Celebrating National Poetry Month with Margaret Haberman

Poetry Medicine for the Soul, a podcast hosted by John Gillespie, invites poets to share and examine poetry. While the 2025 National Poetry Month is over, Poetry Medicine for the Soul is still celebrating. Episode 24 features Margaret Haberman reading “Rounding Ballast Key” by George Murphy. Margaret and John then explore the question: What does National Poetry Month mean to you? Margaret A. Haberman lives and writes in Belfast, Maine. Her poems have appeared in the Island Journal, the journals Spiritus, and kerning/ a space from here. Her poems have also been selected for the Maine Public Radio program Poems from Here. Margaret and Meg Weston co-authored a book of poems, To the Point and Back: Swimming Poems, which came out in 2024.  This podcast is hosted and produced by John Gillespie. Check out our website for more episodes: https://poetry-medicine-for-the-soul.simplecast.com/Listen and subscribe to Poetry Medicine for the Soul in Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Get in touch with us at: [email protected]