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Today we present Part 2 of the Producer’s Choice Awards – The Poetry Show. Poetry – Many might turn away at even the mention of the word, but to do so would miss out on work that reveals humans grappling with the great questions of their moments. Today we feature four poets who help us see our own predicaments – …

Our opening song is “Ezz-thetic,” from the 1961 release Ezz-thetics by George Russell. In the conversation to come we’ll make reference to the American modernist poet Ezra Pound, and what the literary scholar Hugh Kenner termed “The Pound Era” in his 1971 book. Pound is perhaps best known for the poetic movement he named Imagism and for his endlessly expanding …