A reading recorded in April 2010 at the MUM Library.

Joy Lyle teaches at Indian Hills Community College and has been published in Poetry Northwest and other journals.

Nynke Passi teaches at MUM and is featured in the new anthology THIS ENDURING GIFT set to appear later in September.

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Helene Cardona for my KRUU radio show, Irving Toast, Poetry Ghost. Not only is Helene a fine poet, you've also seen her on-screen in popular movies like CHOCOLAT. Tune in Sunday, August 22nd at 10:30 am to KRUU-LP, 100.1 FM to hear this fascinating interview or listen on the web at http://kruufm.com.

It was a blast having Sharon Bousquet in the studio, hearing her new poems (which totally kick the proverbial @#$%, by the way) and hearing her mesmerizing way with the guitar and voice. New poems, new songs, great company. Grab a scone and a cup of coffee and tune in to some fine music AND poetry, and find out what Sharon has been up to lately.

Sharon Bousquet is an award-winning songwriter/fingerstyle guitarist, and a seminar leader of The Singing Body – a system combining yoga, singing, breath and integrative movement to free your natural voice.

With 5 CDs to her credit spanning a stylistic range from contemporary folk to pop to bluesy a cappella rants, Bousquet's work continues to deepen and reward repeat listening.

A live broadcast featuring the creator and contributors of this "glowing, historically important anthology of poets who live, or have lived, in Fairfield, Iowa."

THIS ENDURING GIFT, selected and introduced by Freddy Fonseca, features a total of 76 poets and is arranged in 16 chapters covering these topics:

Chapter 1: The Poetry of Remembrance and Renewal

Chapter 2: The Poetry of Nature, the Cosmos, and the Soul

Chapter 3: The Poetry of Mysteries and Imagination — View introduction

Chapter 4: The Poetry of Whimsicality and Simple Things

Chapter 5: The Poetry of Darkness and the Eerie Nocturnal

Does this program involve poetry?  Yes.  Is this an interview with a famous poet?  No.  Are dolphins involved in this program?  Yes.  Is the musician formerly known as Global Catsick involved in this program?  Yes.  Does this program incorporate sounds from outside the United States?  No.  Does this program incorporate sounds from Minneapolis, Minnesota?  Yes.  Did you knowingly use the phrase "Where can I find pie?" anywhere in this program?  Your honor, I object to the nature of that question!  Question withdrawn, your honor.  Acknowledged; you may proceed with your questioning, Mr. Mason.  Thank you, your honor.  Just one last question.  Did you or did you not knowingly combine lethal quantities of marmoleum and sunight to produce this so-called poetry show?

Playing a few songs from his Psychedelic Folk period [1969-1973], The Ghost presents one the most lyrically interesting composers of the late 20^th century, David Bowie.

Amy MacLennan grew up on the peninsula south of San Francisco, and she now makes her home in Oregon's Rogue Valley. Amy received a Master of Arts in English from Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, CA. She has appeared at the Petaluma Poetry Walk, the San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival, the Art & Soul Festival's Oakland Literature Expo, Bloomsbury Books in Ashland, Looking Glass Books and Broadway Books in Portland, the Sacramento Poetry Center and Cody’s Books in Berkeley. Amy has taught poetry workshops through the Sequoia Adult School. She is currently the Managing Editor of The Cortland Review. One of her poems is featured as a downloadable broadside by Broadsided Press. She has also been published or has poems forthcoming in River Styx, Hayden's Ferry Review, Linebreak, Rattle, Wisconsin Review, Folio, South Dakota Review, Cimarron Review, and Gingko Tree Review.

I am co-author of a poem cycle called, "Disappearance in Greece." The cycle runs 14 pages. My fellow co-authors are Kirpal Gordon, Ernest Kroll and Carl Conover, all very good poets. We have never met each other. We never intended to co-author a poem cycle. The grouping of our poems is merely a typographical perception, and, apparently, accidental and not editorial. If you access EBSCO Host and type "Disappearance in Greece" in the search bar, you will be able to view and print the poem sequence, if you so choose.

 Originally our poems appeared in the Winter/Spring 1989 issue of Boundary 2, a journal of postmodern literature and culture (once published out of the State University of New York at Binghamton and later sold to Duke University Press). Indeed, an archivist assembling sections of the journal for presentation on EBSCO could have easily perceived these poems to be all of one piece. After an essay entitled "Criticism, Historicism, and the Rediscovery of Lyricism: Frank Lentricchia's Post-Existential Divigations" (title in bold type and followed by a thick underscore line) here comes "Disappearance in Greece: A Cycle of Poems" (title also in bold type and followed by a thick underscore line). The section appears to continue for fourteen pages and end with Carl Conover's two poems just before an art feature on "The Works of Jim Stark." My poems are incorporated somewhere in the middle.