The Poetry Joint

Episode: Angela Waldie Conversation with Calgary poet Angela Waldie and her book of poetry "A Single Syllable of Wild". Poems by Robert Hayden, Angela Waldie and Majorie Pickthall.

Episode : Stuart Ian McKay Conversation with Calgary poet Stuart Ian McKay. Poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins, Stuart Ian McKay, The Thorn Lake Endeavour, John Milton.

Poetry on the Radio National Poetry Month. Poems by Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, Joan Sarro, David Zieroth, Hilaire Belloc, Saul Williams, Lorna Crozier, Lauraine Saretsky, Mary Oliver, Margaret Atwood, Scott Alderson, Archibald Lampman.

Episode 36 : Richard Harrison A conversation with Calgary poet Richard Harrison. Poems by Richard Harrison, Dylan Thomas and E. Pauline Johnson.

Episode 35: Parkland Poets A conversation with and about the Parkland Poets Society of Spruce Grove, Alberta. Poems by Jo Sanders, Lisa Mulroney, Margaret Saraco, Hiram Larew, Aspen Grove and Mary Howitt.

Episode 34: A New Year Poetry by Olav H. Hauge, Wolrad, David Budbill, A.R. Ammons, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Everett Maddox, Claire Wahmanholm, Michael Ondaatje, Elizabeth Bishop, Walt Whitman, Wayde Compton. Poetry contests samples. Happy New Year.

Episode 33: Seasoning 2025 Poetry this episode by Greg Delanty, Paul McCartney, Sully Prudhomme, Jenny Joseph, Hume Croyn, Naomi Shihab Nye, The Last Poets, Jill Scott, Len Pennie, Edgar Allan Poe.

Episode : U of C Poetry Club Conversation about the University of Calgary Poetry Club. Poems by Sage McConnell. Sabrina Hussain. Israj Dhaliwal. Yohan Mouliom. Ziga Poromon. Warren Hamill. Suliertitan. Hiram Larew. Shel Silverstein. Charle Bukowski.

The Poetry Joint - 2025 Funding Drive Episode Join Stephen as he hosts a live version of The Poetry Joint for CJSW's 2025 Funding Drive. Stephen is joined in the booth by Sheri-D Wilson (poet, writer, collaborator, professor, Poet Laureate Emeritus of Calgary (2018-2020) among many other awards), Danae Webb (an MRU student, put forward with glowing recommendations from Natalie Meisner, professor of English at Mount Royal University), Nash Lott (poet and former blacksmith), and Patti Lott (poet and writer, recent winner of the Alberta Views magazine short story contest).

Episode 31: Back to School Conversation about MRU Write Club with Connie Yu and Marcus Madelo. Poetry by Marcus Madelo, Connie Yu and Jericho Brown.

Episode 30: Hexagram 30 Poems by Liz Zoobkoff, Lisa Reynolds, Marina Tsvetaeva, Sylvia Plath and PK Page. Conversation with Liz Zoobkoff and Lisa Reynolds.

Episode 29: Grow A Poet Poems by John Keats, August Kleinzhaler, Frank O'Hara, Basil Bunting, William Carlos Williams, Thom Gunn, Blaine Greenwood, Warren, Han-Shan.

Episode June 18 2025 Message in a Bottle. Conversations with Emily Donville and Nash Lott. Poems by Steve Young, Clementine Von Radics, Julia Engleman, Nash Lott and Gregory Corso.

The May Parade Conversation with Calgary Poet Tee Crane. Poems by Tee Crane, Jim Morrison, Stanley Cooperman, Hugo Ball, Sonnet L'Abbe, Carl Sandburg, Nash Lott and Stanley Kunitz.

Episode: National Poetry Month 2025 Poems by Shel Silverstein, Anon, Jeremy Gorman, Iza Trapani, Navajo traditional, JK Rowling, Abbas Hussain, Mansour Noorbakhsh, Allan Brown, Tee Crane, Betsy Aoki, Jenny Qi, Nash Lott, Allen Ginsberg

Episode: March 19, 2025 Poems by Josephine LoRe, Li-Young Lee, Eavan Boland and Ken Craft. A conversation with Josephine LoRe.

Episode: February 19 Poetry by Langston Hughes, D.H.Lawrence, Andy Weaver, Liz, Michele Soon, Fortner Anderson, Gary Snyder. Conversational tidbits with Andy Weaver.

New Year Dada A conversation with Heather Green about translating poetry, about the Dada Art Movement. Poems by T. Crane, by Tristan Tzara, by Heather Green, by Abby Bland, by Abbas Hussain.

Winter Solstice 2024 A time of change. A conversation with Calgary poet Skylar Kay. Poems by Skylar, James P. McAuliffe, Matsuo Basho, Issa, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Susan Cooper, Robert Louis Stevenson, Austin Smith, Hafez, Joe Bishop, Robert Frost, Kathryn Nuernberger.

Episode : Send in the Poets RadioTown, the community poem. Poems by Fred Way, Nicole Sealey, Joni Doornenbal, Barbara Adler, Eve Langevin, Nico Rogers, James Dangerous, John Keats, Emily Sodergran, Louise Gluck, Attila the Stockbroker. Read by Joni Doornenbal, David Reesor, Roxanne, Brianne and the poets.

