I blather about writing couples and poets who relocate and then introduce Catherine Greenwood and she chats about process and reads a piece with geese and bagpipes and delicious sounds in it!

I recite these five short parts as an invocation to spring, including slightly hoarse voice here and there and, in the middle, cat.

Memories from Joe Rosenblatt, a bio from James Deahl, his 100th anniversary, I shout love. Enjoy!

As translated by Jeramy Dodds. I love the multiplicities of naming here. Chris’s 13th death day. Go well in the unknown realms my love.

There are cats and magpies and thanks. Nikki talks language and music and re-mixes Mary Oliver (whom I loathe but remain open minded about ;) Enjoy!

Wow. So this is a longish and most delightful lecture on the origins of poetry in one’s being by this lovely Calgarian and it’s preceded by me trying twice (phonecall interrupted!!) to do her bio and intro after reading a passage about religion and art from Christian Wimen! Enjoy :)

A five minute poem from her book Shiner (which is curiously not listed as one of her books in her latest collection The Natural Hustle!). I love the last lines I must say. Only one inversion occurred: when I say doing nothing, she wrote nothing doing. Thanks Eva.

In which I speak of supporting this podcast and other artistic endeavors via Patreon and otherwise (o and thanks to Susan McCaslin and Robert Priest too for their one-time $50 contributions!) and then chat about Ralph and his work and life including reactions to him from those such as Phyllis Webb ;) I read his poem Sessional Memoranda at the end and mispronounce IMPUDENT but o well. Nothing is perfect but birds! Enjoy.

I almost get through this nearly 7 min poem without one stumble. It’s not easy. It’s a beautiful elegy.

I bemoan Monday and people who fear poetry and Adam talks about writing and reads a wonderful poem Inherit. Enjoy!