WexCast: The Poets of Sonnets & Cinema

For this episode, we’re throwing back to our February 2024 film series, Sonnets and Cinema, to share audio of the live poetry readings that accompanied each of the programs celebrating poetry in film. Among the poets you’ll hear is the curator of the series, Scott Woods, who’s also a Columbus Metropolitan Library worker and a columnist for Matter News as well the proprietor of the arts space Streetlight Guild. Woods gathered fellow Columbus poets Louise Robertson, Dr. Sidney Jones, Jr., and Zach Hannah to perform before screenings of Lee Chang-Dong’s 2010 drama Poetry, the 2001 biopic Pinero, and the 1998 documentary SlamNation. We thought the best way to share with those who weren’t able to see the readings in person is to hear each in the writer’s voice. And we’ve included Woods’s intro for each poet as a guide. (Photo: poet Zach Hannah, courtesy of Scott Woods)