To close out national poetry month, WKMS airs Wordshakers. Part of www.hearingvoices.com, Wordshakers expores to voices of poetry.
Host Andrei Codrescu invites you to experience the written word as read by its authors. Lord Alfred Tennyson bangs the podium in “The Charge of the Light Brigade.” Thomas Edison waxes Walt Whitman’s “America.” Cheerleaders Chant” a found-poem. Host Andrei Codrescu decontructs his “Poetry.” Denise Levertov knows “The Secret.” Carl Sandburg wonders “What is Poetry?” (produced by Barrett Golding). Scott Carrier presents the categorical conundrum of “Alex Caldiero- Poet?” Ed Sanders poses “A Question of Fame.” Host Codrescu gives a play-by-play of “Poetic Terrorism.” DJ Spooky remixes Vladimir Maiakovski. Pre-teen poet Sawyer Shetfs lists “The Sound I Hear at Night.” In New Orleans a hot-dog vendor, a barkeep, and a stripper get churned in the “Poetry Combine (produced by Larry Massett). “Soldiers Drill” their found-poem. Jan Kerouac responds to her father’s poetry and parenting in “Jan on Jack” (produced by Marjorie Van Halteren). Allen Ginsberg runs a “Personals Ad.” Marianne Faithful performs Gregory Corso’s “Getting to the Poem.” Another poem is found in “Double Dutch Rhymes.” Alex Caldiero concludes “Poetry is Wanted Here.” And a Phoebe Snow fan helps sing “Poetry Man.”
