Our conversation this week is with Lee Stockdale - acclaimed poet, Army veteran, and winner of the 2022 United Kingdom National Poetry Prize.   For 10 years, Lee felt a slab on his head - to infinity in every direction - weighing him down. His father, Grant Stockdale, was close friends with John F. Kennedy and, overcome by grief, jumped to his death ten days after the assassination. Due to the shame, stigma, and guilt, he didn't talk about it. But with the help of an extraordinary therapist, a chance enounter with Patti Smith, and cab ride with Jackie Kennedy, Lee felt the weight lift; the loneliness give way to connection. He started doing the things his father did. He finished college, got married, had children, and built a life worth living. And just like his mother, Alice Boyd Stockdale, he started writing poetry to move through the grief and into joy and healing.  In this episode you'll hear Lee talk about that journey to joy and healing, how writing brought him close to his father again, the influence of his mother's poetry on his life, the unsung wonder of Alice Notley, and some other fun stories featuring Bing Crosby, Yoko Ono, and Bob Hope.  Location: Lee's living room in Fairview, NC. Visit Lee's website Buy his book of poems Gorilla  Watch and listen to Lee read his award winning poem, 'My Dead Father's General Store in the Middle of a Desert' Mentioned in this epsiode: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Quote from Dante: The Divine Comedy Midway Books in St. Paul, MN Where the Roots Reach for Water by Jeffery Smith James Hillman Wendell Berry City Lights Bookstore in Sylva, NC Grant Stockdale Can Antioch College Return From the Dead Again? The Fillmore East St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery Poetry Project Patti Smith Allen Ginsburg William Burroughs Gregory Corso Yoko Ono CBGB - Bithplace of NYC's Rock, Folk, and Punk Music Alice Notley The Village Voice Robert Wilson The Talking Heads the Ramones Blondie Are you Jackie Kennedy? by Lee Stockdale Alice Boyd Stockdale Humbird Live at Salon Sonics Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Grant Stockdale in England The Road to Hong Kong Jack Paar interview Robert Kennedy in 1964 Brian Lamb St. Mark's Poetry Project Archive Alice Notley 101 Alice Notley and the Art of Not Giving a Damn Ada Limon White Phosphorus by Alice Notley Samuel Beckett Anne Waldman Mary Oliver Hannah Kahn Ladies' Home Journal Young Man, Strolling by Alice Boyd Stockdale

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