Speaking of April showers and spring flowers...

Speaking of April showers and spring flowers, here's an excerpt from "The Waste Land," by T.S. Eliot:

April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.

Happy Poetry Month!

It's that time again!

Yep, on April 11...

• The Lisa Tolliver Show airs at noon, ET on New York Radio WVOX 1460 AM and www.wvox.com,
  
• We're 11 days into National Poetry Month (access my National Poetry Month-related posts and show roundups), and
  
• We're 10 days into the 2007 baseball season (access my baseball-related posts and show roundups), and
  
• Most of us have survived 2007''s two biggest days of foolishness: April Fool's Day (April 1st) and the "Imus in the Morning" Fools' Day (April 4), which like scene from Groundhog Day or the Energizer bunny, seems to keep going and going. Regarding the latter, the question is: what will be the fates of the "wrinkled-up old buzzard" of broadcasting, Don "I-man" Imus, and his "bald-headed stooge," producer-sidekick Bernard McGuirk?
  

POST-SHOW ROUNDUP: Today's Lisa Tolliver Show guest was composer Patricia Burgess (who "daylights" with The Field), and accompanied me to PodCampNYC. Also scheduled - but unable to join us - was Bruce from Long Island, who founded Podcaster Who's Who and the Long Island Podcast Network. Today's "hearty" emergency preparedness & safety tip addresses cardiac health.

A MESSAGE ON BEHALF OF OUR SPONSOR: The 23rd Honoree in the United States Postal Service “Literary Arts” series is poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. For baseball and history lovers, the USPS Commemorative Stamps Program also offers a Baseball Sluggers series, which features Roy ("Campy") Campanella, "Hammerin' " Hank Greenberg, switch-hitter Mickey Mantle, and high-kicker Mel Ott.

NEXT SHOW(S) HEADS-UP: Join me again on April 25 via New York Radio WVOX 1460 AM, www.wvox.com or the call-in line at (01) 914.636.0110. From 11:30-noon, I'll be hosting SCORE Radio: Counselors to America's Small Business (here's my SCORE profile) and from high noon-12:30, I'll be hosting the Lisa Tolliver Show.

IN THE INTERIM: if you're listening, I'm listening. Talk with me!

Here are some ideas for celebrating National Poetry Month

• Read Life Lines: New Every Day
• Subscribe to Poem-A-Day
• Read "One Word Poem" (really!)
• Find poetry events
• Enjoy the many other resources at Poets.org
• Feast on the literary/arts ezines LatchKey.net and Jerseyworks.com
• Tune in to the Steve Pal show on WVOX AM 1460 at 10:00-11:00 pm, Eastern Time on Wednesday, April 12
• Check out Youth Speaks, UrbanWord NYC and the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Festival and Slam! on April 25-29 in NYC

Provided by your 2006 Poetry Ambassador.###