Sound Poetry Archive - 2023

Sound Poetry with host David Gilmour – 2023

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2023

Abigail Morgan Prout at Pelican Bay Books – The Madrona Project On a rainy night in late November 2023 we made a trek to Anacortes, WA and Pelican Bay Bookstore to hear two poets read. In this segment you’ll hear Abigail Morgan Prout read from her latest book. Steve and Kristi Nebel open the reading with their song, “Outback of Bohemia”.

Master A Child’s Xmas in Wales.mp3 A Child’s Christmas in Wales is a piece of prose by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas recorded by Thomas in 1952. Emerging from an earlier piece he wrote for BBC Radio, the work is an anecdotal reminiscence of a Christmas from the viewpoint of a young boy, portraying a nostalgic and simpler time. It is one of Thomas’s most popular works.
This is read by Kristi Nebel and David Gilmour.

Robert Michael Pyle at Pelican Bay Books This reading starts with a live performance by Steve & Kristi Nebel of “The Fisherman Hardly Ever Sleeps” and then part one of a reading by Robert Michael Pyle of Grays River, WA. This was in Anacortes, WA.
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Koon Woon 023 Part One and Two Seattle poet Koon Woon being interviewed by David Gilmour for Sound Poetry. // “Born in a small village in 1949 China, [Koon Woon] listens to the edge of America, pours Cantonese nouns into a Stevens/Eliot/Whitman mixmaster and serves up dispatches from a borderland where expulsion is a state of grace.” — The Village Voice // “These poems set a thousand horses galloping in the Asian diaspora in which so many are caught.” — Lawrence Ferlinghetti“In these poems, I hear Koon Woon singing from his ‘crib’—a unique kind of blues that reverberates all the way from little village Canton to the homeless alleys of Seattle… These bent notes float out of his window, twist and ring out into the cold crisp air of a gray winter sky. ‘When the cooks go home in nights like bits/of shrimp in bitter melon soup…’ Drink it down, drink it down. The soup of this poet produces a bitter but satisfying warmth that needs to be experienced.”— Alan Chong Lau, Author, Blues and GreensLearn more about Koon Woon here: https://kaya.com/authors/koon-woon/
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Ryler Dustin with David Gilmour Parts One and Two of Three TRAILER PARK PSALMS
Winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize “Ryler Dustin’s poems achieve a clear and accessible quality, not through the simplicity of idea or emotion (for his poems are rich with surprising language
and complex sentiment) but through his remarkable facility with syntax. Indeed, his elegant sentences convey feeling with vulnerability and sensitivity,
while achieving what can only be called pure music.”
— Kwame Dawes, author of UnHistory with John Kinsella Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Ryler Dustin has represented Seattle on the final stage of the Individual World Poetry Slam, and his poems appear in places like Verse Daily, Gulf Coast, and The Best of Button Poetry. He’s the author of Heavy Lead Birdsong
from Write Bloody Publishing and Trailer Park Psalms,
winner of the 2022 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.

David Gilmour interviews Lynn Kopelke, Cowboy Poet – Lynn makes his home just outside of Enumclaw, Washington. In between seventeen years as an itinerant stage and commercial actor and twenty-plus years in retail western wear, Lynn cowboyed in Eastern Washington. It left a mark. He started writing and performing cowboy poetry in the early part of this century. When he found himself out of work in early 2013, he picked up his pencils and acrylics and has been trying to represent the American West on paper and canvas as best he can. Brandings, pack strings, TV, and movies with the West itself as the backdrop provide all the material he needs. With pictures and words, he tries to share the West he lives in and loves with as many people as he can. His thriving ragwort farm and cat ranch lie five miles due north of the old pickle factory. If you’re in the neighborhood, stop on by.
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David Gilmour interviews Bethany A. Reid – Poet, Writer, Writing Coach, and Editor – Contact bethany.alchemy@gmail.com. Bethany Reid has a PhD in American Literature, and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Washington. Ms. Reid currently teaches at Everett Community College. You may learn more at her website: https://www.bethanyareid.com/
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David Gilmour interviews Seattle Poet, John Gorski – John Gorski has a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Cincinnati. He has studied poetry writing at the University of Washington Extension and the Richard Hugo House in Seattle. He grew up primarily in Maryland and Ohio and has lived in Seattle since 1976.
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David Gilmour interviews Gary Thompson – If you like boats, the water, or just Puget Sound (Salish Sea) you won’t want to miss this interview! Gary Thompson has been reading and writing poems since grade school back in Michigan. After completing high school and college in California, he found himself in the MFA Program at the University of Montana, where he studied with Dick Hugo, Madeline DeFrees, and Bill Kittredge and was a founding editor of CutBank, which recently celebrated its 40th anniversary. For more than twenty-five years, he taught in the Creative Writing Program at CSU, Chico, all the while playing second base for The Pests, Chico’s storied softball team. He and his wife, Linda, have lived in the Northwest for twenty-two years; fourteen years ago they moved to San Juan Island, bringing their old trawler, Keats, home to the waters they love.
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  - Part 2: Chief Sealth, dead in the water far from shore, more about the Salish Sea. News: 9/16/2022: “Broken by Water: Salish Sea Years” was a finalist for the 2022 Washington State Book Award in Poetry. Congratulations to Sharon Hashimoto for More American.

