Poetry Spoken Here
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode #016 Randy Brooks and Robert Hass
05 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Haiku master Randy Brooks is featured. Brooks reads his poems, discusses teaching haiku, and the aural and social traditions of the form. Brooks is pr...
Episode #015 John Sierpinski and Freesia McKee
15 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Wisconsin poet, John Sierpinski reflects on his personal poetic journey and how he has been influenced by beat poets. Freesia McKee discusses her expe...
Episode #014: Poetry and Music [SPECIAL EPISODE]
02 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Poetry and music is the subject of this special episode which features historic recordings by Carl Sandburg, William Butler Yeats and Allen Ginsberg a...
Episode #013 Jacqueline Harris And Maria Mazziotti Gillan's Writing Book
18 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Chicago performance poet, Jacqueline Nicole Harris discusses her inspirations, and reads examples of her passionate work. In the second part of the sh...
Episode #012 Andy Karol and Poetry App SlamFind
04 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Karol is a Chicago performance poet whose work has been called “raw, visceral, sensual, and rich in imagery.” She muses about her creative pr...
Episode #011 The Poetry of Family and Home [SPECIAL EPISODE]
21 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A special holiday episode of Poetry Spoken Here examining poetry's long relationship with the themes of family and home. The show opens with a reflect...
Episode #010 Emily Calvo and Anja Notanja Sieger
06 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Poet and artist Emily Calvo discusses her new book, "Lending Color to the Otherwise Absurd" and her recent battle with cancer. While in the hospital, ...
Episode #009 Poetry Therapy [SPECIAL EPISODE]
16 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A special themed episode of Poetry Spoken Here examining the theory and practice of Poetry Therapy. We talk to Lynn Kapitan, recent past-president of ...
Episode #008 Sharon Auberle, Michael Czarnecki's 48 State Poetry Tour
02 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Poet-photographer, Sharon Auberle, of Door County, WI is featured. Sharon has published several books of poetry, and her photography has graced the pa...
Episode #007 Gregorio Gomez, and Dan Wilcox's World Record Photo Collection
18 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Gregorio Gomez runs one of the most notorious open mics in the country at Weeds in Chicago. Gomez has been a fixture in the Chicago poetry scene for m...
Episode #006 Dan Wilcox, Gregorio Gomez on Bi-Lingual Poetry
05 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Albany poet and activist Dan Wilcox is featured. He reads poems ranging in subject matter from a coyote who contemplates the many lovers of bored hous...
Episode #005 Jude Genereaux, She Walks In Beauty Examined
22 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Jude Genereaux of Ellison Bay and Long Lake, Wisconsin. She reads poems of family, the natural world and life with Norb Blei, her partner until his pa...
Episode #004 Antler Remembers Jeff Poniewaz, Gary Snyder's New Book Reviewed
07 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Poniewaz passed away in December 2014 after a long battle with cancer. In January 2015, his long-time partner Antler remembered him, reading a se...
Episode #003.5 The Music of Patrick Reninger
24 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Special musical episode featuring the harmonica playing of featured poet, Patrick Reninger. SUBMIT TO THE OPEN MIC OF THE AIR! www.poetryspokenhere.c...
Episode #003 Patrick Reninger, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti
17 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Chicago poet and harmonica player Patrick Reninger is featured. Lawrence Ferlinghetti's new book "Blasts, Cries, Laughter" is reviewed in the second p...
Episode #002 Alice D'Alessio, Ted Kooser, and James Laughlin
03 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Features the poetry of Wisconsin poet Alice D'Alessio, and a discussion of the intense imagery used by Ted Kooser and James Laughlin. SUBMIT TO THE O...
Episode #001 Al DeGenova and Gwendolyn Brooks
19 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The inaugural episode of Poetry Spoken Here features an interview/reading with Albert DeGenova, founding co-editor of After Hours: a journal of Chicag...