Episodes

Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Episode 75: Dave Mehler reads Chris Dombrowski
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Tuesday Sep 06, 2022
Dave Mehler-- the local poet and friend I interviewed in episodes 12 and 45-- takes the mic today to read from Chris Dombrowski's book "Ragged Anthem".
Dombrowski is a northwesterner, outdoorsman, and teacher as well as poet, and his slim book is one that you might need to add to your library.

Sunday Sep 04, 2022
Episode 74: What Did I Miss?
Sunday Sep 04, 2022
Sunday Sep 04, 2022
I'm back after summer break for a little chat, a promise of what's to come, and of course a poem.
By the Well of Living and Seeing, Part II, Section 28: “During the Second World War" by Charles Reznikoff
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55500/during-the-second-world-war-

Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Episode 73: Teacher, Fisher, King
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
"Finding a Teacher" by W.S. Merwin

Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Episode 72: Bonus! ”The Smile”
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
In this mini episode, my nephew reads a poem he wrote for his baby sister. Buckle your seat belt; it's dangerously adorable!

Monday Jul 04, 2022
Episode 71: Three More by Charles Wright
Monday Jul 04, 2022
Monday Jul 04, 2022
Apparently I'm not done reading Charles Wright poems to you! I've got a fever and the only cure is another dive into the bright, dark, poetic, folksy, scary, exhilarating pool of his book "Caribou". In this episode I share
"Chinoiserie II"
"Heaven's Eel"
"Life Lines"

Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Episode 70: ”History is a Burning Chariot” by Charles Wright
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Today's episode is dedicated to Keith Hansen, who made an ambivalent comment about this poem that I'm crazy about. I try to explain my enthrallment with this poem and Wright's latest work in general. Was it a success or
"a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating" ?
(T.S. Eliot)
Who knows? But it was worth a try.

Tuesday May 31, 2022
Episode 69: Four Poems About Family by George Bilgere
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Sit yourself down at Uncle Keith's knee; he's got some poems to read to you...about fambly.

Tuesday May 24, 2022
Episode 68: In the Waiting Room
Tuesday May 24, 2022
Tuesday May 24, 2022
"But I felt: you are an I,
you are an Elizabeth,
you are one of them."
This poem is a story...in which a hot waiting room and a National Geographic magazine provoke a little girl's painful recognition of herself.
"In The Waiting Room" by Elizabeth Bishop

Tuesday May 03, 2022
Episode 67: Lake, Mountain, Moon
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Keith Hansen brings us Denise Levertov's grouping of poems titled "Lake, Mountain, Moon." These are lush, grand, and worth listening to with closed eyes and a still body...if you can pull that off.

Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Episode 66: Caterpillars & Geckos
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
You know what's adorable? Hearing your dear ol' college roommate's voice echo in the voices of her two young sons... and to hear those voices saying poems. Lincoln (8) shares a poem by Rosetti, and Will (10) shares a poem of his very own. He said his favorite thing about poetry is that there is a poem for everything... and ain't that the truth.
Caterpillar
by Christina Rosetti
Brown and furry
Caterpillar in a hurry,
Take your walk
To the shady leaf, or stalk,
Or what not,
Which may be the chosen spot.
No toad spy you,
Hovering bird of prey pass by you;
Spin and die,
To live again a butterfly.