LISTEN to my November 18th, 2025 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring renowned, groundbreaking poet Molly Peacock.  Molly will read from her acclaimed books and discuss her life as a poet, biographer and arts activist. 

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. 

LISTEN to my August 12th, 2025 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring poets Bertha Rogers and Mary Gilliland. Bertha and Mary discuss their new books and talk about their work and their lives in poetry over the last few decades.

LISTEN to my July 1, 2025 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring two poets of the West:  Tim Hunt and Gerald Wagoner.  Tim and Gerald will read from their work and discuss their journeys in poetry. Visit: Sharon Israel, Tim Hunt,Gerald Wagoner, Broadstone Books

LISTEN to my June 3rd, 2025 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring Hudson Valley poet Lisa St. John.  Lisa reads from her book Swallowing Stones and discusses her life as a poet. Poet-At-Large Pamela Manché Pearce also appears on the show. Find out more atlisachristinastjohn.com.  Also https://www.pamelampearce.com

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

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   

LISTEN to my December 17th, 2024 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring Bruce Weber and Jan Alexander.  Bruce is the producer and Jan is the coordinator of “Whirlwind” The 2025 Hudson Valley New Year’s Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza.  Bruce and Jan will tell us about this great event and read from their writings.

LISTEN to my October 22nd, 2024 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring award-winning poet Janet Kaplan who will explore the theme of “Chaos and Creativity” in her poetry. Her work has earned praise from poets and critics including Dan Beachy Quick and Adrienne Rich. Visit: Janet Kaplan Ecotones

LISTEN to my September 10th, 2024 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring poet, writer and historian Bill Birns.  Bill brings his great knowledge of Catskills history and his deep affinity with Ralph Waldo Emerson to the show and reads from his work-in-progress The Cooper Shop.

LISTEN to my August 13th, 2024 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring Bruce McPherson, the founding Director of the award-winning McPherson & Co.- a Literary and Arts Publishing Company, who will present and read from his compelling and award-winning catalog of books.  Pamela Manché Pearce, Planet Poet’s intrepid Poet-at-Large, is also featured on the show. Visit: Sharonisraelpoet.com.  Visit McPherson & Co  Visit: Pamela Manche Pearce

LISTEN to my July 30, 2024 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring returning guest - the remarkable poet, teacher and editor, Geoffrey Nutter, who’ll read from his work and share with us his erudition and passion about the Haiku form.  Pamela Manché Pearce, Planet Poet’s intrepid Poet-at-Large is also featured on the show. Visit: Geoffrey Nutter Wallson Glass Visit: Pamela Manche Pearce

LISTEN to my July 16, 2024 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring award-winning poet and President and Executive Director of the Academy of American Poets, Ricardo Maldonado.  Pamela Manché Pearce, Planet Poet’s Poet-at-Large, is also featured on the show.

LISTEN to my June 4th, 2024 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring the founding members of PRP (Poets Read Poetry) who have gathered together to read and discuss the wildly expressive poetry of 19th century poet Francis Saltus Saltus.

LISTEN to my May 7th, 2024 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring teacher, editor, poet and writer, Nancy Merritt Bell.  How do you teach young children to write poetry?  Nancy shares her methods and also reads from works she has edited and written specifically for children.  The show also features Pamela Manché Pearce, Planet Poet’s Poet-at-Large, who brings us Natasha Trethewey’s Bellocq’s Ophelia.

LISTEN to my March 26th, 2024 WIOX broadcast (also a podcast!) featuring award-winning poet Sam Truitt.   Visit: Sharonisraelpoet.com. Visit:  samtruitt.com, samtsong.com, Station Hill Press  

LISTEN to my February 13th, 2024 WIOX broadcast (also a podcast!) featuring award-winning poets Carey Salerno and Stacy Spencer, who are on the show to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Alice James Books, an important Press solely dedicated to poetry. Visit Alice James Books

LISTEN to my December 19th, 2023 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring award-winning poet and activist MARY GILLILAND, who discusses and reads from her latest poetry collection The Devil’s Fools and from her forthcoming collection Ember Days. Pamela Manché Pearce, Planet Poet’s erudite and entertaining Poet-at-Large, also joins us on the show.  Visit: Sharonisraelpoet.com. Visit: marygilliland.com.

LISTEN to my November 21st, 2023 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring Maureen Buchanan Jones, poet, writer and Amherst Writers and Artists (AWA) Training Director, who discusses and reads from her books Blessed are the menial chores and Maud & Addie. Pamela Manché Pearce, Planet Poet’s Poet-at-Large also joins us on the show.  

LISTEN to my October 10, 2023 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring poet Pui Ying Wong and her new collection Fanling In October, and co-host, poet Lee Slonimsky.

