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Poet Sharon Israel hosts the monthly radio show: Planet Poet - Words in Space on WIOX Community Radio, 91.3 broadcasting live from Roxbury in the Catskill Mountains of New York and streaming live on WIOXradio.com. These archived interviews feature poets and writers from the Catskills, the Hudson Valley and around the U.S reading their work and discussing their obsessions with poetry.
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Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST! LISTEN to my WIOX broadcast (aired March 26th, 2024) featuring award-winning poet Sam Truitt. Visit: Sharonisraelpoet.com. Visit: samtruitt.com, samtsong.com, Station Hill Press Sam Truitt was born in Washington, DC, and raised there and in Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of the ten works in the Vertical Elegies series, among others in print and other media, including most recently TOKYOATOTO and the forthcoming STATE/SHAFT SHAF...
Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST! LISTEN to my WIOX broadcast (aired February 13th, 2024) featuring award-winning poets Carey Salerno and Stacy L. Spencer, who are on the show to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Alice James Books, an important Press solely dedicated to poetry. Visit: Sharonisraelpoet.com. Visit Alice James Books Carey Salerno is the executive director and publisher of Alice James Books. She is the author of Shelter (2009) and Tributary (2021), and her poem...
Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST! LISTEN to my WIOX show (originally aired December 19th, 2023) 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. Mary Gilliland is the author of two ...
Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST! LISTEN to my WIOX show (originally aired November 21st, 2023) 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. Visit: Sharonisraelpoet.com. Visit Maureen Buchanan Jones. Maureen Buchanan Jones is Training Director and for...
Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST! LISTEN to my WIOX show (originally aired Oct. 10, 2023) featuring poet Pui Ying Wong and her new collection Fanling In October, and co-host poet Lee Slonimsky. Poet Pui Ying Wong’s new collection, Fanling In October has just been published by Barrow Street Press. She’s also the author of three other collections: The Feast, An Emigrant’s Winter and Yellow Plum Season along with two chapbooks: Sonnet For a New Country and Mementos. She ...
Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST! LISTEN to my WIOX show (originally aired September 26th, 2023) 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. Anique Sara Taylor’s chapbook Civil Twilight won the 2022 Blue Light Poetry Prize. Her full-length p...
Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST! If you missed yesterday’s broadcast (September 12th), LISTEN to my WIOX show featuring the founding members of PRP (Poets Read Poetry) who have gathered together to read and discuss the poetry of Carl Sandburg. Pamela Manché Pearce, Planet Poet’s own Poet-At-Large, began PRP in her Garrison, New York living room in 2010 with a simple idea: to have poets gather and discuss the poems of other poets based on a pre-determined theme follo...
Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST! LISTEN to my WIOX show (originally aired July 18th, 2023) featuringpoet, 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 Bill Birns was honored to be named one of 50 Stewards of the Catskills by ...
Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST! LISTEN to my WIOX show (originally aired May 9th, 2023) 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. Lee Slonimsky has published eleven books of poetry (including his latest, Pythagoras and the Animals). In addition, his sonnet sequence Pythagoras in Love has been translated into French, G...
Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST! LISTEN to my WIOX show (originally aired April 11th, 2023) 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...
Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST! LISTEN to my WIOX show (originally aired March 14th, 2023) 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 documentar...
Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST! LISTEN to my WIOX show (originally aired February 14th, 2023) 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. Frances Collato, teacher, reading consultant, educational coordinator...
Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST! LISTEN to my WIOX show (originally aired January 17th, 2023) 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. Eric Baylin, poet and sculptor, lives in Sullivan County, NY, in the village of...
Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST! LISTEN to my podcast (broadcast on WIOX radio January 3, 2023) 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. In addition to Black Wool Cape, Alison’s new poetry collection published by Unsolicited Press, the poet, a 2015 Pushcart Prize nominee, has garnered numerous awards and...
Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST! LISTEN to my 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!) Ellen’s poignant portraits of individual elephants combined with her comprehensive and deeply considered compilation...
NEW PODCAST! 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. The Whispering Wall, Lissa Kiernan’s second full-length poetry collection, won the 2020 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize and was a semi-finalist for Tupelo Press Dorset Prize. Her previous books...
Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST! 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! Cammy Thomas’ first book of poems, Cathedral of Wish, received the 2006 Norma Farber First Book Award from ...
Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST! LISTEN to my WIOX show (originally aired August 16, 2022) 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! Li...
Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST! LISTEN to my WIOX show (originally aired June 21, 2022) 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! CHERYL CLARKE is a black lesbian feminist poet and the author of five books of poetry, the literary study ‘After M...
Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST! LISTEN to my May 24th, 2022 WIOX show featuring poet and performance artist Mike Jurkovic. Mike will read and perform poetry from his latest collection of poetry mooncussers and other works. “From suburban streets to worldwide events, Jurkovic fights back with humor, ranging from dry to hilarious. Everything is political, and Jurkovic doesn’t care what you think. He’ll keep writing dis-turbing notes and speak his mind. His new c...
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