Live poetry reading, featuring another great piece by Marguerite Harrold (Rigorous, 2017) and a very long poem by the one and only, and long dead, Alexander Pushkin.

Read by Brian Salmons, on his back porch, at night, accompanied by the sounds of a dark backyard and the bustle of the Audubon Park Garden District beyond it.

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(All readings are by permission of the copyright holder, except for works in the public domain and in instances of the "fair use" provision of copyright law.)

Ep. 9 (5 November 2017) - Harrold, Pushkin

Live poetry reading, featuring the work of Devon Balwit of Portland, Oregon (in Shantih, 2016), Joe Cottonwood of La Honda, California (in Moon Magazine, 2017), George Meredith of England a long time ago, and Emily Dickinson, who for those of you who don't know who she is...shame on you. Google her. She was from Amherst, Massachusetts and was awesome.

Read by Brian Salmons, on his back porch, at night, accompanied by the sounds of a dark backyard and the bustle of the Audubon Park Garden District beyond it.

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(All readings are by permission of the copyright holder, except for works in the public domain and in instances of the "fair use" provision of copyright law.)

Ep. 10 (16 November 2017) - Balwit, Cottonwood, Meredith, Dickinson

Live poetry reading, featuring the work of the famous Wallace Stevens, the not famous but I think should be famous Mitch Grabois (in Matador Review, 2016), and the anonymous words of a man who will never be famous because American colonialism erased his identity in an attempt to erase his people from the world. Happy Thanksgiving.

Read by Brian Salmons, on his back porch, at night, accompanied by the sounds of a dark backyard and the bustle of the Audubon Park Garden District beyond it.

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(All readings are by permission of the copyright holder, except for works in the public domain and in instances of the "fair use" provision of copyright law. Image is “Crow at Clementi Market”, Cyril Wong [2017].)

Ep. 11 (23 November 2017) - anonymous, Stevens, Grabois

Live poetry reading, featuring the work of Ed Roberson (from his collection Etai-eken, 1974), Lorine Niedecker (from her collection The Granite Pail, 1985) and Joe Cottonwood (Poetry Breakfast, April 2017).

Read by Brian Salmons, on his back porch, at night, accompanied by the sounds of a dark backyard and the bustle of the Audubon Park Garden District beyond it.

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(All readings are by permission of the copyright holder, except for works in the public domain and in instances of the "fair use" provision of copyright law. Lorine Niedecker's work is used by permission of Bob Arnold, literary executor of the estate of Lorine Niedecker.)

Ep. 12 (14 December 2017) - Roberson, Niedecker, Cottonwood

Live poetry reading, featuring the work of Abby Chew, Kathy Fish, Keith S. Wilson, Gertrude Stein and Sylvia H. Bliss.

Read by Brian Salmons, on his back porch, at night, accompanied by the sounds of a dark backyard and the bustle of the Audubon Park Garden District beyond it.

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(All readings are by permission of the copyright holder, except for works in the public domain and in instances of the "fair use" provision of copyright law. The image accompanying this episode is from a theatre program for a 1914 production of "Innocent", starring Pauline Frederick (pictured), written by George Broadhurst and based on a Hungarian play of the same name by Árpád Pásztor. The image is in the public domain and was accessed at https://archive.org/details/InnocentProgram on 3 January 2018.)

Ep. 13 (4 January 2018) - Chew, Fish, Wilson, Stein and Bliss

Live poetry reading, featuring the work of Walt Whitman, Charles Baudelaire and Leah Noble Davidson.

Read by Brian Salmons, on his back porch, at night, accompanied by the sounds of a dark backyard and the bustle of the Audubon Park Garden District beyond it.

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(All readings are by permission of the copyright holder, except for works in the public domain and in instances of the "fair use" provision of copyright law. Image from "Wallpaper celebrating L. Frank Baum's The Sea Fairies" by GenXMedia, accessed 13 January 2018 at https://archive.org/details/TheSeaFairiesByL.FrankBaum01Wallpaper.)

Ep. 14 (January 13, 2018) - Whitman, Baudelaire, Noble Davidson

Live poetry reading, featuring the work of Joe Cottonwood, John Wieners and Alfred Tennyson, read by Brian Salmons, on his back porch, at night, accompanied by the sounds of a dark backyard and the bustle of the Audubon Park Garden District beyond it.

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(All readings are by permission of the copyright holder, except for works in the public domain and in instances of the "fair use" provision of copyright law. John Wieners' poems are read with the permission of his literary executor, Raymond Foye. Image is a doorknob excavated from an archaelogical site at Poggio Civitate in Tuscany, Italy [Anthony Tuck. "Murlo". (2012) Anthony Tuck (Ed.). Released: 2012-07-06. Open Context. <http://opencontext.org/projects/DF043419-F23B-41DA-7E4D-EE52AF22F92F> DOI: https://doi.org/10.6078/M77P8W98 ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark://28722/k2222wm10])

Ep. 15 (January 28, 2018) - Cottonwood, Wieners, Tennyson

Live poetry reading, featuring the work of Ed Roberson, Effie Waller Smith and Jennifer Maritza McCauley, read by Brian Salmons, on his back porch, at night, accompanied by the sounds of a dark backyard and the bustle of the Audubon Park Garden District beyond it.

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(All readings are by permission of the copyright holder, except for works in the public domain and in instances of the "fair use" provision of copyright law. Image is "W.E.B. Du Bois Chart Collage", by Brian Salmons, created using images of charts prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois for the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900. Images courtesy of the U.S. Library of Congress, "African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition" Collection: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/anedub/.)

Ep. 16 (February 12, 2018) - Roberson, Smith, McCauley

Live poetry reading, featuring the work of Nkosi Nkululeko, Samiya Bashir, Claude McKay and Alice Dunbar-Nelson, read by Brian Salmons, on his back porch, at night, accompanied by the sounds of a dark backyard and the bustle of the Audubon Park Garden District beyond it.

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(All readings are by permission of the copyright holder, except for works in the public domain and in instances of the "fair use" provision of copyright law. Image is the sunrise on Mars taken by the Mars Rover Opportunity on 15 February 2018. Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ./Texas A&M.)

Ep. 17 (March 2, 2018) - Nkululeko, Bashir, McKay, Dunbar-Nelson

Live poetry reading, featuring the work of Bob Lucky, Sarah Valeika, Caroline Chavatel and Edna St. Vincent Millay, read by Brian Salmons, on his back porch, at night, accompanied by the sounds of a dark backyard and the bustle of the Audubon Park Garden District beyond it.

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(All readings are by permission of the copyright holder, except for works in the public domain and in instances of the "fair use" provision of copyright law. Image is copyrighted by Brian Salmons.)

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