All Things Considered

Today at All Things Considered, we continue a project we're calling NewsPoet. Each month, we bring in a poet to spend time in the newsroom — and at the end of the day, to compose a poem reflecting on the day's stories.

Transcript

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:

It's time now for your letters.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "CHILDREN OF THE RAINBOW")

SIEGEL: The song is "Children of the Rainbow" being sung by 40,000 Norwegians yesterday in Oslo, as they marched to the city's courthouse.

MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:

Inside sat right wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, on trial for massacring 77 people last year. The singers gathered because Breivik has said publicly he hates the song, and considers it a Marxist plot to brainwash Norway's children.

Hart Seely is the author of The Juju Rules: Or, How to Win Ballgames from Your Couch: A Memoir of a Fan Obsessed.

Remember that pod on the Death Star, where Darth Vader would go to be alone? Did you ever wonder what he was doing in there?

Well, I have a theory: I think he was watching ballgames.

The new baseball season is here. For me, it means reclaiming the war pod, the living room — or, as I prefer to call it: my personal corporate luxury skybox.

Seth Grahame-Smith is the author of Unholy Night.

I know it's strange to be thinking about October right now, but whenever I write, in a way that's always where I am. Growing up in Connecticut, it always held a special place in my heart — "a rare month for boys," as Ray Bradbury begins Something Wicked This Way Comes.

The massive Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival came to a close in California on Sunday after two weekends worth of sold-out shows by over 150 artists.

One of those acts was the Austin, Texas, band Explosions in the Sky, which first played Coachella back in 2007 and has seen its profile grow since then.