The Poet's Corner: Episode 9

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This segment of The Poet's Corner feature the poetry of both New and old...England that is. Micah begins this segment with a mystery poet from New England (Can you guess who it is?) and closes with the poetry of William Wordsworth.

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This segment is dedicated to a good friend of the Poet's Corner; Remy. This segment features the poems "The Martyrdom of Fr. Campion" a favorite of our friend. Micah Joel also reads some poetry by Michaelangelo (I bet you thought he only painted ceilings).

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This segment features e-mails from our our listeners. If you have a question for the poets corner you can e-mail us. "Hangover Mist", an original musical poem by Micah Joel, closes out our program this week. We hope you enjoyed this short and sweet edition of the poet's corner.

Episode 8: The Lost Segment

The Lost Segment

As a special bonus to fans, we are brining you the lost segment of Episode 8. This short segment was cut for time, but it contained some great moments of Micah Joel's interview with Jessamyn.

Micah takes an question from a consistent contributor, Jessamyn shares her poem "In Search of Landscapes", and the show closes with a poem by the classic American poet Richard Wilbur. We hope you will enjoy this segment from the cutting room floor.

The Poet's Corner: Episode 8

The Poet's Corner is happy to present a great friend of the show; singer, songwriter, and poet,  Jessamyn Luong.

In this episode we have Micah Joel's discussion with the noted songstress about her own artistic expression and drive. The segments flow right into one another and so the parts are presented without interruption. You will notice each segment begins with a featured clip from Jessamyn's Album "Desperate Lullaby" (which can be found at her website.)

The show is mostly a conversation with poetry by Jessamyn, Micah Joel, and Theodora Bach, throughout the episode. With easy flowing conversation, beautiful music, and as always enlivening poetry, this is an episode you'll want to listen too from beginning to end.

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The Poet's Corner: Episode 7.1

(Programing Note):This is Christopher Nelson the editor of the Poet's Corner. This week Topher Tackman is back on the show and we always love having him. You know, Micah and Topher have such a great rapport that they recorded hours of material for this episode. They recorded so much great stuff, in fact, that we didn't want to try and jam it all into one episode. So we are bringing you just the first part of Micah's discussion with Topher this week. We will bring you the rest of the episode next week, after we bring you Micah's amazing episode with Jessamyn Luong.



So enjoy part one, and we will be bringing you part two of this discussion very soon.

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As you read in the programing note, Topher Tackman is back on the Poet's Corner. He and Micah start out the show with an mesmerizing poem by Jessamyn Luong (Who will be featured in next week's episode of The Poet's Corner) called "Small-town bar after Illinois smoking ban". Micah also shares his poem "The Allure of Ashes", which was inspired by Jessamyn's poem. (Yet another programing note, Due to the subject matter which includes smoking and some adult themes, listener discretion is advised).

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Have your oxygen masks close at hand, Topher will once again leave you breathless as he recounts his experience of combat and healing in his poem "Humpty Dumpty." Please be advised that there is some disturbing imagery used in Topher's poem.

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In this final segment of the episode has the world premiere of Micah's poem "The Rebirth of a Tool and Die Maker" which was written as a birthday present for his brother. Topher also shares an incredibly moving poem dedicated to his son. As a courtesy to our listeners I will note that there there is some rough language used in this segment and some adult themes in the poems.

**Important licensing information: The Poet's Corner is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). However, from time to time some writers and musicians do not want to release their poems and songs as Creative Commons works. This means that while you are free to share the entire episode of the Poet's corner, you may not use some of the parts of the episode in other.


In this episode the poems of Topher Tackman are (C) Topher Tackman All Rights Reserved (used with permission by The Poet's Corner).**

The Poet's Corner: Episode 6

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Coming at you from WIU, welcome back to the poet's corner. In this episode our theme is the poem My Friend, The Things That Do Attain by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. Micah begins the first segment with a reading of that poem. This segment is dedicated to the School of Community in Peoria, IL.



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We continue in this section with thoughts on Surrey's quiet mind.  Discussion of artificial lighting leads to one of the poet's favorite symbols, the moon, which leads to a new poem by Micah Joel and the reading of a Sonnet by William Shakespeare.








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Finishing up this very spring-center episode of The Poet's Corner we have the works of Thomas Wyatt and some of the poetry of Ecclesiastes . This show was dedicated to the CL School of Community in Peoria IL, and this segment in particular is dedicated to our Responsible, Dr. Teresa Asam.

Episode Five

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We begin this segment of The Poet's Corner with some of your e-mails. Then we have the music of Jessamyn Luong, a dear friend of the poet's corner.



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A sense of wonder and hope amidst oppression permeates the work of our featured poet this week; Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Micah reads selections from Yevtushenko's "A Precocious Autobiography."




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As a tribute to St. Patrick, Micah reads some of the poetry of the emerald isle. But the real 'gem' of this segment is the poem "On the Shores of Obvion" by D.C. Little.

The Poet's Corner: Episode 4

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We begin part 1 with the poetry of Langston Hughes. Hughes is an African-American writter best know for his work during the Harlem Renaissance. Micah begins with a poem on hope by Langston, and continues with Hughes's short story "Salvation."



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In this portion of The Poet's Corner, we find Micah engaging in some 'freestyle poetry.' He composes, on air, the poem "Why Ash Wednesday? Why?"