Planet Poet - Words in Space

About Planet Poet - Words in Space

Poet Sharon Israel hosts the monthly radio show: Planet Poet - Words in Space on WIOX Community Radio, 91.3 broadcasting live from Roxbury in the Catskill Mountains of New York and streaming live on WIOXradio.com. These archived interviews feature poets and writers from the Catskills, the Hudson Valley and around the U.S reading their work and discussing their obsessions with poetry.

Publisher

Sharon Israel

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 May 2020

Latest episode

5 May 2026

Latest episodes

68 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 May 2026

   Poet Geoffrey Nutter - Emissaries - A Long-Form Poem

   Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST! LISTEN to my WIOX show (originally aired April 21st, 2026) featuring returning guest, award-winning poet, teacher, mentor and editor, Geoffrey Nutter, who’ll read from his Long-form Poem Emissaries, and share his thoughts on the importance of sound and dreams in poems and the emergence of AI. Pamela Manché Pearce, Planet Poet’s erudite Poet-at-Large, also joins us later in the program. Geoffrey Nutter is originally from Sacramento, C...

2. 

   1 Apr 2026

   Poets Richard Parisio and Guy Reed - Nature and Transcendence

   Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST! LISTEN to my WIOX show (originally aired March10th, 2026) featuring award-winning poets Richard Parisio and Guy Reed. Richard and Guy live in and write about the Catskills and the Hudson Valley and read from and discuss their respective poetry collections Trailside Register and Time Under The Overlook, both published in 2025 by Bushwhack Books. Richard Parisio was DEC’s environmental educator in the Catskills and Hudson Valley for 25 years...

3. 

   23 Feb 2026

   Poet Barbara Leff - "AND GOD SAID . . . A Brief History of Creation" and "Undertow"

   Planet Poet-Words in Space – NEW PODCAST! LISTEN to my WIOX show (originally aired February 10th, 2026) featuring poet Barbara Leff. Barbara, joining the show from San Francisco, discusses and reads from her books AND GOD SAID…A Brief History of Creation, and Undertow. Planet Poet’s Poet-At-Large, Pamela Manché Pearce, also appears on the show. Born and raised in New York, Barbara Leff discovered poetry at the age of 12 and has explored the genre ever since. Her work h...

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 27 / 100

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Quality

30

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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