David Gilmour interviews Tacoma poet, Kevin Miller – Kevin Miller taught in the public schools of Washington State for thirty-nine years. He taught in Blaine, Gig Harbor, and Olympia, Washington. In 1990-1991 Miller was a Fulbright Exchange teacher at Grenå Handelsskole, Grenå, Denmark. After retirement, he was a volunteer teacher for a year at St. Patrick’s School in Tacoma, Washington. Miller lives in Tacoma, Washington. His first collection of poems, Light That Whispers Morning, from Blue Begonia Press, received the Bumbershoot/ Weyerhaeuser Publication Award in 1994. Blue Begonia Press published his second collection, Everywhere Was Far, in 1998. Pleasure Boat Studio published Home & Away: The Old Town Poems in 2009. Tacoma Arts Commission awarded him support grants for the publication of Everywhere Was Far and Home & Away: The Old Town Poems. Miller’s fourth collection Vanish won the Wandering Aengus Press Publication Award in 2019. He was a member of the Jack Straw Writers program in 2000. Miller’s poems appeared in Heart of the Order, Persea’s Baseball Anthology in 2014, and Spitball 75, a collection of the best poems in the first seventy-five issues of Spitball.

Steve Nebel – David Gilmour interviewing Steve Nebel reading from his new chapbook, “Remembering the 21st Century,” plus unpublished poems. They also discuss the difference between songwriting, and writing poetry.
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Margaret Roncone Reads for Sound Poetry – Margaret Roncone hails from Rochester, New York. Her poetry has been performed as part of Pierce College’s 10-minute play festival. She’s been published in “Chrysanthemum,” “The Avocet,” “Goose River Anthology,” “Barnwood Poetry Journal,” “Writergirrls” and “Poets Against War.”
From 2011 to 2012, Roncone facilitated a poetry writing group at Chief Seattle Club and has curated an open-mic venue in Seattle for 10 years. She said she finds inspiration for writing during frequent bus rides. She now lives on Vashon Island. Her latest book is “A Sleeve of Blue.”
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David Gilmour with Yuan Changming (known by his friends as Michael) – Yuan Changming, 12-time Pushcart nominee and multiple poetry award winner, is probably the world’s most widely published contemporary poetry author from China, who speaks Mandarin but writes in English. Growing up in an isolated village, Yuan started to learn the English alphabet in Shanghai at age nineteen and authored several monographs on translation before leaving his native land. With a Ph.D. in English from the University of Saskatchewan, Yuan lives in Vancouver, where he edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan at http://poetrypacific.blogspot.com/.
Since mid-2005, Yuan has had poetry appearing in nearly 2,000 literary outlets, across 49 countries, which include Best Canadian Poetry (2009, 2012, 2014), the Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-2017), BestNewPoemsOnline & Poetry Daily. Yuan was nominated & served on the Jury for Canada’s National Magazine Awards (poetry category). With 15 collections to his writing credit, Yuan began to write and publish fiction in 2022 and is currently working on his first (hybrid or cultural) novel Edening.– Solo poetry books by Yuan Changming
1. Chansons of a Chinaman [Paperback]. Murfreesboro, TN: Leaf Garden, 2009.
2. Landscaping [Paperback]. San Jacinto, CA: Flutter Press, 2013.
3. Mindscaping [e.chapbook]. Halifax: Fowlpox Press, 2014.
4. Origin of Letters [e.chapbook]. Chicago: Beard of Bees Press, 2015.
5. Kinship [Paperback] Seattle: Goldfish Press, 2015.
6. Wordscaping [e. Chapbook]. Halifax: Fowlpox Press, 2016.
7. Dark Phantasms [Paperback]. San Jacinto, CA: Flutter Press, 2017.
8. East Idioms [e.chapbook]. Cyberwit.net, 2019.
9. (R)e.volution [Paperback]. LA: The Wapshott Press, 2021.
10. 《袁昌明詩選》(Selected Poems [e.book]. Vancouver: Poetry Pacific, 2021.
11. Limerence [Paperback]. Vancouver, Poetry Pacific Press, 2021.
12. All My Crows [Paperback]. Grass Valley, CA: Cold River Press, 2022.
13. E.dening [Paperback]. Seattle: Goldfish Press, 2022.
14. Homelanding [Paperback]. Yakima, WA: Cave Moon Press, 2022.
15. Sinosaur: Bilingual-Cultural Poems [Paperback]. Hickory, NC: Redhawks Publications, 2022

Sound Poetry Archive – 2023

Sound Poetry with host David Gilmour – 2023