LISTEN to my September 26th, 2023 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring the wonderful poet, writer and visual artist, Anique Sara Taylor who reads from and talks about her new, award-winning Chapbook Civil Twilight. Pamela Manché Pearce, Planet Poet’s Poet-at-Large is also on the show, bringing us her unique insights into poetry and poets.  

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.

LISTEN to my July 18th, 2023 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring poet, writer and historian Bill Birns, who will discuss and read from his latest book Fleischmanns in Verse and other works. Planet Poet’s Poet-at-Large, writer and visual artist Pamela Manché Pearce also joins us on the program to bring us her unique poetic insights and the latest in poetry news.

LISTEN to my May 9th, 2023 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring featuring longtime guest and erudite occasional co-host, poet and writer Lee Slonimsky who will talk about and read from his latest collection, the beautifully intriguing Pythagoras and the Animals.

LISTEN to my April 11th, 2023 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring award-winning poet Christopher Brean Murray whose debut collection Black Observatory, published by Milkweed Editions, was selected by Dana Levin as the winner of the 2021-22 Jake Adam York Prize.   Planet Poet’s Poet-at-Large, writer and visual artist Pamela Manché Pearce also joins us on the program to bring us her unique poetic insights and the latest in poetry news.

LISTEN to my March 14th, 2023 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring two remarkable guests:  visionary humanitarian, musician and poet Elissa Montanti and writer, producer and director Michael McKinley, both here to discuss their documentary “Our Lady of Staten Island” which focuses in great part on Elissa’s work helping African children with Albinism, victims of mutilation, get needed protheses.  For more information on the documentary and to view the trailer go to:  www.ourladystatenisland.com.  Michael will also discuss his book project Meta War and his recent travels to Iraq and Syria.

LISTEN to my February 14th, 2023 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring writer Frances Collato, who will read from and talk about her moving family saga, Shadows on the Pathway (including Sephardic poetic proverbs passed down through centuries).  Planet Poet’s Poet-at-Large, writer and visual artist Pamela Manché Pearce also joins us on the program. 

LISTEN to my January 17th, 2023 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring  Eric Baylin, Poet Laureate Emeritus of Sullivan County, New York. You’ll hear Eric discussing his tenure as Poet Laureate, reading his poems and talking about his life as a sculptor and teacher.  Planet Poet’s Poet-At-Large, Pamela Manché Pearce, also joins us on the program. 

LISTEN to my January 3rd, 2023 WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring award-winning poet Alison Carb Sussman, who will discuss and read from her new poetry collection, Black Wool Cape.  Planet Poet’s Poet-At-Large,Pamela Manché Pearce, also joins us on the program. 

LISTEN to my WIOX show (also a podcast!) featuring author Ellen Greene Stewart, who will read from and discuss her latest non-fiction book, ELEPHANTS – Up Close and Personal, a truly entertaining and affecting exploration of the author’s experiences as a volunteer in South Africa’s Knysna Elephant Park.  (Also a poem by Dan Chiasson!)

LISTEN to my WIOX show (originally aired October 5th, 2022) featuring award-winning poet Lissa Kiernan, who will read from and discuss her most recent poetry collection, The Whispering Wall. Planet Poet’s Poet-At-Large, Pamela Manché Pearce, also joins us on the show.

LISTEN to my WIOX show (originally aired September 13th, 2022) featuring award-winning poet Cammy Thomas who discusses and reads from her most recent poetry collection, Tremors, published by Four Way Books. Pamela Manché Pearce, Planet Poet’s endlessly interesting and erudite Poet-At-Large, also joins us on the show!

LISTEN to my August 16th, 2022 WIOX show featuring Canadian poet Lisa Richter who reads from and discusses her poetry collection Nautilus and Bone, winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry, the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry, and the Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry. Pamela Manché Pearce, Planet Poet’s endlessly interesting and erudite Poet-At-Large, also joins us on the show!

LISTEN to my June 21st, 2022 WIOX show featuring Cheryl Clarke, remarkable poet, activist, educator and co-organizer of the annual Hobart Festival of Women Writers in Hobart, the Book Village of the Catskills. Planet Poet’s intrepid Poet-At-Large Pamela Manché Pearce also joins us on the show!

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.

LISTEN to my October 26th, 2021 WIOX show with my in-studio guest, poet, essayist, translator and teacher, Philip Pardi who will read from and discuss his prize-winning poetry collection, Meditations on Rising and Falling and talk about his life as writer, activist and teacher.

LISTEN to my March 31st, 2021 WIOX show with my guest co-host, the erudite poet and novelist, Lee Slonimsky. Lee invited poet and eminent physician Robert Charles Basner to read and discuss his evocative and original poetry.

LISTEN to my September 28th, 2021 WIOX Radio conversation with remarkable poet and teacher, Geoffrey Nutter by phone from Manhattan to read from and discuss his latest poetry collection, Giant Moth Perishes (Wave Books, 2021), and share his brilliance and exuberance about poetry and living in this world.

