It’s the first week of April, and we thought we should celebrate it with some poetry. Episode 8 is slightly longer than our usual podcasts, but we hope it is worth your while. There are five poems in this podcast, one read in English and Spanish and another read by Tom Waits.
Our guest Lacy Simons is a close friend of Valerie’s and she is a manager of an independent bookstore in Maine. Recently she was asked to take over the ownership of the store, a lifelong dream of hers, but she needs all of our help to do that. So please follow this link to help Lacy keep her independent bookstore alive.
Lacy also spoke about three specific poets in our interview with her, here are their names and some links to their work:
Dean Young, poet and author of Skid.
Mary Ruefle, wrote this amazing essay.
Blossoms at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
George Lapinski 
