The Best of the Blogtalk Radio Show! STRAIGHT NO CHASER: Poetry and Jazz

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Martin Willitts, Jr., joined us on the night of June 6, 2015 and discussed his experience as a jazz poet. Martin has been nominated for 11 Pushcart awards and 11 Best of the Net awards. He is the winner of the 2012 Big River Poetry Review’s William K. Hathaway Award; co-winner of the 2013 Bill Holm Witness Poetry Contest; winner of the 2013 “Trees” Poetry Contest; winner of the 2014 Broadsided award; and winner of the 2014 Dylan Thomas International Poetry Contest. He has 28 chapbooks and eight full-length collections of poetry. His forthcoming collections include Martin Willitts Jr, Greatest Hits (Kattywompus Press), How to Be Silent (FutureCycle Press), God Is Not Amused With What You Are Doing In Her Name (Aldrich Press), and Hearing the Inaudible (Poetica Publishing).

The title of his jazz poetry chapbook is Late All Night Sessions with Charlie "The Bird" Parker and Members of the Birdland, in Take Three. http://barometricpressures.blogspot.com/2013/05/late-all-night-sessions-with-charlie.html Straight No Chaser works in concert with "The Song Is... Blogspot" edited by DCPP member Marianne Szlyk (http://thesongis.blogspot (https://3c-lxa.gmx.com/mail/client/dereferrer?redirectUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fthesongis.blogspot.com).com (https://3c-lxa.gmx.com/mail/client/dereferrer?redirectUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fthesongis.blogspot.com)).

POWER OF POETICS

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