LISTEN to my June 4th, 2024 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring the founding members of PRP (Poets Read Poetry) who have gathered together to read and discuss the wildly expressive poetry of 19th century poet Francis Saltus Saltus.

LISTEN to my May 7th, 2024 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring teacher, editor, poet and writer, Nancy Merritt Bell.  How do you teach young children to write poetry?  Nancy shares her methods and also reads from works she has edited and written specifically for children.  The show also features Pamela Manché Pearce, Planet Poet’s Poet-at-Large, who brings us Natasha Trethewey’s Bellocq’s Ophelia.

LISTEN to my March 26th, 2024 WIOX broadcast (also a podcast!) featuring award-winning poet Sam Truitt.   Visit: Sharonisraelpoet.com. Visit:  samtruitt.com, samtsong.com, Station Hill Press  

LISTEN to my February 13th, 2024 WIOX broadcast (also a podcast!) featuring award-winning poets Carey Salerno and Stacy Spencer, who are on the show to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Alice James Books, an important Press solely dedicated to poetry. Visit Alice James Books

LISTEN to my December 19th, 2023 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring award-winning poet and activist MARY GILLILAND, who discusses and reads from her latest poetry collection The Devil’s Fools and from her forthcoming collection Ember Days. Pamela Manché Pearce, Planet Poet’s erudite and entertaining Poet-at-Large, also joins us on the show.  Visit: Sharonisraelpoet.com. Visit: marygilliland.com.

LISTEN to my November 21st, 2023 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring Maureen Buchanan Jones, poet, writer and Amherst Writers and Artists (AWA) Training Director, who discusses and reads from her books Blessed are the menial chores and Maud & Addie. Pamela Manché Pearce, Planet Poet’s Poet-at-Large also joins us on the show.  

LISTEN to my October 10, 2023 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring poet Pui Ying Wong and her new collection Fanling In October, and co-host, poet Lee Slonimsky.

LISTEN to my September 26th, 2023 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring the wonderful poet, writer and visual artist, Anique Sara Taylor who reads from and talks about her new, award-winning Chapbook Civil Twilight. Pamela Manché Pearce, Planet Poet’s Poet-at-Large is also on the show, bringing us her unique insights into poetry and poets.