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.

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.

LISTEN to my March 10th, 2026 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring award-winning poets Richard Parisio and Guy Reed. Richard and Guy live in and write about the Catskills and the Hudson Valley and read from and discuss their respective poetry collections Trailside Register and Time Under the Overlook, both published in 2025 by Bushwhack Books.