Coming From Left Field (Video)
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Greg and Pat welcome back Janice O'Mahony and Kevin Miller for a second round pf poetry reading. Also included is special guest, Derek Sheffield, nationally recognized poet, teacher and editor of Terrain.org. In this podcast we put pandemics, politics, and an over-heated planet on the back burner, and engage with some lighter verse.
Poem Index:
(0:16:31_Derek) Transcendentalism by Lucia Perillo
(0:22:57_Kevin) Racehogs by David Lee
(0:27:27_Janice) Patriarch’s Birthday Party Nine Days Away Blues by Janice O’Mahony
(0:31:55_Derek) For Those Who Would See 3 by Derek Sheffield
(0:37:00_Kevin) After Hearing Birdnote on the Song - Sparrow’s Double Scratch by Kevin Miller
(0:42:51_Janice) Year of the Monkey by Janice O’Mahony
(0:54:51_Derek) Sans Teeth by Dennis Held
(1:00:32_Kevin) A Retired Farmer Working as A Greeter at Wal-Mart by Leo Dangel
(1:04:48_Janice) Denim by Janice O’Mahony
(1:09:38_Derek) Ornithology Lesson by Jan Wallace
(1:13:25_Kevin) Sunset Knoll by George Bilgere
(1:15:47_Janice) Just the Facts by Janice O’Mahony
Books by Janice O'Mahony
Whidbey Island: Reflections on People & the Land (2014) by Elizabeth Guss, Janice O'Mahony, Mary Richardson (available at https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/ )
Books by Kevin Miller
Light That Whispers Morning (1994), Everywhere Was Far (1998), Home & Away (2008) and Vanish (2020) (available at https://www.kingsbookstore.com/ )
Books by Derek Sheffield
Through the Second Skin (2013), Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy (2020) and Not for Luck (2021) (available at https://www.kingsbookstore.com/ )
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