We listen for poetry in music and music in poetry, songs as poems and poems as songs with Langston Hughes, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Ken Nordine. Plus, a visit to New York’s City Lore with poet-folklorist Steve Zeitlin, who rides the POEMobile to the People’s Poetry Gathering and then back to New Orleans to meet Louisiana’s poet laureate, Mona Lisa Saloy.
Prolific Texas singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver, a veteran and some say originator of the outlaw country scene, passed away in Waco, Texas, after suffering a stroke. He was 81.
To read more about Shaver’s life, click here.
You can hear our interview with him here
