“Manual Labor”: What do you remember from your first paid job? Did you develop any work-habits that you carried into adulthood? From your twenties on, has much of your identity been shaped by your work? Poems on this and next month’s episodes offer a variety of perspectives on work. Three poems are featured: Jericho Brown’s “Labor”, from The New Testament (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). Seamus Heaney’s “Thatcher,” from Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998). Mary Robinson, “London’s Summer Morning.” The show’s theme music is Philip Aaberg’s “Going-to-the-Sun,” from his CD Live from Montana (available at sweetgrassmusic.com) and used with kind permission of Philip Aaberg. All 22 episodes of this show may be found on KMUN’s podcast page. Also, a generous number of other apps, including Spotify and Pandora, broadcast this show: search by the show’s title–Poems for Company–or simply by typing in KMUN. If you have any questions, suggestions, or corrections, please contact me, Brian Dillon, at feedback@kmun.org
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