Michael Daley, Anacortes poet, Part II – Michael Daley has been a tree planter, translator, public school teacher, but above all has always been a poet. Find out more about him here: https://www.emptybowl.org/michael-daley
Michael Daley Part I – Michael Daley is an Anacortes poet, and runs Empty Bowl Press. In 2022, Telemachus, Mr. Daley’s first novel, will be published by Pleasure Boat Studio of Seattle, Cervena Barva Press in Somerville, Massachusetts, is expected to publish his poetry collection, True Heresies, and Dos Madres will publish This Is How Good You Are: New & Selected Poems.
Sound Poetry Presents Vashon spoken-word poet, Nancy Lee Spears. Nancy Lee Spears has worked as a DJ for an Adult / Contemporary Formatted FM Station in Portland, Oregon, been an on-air pitcher for public television for various fundraising drives for PBS in Durham, NC and has worked as the assistant to public affairs for an NBC-TV affiliate station in Portland, OR. She was an independent voice contractor for a radio station in Connecticut as well. She also had a silent bit part in the John Badham movie, “Short Circuit” in Hollywood. In her singing career, some of her stage credits include: Ms. Buttercup in H.M.S. Pinafore, The Courtesan in “Three Boys from Syracuse” and Ms. Krumholtz in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.” She’s studied jazz with a vocal coach, plays guitar, practices hot yoga and writes inspirational music and sings for her community church. She also performs jazz at local restaurants and venues for special events. Currently she is working on her book called, “My Yellow Dress.”
Kristi Nebel interviews Pamela Hobart Carter for Sound Poetry. Pamela Hobart Carter earned two degrees in geology (Bryn Mawr College and Indiana University). Her more than thirty years teaching began in the science lab and wound up in preschool. Her plays have been read and produced in Seattle (where she lives), Montreal (where she grew up as a landed immigrant), and Fort Worth (where she has only visited). Her fiction and non-fiction can be found in Learning about Language and Literacy in Preschool, The Seattle Star, and at No Talking Dogs Press. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Her Imaginary Museum (Kelsay Books, 2020) and Held Together with Tape and Glue (Finishing Line Press, 2021). https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/held-together-with-tape-and-glue-by-pamela-hobart-carter/
Sound Poetry presents Olympia Poet, Bill Yake. His website may be found here: https://yake325.wixsite.com/bill-yake-poetry Bill says about himself: “For many years I worked as a senior environmental scientist with the Washington State Department of Ecology, leading studies of toxic contamination in rivers, lakes, marine systems, soils, fish, aquifers, and sediments. The stories told by sediment cores were especially engaging — our successes and failures, nature’s relentlessness — not unlike the inferences drawn from poems. I am a poet, naturalist, photographer, traveler, and occasional essayist living with my wife, Jeannette, on the verge of a ravine carved by a small chum salmon creek. Green Cove Creek feeds the southern Salish Sea (Puget Sound). It is a world rich in water, forests, mushrooms, owls, and mollusks.”
Interview with Sandra Noel. Sandra Noel has contributed her artistic and design skills as a volunteer for non-profit conservation organizations including Alliance for Tompotika, a conservation education non-profit working in Sulawesi, Indonesia, www.tompotika.org Her poems have appeared in Pontoon, Protest Poems, Buddhist Poetry Review, Bellowing Ark, Elohi Gadugi Journal and others, and four chapbooks intitled, “The Gypsy in my Kitchen,” and “Into the Green,” Finishing Line Press, “The River,” Kelsay Press, and “Unraveling the Endless Knot,” Middle Creek Publishing & Audio and, “Love, Island,” a full-length poetry book published by Goldfish Press. Her website URL is: www.noeldesigninterp.com
Interview with Penelope Schott. Dufur, Oregon poet Penelope Schott reads poems written by her and her dog. Penelope’s website can be found here: https://penelopescamblyschott.com/
Alan Walowitz, part 2 – Alan shares his poetry, philosophy, and past with you, the listener. You will feel like you’ve made a new friend after listening to him. http://alanwalowitz.com/
Olympia poet Thomas A. Thomas reads for Sound Poetry. Thomas A. Thomas is an Olympia poet. His poems have appeared in Anesthesia Review, The Periodical Lunch, Writer’s Digest, Oberon, and most recently in FemAsia Magazine. His full length book, “Getting Here,” published in 2005, received an Honorable Mention in the 14th Annual Writer’s Digest International Self-Published Book Awards. Thomas has been an active member in the Olympia Poetry Network for many years now, where he has twice been the Featured Reader in their monthly Series. During the Pandemic year of 2020 he has read for international and inclusive audiences in Cultivating Voices Facebook group, with writers from Ireland, India, Canada and numerous other countries, and was also featured in the 100,000 Poets for Change, a Toronto Canada ZOOM event with poets from 4 continents and 8 time zones. He is on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/thomas.a.thomas
This edition of Sound Poetry includes three poets. We are playing pieces of poetry that didn’t fit in their earlier interviews. They are Jessica Gigot, Thea Swanson, and Bill Fay.
