Continuing this blog’s celebration of women authors throughout Women’s History Month, and furthering my desire to use this platform to highlight other authors, I’m delighted today to share this email interview with Agnes Vojta, a poet who happens to live in my neck of the woods here in Missouri and who also happens to teach physics at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
A native of Germany, Agnes is the author of three books of poetry — Porous Land, The Eden of Perhaps, and A Coracle for Dreams — all published by Spartan Press in 2019, 2020, and 2022, respectively. More recently, she and eight other poets from Missouri and Arkansas collaborated to create the anthology Wild Muse: Ozarks Nature Poetry, published in December 2022 by Cornerstone Press. Agnes also serves as an associate editor for Thimble Literary Magazine and hosts Poetry at the Pub, a local reading and open mic event. She and her husband, Thomas, a professor and chair of physics at Missouri S&T, are avid hikers and kayakers who share their passion for the outdoors and information about Ozarks trails and more at RollaHiking.info.
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When I’m tired of thinking or talking about higher ed or marketing/PR/communication, my thoughts often turn to music. I’m not sure why. Maybe because I just love music — good music, that is — and if I could get away with it and get paid for it, I think that I would blog about music all day long. Anyway, I consider myself somewhat of a musical connoisseur, being the child of musical parents who schooled me early on in show tunes and Gershwin, and as the youngest of five growing up in the glory days of rock’n’roll (the ’60s and ’70s), I learned more than my fair share about the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Cream, Hendrix, et. al., before I had even entered grade school. Still, there are a lot of gaps in my pop music knowledge base. For example: The other day I was thinking about how many great albums are out there that I’ve never listened to completely. (There are also albums filled with wretched music that I’ve listened to more than once. But that’s another story for another time.) Among the certifiably great pop/rock albums, here are five that I’ve never listened to in their entirety (or, as the title says, if I ever did, I sure don’t remember it).