LISTEN to my September 12th, 2023 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring the founding members of PRP (Poets Read Poetry) who have gathered together to read and discuss the poetry of Carl Sandburg.
Season 6 Episode 2
PRP (Poets Read Poetry)
LISTEN to Season 6 Episode 2 on Spotify
Pamela Manché Pearce, Planet Poet’s own Poet-At-Large, began PRP in her Garrison, New York living room in 2010 with a simple idea: to have poets gather and discuss the poems of other poets based on a pre-determined theme followed by a shop talk discussion of the members’ own writing lives. Poets Jo Pitkin, Andrew Acciaro and Frank Ortega joined Pamela to form the original group which disbanded in 2014, and was revived on Zoom in the summer of 2021, when I was invited to become the fifth member.
Here's a bit about the members of PRP:
Andrew Acciaro
Li Po sailed the Yangzi
Shelley had his Spezia
Blake his Felpham
Cyrano the Moon
Andrew supine
On the supple banks of the river that flows both ways…
Has his poet’s panache and Blarney kissed plume…
Andrew lives in Peekskill, N.Y.
Sharon Israel
Sharon Israel's chapbook Voice Lesson was published in 2017 by Post Traumatic Press. She won Brooklyn College’s Leonard B. Hecht Poetry Explication Award, was nominated for “Best of the Net” 2016 and won Four Lines’ 2020 winter poetry challenge. Sharon hosts Planet Poet-Words in Space and lives in the Catskills with her husband Robert Cucinotta. For more information: https://linktr.ee/sharonisraelpoet.
Frank Ortega
“As a seeker of wisdom and peace, following those paths in life and art,my work is often about race, poverty and oppression--until we have erased them. What I take in becomes my work, those messages we send to each other, always trying to make this a better world”. Frank now resides near Boulder, Colorado. https://artlitlab.org/artists/frank-ortega
Pamela Manché Pearce
Pushcart Prize nominee, Pamela Manché Pearce is the author of the poetry chapbook, WIDOWLAND (Green Bottle Press, London) and the co-author of THE CHARLES STREET TRIO: A Novel in Three Voices (Daisy H Productions) both of which are available on Amazon. The Poet-at-Large on WIOX’s Planet Poet-Words in Space is on Instagram at #pamelamanchepearceNYC. Pamela lives in Manhattan.
Jo Pitkin
Jo Pitkin A Hudson Valley native, Jo Pitkin is the author of a chapbook and four full-length poetry collections. She works as a freelance educational writer creating English language arts materials for K through 12 students and is a teaching artist with The Poetry Barn. Jo lives in Cold Spring N.Y. www.jopitkin.com