Poetry Radio from WGLT-FM
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Poetry Radio is produced by WGLT-FM in coordination with Illinois State University's English Department. Each program, between two and five minutes in length, spotlights a single poem, contemporary or classic, framed by a responsive piece of music. It can be heard live Tuesday and Thursday at 10 AM and PM and Sunday at 10 PM (CT) on the WGLT live stream at www.wglt.org or on the air in central Illinois at 103.5 and 89.1 FM.
| Title | Podcast Description | Author/Reader | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early Forties Song | Written and read by Kay Murphy; music by Fourplay (Lil' Darlin' from Between the Sheets) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:35 |
| The Colony of Us | Written and read by Carrie Etter; music by Dusty Knapp (Glorious from Reflections of Worship) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:00 |
| 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) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:59 |
| Much Madness is Divinest Sense | Written by Emily Dickinson, read by Roberta Trites; music by Yma Sumac (Gopher Mambo from Happy, Texas) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:07 |
| Violin | Written and read by Joanne Diaz; music by Bill Frisell (Tea for Two from Beautiful Dreamers) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:25 |
| Used Books | Written and read by Allison Joseph; music by Bill Staines (An Afternoon at Cohan's from October's Hill) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:19 |
| Rebirth Revisited | Written and read by Peg Kirk; music by Bill Frisell (The Wizard from Disfarmer) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:14 |
| Malcolm X | Written and read by Gwendolyn Brooks; music by Richard Stoltzman (Viderunt Omnes from NY Counterpoint) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:28 |
| If We Must Die | Written by Claude McKay, read by Pearl Cleage; music by Ed McMeen (Mo Ghile Mear from Elixir Strings) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:05 |
| Stung | Written by Heid Erdrich, read by Louise Erdrich; music by Lem Genovese (Six Lazzeri Lane from Six Lazzeri Lane) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:08 |
| pity this busy monster man unkind | Written by e.e. cummings, read by Robert Sutherland; music by Doug Hammond (Kone Pone from Folks) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:04 |
| Over Tea | Written and read by Marjorie Agosin; music by Dino Saluzzi (Volver from Volver) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:32 |
| Asters | Written and read by Kathleen Kirk; music by The Bean Pickers Union (Waltz #1 from Potlatch) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:49 |
| Banana Poem | Written and read by John Firefly; music by Garrett List's A1 Band (Rib Crib from Fire and Ice) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:07 |
| The Cockroaches of Liberation | Written and read by Martin Espada; music by John Reischman (Juramento from North of the Border) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:46 |
| The Diameter of the Bomb | Written by Yehuda Amichai, read by Brian Burt; music by David Grier (Lonely Soldier from Lonely Soldier) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:21 |
| The Honeymoon of Our Attraction | Written and read by Carrie Etter; music by Howard Levy (Slanted Samba from Tonight and Tomorrow) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:02 |
| Flirtation | Written and read by Allison Joseph; music by Bachue (The Phrayes from A Certain Smile) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:09 |
| As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7 | Written by William Shakespeare, read by David Marcotte; music by Rolf Lislevand (Ciaccona from Nuove Musiche) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:04:25 |
| An Affinity With the Garbage | Written and read by Janet Burroway; music by The Resophonics (Tanbo Harvest from Last Long Winter) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:29 |
| Life Along the Mackinaw | Written and read by Marita Brake; music by Simple Gifts (The Wind That Shakes the Barley from Oasis Acoustics 95) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:41 |
| The Place the Musician Became a Bear (for Jim Pepper) | Written and read by Joy Harjo; music by Jim Pepper (3/4 Gemini from Dakota Song) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:49 |
| Eagle Poem | Written by Joy Harjo, read by Louise Erdrich; music by Will Brady (Everyday from Solo Guitar) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:24 |
| Disobedience | Written by A.A. Milne, read by Janice Neuleib; music by Tony Trischka (Soldier's Joy from Heartlands) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:04:11 |
| Poem to Be Placed in the Middle of the Manuscript of Flower Poems | Written and read by Kathleen Kirk; music by Rickie Lee Jones (Blue Ghazell from Balm in Gilead) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:06 |
