LISTEN to my WIOX show featuring Hudson Valley poet and performance artist Mike Jurkovic. (Originally aired May 24th, 2022.) Mike will read and perform poetry from his latest collection of poetry mooncussers and other works.

LISTEN to my April 26th 2022 WIOX show featuring Jerrice J. Baptiste, a poet of exceptional lyricism. Jerrice will discuss and read from her upcoming poetry collection, Coral in the Diaspora. Planet Poet’s endlessly interesting and erudite Poet-At-Large Pamela Manché Pearce also joins us on the show!

LISTEN to my April 12th, 2022 WIOX show featuring returning guests, poet, essayist and novelist Sparrow to discuss his books Small Happiness & Other Epiphanies and The Princeton Diary, and novelist and essayist Violet Snow to discuss her new novel To March or to Marry.

LISTEN to my to my March 15th, 2022 WIOX show featuring returning guest, the unique poet and novelist Lee Slonimsky, who will read from and discuss his new erudite and poignant poetry collection, Bright Yellow Buzz. This show has a fascinating range - from Pompeii and the Lisbon Earthquake to Pythagoras, Vermeer, and the DNA commonality of trees and humans.

LISTEN to my December 21st, 2021 WIOX show for my conversation with poet Elizabeth J. Coleman and photographer Michael Craig Palmer on their beautiful new book, Experiencing Autumn, and their unusual and imaginative collaboration.

LISTEN to my February 15th, 2022 WIOX show featuring returning guest, the remarkable poet and teacher Geoffrey Nutter. Geoffrey reads poems from his latest collection, Giant Moth Perishes, and shares his brilliance and exuberance about poetry including his lightheartedly profound wrangling of the comparative mysteries of Wallace Stevens’ “Anecdote of the Jar” and Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale.”Planet Poet’s endlessly interesting Poet-At-Large Pamela Manché Pearce also joins us on the show with her entertainingly erudite musings on a common obsession among writers: their typewriters!

LISTEN to my January 18th, 2022 WIOX show featuring Maria Mazziotti Gillan, poet, teacher, artist and visionary founder of the renowned Poetry Center at the Passaic Community College, on her new book, When the Stars Were Still Visible. Planet Poet’s erudite and endlessly interesting Poet-At-Large Pamela Manché Pearce also joins us with her musings on poetry, art and life.

LISTEN to my November 23rd, 2021 WIOX show for my conversation with poet, music critic and founder of Parnassus Records, Leslie Gerber on his collection of poems Losing Tara, An Alzheimer’s Journey, published in 2020 by Post Traumatic Press, in honor of his late wife, writer Tara McCarthy. Leslie and I will also listen to and discuss recordings released under his independent label Parnassus Records.