Megan A. Volpert: Performance Poetry from Forum Network | Book Tour Podcast Podcast

Megan A. Volpert reads from her latest poetry collection, The Desense of Nonfense. Listen to the podcast.

PRI's The World - Dec 3, 2010 from PRI's The World: from BBC/PRI/WGBH

Today on The World: Ireland prepares for the painful impact of financial austerity measures;Also, Israel battles the biggest forest fire in its history;Plus, an American poet is honored in Wales for a book of verse inspired by her husband's deployment to Iraq.

Download the podcast here. It's the last feature in the show, at about minute-40. See also: This Guardian piece and feature on the author's recent win.

Anthologizing Rap from WNYC's Soundcheck by listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)

Rap music has given to pop culture some of its most compelling modern lyricists, yet for years the main resource for lyrics has been online. Now a major publisher has anthologized a book of lyrics. Today: rapping about this new textbook. Also: our Smackdown series taps into the competitive nature of hip-hop and pits the rhymes of two MCs -- Kanye West and Pusha T -- against each other. Later: Composer and pianist Anton Batagov finds connections between Eastern and Western cultures. He performs in the studio.

Download the podcast here. Check the full feature story out here. See also: Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop, Decoded, One of the Last Great Poets Standing: Could Rap Be Poetry?