For this week's show, host Dennis Morton read works from a variety of poets, beginning with two whose work appears in the latest issue of the Catamaran Literary Reader: Dana Gioia and Al Young.
We hope to have Catherine Segurson, founder and editor of Catamaran, as a guest in the near future - to continue discussion of the new issue and the poetry therein. In the meantime, get your own copy of the latest issue before it sells out so you can read along and enjoy its selection of the visual arts that we can't show on radio.
Readings continued with selections from poets featured in the Fall/Winter 2015-16 issue (Volume 17) of The Manhattan Review, including D. Nurkse and Jeanne Marie Beaumont.
In the show's second half, a wonderfully serendipitous batch of readings were drawn from poetry collections contained in - as Dennis confided - "the box of books in the back seat of my car". Included were works by Stanley Kunitz, Lucille Clifton, Ellen Bass, Gary Snyder, and Harry Humes.