Alan Walowitz interview – Alan Walowitz has been writing poetry, sometimes successfully and sometimes un-, for more than 50 years. He has a small portion of an MFA in Writing from Goddard College, and has an entire degree from Eastern Connecticut State University and several from Queens College of the City University of NY. He’s studied with poets Estha Weiner, Fred Marchant, C.K. Williams, Carol Muske, Colette Inez, and Stephen Stepanchev, among others who probably would not want their names mentioned with his. Find out more at: http://alanwalowitz.com/
Two Poets, One Show – Robert Michael Pyle of Grays River & Michael Schmeltzer, a Seattle poet, return with poems that didn’t fit into their first half hour.
David Gilmour interviews Jessica Gigot of Bow, WA – sheep farmer, mother, musician poet. https://antrimhousebooks.com/gigot.html http://picturesofpoets.com/Poets/jessica-gigot/
David Gilmour interviews Thea Swanson. “The words she likes most are the ones that scare her with their beauty and strangeness.” From : http://www.theaswanson.com/
David Gilmour interviews Centell Jackson. Currently a resident of Augusta, Georgia, Centell is a former resident of Tacoma. He lived in Tacoma for 30 years, and moved south to be closer to family. Listen to accounts of picnic, shelling black eyed peas, and reminiscences of Tacoma.
Volume II of Michael Schmeltzer with David Gilmour. Michael reads from his book “Blood Song” and more. You can find out more about him at: https://michaelschmeltzer.com/
David Gilmour interviews Michael Schmeltzer, a Seattle poet. From: michaelschmeltzer.com “Intentionally or not, often by fault of memory, I lace every line with a lie. I’m sorry if I misled you, even though writing should be an acceptance of and rage against everything we know to be true… Bi: racial, lingual. From Japan to America. Son and father. I live in two worlds and belong fully to neither. This gives way to various tensions one must attempt to reconcile.”
David Gilmour with Part II of Bill Davie reading from his third book of poetry. Bill is a singer-songwriter well-known in the Pacific Northwest. We think you’ll agree that he is a fine poet as well.
David interviews poet, singer-songwriter Bill Davie at the advent of Bill’s release of his third book of poetry. Bill grew up in Tacoma. This interview includes a couple of poems that reference that early life. You can find his music here: https://billdavie.bandcamp.com/ ….. or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/billdavie
Seattle poet Koon Woon being interviewed by David Gilmour for Sound Poetry. Part 2 of 2. Learn more about Koon Woon here: https://kaya.com/authors/koon-woon/
Seattle poet Koon Woon being interviewed by David Gilmour for Sound Poetry. Part 1 of 2. “Born in a small village in 1949 China, [Koon Woon] listens to the edge of America, pours Cantonese nouns into a Stevens/Eliot/Whitman mixmaster and serves up dispatches from a borderland where expulsion is a state of grace.” — The Village Voice // “These poems set a thousand horses galloping in the Asian diaspora in which so many are caught.” — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Learn more about Koon Woon here: https://kaya.com/authors/koon-woon/
David Gilmour and Robin Reagler discuss “abstract” poetry. Part 2 of 2. According to Gretchen Heffernan, Publisher at Backlash Press, “Reagler’s poetry shows us how language is playground, high ground, and common ground for communicating what is most important about our human condition.” Find out more about Robin Reagler here: https://robinreagler.com/
Brighton, UK. March 3, 2021 – Backlash Press is proud to announce the winner of the Best Book Award, Into The The, by Robin Reagler of Houston, Texas. According to Gretchen Heffernan, Publisher at Backlash Press, “Reagler’s poetry shows us how language is playground, high ground, and common ground for communicating what is most important about our human condition.” Backlash Press is an independent publishing house dedicated to releasing work that narrates a contemplated resistance to obedience and trend. Part one of two parts: David Gilmour and Robin Reagler discuss “abstract” poetry. Find out more about Ms. Reagler here: https://robinreagler.com/
Nature writer, lepidopterist, poet, Robert Michael Pyle reads his poetry and holds forth about his home near the Columbia River.
Tim Sherry, local Tacoma poet, reads for Sound Poetry. Everyday life, and life at Holden Village on Lake Chelan.
Sigrun Susan Lane reads her poems about singing bivalves, and her Icelandic heritage.
Jill McCabe Johnson of Orcas Island reads some of her feminist poetry with good discussion with David Gilmour. Includes her walking poetry from Paris, France.
Poet Joel Kabakov, and Chair, Arts and Humanities Columbia Gorge Community Colleges. Part 2 of 2. Joel Kabakov passed away on June 16, 2022 of cancer. You can learn more about him at joelkabakov.com
David Gilmour interviews Joel Kabakov, head of arts and humanities at Columbia Gorge Community College. Part 1 of 2. Kabakov reads from his book of poetry, “Available Light”. A delightful discussion of poetry, literacy, and not a little philosophy. Joel Kabakov passed away on June 16, 2022 of cancer. You can learn more about him at joelkabakov.com
Leslea Newman reads her poetry dealing with the passing of her father from being a practicing lawyer, to living in an independent living retirement home. https://lesleanewman.com/
David Gilmour interviews Leslea Newman about a book of poems relating to her mother’s passing from this world. Find her website at: https://lesleanewman.com/