Episode: 2024 Funding Drive A live episode of The Poetry Joint hosted by Stephen, celebrating the 2024 Funding Drive and The Sounds of Radiotown by showcasing a series of poems read by poets featured on the series and CJSW staff members!

September 18, 2024 A conversation about self-publishing. Poems by Scott Alderson, Titi Sunuga, Melvina Germaine, Sun Ra and Keith Worthington. Poems by Li Po, translated and read by David Hinton.

Episode: August 21, 2024 Poems by Theodore Roethke, David Wagoner, Roald Hoffman, John Lennon and Bob Stallworthy. Conversation with Bob Stallworthy.

Speculative Poetry Poems by Diane Di Prima and Sheri-D Wilson. Conversation with Sheri-D Wilson.

Poetry in Three Parts Poems by and read by Wakefield Brewster, Callista Markotich and Tom Wayman.

Time Poems by Spike Milligan, Mick Burrs (aka Steven Michael Berzensky), Patrick Connors, Jeanne Kwong, Susan Musgrave, Lisa Reynolds, R.F. Adams, Milton Acorn, John Daniel, Patricia Smith, Kelly Madden.

Peace Poetry about Peace and War. Poems by Wendell Berry, Arthur Rimbaud, Ernest J. Berry, Tony Medina, Denise Levertov, Daria Chebotariova, Mariam, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Haki R. Mudhubuti, William Wordsworth, e.e. cummings. "All we are saying is Give Peace A Chance."

Poetry X Hunger Poetry on the subject of hunger. Poetry by Brittany Sabatino, Dr. Vishnavi Pusapati, Justin Johnson, Aarna Pandey, John Maker Garang, Robert Lawrence Binyon, Francisco Alarcon, Joy Harjo, Wynne Morrison, Gavin Barrett, Patricia Trentacoste, Scott Alderson.

The Children's Moon Children's Poetry with poems by Mother Goose, A.A. Milne, Jane Taylor, Michael Rosen, Ken Nesbit, Colin McNaughton, Grace Nichols, Marilyn Nelson, Dennis Lee, Berlie Doherty, Harley White.

Episode 12: Hexagram 18 Conversation and poems with Uchechukwhu Peter Umezurike. Poem by Josephine LoRe.

December Episode : Yalda Poems to celebrate the Winter Solstice. Recognising the Persian tradition of Yalda. Poems by Joseph Donahue, Finnbar Donahue, Bernard O'Donoghue, Clara Joseph, Phyllis Rathwell, Scott Alderson, Moondog, Guy Chambers, Kass Morgan, Mansour Noorbakhsh. Celebrate till dawn.

November Episode : Poetic Catacombs Exploring Poetic Catacombs. Dead Poets, only the verses remain. Poems by Leonard Cohen, Emily Dickinson, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Allen Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Rhoda Sivell, Murdoch Burnett. Readings by Guy Chambers, Sir Michael Caine, Doris Daley, Hiram Larew.

Fundraiser Month One Radio. Endless Adventure. Imagination. Magic. Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Homer, John O'Connor, Olivia Reginaldo, Richard Brautigan, Gwendolyn Brooks, Rupi Kaur, Mahmoud Darwish, Uchechikwu Umezurik, Jack Kerouac.

Poetry Pathways Poems by Michelle Soon, Robert Frost, Robert W. Service, Rayanne Haines, Pablo Neruda, Gary Snyder. Narration by Xe Sands, Scott Alderson. Conversation with Clara Joseph, Natalie Meisner, Rayanne Haines.

Cowboy Poetry Poetry by Badger Clark (read and with commentary by Marilyn Nelson). Poems and conversation with Phyllis Rathwell (past President Alberta Cowboy Poets Association). Poems by Larry Miller, S.Omar Barker, B.J. Smith and Paul Zarsyski.

Episode 6: Portrait of the Artists As A Young Poet Conversation with Calgary Spoken Word Artist and Poet Miranda Krogstad. Poems by Miranda Krogstad. Also a poem by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson.

Summer Solstice Episode A celebration of the Summer Solstice. Poetry by Josephine LoRe (w/music by Jim Jackson). Jessica Reed. Donna Kane. Armand Garnet Ruffo. Alejandra Sasil Sanchez Chan. Black Elk.

An Icelandic Poet in Alberta Author Moorea Gray talks about poet Stephan D. Stephansson and his place in Alberta and Icelandic poetry. Also poems in Icelandic by Magnus Sigurdsson, with English translation by Meg Matich.

Episode 3: National Poetry Month April is National Poetry Month in Canada and the United States. A variety of poets donated poems for this episode. Miranda Krogstad. Scott Alderson. dee Hobsbawn-Smith. Kaamil Kareemi. Trevor Williams. Kris Demeanour. Natalie Meisner. CJSW listener Jean submitted the "Ode to Ramblers Almanac".

Episode 2 : World Poetry Day UNESCO celebrates World Poetry Day March 21. Poems by New Zealand Poet Laureate Chris Tse, Scottish Makar Kathleen Jamie, USA Poet Laureate Ada Limon, Irish Poet Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate Marie-Celie Agnant. U of C student Jaesung Choi.

The Wakefield Interview Interview with Calgary Poet Laureate Wakefield Brewster. He talks about his development as a poet, his background, influences and expectations for Calgary's art culture which includes poetry.