Real nice piece by Lu Olkowski on last week’s This American Life:

Gregory Deloatch and Daniel Canada dreamed of being writers, but normal life—marriage, jobs, paying the rent—always got in the way. To pursue their dream, the two friends embarked on an unusual experiment. Lu Olkowski tells the story of how it turned out.

I’m a sucker for Emily Dickinson, and for Sean Cole’s radio pieces, including his latest in which Billy Collins seduces poor Emily and Sean gets misty-eyed over a piece of string. From Studio 360’s American Icons series, Sean Cole “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” (13:24 mp3):

Poet Amiri Baraka (mp3 from his Media section) performs with The Roots (their Phrenology CD), “Something in the Way of Things” (7:16 mp3):

The Third Coast Festival conf is having a live broadcast party at :Vocalo, ChiPubradio’s new station. You can contribute pieces to this on-air extravaganza (how-to: start a user acct, then upload audio w/ tag “Third Coast Festival”).

The broadcast is Fri nite; pieces need to upload by Thurs noon. One of the pieces (”SisterLove”) is where I heard this band named Unforscene putting beats to one of my fave beat poems, Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “The World is a Beautiful Place” (Pictures of the Gone World © 1955). From the compilation Dubplates From The Lamp Vol 3, Unforscene with “The World Is” (5:02 mp3):

This week’s HV cast is a father-daughter dialog for Poetry Month: Jack Kerouac’s daughter Jan, reads her an ode to her rarely seen dad; intertwined with Kerouac’s speeches and prose; produced by by . “Jan & Jack” (mp3 6:34):

Another evolutionary video from spoken-weird artist Ernie Cline:

There’s also a flash-y version of Ernie’s piece. Lastly, an audio selection from EC’s spoken-word posted mp3s, “The Geek Wants Out” (NSFW):