LISTEN to my October 13th, 2020 WIOX Radio conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon. Hear his views on poetry, teaching, and on the process

and challenges of producing last year’s Sharon Springs Poetry Festival (the Festival’s fourth year) virtually during Covid. Please note that the Festival was upcoming when this show was initially broadcast in October. A great highlight of the show: Hear Paul Muldoon read his poem, “The Bannisters” from his 2020 poetry collection Frolic and Detour.

LISTEN to my December 8, 2020 WIOX Radio conversation with poet and award-winning artist Anique Sara Taylor on her splendidly lyric debut poetry collection, Where Space Bends ( Finishing Line Press, 2020).

LISTEN to my November 10, 2020 WIOX Radio conversation with writer and playwright Nina Shengold on her new book out this year from Syracuse University Press, Reservoir Year-A Walker’s Book of Days.

LISTEN to my September 29, 2020 conversation with poet and novelist Lee Slonimsky and essayist and teacher Peter Bricklebank. Lee, my special co-host for this show, invited Peter to read and discuss his remarkable essay on moths, Virginia Wolff and so much more - -“An Eclipse of One’s Own.”

LISTEN to my September l, 2020 conversation with poets Cheryl A. Rice and Guy Reed, on their collaborative chapbook, Until The Words Came, published by Post Traumatic Press in 2019 and their new full collections - Cheryl’s Love’s Compass, published this year by Kung Fu Treachery Press, an imprint of Spartan Press, and Guy Reed’s Second Innocence, published this year by Luchador Press, also an imprint of Spartan Press.

Listen to my 2020 conversation with poet and vital force in the Hudson Valley poetry community, Teresa Costa.

Listen to my 2019 conversation with poet, translator and visual artist and poet laureate of Delaware County, N.Y., Bertha Rogers on her exquisite newest works, Uncommon Creatures: The Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Poems From the Exeter Book, which she illuminated and translated, and her collection of poetry, Wild, Again (salmonpoetry, 2019). Don’t miss Bertha reading in Anglo-Saxon!