MONTCO POETRY PODCASTS
WITH DAVID SIMPSON
We're pleased to announce a new poetry podcast series on the website, where we have already posted three podcasts. The first of these features Elizabeth Rivers, the 2008 Montgomery County Poet Laureate, giving a brief speech and reading two poems at her award ceremony, while the second and third comprise a two-part interview with Marie Howe, reading from and talking about her newest collection of poetry, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time.

Future podcasts will present interviews with poets of local and national distinction, highlights from readings, and lively discussions about various aspects of poetry.

Celebrating 10 Years!
The Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program Committee and with all of the past poets laureate to produce a retrospective audio CD in honor of the program's first decade. The CD will feature approximately seven minutes of poetry by each of the nine poets who have served as poet laureate of Montgomery County between 1999 and 2007, and by this year's winner. Proceeds from CD sales will support the poet laureate program and the high standards of poetry which it engenders.