Planet Poet

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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Poet Mike Jurkovic and CAPS - Calling All Poets by Sharon Israel

LISTEN to my March 11th, 2025 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring featuring Ulster County Poet Laureate, performance artist and President of CAPS (Calling All Poets), Mike Jurkovic.  Mike reads from his latest work and discusses exciting developments at CAPS now entering its 26th year in the Hudson Valley.  Poet-At-Large Pamela Manché Pearce appears later in the show for an extended conversation. Visit: https://www.mikejurkovic.com

Visit: https://www.callingallpoets.net.  Visit:  https://www.pamelampearce.com

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