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Episode 59- Some Other Sign that People Do Not Totally Regret Life
Sean Cole is a poet and he knows what you think of that.
He is also a radio producer. One night, drunk and stumbling around the Hudson River with his friend Malissa O'Donnell, he discovered a monument -- two of them actually -- to two of his poetry heroes. Apropos of the name of this show, the tribute wasn't very obvious. In fact, he and Malissa nearly walked right past it. Still, embedded in the architecture of a 25 year old plaza were the words of Walt Whitman and Frank O'Hara. And weirdly, Sean had he'd been reciting from O'Hara's Lunch Poems just minutes before.
Thus began Sean's quest to talk to the people whose idea this was -- forging a largely unloved art form into a permanent fixture of the cultural landscape. Along the way he talks with urban landscape architect M. Paul Friedberg, former Battery Park official Richard Kahan and none other than Frank O'Hara's younger sister, Maureen O'Hara.
Sean Cole and Malissa O'Donnell both work for WNYC's Radiolab. And Sean is also a 99-percentilist from way back.
- camille94037
camille94037 at 12.32 on April 05, 2013 17:49
The beginning of the M P F monologue about "Layers of Information"
- Edward Toursh
Edward Toursh at 9.06 on August 06, 2012 17:36
Wow, this is really good! Maybe you should take a look at this ;)
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Leave a comment too if you like it :) - Agentscully
- cmonster
cmonster at 15.00 on August 04, 2012 06:05
I absolutely LOVE the quote, "Information should be layered in our environment. ... It should be an integral part." Absolutely brilliant and a multi-faceted thought. This is why I love 99 percent Invisible.
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