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Poetry Radio

Time: Tuesday and Thursday at 10 am and 10 pm with a best-of edition Sunday at 10 pm.
Co-Hosts & Editors: Kirstin Hotelling Zona and Bill Morgan
Producer: Bruce Bergethon

Since 1992, GLT has collaborated with Illinois State University's English Department to produce Poetry Radio. Each program, between two and five minutes in length, spotlights a single poem, contemporary or classic, framed by a responsive piece of music.

You can hear Poetry Radio on the web. Just click on the poem's title. You may also subscribe to the Poetry Radio podcast.

View a list of all of Poetry Radio's readers from the last 18 years.

Recent Episodes

Thu, 9 Sep 2010 : Oh, Who Is That Young Sinner ... written by A.E. Houseman, read by Robert Sutherland; music by Thelonious Monk (Hackensack from Criss-Cross)

Tue, 7 Sep 2010 : The Separation written and read by Carrie Etter; music by Rolf Lislevand (Passacaglia Andaluz II from Nuove Musiche)

Sun, 5 Sep 2010 : I Liked Growing / Raw? written by Carla Kuskin and Thomas Rockwell, read by Karen Coates; music by Jennifer and Hazel Wrigley (Wild Fiddlers Rag from The Watchstone)

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 : Poetry written and read by Andre Codrescu; music by Thelonious Monk (Smoke Gets In Your Eyes from The Art of the Ballad)

Tue, 31 Aug 2010: The Wolves written and read by Joanne Diaz; music by Dana and Susan Robinson (Glory in the Meeting House from 'Round My Door)

Sun, 29 Aug 2010: Watching a Haircut written and read by John Knoepfle; music by Mike Dowling (Nitpickin' from Swamp Dog Blues)

Thu, 26 Aug 2010: For Georgia, Who is Over Thirty, Too! written and read by Ruth Wantling; music by Robin Kenyatta (Slow Boat to China from Nomusa)

Tue, 24 Aug 2010: First Rice written by Heid Erdrich, read by Louise Erdrich; music by Steve Kramer (Hear the Ocean from Songs of the Sleeping Stone)

Sun, 22 Aug 2010: In the Morning written by Paul Lawrence Dunbar, read by Nancy Tolson; music by Norman Blake (Snowbird on the Ashbank from Far Away, Down on a Georgia Farm)

Thu, 19 Aug 2010: Creative Writing written and read by Peg Kirk; music by Bill Frisell (Goin' Out of My Head from Beautiful Dreamers)

Tue, 17 Aug 2010: Dog Toothed Violet written and read by Gary Gildner; music by Johnny Coles (So Sweet My Little Girl from Little Johnny C)

Sun, 15 Aug 2010: Aunt Sallie's Lament written by Margaret Kaufman, read by Marita Brake; music by Agents of Terra (Every Breath You Take from Young Fogies)

Thu, 12 Aug 2010: Airport written and read by Janet Burroway; music by Floorplay (Reunion from Block Party)

Tue, 10 Aug 2010: Sorry written by Ntozake Shange, read by Nancy Tolson; music by TISQ (Cool from Art of the Groove)

Sun, 8 Aug 2010 : Was It Because? written by Thomas Rockwell, read by Karen Coates; music by Randall Hylton (Limehouse Blues from The Essential)

Thu, 5 Aug 2010 : Early Forties Song written and read by Kay Murphy; music by Fourplay (Lil' Darlin' from Between the Sheets)

Tue, 3 Aug 2010 : The Colony of Us written and read by Carrie Etter; music by Dusty Knapp (Glorious from Reflections of Worship)

Sun, 1 Aug 2010 : Elephants Are Different Things to Different People written by Carl Sandburg, read by Robert Trites; music by Simple Gifts (Fifth Brew from Time and Again)

Thu, 29 Jul 2010: Much Madness is Divinest Sense written by Emily Dickinson, read by Roberta Trites; music by Yma Sumac (Gopher Mambo from Happy, Texas)

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