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giovanni singleton and Lorena Papayone Wolfman

Wednesday May 16th at 7 pm

WordTemple host Katherine Hastings talks first this month with giovanni singleton about her new book, Ascension. A collection of serial poems written during jazz musician and spiritual leader Alice Coltrane's 49-day transition throught the bardo - and other poems as well - Ascension takes us through a daily practice of meditations on the nature of "self," and longing for less suffering in the world.

Then, Lorena Papayone Wolfman reads from her collection, My Mother's Necklace / El Collar de mi Madre. This collection is bilingual and emerges from a dreamlike ocean of imagery, feeling and sounds. The poems also have their roots in Wolfman's experiences at the IV International Poetry Festival in Granada, Nicaragua, where poetry was celebrated as the conscience of the Earth.

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WordTemple on KRCB features Northern California poet Katherine Hastings in discussion with poets and writers. The program showcases authors by presenting interviews and readings of their work, and exposes the KRCB community of listeners to a wide variety of voices and styles. Reconstructions highlighting the work of poets and writers posthumously will also be featured. From the Beats of San Francisco to Russia's Ratushinskaya, WordTemple will feature some of the most interesting work and stories in the world of literature.

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giovanni singleton and Lorena Papayone Wolfman - May 16th, 2012
WordTemple host Katherine Hastings talks first this month with giovanni singleton about her new book, Ascension. A collection of serial poems written during jazz musician and spiritual leader Alice Coltrane's 49-day transition throught the bardo - and other poems as well - Ascension takes us through a daily practice of meditations on the nature of "self," and longing for less suffering in the world.

Then, Lorena Papayone Wolfman reads from her collection, My Mother's Necklace / El Collar de mi Madre. This collection is bilingual and emerges from a dreamlike ocean of imagery, feeling and sounds. The poems also have their roots in Wolfman's experiences at the IV International Poetry Festival in Granada, Nicaragua, where poetry was celebrated as the conscience of the Earth.

This and more!
Poetry Party - April 18, 2012
In celebration of National Poetry Month, WordTemple host Katherine Hastings will air a wide variety of poetry and music including works by John Berryman, Gary Snyder, Muriel Rukeyser, William Stafford, and many others. Also, a centerpiece from The Atlantis Fragments by Donald Sidney-Fryer. This book, over 500 pages in length, contains all three volumes of Sidney-Fryer's Songs and Sonnets Atlantean. The work unfolds as a type of allegory about nature, an "extended ecological metaphor of our planet Earth" and is presented as translations not just from French, but from Atlantean. Imagine the first body of poems from Atlantis!
Matthew Zapruder and Gerald Fleming - March 21, 2012
Matthew Zapruder, poet, editor, translator and winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, is the author of three collections of poetry - Come On All You Ghosts, The Pajamist, and American Linden. On this month's Word Temple program, he reads from a growing collection of new poems.

Gerald Fleming is the author of Swimmer Climbing Onto Shore and, most recently, Night of Pure Breathing, a collection of prose poems. He discusses his work with host Katherine Hastings, and reads from Night of Pure Breathing.
David Meltzer, Julie Rogers & Fishouse Poems - February 15, 2011
A dual milestone in City Lights history, When I Was a Poet is volume 60 of the Pocket Poets Series as well as their first book of poems by renowned Beat author David Meltzer. On this month’s program, Meltzer reads from that powerful book. Joining him is Julie Rogers, author of House of the Unexpected, forthcoming from Wild Ocean Press.

Also, contributing poets read from From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Synopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (edited by Camille Dungy, Matt O’Donnell and Jeffrey Thomson).
Alissa Valles and Bill Vartnaw - January 18, 2011
"A gifted American poet with an unusually international sensibility." This is how Edward Hirsch describes Alissa Valles, a poet who was born in Amsterdam, grew up in the U.S. and the Netherlands and studied in London, Poland, Russia and the U.S. Tonight Valles reads from her collection, Orphan Fire, poems that explore the way a soul navigates the temporary dwelling in the body. Organized as a triptych, Orphan Fire is structured around the journey from entry to death. "Valles' poems refuse to be extinguished, they glow, they illuminate the fringes of our fear and celebrate our courage and frailty as we grope in the dusk searching for ways to be more human." - Jimmy Santiago Baca.

Also, Katherine Hastings speaks with Sonoma County's seventh Poet Laureate, Bill Vartnaw. Born and raised in Petaluma, Vartnaw is the founder of Taurean Horn Press and has published 14 books since 1974, including his own In Concern for Angels (1984). Vartnaw earned his MA in Poetics from New College of California. His work has appeared in various literary magazines.

Finally, a number of Sonoma County residents read some of their favorite humorous verse. Perhaps a little Ogden Nash, a little Wendy Cope.