Poetry Show

The Poetry Show for November 8, 2015 was a preview of the 6th annual Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading. This year’s event is scheduled for this coming Thursday, November 12. California Poet Laureate Emeritus Al Young is this year’s featured reader. Morton Marcus was a long-time host of the Poetry Show, and for the last [...]

The Poetry Show brought a pair of talented poets into the studio on Sunday evening, October 18, 2015.Rebecca Foust is a returning past guest, and host Dennis Morton welcomed first-timer Roy Mash. Both poets have new books out, which naturally led to an absorbing hour of reading and discussion. Ms. Foust’s book is titledParadiseDrive, [...]

The Poetry Show of October 11, 2015 featured readings by host Dennis Morton, and recorded readings by poets in their own voices. In the show’s first half, we heard Dennis read selections from: Another America, by Barbara Kingsolver(1992) A Small Story About the Sky, by Alberto Rios(2015) River Styx magazine, 25th anniversary edition (2000) [...]

Host Dennis Morton welcomed two guests to the Poetry Show on October 4, 2015. One was poet Tom Crawford, who came to read from and discuss his new book, titledCaging the Robin. The other guest was Catherine Segurson, creator and editor of a true Santa Cruz treasure – Catamaran Literary Reader. As you [...]

Poet, spoken-word artist and creative development advisor Marc Zegansjoined host Dennis Morton for the third time this year. Marc’sfirst visit was on June 28, and featured a discussion ofspoken-word poetry and a book-with-CD anthology titledSpoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generation.The main subject of visit number two, on July [...]

This week’s Poetry Show was the second of two hours devoted to the memory of Santa Cruz educator, scholar and poet Tilly Washburn Shaw, who recently passed on at age eighty-four. Tillie was a long-timeUCSC faculty member, and aboard member ofPoetry Santa Cruz. Last week, in part one of the tribute, host Dennis Morton [...]

This week’s Poetry Show was a retrospective tribute to Santa Cruz educator and poet Tilly Washburn Shaw, who recently passed on at age eighty-four. Tillie was a long-time UCSC faculty member, and a board member ofPoetry Santa Cruz. To help with this special hour, host Dennis Morton was [...]

Local poet, Poetry Santa Cruz board member and physicist Len Anderson joined host Dennis Morton on August 30, 2015 to read from and discuss the latest issue of Rattle magazine (#49), one of our favorite poetry periodicals. Len has extra incentive to celebrate this latest issue: the inclusion of one of his own poems in [...]

Guest reader Joan Maro again joined host Dennis Morton on August 23, 2015 for an hour of back-and-forth poetry reading and discussion. This is Joan’s third guest spot on the Poetry Show, and listeners can look forward to more visits in the future. Joan read a number of poems from among those published this [...]

On this week’s Poetry Show, host Dennis Morton shared readings from a variety of poets. Check back in about a week for updates to this post.

Last night, poet Troy Jollimore returned for his quadrennial visitto the Poetry Show.He sat down withhost Dennis Morton to read from anddiscuss Troy’s newest poetry collection, titled Syllabus of Errors, which will be published on September 29. The title is perhaps partly a reference to aVatican document by that name (1864), which comprised an extensive [...]

Local poet and animal-rights advocate C. J. Sage visited the Poetry Show on August 2, 2015. She and host Dennis Morton read and discussed poetry primarily about animals. Ms. Sage edits The National Poetry Review, andhas five published books: Let’s Not Sleep (poetry) And We the Creatures (poetry anthology) Field Notes in Contemporary Literature(textbook/anthology ) [...]

On the KUSP Poetry Show broadcast for July 26, 2015, host Dennis Morton was joined once again by poet, spoken-word artist and creative development advisorMarc Zegans. But before continuing the discussion of spoken-word poetry with Marc, we paused briefly to pay respects to Tilly Shaw, longtime local poet and educator who passed away a few [...]

For the July 19, 2015 Poetry Show, host Dennis Morton again welcomed guest reader Joanie Maro. Readings this time were from new issues of a pair of our favorite poetry periodicals, and from one of Dennis’ favorite poets: The Kenyon Review-July August 2015 issue Poetry magazine – July August 2015 issue Selected Poems by William [...]

For this week’s Poetry Show, host Dennis Morton welcomed a guest reader – Joanie Maro. It was Joanie’s first appearance on the show, but hopefully not the last. She’s a new member of the Board of Directors of Poetry Santa Cruz, poetry lover (obviously) and intrepid discoverer of out-of-print local poetry publications.Joanie and Dennis shared [...]

On the Poetry Show broadcast of July 5, 2015, host Dennis Morton read poetry selections from a variety of sources, including: No Heaven, by Alicia Suskin Ostriker(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005) The Horse Has Six Legs, edited and translated byCharles Simic(Gray Wolf Press, 1992) What Snakes Want, by Kita Shantiris (Mayapple Press, 2015) Being Human, [...]

Poet, spoken-word artist and creative development advisorMarc Zegans joined host Dennis Morton on June 28, 2015 for a discussion of Marc’s chosen genre: spoken-word poetry. Marc quickly introduced the first and most obvious difference between spoken-word and traditional poetry – performance is an integral part of spoken-word, inseparable from the words themselves. To demonstrate, we [...]

On the June 21, 2015 Poetry Show, local poetry luminary (and past Poetry Show host)Stephen Kessler joined host Dennis Morton to read from and discuss his new book, a hefty volume of translations titled Forbidden Pleasures:New Selected Poems [1924-1949], by the Spanish writerLuis Cernuda. Published by Black Widow Press, the 400+ page book features Kessler’s [...]

The Poetry Show congratulates California poet Juan Felipe Herrera on his recent appointment as 21st United StatesPoet Laureate. We can say we knew him when he was merely California Poet Laureate – last year. In April of 2014, host Dennis Morton sat down for a conversation with Mr. Herrera and a long-time friend [...]

Local poet and poetry advocate Len Anderson joined host Dennis Morton to read some poetry, by himself and others, and also to talk about Poetry Santa Cruz, the organization Len and Dennis started in 2001. In addition to his general responsibilities as a Poetry Santa Cruz board member, Len is responsible for maintaining the website [...]