WPSU – Dave Bonta https://davebonta.com multimedia poet from the sticks Mon, 27 Mar 2023 13:15:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://davebonta.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/cropped-IMG_4181-scaled-1-32x32.jpeg WPSU – Dave Bonta https://davebonta.com 32 32 43297170 Poetry Moment https://davebonta.com/2023/03/poetry-moment/ Mon, 27 Mar 2023 13:15:40 +0000 https://davebonta.com/?p=10705 screenshot of webpage listing of recent radio shows

It’s always great to get on the local airwaves. Thanks, Todd.

]]> 10705 Glowing new review of Ice Mountain on WPSU https://davebonta.com/2018/03/glowing-new-review-of-ice-mountain-on-wpsu/ Fri, 09 Mar 2018 00:45:37 +0000 https://davebonta.com/?p=8781 I couldn’t be more pleased with a new review of Ice Mountain on our local NPR affiliate WPSU, which serves a huge chunk of central and northern Pennsylvania. Not only is it a favorable review, but it’s also very comprehensive and deftly put together. I particularly liked this bit:

“Ice Mountain” as a collection trades indignation for intimacy. Its poems are awake to the complexities of a nature whose rhythms both govern and respond to human presence. The experience in these poems is a lived experience: one that draws from a deep well of knowledge about the local ecosystem without shying away from the often imperfect ways humans participate in that system.

I don’t know the reviewer, Talley V. Kayser, but according to her Penn State webpage, she’s “been teaching at the intersection of literary studies and adventure education since 2007. […] Talley’s research interests include environmental literature, environmental justice, and new materialist theory.” This appears to be her first review for WPSU’s bi-weekly BookMark program. I heard it live over the air, but kudos to BookMark for promptly uploading both an MP3 and a full transcript to the web. Check it out.

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