“The main host has it all wrong. The focus should be on the poetry. Half the length of the podcast should NOT be devoted to reading a biography and bibliography and reviews and lists of achievements off of various websites.
Let us hear the poetry reading,
let us hear your reaction to the reading,
LET US go to the poet’s website if we want more. Give the URL and get out of there.
That’s it. That’s all you need to do as a host, unless you have the poet there with you.
The poetry readings are great.
The poet interviews are great.
The poet website readings need to stop. Forever.
We come here to hear the passion these people put into their poems.
No one comes here to hear a straight reading of something we can find ourselves. Stop giving us that.”
Frungi via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
12/10/13