FM #1741 - Favorite Poem Reading - 04/18/26

About this episode

This episode features a Favorite Poem Reading event facilitated by Steve Sherlock at the Franklin Public Library, celebrating National Poetry Month.

This session shares the Favorite Poem Reading facilitated by Steve Sherlock at the Franklin Public Library on Saturday, April 18, 2026. April is National Poetry Month and this ‘poetry and conversation” was a good way to celebrate poetry. The consensus of the group was to do this more frequently rather than wait until next April rolls around. Stay tuned. The next one may be in August or September. The list of the readers and poems or poets read is found in the show notes The recording runs about 50 minutes, so let’s listen in. -------------- Marc Cohen read one by Robert Frost “To Earthward” To Earthward by Robert Frost - Poems | Academy of American Poets https://share.google/vLq8c8OjHGob31lmx Stephen Karunakaran read a few short selections from “THE KURAL: Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural” in Tamil and English https://thomaspruiksma.com/books/tiruvalluvars-tirukkural/ Faith Flaherty talked about and read a couple of versions of “How can I keep from singing” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Can_I_Keep_from_Singing%3F Ken Ojukwu read a version of “The Man in the Glass” https://allpoetry.com/The-Man-in-the-Glass Steve Sherlock read (and provided a sample taste of watermelon pickle)…

People in this episode

Host: Steve Sherlock

Guests: Marc Cohen, Stephen Karunakaran, Faith Flaherty, Ken Ojukwu, Jayson Joyce

Topics covered

• poetry
• community event
• National Poetry Month
• literature
• reading
• conversation

Keywords

• poetry reading
• Franklin Public Library
• April 2026
• community poetry
• literary event

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: To Earthward, THE KURAL: Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural, How can I keep from singing, The Man in the Glass, Reflections on a gift of watermelon pickle received from a friend called Felicity, The Peace of Wild Things, I can not

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