Feature: The Poet and The Poem
from The Library of Congress,
programs are distributed via NPR satellite:
with Producer/Host
Grace Cavalieri

Stanley Kunitz
An Interview with
Past US Poet Laureate:
the Library of Congress's 10th Poet Laureate Consultant
in Poetry (2000-2001):
"The Poet and the Poem"
originally broadcast via NPR satellite
is made possible by Producer Grace Cavalieri.

• Part 1
  Listen Here
• Part 2
  Listen Here

Tory Dent
Interview by
Grace Cavalieri
"The Poet and the Poem"
originally broadcast via NPR satellite
is made possible by Producer Grace Cavalieri.

• Part 1
  Listen Here
• Part 2
  Listen Here

Andrena Zawinski

• We Remember Skinning Chicken
  (The Phg. Quarterly)
• The Good Daughter Speaks of Death in Plain Facts
  (Crab Creek Review)
• This is a Poem for My Father
  (Potomic Review and 5AM)
• Child
  ( For My Son)
• Something About
  (The Phg. Post Gazette)
• I Am Reminded When Thinking
  (Poetry Now and Word Wrights)
  Listen Here

• 5 Love Poems
  
  Listen Here

Len Roberts

• We Sat, So Patient...:
  Boulevard, Best American Poetry 1992
• Gift Shop in Pecs, Hungary:
  Partisan Review, Pushcart Prize XVI
• The Moment:
  Poetry, 1988;
• Learning Our Place in the Hierarchy of Angels:
  Poetry 1999;
• The Goldfinch, My Father, in the Forsythia:
  Poetry Northwest, 1999.
• Listen Here

Janet Buck
Featured Poet in our
April 2000 Edition

• Diamonds in the Cesspool
  Listen Here
• A Sudden Stroke
  Listen Here
• Unusual Quilts
  Listen Here
• Yugoslavia, 1941
  Listen Here

Janet Buck has a Ph.D. in English and teaches writing and literature at the college level. Her poetry, poetics, and fiction have appeared in A Writer's Choice, The Melic Review, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Kimera, The Rose & Thorn, 2River View, Southern Ocean Review to name a few... 

Dan Bellm
Featured Poet in our
March 2000 Edition

• Before words
• Hands
• Constellation
• Brightness
• a messenger spirit
    (for James Schuyler)
  Listen Here

Two of Dan's collections of poetry appeared in 1999: One Hand on the Wheel, chosen to launch the new California Poetry Series from Roundhouse Press, Berkeley, and Buried Treasure, which won the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award in 1995.

Zack Rogow
Featured Poet in our
Feb. 2000 Edition

• Josephine Baker in her Dressing Room at the Folies
  Bergeres, 1927.
  Listen Here

• Swings
  Listen Here

Zack teaches in the graduate writing program at the University of San Francisco. At UC Berkeley he teaches in the Academic Talent Development Program and co-founded the Lunch Poems Reading Series with Robert Hass. 

Sam Witt
Currently in our
Jan. 2000 Edition

• Late Snow Falling
  Listen Here
• Rhapsody in Crisper Green
  Listen Here

Christina Conrad*
Currently in our
Jan. 2000 Edition

• For StoneKing Whist Conrad Was in New Zealand, 1999
  Listen Here
• The Spot Healer
  Listen Here

Ruth Daigon
Currently in our
Jan. 2000 Edition

• Moments
  Listen Here
• Picked Clean
  Listen Here
• Wet World 1, 2 and 3 Sections
  Listen Here
• Until Day Turns Inwards
  Listen Here
• Small Invasions
  Listen Here

Margaret C. Rigsby
Currently in our
Feb. 2000 Edition

• King-Size Bed
  Listen Here