I'm starting this blog to track Voices from the Garden, a radio show that I host on WIOX Community Radio, 91.3 FM. The station is located in Roxbury, NY.
The show is part of the Writers Voice series, which airs live every Tuesday at 1 PM. My show is featured on the third Tuesday of each month. Ann Epner, producer of the Writers Voice series, is also my trusty copilot in the studio.
The show's slogan is "All the bloomin' best in garden prose and poetry."
The first show airs Tuesday, September 21st, 2010.
The theme for each show is based largely on the season and planting cycles, and my selections represent a wide spectrum, from celebrated authors and classics to local writers, some published and some inspired scribblers. Special thanks to Writers in the Mountains for helping me to solicit original writing from the area.
Following is my lineup for the first show:
Morning Garden, a poem by Sally Fairbairn read by Wilma Mazo.
Passion Goes to School, an article about the famous garden designer Gertrude Jekyll written and read by Innes Kasanof. The article was published in Small Honesties, the Quarterly Journal of the North Amercan Cottage Garden Society & The North American Dianthus Society (available at Skene Memorial Library, Fleischmanns, NY).
Potatoes, an essay by Clare Leighton (1935) from The Virago Book of Women Gardeners, an anthology of garden writing published by Virago Press, London, 1995. Read by Annie Hersh.
Barefoot, a poem by Marleen Gagnon, read by Wilma Mazo.
A Veteran's Garden, an essay by James Glaser from Chicken Soup for the Gardener's Soul, Health Communications, Inc. Deerfield Beach, Florida. Read by John Savory.
To Autumn, a poem by John Keats. Critics and scholars consider this Ode to be a perfect poem. Read by John Exter.
Eat My Words! an article about apples by Karin Edmondson from The Guide, published by the Catskill Mountain Foundation, Hunter NY. Read by David Turan.
Apple Picking, an essay by Claudia Jacobson which will appear in the Andes Gazette, September 2010 issue. Read by Wilma Mazo.
The Garden Song, played at bottom of the hour, is by David Mallett. The song has been recorded by John Denver, Pete Seeger, even The Muppets. The version I play is by the artist himself.
