Tag: National Portrait Gallery

Paternity suit

Posted on June 17, 2018 by Lesley Wheeler

Father’s Day used to be a hard one. When my father was alive, I knew he wanted to be fussed over, but he was an unpredictably mean-spirited person who’d praise my intelligence one minute and mock me the next for my unattractiveness, my career… Continue Reading “Paternity suit”

Category: Radioland outtakes, UncategorizedTags: Clinton, Father's Day, Gertrude Stein, James Weldon Johnson, marianne moore, National Portrait Gallery, Obama, paul laurence dunbar, Washington DC

Watch me listen

Posted on March 10, 2016 by Lesley Wheeler

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On Saturday I met my daughter at Union Station in D.C. and we ended up at the National Portrait Gallery, standing in front of paintings until our feet ached. I’ve done the rounds there a few times but don’t remember seeing “The Hermit Thrush”… Continue Reading “Watch me listen”

Category: UncategorizedTags: birdsong, Ecotone, National Portrait Gallery, poetry, sound, The Hermit Thrush, Thomas Dewing, virginia festival of the book, vision, Walt Whitman, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

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