore about her most recent album Goodbye, Hotel Arkada, her musical collaborations, and her instrument in all its epic visceral and metaphorical power. Together, they present “The Pity of Love” by William Butler Yeats.
Recitation begins at 34:38

The Pity of Love
William Butler Yeats

A pity beyond all telling
Is hid in the heart of love:
The folk who are buying and selling,
The clouds on their journey above,
The cold wet winds ever blowing,
And the shadowy hazel grove

Where mouse-grey waters are flowing,

Threaten the head that I love.

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"Zone" with Lucy Sante

jeudi 20 mars 2025 • Durée 53:21

In this episode, Abby interviews writer Lucy Sante about recent books *Nineteen Reservoirs* and *I Heard Her Call My Name*. Together, they present an excerpt of the poem "Zone" by Guillaume Apollinaire.
Recitation begins at 45:07

from "Zone"
Guillaume Apollinaire

Now you walk in Paris alone in a crowd

Herds of buses drive past mooing loud

Your throat is gripped with love’s pain

As if you should never be loved again

If you lived in the past you’d enter a monastery

You’re ashamed to catch yourself saying a prayer

You jeer at yourself and your laughter crackles like hellfire

The background of your life is gilded by the sparks from your laughter

It’s like paintings hung in a dark museum

Sometimes you step up close to see them

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"There is a Zone whose even Years" with Lee Ann Brown

mardi 25 février 2025 • Durée 54:42

In this episode, Abby interviews Lee Ann Brown, poet and founding editrix of Tender Buttons, about running a small press for 36 years, having Bernadette Mayer as a mentor, setting poems to music, and her own poetry book *In the Laurels Caught*. Together, they present Dickinson’s poem 1056, "There is a Zone whose even Years."
Recitation begins at 48:25

1056, "There is a Zone whose even Years"
Emily Dickinson

There is a Zone whose even Years
No Solstice interrupt --
Whose Sun constructs perpetual Noon
Whose perfect Seasons wait --

Whose Summer set in Summer, till
The Centuries of June
And Centuries of August cease
And Consciousness -- is Noon.

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"An Eagle for an Emperor" with Talon Knight and Terri Casey

lundi 20 janvier 2025 • Durée 30:43

In this episode, Abby interviews Talon Knight aka Robert Shallow, about falconry, owls, and the SoCal Renaissance Faire. Terri Casey, director of the Queen’s Court, joins in to read “An Eagle for an Emperor” by Dame Juliana Berners. Recitation begins at 24:06.

An Eagle for an Emperor
Dame Juliana Berners

An Eagle for an Emperor,
a Gyrfalcon for a King,
a Peregrine for a Prince,
a Saker for a Knight,
a Merlin for a Lady,
a Goshawk for a Yeoman,
a Sparrowhawk for a Priest,
a Musket for a Holy water Clerk,
a Kestrel for a Knave.

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"What Am I After All" with Andrew Tonkovich

jeudi 5 décembre 2024 • Durée 46:13

In this episode, Abby interviews Andrew Tonkovich, writer, editor of the journals The Santa Monica Review and Citric Acid, and host of the KPFK radio program "Bibliocracy," about a new exhibition he mounted on the art and activism of friend and mentor Peter Carr. The show “Peter Carr: Artist for Survival” is at Cerritos College Art Gallery until December 14th. Together, they present the poem "What Am I After All" by Walt Whitman. Recitation begins at 40:34.

What Am I After All
Walt Whitman

What am I after all but a child, pleas'd with the sound of my own name?
Repeating it over and over;
I stand apart to hear—it never tires me.

To you your name also;
Did you think there was nothing but two or three
Pronunciations in the sound of your name?

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