| Reenactment, Gettysburg | Written and read by Joanne Diaz; music by Martin Simpson (Greystones from True Stories) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:58 |
| Ocean | Written and read by Ruth Wantling; music of Howard Hanson performed by the Seattle Symphony (Serenade for Flute, Harp and Strings) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:17 |
| Religion | Written and read by Gwendolyn Brooks; music by Bill Douglas (Like a Wave of the Sea from Celtic Twilight 5) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:22 |
| Landscapes | Written and read by Janet Burroway; music by Jose Rodriguez (Moments in Life from Moments in Life) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:04:17 |
| One Perfect Rose | Written by Dorothy Parker, read by Roberta Trites; music by Gerry O'Connor (Temple Bar Jam from Myriad) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:22 |
| Sotto Voce / Whatever Keeps You Out of Hell | Written and read by Cecil Giscombe; music by Mark Simos (Pony Boy from Race the River Jordan) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:04 |
| Yesterday Down at the Canal | Written by Frank O'Hara, read by Chris Paddock; music by Son Volt (Jodel / Chanty from Wide Swing Tremolo) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:41 |
| Attractions of a Monastery | Written and read by Carrie Etter; music by Pat Kirtley (Megan Morgan from Acoustic Oasis, Volume 11) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:40 |
| Living On the Moon | Written and read by Kathleen Kirk; music by Ramona Borthwick (Retrospeak from One of Us) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:12 |
| The Fish | Written by Marianne Moore, read by Kirsten Zona; music by Grit Laskin (Earthly Concerns from Earthly Concerns) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:36 |
| After Keats | Written and read by Gabriel Gudding; music by Gerry Grosz / Phil Hawkins Quintet (Remembrance from Oasis Jazz 5) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:40 |
| Ringbang Theory | Written and read by James Plath; music by Soweto String Quartet (Mbayi Mbayi from Zebra Crossing) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:29 |
| Blue | Written and read by Louise Erdrich; music by Acousticity (Blue Rondo a La Turk from Music for 20 Fingers) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:14 |
| In Mind | Written by Denise Levertov, read by Victoria Harris; music by Stefan Grossman (Bidnest Two-Step from Bottleneck Serenade) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:25 |
| The Thike | Written by Claire Crowther, read by Carrie Etter; music by Gaucho (The Hedgehog Waltz from Deluxe) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:36 |
| Kong Looks Back on His Tryout With the Bears | Written and read by William Trowbridge; music by Matt Catingub (Squib Cakes from In the Land of the Long White Cloud) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:37 |
| Sabbatical | Written and read by Zarina Mullan Plath; music by Joe Craven (Rites of Man from Camptown) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:45 |
| Modus Operandi | Written and read by Peg Kirk; music by Acousticity (In the Mood from Music for 20 Fingers) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:19 |
| Since feeling is first | Written by e.e. cummings, read by Charlie Harris; music by Eric Bibb (Blacksmith Island from Good Stuff) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:37 |
| My Mother's Tortilla | Written and read by Joanne Diaz; music by Dois no Choro (Chorando Baixinho from Asa Branca) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:10 |
| Greenhouse | Written and read by Rose DiMatteo; music by Steve Khan (Backup from Let's Call This) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:33 |
| Liquid Paper | Written by Peter Meinke, read by James Plath; music by the Uptown String Quartet (Calvary from The Uptown String Quartet) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:57 |
| God's Grandeur | Written by Gerard Manley Hopkins, read by Robert Sutherland; music by Thelonious Monk (Pannonica from Criss-Cross) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:23 |
| Early in the Morning | Written by Li-Yong Lee, read by Zarina Mullan Plath; music by Eddie Gomez (Tenderly from Next Future) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:02 |
| Harlem Night Song | Written by Langston Hughes, read by Pearl Cleage; music by The Jazz Mandolin Project (Mandoneon from The Jazz Mandolin Project) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:49 |
| Coyote | Written and read by Kathleen Kirk; music by Gaucho (Si Tu Savais from Deluxe) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:34 |
| The 1200 N Road Going East | Written and read by Cecil Giscombe; music by Ramona Borthwick (Eight Winds from One of Us) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:46 |
