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. He has worked as a naturalist for Everglades National Park, in the Pocono mountains, and at Assateague National Seashore. For five years, Parisio wrote a nature column for the New Paltz Times. He won the 2014 Slapering Hol Press Poetry Chapbook Contest for The Owl Invites Your Silence, and he holds an MFA degree in poetry from Cedar Crest College. Parisio’s full collection, Trailside Register, was published in 2025 by Bushwhack Books.  Visit: Bushwhack books Guy Reed is author of the poetry books Time Under The Overlook (Bushwhack Books), Second Innocence (Luchador Press), The Effort To Hold Light (Finishing Line Press), and co-author, with Cheryl A. Rice, of Until The Words Came(Post Traumatic Press). He won the 2022 Littoral Press poetry prize and has published numerous essays. He co-directed two short, environmental films with filmmaker Katie Cokinos. From Minnesota, Guy has now lived longest in the Catskills Mountains.  Visit:   <guyedwinreed.com> Praise for Richard Parisio “Like his great predecessor, the English Romantic nature poet John Clare, Richard Parisio is a poet laureate of the meadows, forests, mountains, and waterways of the bioregion he so fully inhabits, the Catskills and the Hudson Valley. His eye and ear are deeply engaged with the minute particulars of the natural world—with salamanders ‘whose silent passage breathes a kind of prayer,’ or mockingbirds ‘flinging mad arias of desire,’ or the call-and-response of ‘windchimes and wren song.’ But he also trains his clear, sharp focus on the fraught human relationship to that world of essential, yet increasingly endangered sovereignty—that world of trees, bees, and beasts that is inextricably interwoven with ours.”         ~Mikhail Horowitz Praise for Guy Reed “There is a lineage of poets—Wang Wei, Thoreau, James Wright—who remind us that deep attention is its own kind of virtuous devotion. In Time Under the Overlook, Guy Reed follows in this tradition, illuminating the overlooked and the everyday. Here, mosquitoes and the Milky Way command equal reverence, and a hundred dragonflies rise like tiny miracles. With the sharp eye of a field guide and the soul of a poet, time itself stretches just a little longer under his watchful gaze. These poems do what time rarely allows—pause, linger, and open the door to wonder.”  ~Jeffrey Davis, author of Tracking Wonder: Reclaiming a Life of Meaning and Possibility in a World Obsessed with Productivity