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Lisa Richter - Nautilus and Bone by Sharon Israel

LISTEN to my August 16th, 2022 WIOX show featuring Canadian poet Lisa Richter who reads from and discusses her poetry collection Nautilus and Bone, winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry, the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry, and the Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry. Pamela Manché Pearce, Planet Poet’s endlessly interesting and erudite Poet-At-Large, also joins us on the show!

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Cheryl Clarke - Poet, Activist by Sharon Israel

LISTEN to my June 21st, 2022 WIOX show featuring Cheryl Clarke, remarkable poet, activist, educator and co-organizer of the annual Hobart Festival of Women Writers in Hobart, the Book Village of the Catskills. Planet Poet’s intrepid Poet-At-Large Pamela Manché Pearce also joins us on the show!

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Lee Slonimsky - Bright Yellow Buzz by Sharon Israel

LISTEN to my to my March 15th, 2022 WIOX show featuring returning guest, the unique poet and novelist Lee Slonimsky, who will read from and discuss his new erudite and poignant poetry collection, Bright Yellow Buzz. This show has a fascinating range - from Pompeii and the Lisbon Earthquake to Pythagoras, Vermeer, and the DNA commonality of trees and humans.

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Geoffrey Nutter - Poet and Teacher by Sharon Israel

LISTEN to my February 15th, 2022 WIOX show featuring returning guest, the remarkable poet and teacher Geoffrey Nutter. Geoffrey reads poems from his latest collection, Giant Moth Perishes, and shares his brilliance and exuberance about poetry including his lightheartedly profound wrangling of the comparative mysteries of Wallace Stevens’ “Anecdote of the Jar” and Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale.”Planet Poet’s endlessly interesting Poet-At-Large Pamela Manché Pearce also joins us on the show with her entertainingly erudite musings on a common obsession among writers: their typewriters!

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