Podcast
One project I’ve begun as Santa Barbara Poet Laureate, 2025-2027, is Poetry Pick to Click, a weekly podcast that originally airs on KCSB-FM (in Summer 2025 somewhere around 6:20 pm on Tuesdays). Each week I read a poem that might highlight an upcoming poetry event or spotlight a former SB Poet Laureate or offer a work that fits the time of year.
This page will archive the segments celebrating the wide world of poetry after each one airs.
(The musical background bed for all episodes of PPtC is Yo La Tengo’s “I Heard You Looking.”)
Episode 19
(originally aired September 9, 2025)
Joy Harjo, “When the World as We Knew It Ended”
Episode 18
(originally aired September 2, 2025)
Diane Lockward, “For the Love of Avocados”
Episode 17
(originally aired August 26, 2025)
Paisley Rekdal, “The Touch”
Episode 16
(originally aired August 19, 2025)
Jack Gilbert, “A Brief for the Defense”
Episode 15
(originally aired August 12, 2025)
Dana Alsamsam, “The Day Before Moving Day”
Episode 14
(originally aired August 5, 2025)
Elizabeth Alexander, “Ars Poetica #100: I Believe”
Episode 13
(originally aired July 29, 2025)
Rafael Campo, “Cardiology”
Episode 12
(originally aired July 22, 2025)
Rebecca Hoogs, “Another Plot Cliché”
Episode 11
(originally aired July 15, 2025)
Juliana Gray, “The Surfers”
Episode 10
(originally aired July 8, 2025)
Gregory Djanikian, “Immigrant Picnic”
Episode 9
(originally aired July 1, 2025)
Li-Young Lee, “From Blossoms”
Episode 8
(originally aired June 24, 2025)
Sojourner Kincaid Rolle, “Free at Last: A Juneteenth Poem”
Episode 7
(originally aired June 17, 2025)
Paul Willis, June in Santa Barbara”
Episode 6
(originally aired June 10, 2025)
Linda Pastan, “Imaginary Conversation”
Episode 5
(originally aired June 3, 2025)
Thomas Lux, “The Swimming Pool”
Episode 4
(originally aired May 27, 2025)
Deirdre O’Connor, “Bogle”
Episode 3
(originally aired May 20, 2025)
Valentina Gnup, “My Life Flashes Before Me at Edward Hopper’s Painting, Gas, 1940”
Episode 2
(originally aired May 13, 2025)
Ross Gay, “A Poem in Which I Try to Express My Glee at the Music My Friend Has Given Me”
Episode 1
(originally aired May 6, 2025)