Planet Poet - Words in Space

Planet Poet-Words in Space  – NEW PODCAST!  LISTEN to my June 8th, 2021 WIOX Radio conversation with poet, editor and publisher Jared Daniel Fagen on his forthcoming poetry collection, The Animal of Existence and two books from his literary press, Black Sun Lit :  I am writing you from afar by Moyna Pam Dik and Apostasy by Katy Mongeau.    Jared Daniel Fagen is the author of The Animal of Existenc...

Planet Poet-Words in Space  – NEW PODCAST!  LISTEN to my 2017 WIOX Radio conversation with transcendent poet Rosaly DeMaios Roffman on poetry’s power to “fix, change and heal things real life cannot.”   Rosaly DeMaios Roffman , internationally acclaimed poet and writer, is Professor Emerita at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where she taught creative writing, myth and literature, Japanese and C...

Planet Poet-Words in Space  – NEW PODCAST!  LISTEN to my May llth, 2021  WIOX Radio conversation with the original and exuberant poet Roberta Gould on her latest collection Woven Lightning (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019) and other works.    “The tension between the lyrical and the practical, the soaring and the quotidian give her poetry its arresting and archetypical energy.  A procession of gongs and sile...

Planet Poet-Words in Space  – NEW PODCAST!  LISTEN to my April 13th, 2021  WIOX Radio conversation with poet, essayist, novelist and blithe spirit Sparrow on his new book Small Happiness & Other Epiphanies .   Sparrow urges us to “dance your way to health” among other spiritually whimsical (or whimsically spiritual) suggestions for better living. Hear Sparrow ’s original musical offering “Bung...

LISTEN  to Planet Poet-Words in Space for my conversation with poet Maxima Kahn on her  intriguing and deeply felt debut poetry collection Fierce Aria (Finishing Line Press, 2020).   “I have learned to walk into the valley of my fears and losses,” writes Maxima Kahn , and the evidence of what she has learned is all over these amazing poems. Fierce Aria is a book with a post-Wallace Stevens mission...

Planet Poet-Words in Space  – NEW PODCAST!  LISTEN to my 20016 WIOX Radio conversation with renowned, award-winning poet, Arthur Vogelsang .  Vogelsang is the author of seven books of poetry, including Twentieth Century Women and Cities and Towns , which received the Juniper Prize. His work has been included in numerous anthologies such as The Best American Poetry , The Pushchart Prize , The New B...

Planet Poet-Words in Space  – NEW PODCAST!  LISTEN to my January, 2021 WIOX Radio conversation with Bruce Weber to discuss his life as a poet, poetry event organizer and art historian, and to delve into his new book There Are Too Many Words In My House recently published by Rogue Scholars Press.   Bruce Weber is the author of five previously published books of poetry: “These Poems are Not Pretty”...

Planet Poet-Words in Space  – NEW PODCAST!  LISTEN to my 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 O...

LISTEN to my 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 .    Nina Shengold 's books include Clearcut (Anchor Books), a Book Sense Notable selection; River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers (SUNY Press); and 14 theatre anthologies for Vintage...

Planet Poet-Words in Space  – NEW PODCAST!  LISTEN to my September 29, 2020 conversation with poet and novelist Lee Slonimsky and essayist and teacher Peter Bricklebank .  Lee, my special co-host, invited Peter to read and discuss his remarkable essay on moths, Virginia Woolf and much, much more - -“An Eclipse of One’s Own.”      Peter Bricklebank has published in The American Voice, Carolina Quar...

Planet Poet – Words in Space – NEW PODCAST!  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 (2019: Kung Fu Treachery Press, an imprint of  Spartan Press), and Guy Reed’s Second Innocence , published this yea...

Planet Poet – Words in Space – NEW PODCAST!  LISTEN to my August, 2020 WIOX radio conversation with Dan Wilcox - poet, photographer, activist and major force in the poetry community of Albany, N.Y.  Dan Wilcox hosts the Third Thursday Poetry Night at the Social Justice Center in Albany, N.Y.  Dan claims to have the world's largest collection of photos of unknown poets. His poems have been pub...

Planet Poet – Words in Space – NEW PODCAST!  LISTEN to my WIOX radio conversation with poet and vital force in the Hudson Valley poetry community, Teresa Costa.   Teresa is the founder and host of WOMPS – Word Of Mouth Poetry Series housed at the Art Bar in Kingston, N.Y. for the last few years.  Teresa’s work has been recently featured in Gasconade Review book # 5 & CAPS 20th Anniversary 2020...

LISTEN to my WIOX radio 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 Rogers reading in Anglo-Saxon!

  Planet Poet – Words in Space PODCAST!  LISTEN to my WIOX radio conversation with poet and award-winning visual artist Pamela Manché Pearce , Planet Poet’s intrepid Poet-At-Large, on her poignant and powerful debut chapbook Widowland, published by Green Bottle Press, London (2018).  Pamela’s work has appeared in ArsMedica (Toronto); The Brooklyn Review, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art’s...

This week, the podcast will feature my conversation with poet, editor, translator, lawyer and champion of the environment, Elizabeth J. Coleman, on her wildly relevant and beautiful anthology, HERE, Poems for the Planet, published by Copper Canyon Press in April, 2019. HERE, edited by Coleman, features a dramatic foreword from His Holiness the Dalai Lama; Coleman’s superb international selection o...