I read two poems that deal with harvest, Kelly W. Johnston's "Reaping," and my poem, "Picking," both of which appeared 42 years ago, on facing pages of Gazebo: A Poetry Journal, in the Spring 1977 issue. 

Walt Whitman was born 200 years ago this month. To celebrate, in this installment of my podcast Music I Once Could Dance To,  I read an excerpt from one of my favorite poems from Whitman's Leaves of Grass, "I Sing the Body Electric." I then follow up with a poem of mine that was inspired by...