To celebrate National Poetry month, today’s podcast features five masters of the short form reading their work.  If you’ve listened to the podcast and still have a craving for more verse, check out The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry, a subsciption database devoted to poetry that contains over 50,000 full-text poems, 1000 commentaries, 500+ poet biographies, audio features and more.  Accessing this resources outside of the library will require using your Juneau Public Library card barcode #. Check out this week’s In The Stacks column which features a review of 4 new library collections.

The Playlist:

“Self-Help for Fellow Refugees” by Li-Young Lee from Behind My Eyes.
“Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver from At Blackwater Pond.
“Another Spring” by Kenneth Rexroth from The Spoken Arts Treasury Vol. II.
“Gasoline” by Margaret Atwood from The Door.
Introduction by Mark Eleveld, editor of The Spoken Word Revolution.
“Pull down the Mountain” by Marc Smith from The Spoken Word Revolution: slam, hip hop & poetry of a new generation.

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Master Storyteller and author, Bruce Coville presents, “The Making of the Monster’s Ring”.  Here’s Coville at his finest, sharing behind the scenes secrets of the writing of the novel, The Monster’s Ring.  Hear Coville tell a selection from the novel and hilarious real-life accounts of the inspirations behind the story.  Due to length this will be presented in two parts.  Check back next week for a JPL exclusive podcast featuring Juneau’s own, Floyd Dryden Eagles Drama Club presenting Bruce Coville’s, “The Stinky Princess” in Full-Cast Audio style.  Huge thanks to Bruce and to Pat McClear at the Dryden Library for providing Juneau students with this amazing opportunity.

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Bruce Coville’s, “The Making of the Monster’s Ring”, continues….

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