[aired:] Monday, September 04, 2023 || WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor
[show notes:] Welcome to Lunch Poems, a freeform show of music and poetry! Today I'll be joined again by a guest: John Ganiard is a poet, a graduate of the Helen Zell MFA program in creative writing at the University of Michigan, and the long-time former event director at Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor. He's also my partner <3 In this episode, we talk about the practice of writing and reading poetry (aloud), and the way that poetry gestures toward the mystery between language and experience. John also reads two poems from Michael Palmer's 2016 collection The Laughter of the Sphinx: "Addendum," and "Strange Now"; two poems by Charles Wright: "Cicada" (from Chickamauga, 1995), and "Things Have Ends and Beginnings" (from Caribou, 2014); and one of his own poems: "Then as Late Summer Into Fall."
You can find John, and read more of his work, at www.johnganiard.com.
