2025

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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Poet Tina Barry - I Tell Henrietta by Sharon Israel

LISTEN to my February 11th, 2025 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring poet Tina Barry on her spellbinding new book, I Tell Henrietta.  Kristin Flynn, the artist who created the intense, expressive cover and interior art for I Tell Henrietta also joins us on the show.  Visit: Tina Barry at Tina Barry writer and  Kristin Flynn at https://www.kristinflynn.art   

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