Archive for June, 2021

June 25, 2021, 5-6pm – second hour of a two hour show featuring, from a 2008 event, you’ll hear then outgoing 2007 US Poet Laureate Charles Simic’s fall term reading in the Cornell University’s Creative Writing Program’s reading series.

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June 25, 2021, 4-5pm – first hour of a two hour show featuring, from a May 17, 2005 event, you’ll hear Ted Kooser 2004-2006 US Poet Laureate reading at the 42nd Annual Edwin and Jean Corle Memorial Lecture series at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This audio from that recorded video is one in their ‘Voices’ video series.

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June 18, 2021, 5-6pm – second hour of a two hour show featuring, again from what is this month’s offering in the and the journey continues open mic reading series, you’ll hear readings or performances by Eric Folsom, David Malone, Gretchen Huntley, Kingston Poet Laureate Jason Heroux, Jennifer Verardi, Kathy Keenan, and Bruce Kauffman.

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June 18, 2021, 4-5pm – first hour of a two hour show featuring, as the “and the journey continues” open mic reading series presents itself here in this month’s offering, you’ll hear readings by Bob MacKenzie, Judith Popiel, Billie, Gwen Whitford, Meg Freer, Sarah Emtage, and Anne Graham.

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June 11, 2021, 5-6pm – second hour of a two hour show featuring, first; poet Patrick Lane in an early 1980’s talk and reading, reproduced by Retro Rabbit Ears. Following that, you’ll hear poet W. S. Merwin at TedxMaui, January 22, 2021 – held at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center.

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June 11, 2021, 4-5pm – first hour of a two hour show featuring, with the release of his first chapbook of poetry, “Doctoring in Nicaragua” (Finishing Line Press, 2021), and this past Monday in our live outdoor, socially distanced conversation around it, you’ll hear Kingston poet and retired pediatric ICU physician Greg Stidham talking about his life and creative process and then reading from the chapbook.

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June 4, 2021, 5-6pm – second hour of a two hour show featuring select pieces from ‘The Al Purdy Songbook’ (borealisrecords.com 2018). The cd portion of the songbook contains the work of a dozen poets/songwriters, and their interpretations or adaptations as inspired by Purdy’s poems. From them you’ll hear: Bruce Cockburn, Sarah Harmer, Gord Downie, Jason Collett, Snowblink, Dave Bidini with the Bidiniband and the Billie Hollies, Leonard Cohen, and Casey Johnson.

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June 4, 2021, 4-5pm – first hour of a two hour show in which you’ll hear, as recorded earlier this week, a telephone interview and reading with Toronto poet Patrick Connors centered around his debut collection of poetry, ‘The Other Life’ (Mosaic Press, 2021).

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