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Poet Jo Pitkin - Village:Recession /  by Sharon Israel

LISTEN to my August 24th 2026 WIOX show (also a podcast) featuring award-winning poet and writer, teacher and editor, Jo Pitkin, on her new poetry collection Village: Recession, published by Finishing Line Press. Jo explores the Great Recession of the early 2000s from the intimate vantage point of an American village, documenting the effects of this worldwide economic meltdown on friends, family, and neighbors—like the hardworking snow plower or the carpenter who never finishes his own house renovation in order to avoid paying higher property taxes—and on the poet herself. When the “recession’s serrated edge” profoundly alters her daily life, Pitkin finds temporary relief in small acts of kindness and solace in everyday encounters. This show was recorded in 2020 during the COVID pandemic. Pamela Manché Pearce, Planet Poet’s erudite Poet-at-Large, also joins us later in the program.

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Poet Geoffrey Nutter - Emissaries - A Long-Form Poem /  by Sharon Israel

LISTEN to my April 21st, 2026 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring returning guest, award-winning poet, teacher, mentor and editor, Geoffrey Nutter who’ll read from his Long-form Poem Emissaries, and share his thoughts on the importance of sound and dreams in poems and the emergence of AI.  Pamela Manché Pearce, Planet Poet’s erudite Poet-at-Large, also joins us later in the program.

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Poet Lee Slonimsky and Novelist Carol Goodman - A Trip to Greece! /  by Sharon Israel

LISTEN to my September 23rd, 2025 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring returning guests

award-winning poet Lee Slonimsky and award-winning novelist Carol Goodman.  Lee and Carol will discuss and read from their new books - Lee’s latest bilingual poetry collection Pythagoras in Exile, which is published in Greece and translated by Katerina Mardakioupi, and Carol’s latest Literary Mystery - Writers and Liars, set on a Greek Island. We’ll also hear about their life together as mutual literary muses, and their fascination with the ancient world. 

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