For the Birds Radio Program: Poems by Robert Nero and Thomas Handy Loon
Original Air Date: Feb. 1, 2005
Rerun Dates:
Dec. 9, 2010;
Aug. 8, 2007;
Dec. 15, 2006;
Feb. 9, 2006
Laura reads Robert Nero’s “Surprise Effect” and “At Minus Twenty Celsius” and Thomas Handy Loon’s “When I Was a Bird.”
Transcript
Poems
Every now and then I like to read poems from friends and listeners on “For the Birds.” Sometimes I go weeks or months without getting a single poem, but yesterday was a banner day—I got two poems from renowned biologist and Great Gray Owl specialist Robert Nero of Manitoba, and a cool poem from Thomas Handy Loon of Bemidji. Robert Nero