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Nico - stock.adobe.com/966012983JPR's Vanessa Finney gets recommendations for this season's reading from three local booksellers: Lynn and Kat from The Book Exchange and Megan from Bloomsbury Books. -
Photo by Dr. Timothy MahoneyA new book by Ginette DePreist - “Reach Up: My Beautiful Journey with James DePreist” - describes her late husband's key role in the growth and development of the Oregon Symphony. JPR's Vanessa Finney recently visited Ginette at her apartment in Portland and had a conversation about the book, and James' musical legacy.
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You have to be a VERY good poet for your work to still be revered hundreds of years after you die. Even Shakespeare's work has not been esteemed as long… -
Speaking to an audience: check. Speaking to an audience without notes: uhh, check. Speaking to an audience without notes and in verse: okay, this is where… -
Open wide and get ready to take a bite of a "poetry sandwich." Rogue Valley resident Daniel Sperry is both poet and cellist, and he combines his skills by… -
California Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera joined us on the Jefferson Exchange on Wednesday morning, October 16 (full audio here).And when we asked him… -
Both of our states can boast of official Poet Laureates, and today we meet with California's. Juan Felipe Herrera is a prolific poet, a professor at the…