LISTEN to my August 3rd, 2021 WIOX Radio conversation with Robert Milby, poet, teacher and freelance thinker. Milby was Poet Laureate of Orange County, NY from 2017 to 2019.

LISTEN to my June 8th, 2021 WIOX Radio conversation with poet, editor and publisher Jared Daniel Fagen on his forthcoming poetry collection, The Animal of Existence and two books from his literary press, Black Sun Lit: I am writing you from afar by Moyna Pam Dik and Apostasy by Katy Mongeau.

Listen to Rosaly’s interview on “Poetry’s Power to Fix, Change and Heal Things Real Life Cannot.” 

LISTEN to my May 11th, 2021 WIOX Radio conversation with the original and exuberant poet Roberta Gould on her latest collection Woven Lightning (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019) and other works.

LISTEN to my April 13th, 2021 WIOX Radio conversation with poet, essayist, novelist and blithe spirit Sparrow on his new book Small Happiness & Other Epiphanies.

LISTEN to my March, 2021 WIOX Radio conversation with poet Maxima Kahn on her intriguing and deeply felt debut poetry collection Fierce Aria (Finishing Line Press, 2020).

Listen to Arthur 's interview. Arthur Vogelsang is the author of seven books of poetry, including Twentieth Century Women and Cities and Towns, which received the Juniper Prize.

LISTEN to my January, 2021 WIOX Radio conversation with Bruce Weber to discuss his life as a poet, poetry event organizer and art historian, and to delve into his new book There Are Too Many Words In My House recently published by Rogue Scholars Press.

LISTEN to my October 13th, 2020 WIOX Radio conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon. Hear his views on poetry, teaching, and on the process

and challenges of producing last year’s Sharon Springs Poetry Festival (the Festival’s fourth year) virtually during Covid. Please note that the Festival was upcoming when this show was initially broadcast in October. A great highlight of the show: Hear Paul Muldoon read his poem, “The Bannisters” from his 2020 poetry collection Frolic and Detour.

LISTEN to my December 8, 2020 WIOX Radio conversation with poet and award-winning artist Anique Sara Taylor on her splendidly lyric debut poetry collection, Where Space Bends ( Finishing Line Press, 2020).

LISTEN to my November 10, 2020 WIOX Radio conversation with writer and playwright Nina Shengold on her new book out this year from Syracuse University Press, Reservoir Year-A Walker’s Book of Days.

LISTEN to my September 29, 2020 conversation with poet and novelist Lee Slonimsky and essayist and teacher Peter Bricklebank. Lee, my special co-host for this show, invited Peter to read and discuss his remarkable essay on moths, Virginia Wolff and so much more - -“An Eclipse of One’s Own.”

LISTEN to my September l, 2020 conversation with poets Cheryl A. Rice and Guy Reed, on their collaborative chapbook, Until The Words Came, published by Post Traumatic Press in 2019 and their new full collections - Cheryl’s Love’s Compass, published this year by Kung Fu Treachery Press, an imprint of Spartan Press, and Guy Reed’s Second Innocence, published this year by Luchador Press, also an imprint of Spartan Press.

Listen to my 2020 conversation with poet and vital force in the Hudson Valley poetry community, Teresa Costa.

Listen to my 2019 conversation with poet, translator and visual artist and poet laureate of Delaware County, N.Y., Bertha Rogers on her exquisite newest works, Uncommon Creatures: The Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Poems From the Exeter Book, which she illuminated and translated, and her collection of poetry, Wild, Again (salmonpoetry, 2019). Don’t miss Bertha reading in Anglo-Saxon!

LISTEN to my 2017 conversation with poet and essayist Lissa Kiernan on her award-winning book of braided essays, Glass Needles & Goose Quills – Elementary Lessons in Atomic Properties, Nuclear Families and Radical Poetics.

Listen to my conversation with poet Lee Slonimsky on poet and editor of the Ladies Home Journal, Elizabeth McFarland.

LISTEN to my conversation with Elizabeth J. Coleman, on her anthology, HERE, Poems for the Planet, published by Copper Canyon Press in April, 2019

LISTEN to my conversation with poet and award-winning visual artist Pamela Manché Pearce, Planet Poet’s intrepid Poet-At-Large, on her poignant and powerful debut chapbook Widowland, published by Green Bottle Press, London (2018).

Listen to my interview with award-winning poet Danniel Schoonebeek  on his second book of poems, Trébuchet, a winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series and published by University of Georgia Press.

Listen to Lee’s interview on his latest book of poems, Lion, Gnat, published by Spuytan Duyvil Press.

Listen to Jo’s interview on her latest volume of poetry, Rendering, published by Salmon Poetry.

Listen to Michael's interview. Michael Homolka grew up in Los Angeles and lives in New York City. His poems have appeared in publications such as Antioch Review, Boulevard, The New Yorker, Parnassus, Ploughshares, and The Threepenny Review.

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