The Ohio Poetry Association Launches a New Podcast

The Ohio Poetry Association presents a new podcast hosted by Cleveland area poet Jeremy Jusek. Poetry Spotlight "interviews active Ohio poets. Each episode goes in a different direction based on our guest, but the goal is always the same: investigate what makes Buckeye writers tick. Inspiration, projects, and perspectives on writing are all on the table." A new episode every other Thursday! Click here for more info.

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The Bookshop Podcast features Mac's Backs and Larry Smith

This week on The Bookshop Podcast, host Mandy Jackson-Beverly talks to northern Ohio lit icons Suzanne DeGaetano of Mac's Backs Books on Coventry and Larry Smith of Bottom Dog Press:

Listen on Spotify, Podcast Addict, PlayerFM or BuzzSprout.

Mac's Backs: www.macsbacks.com

Larry Smith: https://smithdocs.net/LarrySmithHomepage.htm

John Burroughs in Audio and Video--

John Burroughs

Our own John Burroughs got some exposure on the internet recently-- check him out on the "Talk With Me" podcast out of Lawrence Kansas, hosted by Marcia Epstein, where he talks about starting out in poetry, how he became a publisher, about his newest book, Loss and Foundering, and even reading a few poems:

• John Burroughs, Poet & Publisher on Talk With Me

And if you can't get enough of John, he's featured in a 40-minute video on "The CookBook" ("food/art/conversations"),  a video series brought out from the Sundress Academy for the Arts hosted by Darren C. Demaree and Christopher Bowen:

• John Burroughs at The CookBook

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Loss and Foundering (NightBallet Press)

David Sedaris' Pleasure in Puzzlement

For David Sedaris fans (and who isn't?), the poetry foundation presents a podcast:
David Sedaris on Poetry: The essayist talks to Susan Wheeler about the poetry: pleasures of puzzlement.

Halloween Poetry Reading Online

Once again, the Science Fiction Poetry Association is featuring their annual Hallowe'en Poetry Reading, a half-dozen poems read by the authors, featuring spooks and jack o' lanterns and candy, and available for free in audio form, with poetry by

• David Kopaska-Merkel 
• Shannon Connor Winward
• David L. Summers
• Adele Gardner 
• Dennis M. Lane
• F. J. Bergmann
• Mary Turzillo
• Liz Bennefeld
• & yours truly, Geoffrey A. Landis 

Looking for something to listen to on the evening when ghouls and children walk the night?  Check it out!

Photo by GL 2012

And, if you prefer to get out and do your celebrating with poets on Hallowe'en night, how about trick-n-treating over to the Hallowe'en show of Ray McNiece and Tongue & Groove at the Barking Spider?  8pm, over on 11310 Juniper behind Case-Western-- a good time is guaranteed.

Hallowe'en Poetry Podcast

The moon is waxing, and the trees are starting to poke skeletal fingers into the sky... Hallowe'en is coming!  Are you ready to be spooked?  How about listening to some Halloween poetry to set the mood?  The SFPA's annual Hallowe'en Reading is now online.  It's an audio compilation of thirteen Halloween-themed poems, from:

David Kopaska-Merkel

Dennis M. Lane

David L. Summers

Linda D. Addison and Stephen M. Wilson

Bryan Thao Worra

Chris Vera
Jacqueline West
Michael A. Arnzen

Maria Alexander
Elissa Malcohn
Liz Bennefeld
Kath Abela Wilson
F.J. Bergmann

image credits

"Pacific Rim" by Deborah P Kolodji

"Werewolf Moon" by Geoffrey A. Landis

Podcast Poetry goes to the Moon

StarShipSofa is a science fiction podcast, but they also sometimes feature "Poetry Planet," edited by Diane Severson, a segment on speculative and science fiction poetry.  Today's StarshipSofa features Poetry Planet number six, featuring poetry about the moon (and with a couple of my poems, including one of my haiku as the starting poem).

(If you want to go directly to the poetry, it starts at 43 minutes in).