| Happiness | Written by Carl Sandburg, read by Marita Brake; music by Santiago Jimenez, Jr. (Magdalena from Musica de Tiempos) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:21 |
| Petra Genetrix | Written by Claire Crowther, read by Carrie Etter; music by Acousticity (Blue Rondo a la Turk from Music for 20 Fingers) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:36 |
| Have A Nice Day | Written by Jack Myers, read by Brian Burt; music by Bill Frisell (New Day from Go West) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:04:41 |
| Girl With Catfish | Written and read by Steve Fay; music by Stefan Grossman (Birdnest Two-Step from Bottleneck Serenade) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:19 |
| Wishes For Sons | written by Lucille Clifton (1936-2010), read by Victoria Harris; music by Orquesta Atipica (Dead Miser Waltz from Tango Dogs) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:07 |
| Homage to My Hips | Written by Lucille Clifton (1936-2010), read by Lucia Getsi; music by Peter Elman (Man in the Middle from Dakota Nights) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:19 |
| The Legal Aid Lawyer Has An Epiphany | Written and read by Martin Espada; music of Tarrega performed by Evan Marshall (Recuerdo de la Alhambra from The Lone Arranger) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:30 |
| On My Father's Loss of Hearing | Written and read by Joanne Diaz; music by Tiempo Libre (Fuga from Bach in Havana) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:16 |
| Belief Is Getting More Difficult | Written and read by Kay Murphy; music by Charles Mingus (Wee from Mingus Moves) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:47 |
| How Beautiful It Is | Written by Robinson Jeffers, read by Ruth Wantling; music by Woody Mann (Slow Motion from Stories) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:57 |
| Keeping | Written and read by Katharine Wright; music by The Soweto String Quartet (Zebra Crossing from Zebra Crossing) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:46 |
| Fat - An Aire | Written and read by Janet Burroway; music by The Nice Guy Trio (Fables of Faubus from Here Comes The Nice Guy Trio) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:54 |
| After Disaster | Written and read by Peg Kirk; music by Joel Mabus (A Midsummer Night's Waltz from Omnibus) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:31 |
| Commemoration | Written by Wislawa Szymborska, read by Louise Erdrich; music by Chico Hamilton (Nonchalant from Twelve Tones of Love) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:52 |
| The Terrorist, He's Watching | Written by Wislawa Szymborska, read by Sandra Steingraber; music by John Lurie (Struggle of Man from Fishing With John) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:04 |
| Mourning Pablo Neruda | Written by Robert Bly, read by Victoria Harris; music by Andreas Vollenweider (Trigon from Kryptos) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:25 |
| Lying in a Hammock at William Duffey's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota | Written by James Wright, read by Brian Burt; music by Jackalope (... and then there was wood from Jackalope) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:19 |
| Clarinet | Written and read by Joanne Diaz; music by The Klezmer Conservatory Band (Doyne/Freylekhs from Dancing In the Aisles) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:37 |
| When Love is Like the Sky | Written and read by Rose Dimatteo; music by Edgar Meyer (Smiles and Tears from Work in Progress) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:28 |
| A Train at Night | Written and read by Cecil Giscombe; music by Richard "Groove" Holmes (Night Train from On Basie's Bandstand) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:25 |
| Echology | Written and read by Janet Burroway; music by Mark Simos (The Word in Edgewise from Race the River Jordan) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:28 |
| Father William | Written by Lewis Carroll, read by Janice Neuleib; music of Rossini, performed by Evan Marshall (William Tell Overture from The Lone Arranger) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:21 |
| Sonnet #29, When, In Disgrace with Fortune | Written by William Shakespeare, read by Eric Uppling; music by Charlie Haden/Hank Jones (I've Got a Robe from Steal Away) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:37 |
| Sonnet #147, My Love is as a Fever | Written by William Shakespeare, read by Rob Cook; music by Miles Davis (Circles from Miles Smiles) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:51 |
| Sonnet #154, The Little Love God | Written by William Shakespeare, read by Florence Powdermaker; music of Couperin performed by Hamilton Cheifetz (La Tromba from Songs From the Cello) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:23 |
