Speedway & Swan Radio Show
I had the pleasure of co-hosting the Speedway & Swan Radio Show with the incomparable Brian Blanchfield last week. If you didn’t catch it on KXCI radio in Tucson, you can listen to it here online, archived at the Poetry Center.
Here’s the description of the show:
Poet and geographer Eric Magrane joins host Brian Blanchfield for an episode of poetry of place, past pastoral, off the map, crossing a threshold, or aground in the borderlands. Featuring poetry by C. S. Giscombe, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, John Pluecker, Alberto Blanco, Marianne Moore, David Schubert, Linda Hogan, Robert Smithson, Richie Hofmann, and Alberto Rios.
With musical selections by Lou Barlow, Xenia Rubinos, Paul Simon, Passion Pit, and more.
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SPEEDWAY & SWAN is a fortnightly, one-hour free-format radio program that presents contemporary poetry against a context of variously compatible and offbeat musical selections. Culling from the exceptional libraries of his partners, the University of Arizona Poetry Center and KXCI 91.3 Tucson Community Radio, creator and host Brian Blanchfield is joined in conversation each episode by a rotating guest co-host who brings to the hour a selection of poetry from his or her personal canon, which, along with the freshest and best from the “new shelves,” they read live.