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RADIO

Morton was the longtime co-host of The Poetry Show on KUSP — the longest running poetry show in the United States on public radio. Content ranged from insights on thematic works to interviews and readings with nationally recognized poets.

 

Morton's final live broadcast was on May 17, 2009, with a program on Theodore Roethke.

UCSC special collections, which houses the Morton Marcus Poetry Archive, has digitized over 200 of the shows which you can access HERE

 

Listen to a broadcast...

Theodore Roethke Program with Joe Stroud & Rosie King - 5/17/2009

Bill Everson Program - 4/05/2009

Interview with Vern Rutsala & Lewis Turco - 2/01/2009

Interview with Bill Minor - 01/11/2009

Interview with Joe Stroud - 12/07/2008

Legacy of Mark Twain - 11/30/2008

Du Fu & Chinese Poetry - 11/23/2008

Walt Whitman & Robert Frost Program - 11/09/2008

TS Elliot Birthday Program - 09/28/2008

The Canterbury Tales - 4/14/2008

Poetry Show Pledges/Gratitude & Thanks - 3/16/2008

Interview with Marcus on Striking Through the Masks - 3/8/2008

Interview with T. Mike Walker - 2/11/2008

Interview with Stephen Kessler - 1/21/2008

Marcus Reads Foreign Poets, Including Rumi - 12/30/2007

Former Hosts of the Poetry Show Celebrate Marcus - 10/15/2007

This Week in Poetry History - 7/16/2007

Marcus Celebrates Polish Poet Czeslaw Milosz - 6/25/2007

Conversation with Robert Bly - 1/13/2007

memorial broadcasts

 

Marcus Remembered (report) - 10/30/2009

Marcus Remembered Program - 11/1/2009

Rick Kleffel & Gary Young on Talk of the Bay - 10/31/2010

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