Capital Times - Poets Make 'wordsalad', Emerson Verse To Air On Radio

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Capital Times - Poets Make 'wordsalad', Emerson Verse To Air On Radio

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Poets Make 'wordsalad'

Emerson Verse To Air On Radio

The Capital Times :: METRO :: C1
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Susan Troller The Capital Times

... About 50 students from first through fifth grades have been working on a poetry project with their teachers and volunteer Paul Baker, host of WSUM's "Wordsalad," a weekly poetry show on the UW-Madison student station.

Baker has been recording the students' words and will present them, backed by music, on his radio show Thursday from 1 to 2 p.m. WSUM is at 91.7 FM on the radio dial, or can be accessed by computer at www.wsum.org. Baker said that it appears that this project combining student poetry and a radio broadcast is unique in the U.S.

Baker, who has a professional job working for the Wisconsin Center for Educational Research, does his radio show as a voluntary labor of love. The genesis for the program came when he discovered there was a large body of poetry recorded in the poets' original voices.

"There's poetry recorded by people like Sylvia Plath and Gertrude Stein and, of course, all kinds of new young voices. These words, spoken by their authors, are rarely heard, and I thought that might make interesting radio," Baker explained. ...

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