| Moments in Love | Written and read by Ricardo Cortez Cruz; music by The Green String Quartet (Harlem Nocturne from The String Machine) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:01 |
| Birth | Written and read by Louise Erdrich; music by Bela Fleck and Djelmady Tounkara (Mariam from Throw Down Your Heart) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:01:59 |
| Ebb Tide | Written and read by Jim Plath; music by Shahin and Sepehr (One Passion Dance from World Cafe) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:17 |
| At the Bake Sale | Written and read by Peg Kirk; music by Los Cenzontles (Solo Quiero Bailar from American Horizon) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:58 |
| War Memorial, Mannheimer Schloss | Written and read by Brian Burt; music by Bobby Hutcherson (Pastoral from Components) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:25 |
| Returning a Rabbit | Written and read by Katherine Wright; music by Steven King and the Acoustic Crew (Doggie E. Boo from Journey to Love) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:10 |
| Brockport Sunflowers | Written by William Heyen, read by Rose DiMatteo; music by Scott Joplin, performed by Butch Thompson (Heliotrope Bouquet from Thompson Plays Joplin) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:40 |
| In Passing | Written by Matt Bryden, read by Carrie Etter; music by Howard Levy (Flunky Jazz from Tonight and Tomorrow) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:45 |
| Four Quartets (an excerpt) | Written by T.S. Eliot, read by Joy Luke; music by Gideon Freudmann (Cheese Cluster from Banking Left) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:41 |
| Henry's Understanding | Written by John Berryman, read by Charles Harris; music by Gary Burton (Decarismo from Astor Piazzolla Reunion) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:02 |
| Fear Not | Written and read by Kathleen Kirk; music by Steve Earle (Brand New Companion from Townes) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:17 |
| In the Pit of Crinoline Ruffles | Written and read by Thylias Moss; music by Ira Stein (High Country from Carousel) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:04:48 |
| Try to Praise the Mutilated World | Written by Adam Zagajewski, read by Louise Erdrich; music by The Vignola Collective with Mark Kibble (A Minor Idea from Gypsy Grass) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:11 |
| Moving On In the Midwest | Written and read by Peg Kirk; music by John Gorka (Fret One from So Dark You See) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:42 |
| Goodnight | Written and read by Li Yong Lee; music by Seamus McGuire (Captain O'kane from The Wishing Tree) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:04:26 |
| Christmas in Southern California | Written and read by Joanne Diaz; music by Hamiet Bluiett (Christmas Song from Makin' Whoopee: Tribute to the King Cole Trio) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:20 |
| Pulp Log, #42 | Written and read by Barry McKinnon; music by Hugh Hopper (2 P.M. from Hooligan Romantics) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:38 |
| The Green Linnet | Written by William Wordsworth, read by Tessa Moriarty; music by Evergreen Erb (Trillium from Oasis Acoustic Volume 38) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:08 |
| First Light | Written and read by Jim Plath; music by Friends of Dean Martinez (Otra Vez from A Tardecer) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:38 |
| Prairie Style II and Prairie Style III | Written and read by Cecil Giscombe; music by Buddy Holly (Buddy's Guitar from Down the Line: Rarities) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:24 |
| Magnetic Field | Written by Catherine Phil McCarthy, read by Kathryn Kerr; music by Kim Robertson (Since You've Asked, from Searching for Lambs) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:36 |
| Winter of the Deep Snow | Written and read by Dan Guillory; music by Julian Lage (Motor Minder from Sounding Point) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:51 |
| Miso | Written by Matt Bryden, read by Carrie Etter; music by Dale Miller (Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey from Time Goes By) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:51 |
| Signals (for Caitlin) | Written and read by James McGowan; music by Fiddlers 4 (Danse Caribe from Fiddlers 4) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:52 |
| What I'd Tell You | Written and read by Kathleen Kirk; music by Linn Barnes and Allison Hampton (Alchemy from Oasis Classical and Instrumental #3) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:02:28 |
| One Position Ahead of Me on the Unemployment Line | Sonnet Substantially Like the Words of Fulano Rodriguez, written by Jack Aguerros, read by Martin Espada; music by The New International Trio (Blue Monk from Atomic Theory Records 10th Anniversary Collection) | WGLT-FM Public Radio | 00:03:04 |
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