Nuff said ;) Come back for Part Two next week!

Yes, this is a fusion of an Openers with David Mason’s 2000 collection of essays called The poetry of life and the life of poetry, a random thoughts about poetry book reviewing and it ends with a poem There is a Balm in Gilead by the questionable Charles Wright. O, enjoy this. And the rain and magpie :)

Hey it’s the Gregory week! Here we have poet Greg Betts talking animals and the environment and theories of being. And reading a wonderful poem called Clean Up. I need to get a window fixed. Enjoy!

This sub-series is hosted by teacher Katherine Autio! Today she talks to Gregory about his early experiences with poetry, how he teaches the poem and his enjoyment of words. Then he recites On the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan. Enjoy!

I woke in the night. I thought about energy, texture and no apologies. Then I had a headache. Then I recovered. So I chat about this. And read a Fisher Price sonnet on the Farm that ends with a line by Robert Frost. Enjoy!

I chat randomly for ten minutes on why and how to perform as a poet and then recite Edna St Vincent Millay’s Time Does Not Bring Relief, 1931.

It’s a snippet today of one of my rare and relished 94th street Trobairitz series in which i do a three question live interview with Vancouver poet Kevin Spenst on how he started performing, what are some of his techniques and why is performance important for poetry. Then he recites with some preamble two pieces that have mélanges of lexicons and even backwards masking with culminating screams. And there are birds. Enjoy!

In which I conclude season 7 with a necessary rant about the system as spurred on by Chris Hutchinson and then introduce the fantab James with his chat on sound and his poem Dishwasher. Stay fierce!!

(1941-1987). Starting with a Wimen quote and talking about the internal and external lives of art plus the nature of being prolific and getting dated. Gwen’s life and two poems follow. Enjoy!

An engaging chat and a lovely poem but with a few tech glitches caused by an unstable internet link. Why I ask for files ;) I popped a bit of music in between to make it bearable. Enjoy!