Episode 35: Julianne Buchsbaum

Julianne Buchsbaum won the 2011 National Poetry Series Award for her third book, The Apothecary’s Heir, which is forthcoming from Penguin in May, 2012. Her other works include Slowly, Slowly, Horses from Ausable Press, and A Little Night Comes, from Web del Sol. Her poems have also appeared in Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, Verse, and the Denver Quarterly. This episode of the Kansas Blotter podcast is a recording of Julie reading poems at the Raven bookstore on January 26^th, 2011. Poet Judith Roitman introduces Julie.

Episode 35: Julianne Buchsbaum

Episode 34: Stanley Lombardo

Stanley Lombardo is well known for his gorgeous translations of classical poetry, including the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid. He is a professor of Classics at the University of Kansas, and one of the founding members of the Kansas Zen Center. This episode of the Kansas Blotter podcast is a recording of Mr. Lombardo reading sections of his translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses at the Raven bookstore, on April 26^th, 2011. Denise Lowe, former Kansas Poet Laureate, is the reader of Stan’s introduction. Poet Kenneth Irby can be heard assuring Stan that “skanky” is still commonly used in the vernacular.

Episode 34: Stanley Lombardo